Good morning and welcome to the saturday edition of Morning Joe Weekend. It was a busy weekend, lets get to some of the conversations you may have missed. Had i been President Biden when the Justice Department came, i would have been it made me, President Biden the be gotten the person i pardoned, the little guy. I cant keep up with this. Stephanie is right here. I know she is. That is why i am saying, stephanie, i cant keep up with this guy. They are all saying Mitch Mcconnell says, oh we cant impeach him here, weve got to try. And now that romney is saying, we cant try, weve got to acquit. That is what was so stunning to me. For mitt romney to say, joe biden should have stepped in and pressure prosecutors like, what . Doesnt mitt romney support separate, but equal branches of government . I read mitt romneys book where he talks about being afraid for his family when he voted to impeach donald trump. He was afraid of president ial overreach, what trump could do, yet, when the tables a
Quite a few republican lawmakers who risked losing control of the house floor yesterday because so many of them were up in New York City vying for a seat at Donald Trumps criminal trial. In just the last two weeks, the speaker of the house, mike johnson, along with representatives, lauren boebert, matt gaetz, bob good, byron donalds, andy biggs, mike waltz and matt norman have gone to manhattan to be seen on camera publicly supporting donald trump at the courthouse. Yesterday, so many went up that a Republican House oversight hearing to hold Merrick Garland in contempt had to be postponed nine hours. Then when it finally started, it abruptly stopped because Marjorie Taylor greene asked the democrats if any of them employed the daughter of the judge who was overseeing Donald Trumps trial. Do you know what were here for . Point of order. You the one talking about i think your fake eyelashes are messing up hold on. Holden. Order. Mr. Chairman. Thats beneath even you. I would like to move
While his own lawyer roasts him. Look, i get the defenses argument that you cant trust Michael Cohen because he hates donald trump, but, to be fair, everyone who has ever worked with donald trump hates donald trump. At some point, you have to be like, i think its trump. We also learned what the defense ordered for lunch today. 14 pizzas, four cheese, five pepperoni, four sausage and pepperoni, and one chicken, bacon, and ranch. No word yet on what trumps lawyers ordered. Boom, boom. Okay. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Willie, it is, today, officially, i have triple sourced this, friday. She did. Yes. We did it. Friday, may 17th, everybody. We made it. Welcome to morning joe. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early, White House Bureau chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. And Associate Editor, the great euGene Robinson. Jonathan lemire going to hang his American Flag upside down because the red sox lost last night. I did text that to you last night. It wa
Described Michael Cohen to prosecutors on the stand as the alleged affair became public. Asked the lawyers what the point of the line of questioning was because it opened the door to what we have been watching from the defense during crossexamination, which by the way, just ended. Theyre trying to use Michael Cohens onetime loyalty against him. Asking Keith Davidson about calling, he was devastated donald trump wasnt taking him to washington, d. C. , saying, quote, after everything i have done for the blank, you can guess what the word is, guy, i cant believe im not going to washington. Ive saved that guys blank so many times you dont even know. Davidson testified cohen complained to him, quote and that davidson thought he was going to kill himself. The defense wants cohen to seem like a spurned lover, out for revenge. The question is does that discredit what is at the heart of the case, falsified documents. Lets find out from our team covering all of this. Joining us now, Nbc News Nat
Friend. By the book. All in with chris hayes starts now. Love you back, bye. Stuck tonight on all in every woman lied when they came forward to her my campaign. 5 of the people think it is true and maybe 10 , we dont win. 2016 trump is played into evidence as the defense keeps resting. Sleeping. Weve tried a number of different devices to keep trump awake. Tonight the judge handsdown his penalty for igviolations of the gag order. Do you think we will see a change in his behavior because e he doesnt want to deal with this, because he doesnt want to risk going to jail . I dont know. And what we learned from the Man Brokering the deal between Stormy Daniels and donald trump. This takes us dright back t 2016 and those moments around the access Hollywood Tape. And a chilling plan for a second term in trumps own words. They did a cover story, which is very nice. Plus, what we know about what is driving protests nationwide and the latest installment in our ongoing series, are you better off .