Documents indictment, things have the case against his former boss, his name is brian butler, and hes been talking to investigators and now hes talking to the sources Kaitlan Collins, who joins us its from miami. So why is he speaking out now . Kaitlyn well, anderson, in part because hes worried that americans and voters will never get to hear this story before the election in november. Obviously, trumps legal team has sought this strategy of delay, delay, delay, especially when it comes to the classified documents case. And so this witness, someone and who was a longtime employee at maralago for 20 years is now speaking out publicly because of a concern that that it may not come to light. I mean, donald trump has repeatedly called this investigation a witch hunt. Brian butler, who until now was known only as trump employee number five, is now saying that he disagrees with that. He doesnt believe its a witchhunt and he was able to provide key testimony to the special counsel, jack smit
jokes with him alongside a budget proposal while he was in philadelphia yesterday. his plan has little chance of passing the republican-controlled house, making this more about campaign messaging than the actual numbers. meanwhile, there are significant developments this morning out of the manhattan d.a. s office that signal criminal charges could be coming for donald trump. we ll get into the details of why. also ahead, a lackluster debut for the subcommittee on so-called weaponization of the federal government has some republicans frustrated now with congressman jim jor t jordan an game plan. we ll be joined by the writer of the piece in a moment. good morning to morning joe. we have jonathan lemire. pulitzer prize winning columnist at the washington post, eugene washington. and special correspondent for bbc news, the great katty kay. good morning to you all. as i mentioned, we re going to begin with the new york times report that the manhattan district attorney
about election lies, plus the deadline fast approaching for abortion pills in america? will the supreme court step in in the hours ahead and just minutes from now ceremonies begin to mark 80 years since the warsaw ghetto uprising against germany. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world this wednesday morning. i m christine romans. we begin with fox news, settling the huge lawsuit. dominion voting systems filed against it at the very last second before trial was set to start in delaware. the $787 million settlement is by far the largest publicly disclosed media defamation settlement in u. s history is nearly 4.5 times what abc news paid back in 2017 to a meat processor in the so called pink slime case. the settlement does not require fox to apologize, correct or retract the many falsehoods and lies that broadcast about dominion. but dominions lawyers say their clients have been traumatized by the experience and the money in court rulings in their favor
And tonight to trump legal strategies and the evidence that one is working and the other might be working. Again. Its the former president of the United States. The first deny, deny, deny in minutes, the eightyear history of the many, many times that trump has repeated his denials about Stormy Daniels and insisted a picture is all there is to the story. Now the adult film star, as you can imagine, telling a very different version of events, the jury under oh, today and sayyed 100 center street. Now, daniels left out the way the most salacious details, but not much else. She chronicled how that night and lake tahoe in 2006 escalated from chatter to a Dinner Invitations that is hotel suite to silk Pajamas Deposing and his boxers on the bed to sex. Trump. Listen, they scowl extra across his face from much of the nilly five hours that shes spent on that Witness Stand. Trump nudge. Did i say nudge lightly . Nudge his laura is as repeatedly to object as prosecutors prompted daniels to explai
speaker: elements of the central intelligence agency killed j john kennededy. speaker: the story has been suppressed. witnesses have been killed. we have a right to know who killed our president and d why he dieied. [music playing] speaker: in dallas, preparations were already underway for extraordinary police protection when the president should arrive. interviewer: do you anticipate any trouble on the president s arrival? jesse curry: because of what has happened here previously, we would be foolish, i think, not to anticipate some trouble. i don t really, i don t anticipate any violence. speaker:r: here comemes air foe numbmber one, ththe presidenes plane now totouching dowown. here s s mrs. kennnnedy, anand the crowowd yells. and the president of the united states, and i can see his sun tan all the way from here. dan rather: looking at how things actually went, it wasn t just a trip to dallas. it was a political trip, preparing for the 1964 elections. speaker: shaking ha