blamed for the botched response to the school massacre has been placed on administrative leave. and stunning underwater photos of an american swimmer being rescued by her coach after fainting during the world championships and sinking to the bottom of the pool. the swimmer is okay. this is not the first time this happened to her. we ll explain what s going on there. along with joe, willie is back and me. we have former chairman of the republican national committee michael steel and white house bureau chief at politico and host of way too early. good to have you all onboard. i have a couple things i want to start with today. you re warning me. i have a couple things on my mind. i need the american flag and i need to talk. i have about five minutes. really, yesterday you missed i have to tell you, you missed a very special moment in washington politics. there was an aticus finch like character who testified before the january 6th committee. he was a speaker of the a
Us this afternoon for a small sliver of it. Jessica, thanks for being with us this week. Stay would see an end because the lead with jake tapper starts right now i heated hearing today for a different criminal cases involving donald trump, who lead starts right now the hush money coverup trial is quiet today, but another case is turning into a Shouting Match. Attorneys Attorneys Trading Barbs in that federal classified documents case in florida. As trumps codefendants, walt nauta accused his prosecutors of selectively and vindictively charging him with a crime plus new video showing the very moment that five young israeli women were kidnapped by the terrorists of from us. The footage is horrifying and graphic why their families wanted this video released. Now and uh, judges ruling today on the Iconic Graceland Mansion did something im im trying to scam their way into buying the property once owned by elvis welcome to the lean on jake tapper. Were going to start today with our Law And J
Welcome back to morning joe. a beautiful look at washington, d.c. 41 past the hour. federal prosecutors have arrested and charged former tallahassee mayor and 2018 democrat gubernatorial candidate, andrew gillum, with conspiracy, wire fraud, and making false statements. according to the indictment unsealed yesterday, gillum and his political advisor allegedly solicited hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds and diverted some for personal use. while both have been charged with 19 counts of wire fraud, only gillum has been charged with making false statements to the fbi. the defendants face a maximum of 20 years in prison for charges of conspiracy to commit wire
Confidence in me and no longer wished for me to serve as his ambassador. he added there had been a concerted campaign against me and that the department had been under pressure from the president to remove me since the summer of 2018. in that call with zelensky, president trump called her bad news. she had been targeted with rudy giuliani who considered her anti-trump. her name came up as a target in the indictment of two giuliani associates unsealed yesterday. here s what she said today, i don t know mr. giuliani s motives for attacking me individuals who have been named in the press contacts of mr. giuliani may well have believed that their personal financial ambitions were stymied by anti-corruption policies in ukraine. manu raju is on capitol hill. what more can you tell us about her testimony? yeah, and she said that she
Clearly, this is not the most important event that s taking place in the white house today. there is a screening of star wars for gold star families and children coming up so i ll try to be relatively succinct. let me say a few words about the year behind us and the year ahead and then i ll take a few questions. as i look back on this year, one thing i see is that so much of our steady, persistent work over the years is paying off for the american people in very tangible ways. our early actions to rescue the economy set the stage for the longest streak of private sector job growth on record with 13.6 million new jobs in that time. the unemployment rate has been cut in half. down to 5%. and most importantly, wages grew faster than at any time since the recovery began. so over the course of this year,