course? i think the president going to kyiv doesn t settle that problem once and for all. ideally, it would have been great had he shown up, you know, with senator mcconnell or somebody like that who is strongly in support of the war. again, it sends a reassuring message to ukraine about american staying power. which, jonathan, is critical for europe. europe has followed behind and with the united states for the most part. this is leading from ahead, and that is what is required in this instance. we are now past 6:00. welcome to morning joe at this morning. joe, mika and willie have the day off. i want to bring in katty kay, special u.s. correspondent for bbc news, into our live, rolling coverage of this presidents day and president biden s surprise trip to ukraine, one meant to show a real symbol of solidarity, katty, with kyiv, as it has weathered russia s invasion now for 12 months. yeah, jonathan, what a day for us to kick off presidents s day, to see these images.
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Hydration could boost your skins barrier for quenched, dewy skin. Thats full of life Neutrogena Hydro boost this ola alvarez at the white house and this is cnn an important day inside 100 centre seat, the judge is now off the bench after Opening Statements and testimony from the first witness in the house much money trial of donald j. Trump minutes ago, the former president walked out of court trying to put some distance between himself and his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen. Im jake tapper in washington and im anderson cooper, new york. Youve been watching a scene and special live coverage of the people of the state of new york versus dollars while j. Trump, defense promising to puncture the prosecutions theory of the hush money coverup case, trumps lawyers painted cohen as a liar and Stormy Daniels as an operator. For tunis, the prosecution arguing that trumps alleged scheme to keep an adult actress quiet is Election Interference Pure And Simple in those words, i want to turn
Thank you very much. douglas brinkley is presidential history at race university jim zach is a former biden white house press secretary. now host of inside with je psaki on peacock and msnbc let me start with you, jen remote, lakers i was talking t harry about problems in th department of justice. what s happening in the whit house right now? everyone gets the same new alerts [laughter] everyone understands what going on whether you re focuse on putting together th presidents electrification o not. that s right. the white house didn t have an advanced notice of this. so in the white house on a night like this, when this new broke, when the news alert came out, there was probably a lot of people saying, holy cow or something stronger that s not appropriate for any pm sho in the white house, and then when they are conveying to everyone in the cabinet, senio members of the team is, keep your head down and do not spea to this. they are going to be very quie
Significant is it? i think it s gigantic i think we all remember wher we are when we got the new when dom trump was indicted. he s been an outlaw figure for years. the law has always been on his heels. it seems tonight he met hi first round of come up and s you were talking with jim abou matching with joe biden, hearing the news, and i wa thinking about bill hillar clinton in chappaqua are getting the news after all the things you mention, and no donald trump is the firs indicted president in american history. but it would be different if h was just an ex president, as you know, chris, but the fac is he s the leader of th republican party they re all on the right linin up behind him in defense and this is going to become big reality tv show, law and order, which might end up in a mugshot of donald trump that h ends up using is a campaig poster we are in very strange and