on democracy. tonight, it s not worthcracy, our time or yours. nothe riot on january six was dangerous and tragic. but americans are smart enoughen to understand the real threats to democracy. t enough are coming from the left. without our first amendment, our democracy is not going to survive yet. we kno democw noraw that biden d intel services conspired with big tech to censor t opposing political views. now, how is that onerous honoring cherished norms and ho w is it living up to our democratic ideals to use the most toxic and the most vicious smears as political weaponearss? s what we veee seen from brian kep is the continuation of 12 years of racist behavior like terrorism rooted in whiteacy, i supremacy is the greatest terrorist threat to ourr ho homeland. today, individuals likeme ron desantisls lik and greg abb they peddle in hatredab and xenophobia. and how are they upholdinguphold our system of government when w they threaten a supreme court justice like schumer d
Who will reportedly be the first witness called by the prosecution . Lets talk about the trial this weekend. All weekend long. Twitter was going wild. Also ahead, it appears ukraine will finally get the critical funding it needs after the house passed a package of foreign aid bills which includes more Military Support for israel, as well. The bill now heads to the Senate Despite efforts by Marjorie Taylor greene, who got called out, yes, by the new york post. Kind of sums it up. It does. Good morning. It is monday, april 22nd. Welcome back the morning joe. Former aide to the Bush State Department and white house, elise jordan. From the american presidency at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham. And financial editor at the financial times, ed luce is with us. Well get to the lead story in one moment, which are Opening Statements in Donald Trumps hush money trial. First, jon meacham, i dont want to ever be melodramatic on things like this, but that saturday vote was one that wil
I expect that neither side will take more than roughly 60 to 70 minutes. That means that we will have time to get to the first witness who, as you noted, is expected to be former chairman of American Media and the national enquirers david pecker. Where are we on jurors these days . Two had to leave. There were only six spae spares begin with. Do we have only four spares . How many do we have left, and are they sequestered . Can you talk a little bit about how they are being managed, so to speak, during this process, as all this intense scrutiny, and theres so much press surrounding it. Right. The two jurors that we lost were replaced that same day leading to a total of 12 jurors who have been seated. In addition to that, we have six alternates. The jurors, however, are not sequestered, elise. There have been accommodations made to assure their anonymity
there s something about vote counting. we don t know. is that just addinisn t g up ale the votes? voted did simple additions become such a complesimplex ande consuming task in a country that does heart transplantss and has a spae program?th we honestly don t know tha the answer. no one s really explainet had ts . we have nodes of thidoess sort f thing. doesn t seem to happen very often in maybe yo republican districts. maybe you ve got a theory as to why. what we can tell youe conclusively is who is benefiting fromthat s, becaud that s measurable. as in many recent elections, y that we ve already told you about in the overall majority of races this cycle,a where there was a reported problemn with voting equipment or a long delay in vote counting count, democrats won the overwhelming majority. and that s not a guess. it s not a conspiracy theory.0 it s math of the forty races in this year s midterms that took at least two days to countto. c. twenty eight of them went to democrats. tha
the coverage about arizona gubernatorial candidate carrie lake from the big three networks was negative. now, despite that, lakes stil is still up by nearll y three in the most recent rcp average and she joins me now. now, carrie, first of all, it s great to see you tonight.t. okay, this is hysterically funny. and one way, another way. it s very depressing. but ho but how are you copingw ar with this news? ethat the coverage has been 100% negative? do you need like been a a fruit basket or do you need any kind of like a security blanket to get yourself through thisme? difficult time? i need a saf i need e space spae and an emotional support animal to get through it. nal suppi m going to wear it ase of honor, truly, that the fake news media sees this movement ba of mama bears out herers inas sc arizona as such a threateir ag to their agenda that they reenrd running 100% negative storiesg n on me. g