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good morning and welcome to the saturday edition of "morning joe weekend." it was a really busy week. lets get to some of the conversations you may have missed. gag order in donald trumps hush money case is an effect, but his attorney said, they will keep fighting to get it thrown out. that comes after new yorks top court declined to hear trumps appeal of the matter earlier this week. the state court appealed trumps thing, there was no constitutional grounds for the appeal. that le...

To meet slirvirtually with goves to talk about resettling refugees from afghanistan. that has been cancelled. the briefings have been delayed. a lot is fluid as theyre monitoring the situation, monitoring what has happened to service members on the ground, what is going on with the afghan allies still standing out sside the gate. president biden spent the morning in the situation room monitoring with top aides. several aides are calling lawmakers to talk to them about what they know. senate majo...

>> the president stopped short of calling lawmakers back to capitol hill to take up legislation. rich edson reporting live from new jersey where the president is set to arrive this afternoon. rich? >> the president said this time can be different, that congress can pass legislation after two mass shootings last weekend. that on top of congressional democrats and republicans and the national rifle association, he says he can convince his base. >> we passed background checks a number of times, mea...

Jim acosta at the white house, thank you. lets bring in pamela brown. were also learning the president has been obsessed with his former fixer and lawyer michael cohen, fuming about his constantly. what are you learning? >> thats right. our reporting shows that michael cohen and his testimony and all the fallout surrounding it has really been getting under the presidents skin. he has been distracted by it. just minutes after national security meetings, president trump has been bringing up cohe...

They release to the reporters publicly, but what this shows is someone feels so strongly about how the president is spending his time that they leaked every day this schedule for dozens of days to a reporter outside the white house, essentially detailing what the president does. now, our reporting has shown that during this executive time, essentially the president gets up in the morning as you know from his twitter feed, hes tweeting. he reads through all the newspapers, the "washington post," ...

On his team for him to go out and read that statement. p and we heard that was coming from everyone from the vice president, from the second of state, from chief of staff john kelly, who, and i should say the white house has denied this but a number of people have told us john kelly was incredibly frustrated calling lawmakers on capitol hill and urging them to speak their minds to the president, the idea being that if he heard from trusted people like, say, newt gingrich who tweeted about this -...

House agrees its a changed approach, one that started over the weekend when the president began calling lawmakers. >> is this a charm offensive? >> the president is engaging with lawmakers of both parties and will continue to do so. >> reporter: a far cry from last week when on the same day that the automatic cuts went into effect. >> julie, give me an example of what i might do? >> reporter: the white house argues that the president has tried a grand bargain before obama to be rebuffed by house...

europeans and the americans might have to have more central bank intervention into the markets and also said that there have been policy decisions in europe and the united states that have been poor, and then on top of that, that was enough. that was already bad, brooke. then we got some economic reports right here in the united states. slowdown in housing, slowdown in manufacturing, and, you know, not a great report about new jobless claims. basically it all piled on. people ran out o...

Employees. the drug costs 780,000 a year, money some say could be better spent on something else. >> well, i think theres better things you can do with the money than using all the money for some stuff like that. >> i still think we shouldnt have to foot the bill for it. >> the judges decision is expected sometime in the near future. >> bottom of the hour and time for the top of the news. nancy mosey calling lawmakers back to capitol hill to vote on a new 26 billion dollars jobs bill and the sen...