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
jokes with him alongside a budget proposal while he was in philadelphia yesterday. his plan has little chance of passing the republican-controlled house, making this more about campaign messaging than the actual numbers. meanwhile, there are significant developments this morning out of the manhattan d.a. s office that signal criminal charges could be coming for donald trump. we ll get into the details of why. also ahead, a lackluster debut for the subcommittee on so-called weaponization of the federal government has some republicans frustrated now with congressman jim jor t jordan an game plan. we ll be joined by the writer of the piece in a moment. good morning to morning joe. we have jonathan lemire. pulitzer prize winning columnist at the washington post, eugene washington. and special correspondent for bbc news, the great katty kay. good morning to you all. as i mentioned, we re going to begin with the new york times report that the manhattan district attorney
i m sara sidner in new york. jim acosta has the day off. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with breaking news. former president jimmy carter is receiving hospice care at his home in plains, georgia. sources tell cnn president biden is staying in close contact with the family. let s go now to cnn s jeff zeleny in washington. what more have you learned since we ve just heard this not too long ago. we are learning this this afternoon and the carter center advised something we had not known, the former president has had a brief series of hospital stays. he made the decision to spend his final days to enter hospice care in plains, georgia. that is really so extraordinary because that of course is where the former president has sent his entire life with the exception, of course, of his four years here in washington at the white house as well as his military service as a young man. he went home to plains, georgia, in his post-presidency, and that s where he s been ev
issues tonight, the first developments in the long running criminal investigation into his son. cnn has exclusive reporting that hunter biden s attorneys who you can see here met with justice officials today. prosecutors are still weighing to bring several tax charges and a false statement charges against the president s son. then there is the other big issue hovering over joe biden. that s his age. he will be 86 at the end of his term. we ll tell you what he s saying about that today that s different from what she s saying before. plus, the case about richard blossom. this man has been given three last meals before being granted reprieves. now he s scheduled to be executed again. will the supreme court step in? and sales of budlight dropped considerably since kid rock and others went ballistic on the beer, literally. we ll talk about the effort to expand their customer base backfired in a big way. but we start at the white house where tonight they are rolling out the red car
hello, everyone, thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin with another norfolk southern derailment in ohio. two miles away from east palestine, the site of the toxic smil one month ago. 20 cars came off the track early saturday evening. nearby residents wither temporarily asked to shelter in place out of an abundance of caution and that order lifted early this morning. norfolk southern officials say there were no hazardous materials on board. still, hazmat teams from the epa and clark county each independently examining the site to confirm all of that. cnn s paulo sandoval is following the latest developments. another crash and same company and same state, all within a month. what are we learning? reporter: the time is interesting here. but in terms of this specific incident, you mentioned that shelter-in-place order that was lifted. that was done so after authorities on the groundwo worked through the night, and they lifted that. no injuri