trump s intent. the new york times reports that prosecutors have questioned multiple witnesses over the past few weeks, including jared kushner, and questioned them about whether trump had privately acknowledged in the days after the 2020 election that he had actually lost. the line of questioning suggests that prosecutors are trying to establish whether trump was acting with corrupt intent. remember, kushner also spoke to the january 6th committee last year. jared, are you aware of instances where pat cipollone threatened to resign? i kind of like i said, my interest at that time was on trying to get as many pardons done, and i know that, you know, he was always him and the team were always saying, oh, we re going to resign. we re not going to be here if this happens, as that happens. so i took it up to just be whining, to be honest with you. we also just learned moments ago special counsel jack smith requested a reply memo by trump and nauta to delay the documen
republicans who are refusing to take action on an issue they clapriority. and asked the question whether they re smart enough to get away with it, which i actually, you know, started thinking over the past couple days. you ve got all of these republicans who are following this guy from louisiana, who just sort of stumbled into the speakership and doesn t seem to be that effective. this guy is now putting around the republican s political neck an open border for the next eight months and all that that brings, the collapse of ukraine, to former soviet kgb agent s invasion, and the refusal to fund israel in its time of need. so you have all of these republicans in the house, a lot of them who want to do the right thing but they re blindly following this young, inexperienced speaker who is blindly following there you go. a guy with 91 counts against him. that s the important point right there. yes, it s speaker johnson voicing this, but he is a vessel for what donald
damages. in a related story, classified documents just turned up on ebay. carroll appeared on good morning america to talk about the plans for the money. i want to give the money to something donald trump hates. congratulations, eric. aw, that s sad. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 30th. that is a big day for me. i have a 28-year-old now. my daughter s birthday. happy birthday. i have a 28-year-old, wow. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. former white house director of communications to president obama, jennifer palmeri. she and claire mccaskill are hosts of how to win 2024. joe, just sit down. there he is. good to see you. you doing all right? good to see you. happy to be here. i m so glad you could be here. thank you. i want you to know, you re the most valued member of this team. i appreciate that. willie geist, so good to see you. thank you for being here. it s my hon
increasing inflation. well, it has the advantage of not only people being able to live longer and better and be able to perform their prescription drugs, but, guess what? it reduces the deficit $158 billion. [ applause ] don t forget that part to tell people. it s not just that you pay less for the drug. it means that the federal government isn t paying for the drugs for medicare. president joe biden in baltimore last night, debunking republican claims about the deficit and calling on democrats to remind americans what his administration has achieved over the past two years. meanwhile, on capitol hill, a hearing dominated by grievance politics, as attorney general merrick garland makes his first appearance before the new congress. he actually had insurrectionists. right. like, the guy with, like what is it, willie, the bird bone hands, like, doing the power to the people signal. the raised fist. that s right. raised fist of a bird. yeah. there it is. the
president trump or if this was a democrat it should be equal justice in america. and stop going after people because you have political differences. house speaker kevin mccarthy pushing a popular defense within the gop when it comes to a possible indictment for donald trump. we ll have the latest on the former president s legal troubles in new york in just a moment. plus, chinese president xi jinping is in russia this morning meeting with vladimir putin for the first time since the invasion of ukraine. and also ahead, new investigations into tiktok amid allegations that former employees spied on journalists good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, march 20th i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us we ll begin this morning in new york where amid mounting legal trouble across multiple states, former president donald trump could be criminally charged for the first time, and that could happen as early as this week according