if you re watching morning joe weekend. and if you can t get enough of us on monday through friday. which is kind of surprising we talk a lot. no surprise it was another really busy week with trump s legal woe deepening, and desantis making headlines for all the wron reasons. let s take a look at some of our top stories this week! michael cohen, the one tim attorney and fixer for donal trump, wrapped up his testimon before a grand jury convened before the math and district office in the investigation of trump. and hush money paid to adult film actress, story daniels. cohen spent about two hour yesterday, testifying before the grand jury, in the first appearance on monday when he testified for abou three hours. and the woman of the center of the hush money payments has no spoken with prosecutors in the case as well stormy daniels attorney said that he and daniels both met with prosecutors, via zoom yesterday. calling the conversation substantive, and a goo meeting. the att
stories we re watching today the first is joe biden heading to monterey park, california the president will deliver remarks on gun safety. we are also following a developing situation out of ukraine involving a u.s. intelligence aircraft that was forced down by russian war planes but we start today with the race to the bottom in the republic primary the leading contenders for the presidential nomination making clear that they will not stand with the fledgeling democracy. a statement from ron desantis in response to a questionnaire than none other than fox news and america s most prominent putin defender tucker carlson reads in quote, while the u.s. has many vital national interests, securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence and checking the economic, cultural, and military power of the chinese communist party, becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between ukraine and russia is not
is there optimism in the white house that any efforts that yo can take by executive order, can have the kind of impac that america needs to try to stem this epidemic of mass shootings that we ve seen so far this year? well, good morning. it s great to be with you. obviously, the most importan thing that could happen to ste gun violence in this country i to be for gun violence to be passed in to ban assault weapons and hig capacity magazines to hold the gun industry accountable. take away its unique immunit from liability and many other legislative steps. last year, president biden was proud to sign bipartisan safer communities act. which was the most important piece of gun legislation in 30 years. it did some important things but there was no substitute fo what congress must do, but i
we have a problem here where where a small minority of irresponsible and negligent gun dealers are responsible for the vast majority of crime guns that are being used in our communities and tearing our communities apart. that station is critically important to make sure that we are holding the gun industry accountable, that we are holding them responsible, and that we are doing everything we can to prevent prevent the theft and straw purchasing that is allowing that market to thrive. so we are incredibly excited about this nomination and and we do hope that the senate will react in kind because this role is so important in the face of what we are looking at with gun violence in america today. we will watch to see what happens with that. christian hiney, thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it. thank you so much for having me. well, time for a short break now. when we come back, covid cases are rising again and at least one major u.s. city is bringing back its indoor