If they just do on wise guys. I cant believe how things keep going our way. Wise guys a buddy comedy about a two low level gang centers who work for a Mafia Don Named Costello and get into all sorts of high jinx. Probably not the highlight of Danny Devitos long and successful career but it was sort of the high point for his costar joe piskapoe. He wept onto play a hapless mobster from the 1930s alongside Michael Keyton from the movie dangerously. Two years later he played a modern version of the same character in wise guys. After that he did not get a lot of other leading roles until today when joe piscopo was among the retinue of Odd Characters who came to a manhattan courthouse to support donaldma trump. The witness on the stand was Robert Costello, the Trump Affiliated Lawyer who Michael Cohen says pressured cohen to stay loyal to donald trump. Now, you might say to yourself is it really a good idea to have a criminal defendant, donald trump, sitting next to joe piscopo, a guy named
The plan thaet can do that other than the pope. The pope. Republican congressman troy nells of texas with a totally normal comparison for the former president , the pope. A recap of what happened yesterday in Donald Trumps Criminal Hush Money Trial in just a moment. Plus, trumps comments about Birth Control that he quickly had to walk back. Also ahead a former Senior Adviser to President Obama lays out an alarming Supreme Court scenario for democrats if donald trump were to win in november. Well play for you that warning. Thats another one, elizabeth. Well get to that. So good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, may 22nd. Were in washington. The table is going what are we talking about today . With us we have u. S. Special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, elizabeth b. Miller and Deputy Managing Editor for politics at politico, sam stein is with us. Well start with Donald Trumps criminal trial where testimony in the former president s hush money trial has officially fi
Cnn one passenger killed dozens more hurt after a Passenger Patient into the death of actor Matthew Perry all right. 6 00 a. M. Here In Washington alive. Look at New York City, where the defense has rested in the donald trump Hush Money Trial. Good morning, everyone in kasie hunt, its wonderful to have you with us as we said, the defense rests former president Donald Trumps Hush Money Case soon to be in the hands of the jury who well have to consider whether he paid off a porn star to influence an election, will have to do it without hearing from the candidate himself. No surprise there, really, unless you made the mistake of believing donald trump yeah i would testify. Absolutely. Its a scam. Its a scam thats not a trail. Im testifying. I tell the truth. I mean, all i can do is tell the truth. Are you more or less likely you think to take the stand in the manhattan case right now. I know well if its necessary, probably so i would like to i mean, i think so i guess he listened to all t
Now im pete medina, Reagan National airport this morning, a defining moment in donald about a critical phone call how much will it impact the jury . Deadly storms in texas for People Killed and several states in the south now facing lifethreatening flooding and Hurricane Force winds and Supreme Court Justice Samuel alito reportedly flew an upsidedown american flag. Representing the stop the steal movement at his home. After the january 6 insurrection right, 6 00 a. M. Here in washington alive. Look at the white house on this friday morning. It has been all week. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. Donald trump had a pretty good day in court. The former president s sat back and watched his former Fixer Struggle on the stand for several flowers on thursday, Michael Cohen facing an intense crossexamination about his past lives and a more recent possible inconsistency. Trump lawyer todd blanche zeroing in on testimony, cohen gave just three days ago in
florida. that was a classified documents case. a continuation of what we have become so used to in this case. trump appointed judge, eileen cannon entertaining wonky and far-fetched attempts i trump s legal team to dismiss the case. the afternoon focus on a motion brought by special counsel jack smith. the centered of one of the most dangerous lies donald trump has ever told you might recall back in may trump seized upon a righteous conspiracy theory percolating in far right circles , a theory based upon an extreme mischaracterization of the fbi search one warrant on mar-a- lago. he claimed that president biden and the fbi were, quote, locked and loaded to take me out during the 2022 search of mar-a- lago. he posted the biden authorized the fbi to use deadly lethal force. what truck tried to portray as an attempt on his life just a distortion of the standard language that companies every search for the false narrative was based entirely on this, the fbi s policy on the use