does it for me. thank you for watching. right now american voices with alicia menendez. thanks so much, reverend sharpton. hello everyone i m alicia menendez. this week seeing a president of the united states arraigned on federal criminal charges. today, a bombshell prediction from trump s former attorney general, saying that his former boss is quote, toast. we ll have that in just a second. trump s arraignment will go down on tuesday in miami, facing a judge and 37 counts of classified documents mishandling. today, trump announcing that he will deliver remarks about his arraignment in miami. and his on tuesday evening. the indictment, the united states versus donald j trump and trump s aid, an alleged coconspirator, laying out a damning case. 31 counts for violating the espionage act, as far as willful retention of national defense information. the lies of a which meant spewing from trump and the elected republicans who have anointed themselves his backup singers. one me
the weekend trail derailment poiseoned an entire town in ohio, the transportation secretary the man in charge of preventing train derailments held a press conference attacking white construction workers because they re the problem. it s 1952. our 80 year old president, meanwhile, 80 years old, he seems convinced it s 1915 and we re all living in rural alabama burning crosses in the front yard of terrified share croppers to amuse ourselves. we don t have tv. biden gave a speech the other day, in 2023, to denounce lynching. as if lynching is still happening in the united states. this all seems a little delusional. so it was with genuine relief that we saw today one of biden s to be cabinet officials janet yellen, sign off her twitter account leave washington and meet with actual flesh and blood human beings who are suffering. and not only did she meet with them, janet yellen brought with her a check for a billion dollars. and we were happy to see that, finally someone from t
early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. this isn t a question of vindication. it is not a question, as i stated before, about revenge this is a my position is that, at the end of the day, donald trump needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds if, in fact, that s the way that the facts play out that was donald trump s former fixer after wrapping up his testimony to a manhattan grand jury by the way, former fixer who went to jail, actually got convicted and went to jail for being part of this scheme that donald trump is now being investigated for. michael cohen spent two days on the stand answering questions about the hush money given to stormy daniels, the porn star. now, we re learning that she is talking to prosecutors also ahead, we ll dig into the new reporting out of georgia on another phone call the former president made to an election official there in the aftermath of the 2020 election. it s like the end of the hunt
About mexico, here is President Trump announcing the cancellation of his meeting with the mexican president in philadelphia today. The president of mexico and myself have agreed to cancel our planned meeting scheduled for next week. Unless mexico is going to treat the United States fairly, with respect, such a meeting would be fruitless and i want to go a different route. We have no choice. So david, was this sort of a mutual agreement, a mutual cancellation, or do you think that the mexican president pulled the plug . I think that the mexican president pulled the plug, and he did that because donald trump frankly put him in a corner. He kept in a tweet sort of pushing mexico saying you know you have to pay for the wall. I think nieto has to worry about his own political audience, mexicans were outraged, angry at
him for months, if we talk this way to china, chinese are not going to stand for china backing down. This is very different from a Business Deal where youre bluffing. Foreign
on wednesday, the night before. these are the eight candidates who will be on the stage the day before trump is set to turn himself in. and it comes as a new poll out of the key state of iowa shows 42% of republicans name trump as their first choice for president. that is more than double ron desantis at 19%. outfront now, we have van jones, former obama special adviser, and scott jennings, former senior adviser to mitch mcconnell. so, van, we now know trump turning himself on thursday, the day after the debate. what does that mean for this race? well, it means that we re going to talk about the debate for about 13 seconds, and then we ll be back talking about donald trump as usual. rather than showing up and talking about issues and talking about the american people, talking about the price of living, he s going to wait and then step on that whole conversation so he can talk about himself. if someone has a breakout moment the night before, now