morning joe starts right now trump indicted the first ever criminal indictment of a former president of the united states came down yesterday when a new york city grand jury convened by the manhattan district attorney s office took the unprecedented step of voting to charge donald trump. because the indictment is under seal, the exact charges are unknown, but we do know they center around that $130,000 payment trump allegedly made to porn star stormy daniels just days before the 2016 election, to keep her silent about an affair she claims the two had a decade earlier according to the star witness in the case, trump s own former lawyer, michael cohen, the trump organization tried to cover up the payment, falsely claiming it was a legal expense. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, march 31st along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too ea early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire the host of politics nation, presid
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waters the writers of the constitution may have been surprised only that it took to so long. the president indicted and removed will, quote, nevertheless be subject to trial, indictment and punishment according to the law article 1, section 3 of the constitution declares. willie that s the point jon was making the fact it took this long is maybe the only surprise in the long history of our republic now, we ve already heard some republicans saying, okay, we crossed this bridge now. maybe we find a grand jury, find a prosecutor somewhere in a trump-friendly area that is going to try to indict sitting president joe biden or former president. that s not a reason not to pursue justice, nobody is above the law, but it is a fact now, given the political culture we re in, that is a possibility. one final point, mika and joe. which is, the justice department found the circumstances of this