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
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Intelligence on and bend the truth about, and i told them up front that i wasn t going to do it what were the three things? the three things were russian disinformation as it related to the president. the second was the southwest border and the third was white supremacy. those were three issues that i was there was intense pressure to try to take intelligence and fit a political narrative. hi again, everyone, it s 5:00 in new york. it is one of the throughlines of the trump presidency, a multiyear effort led by the disgraced ex-president himself to weaponize the institutions of the federal government to trump s advantage. among the people sounding the alarm about the rot inside the government and how trump allies pressured civil servants to bend the truth to fit political talking points and political disinformation for trump, the man you heard from there, brian murphy, a long-time law enforcement official who once led the dhs intelligence effort. he left the department on frida
The secret server. i think that will be one of the throughlines we see throughout this story have what is a white house lawyer supposed to do when someone raises a concern like this? yeah, i think white house lawyer, first of all, has to get all the facts and decide whether there s been any violation of law. i think if there s been a violation of law, a difficult spot for a white house lawyer. right? i think one of the options, i think the real right thing to do is report it to congress. now, that takes a lot of courage and a lot of backbone. but i think that s really the most appropriate thing to do. and potentially the justice department as well. this is how it happened. all right? this is vindman read out loud notes he took of the president s call, eisenberg then suggested the national security council move records of the call to a separate highly classified computer system, vindman told lawmakers. the white house lawyer later directed the transcript s removal to a system known