That is going to happen next week on the 20th when joe biden is sworn in as president. You know, this is only going to make matters worse in a country thats deeply divided right now. Sandra impeachment heads to the senate where Mitch Mcconnell is telling republican colleagues he has not made a final decision on how he plans to vote but his office is telling fox news he wont reconvene the senate early for a trial. John roberts is live from the north lawn this morning. Have we heard directly from the president on how he plans to handle impeachment . We did. Good morning sandra and trace. Speaking with a Top White House official this morning who told me that if the paperwork goes over to the senate today, the white house expects that the trial would probably begin on the 21st. Well see how that unfolds. One thing we do know is the legal team that handled the president s last impeachment trial in the senate from the White House Counsels Office as well as jay sekulow and other outside couns
Monster are up in arms after hearing her concert may be in jeopardy. It conflicts with the wizards playoff attempts on may 15th. Little monsters up in arms. Thats it for way too early. Morning joe starts right now. Shes not your typical candidate. Conservative joni ernst. A Lieutenant Army colonel who carries more than just lipstick in her purse. Joni ernest will take aim at wasteful spending. And shes going to unload. Oh and one more thing. Joni doesnt miss much. Give me a shot. Oh, my goodness. Good morning, everyone. Its tuesday, may 6th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set we have morning joe contributor mark halperin. Hello. Anything going on in your life . Former treasury official steve rattner. And in washington associate editor of the Washington Post and political analyst eugene robinson. Tom just walked in as well. Hi. How are you doing today . Very dapper today. You as well. So big day today. We had jim gaffigan on yesterday. It was nice of him to come here. Part of a roll
A look at the days top news and headlines. Plausible, innocent explanation although i cant see one here for building all these offshore accounts and funneling money there to escape reporting it to the irs. On the other hand, i dont think the manafort defense is working. His defense is essentially this he is batman, hes blaming robin for all the problems. And thats just not going to work. Dana like the jury is not going to buy that let me ask you a few things that other possible, you know, big shot lobbyists in washington, d. C. Are rethinking some of their own practices at this point. That is a great question, dana. I think one of the things people overlooking is that manafort is not the unusual one in a way. He is unusual in that he tried to hide the money and not report it to the irs. Its not unusual in the way that he is making the money. He, like a lot i think this is partially why trump campaigned against quote, unquote, the swamp. There are lobbyists. A lot of people who just rec
To feature prominently. Nation salutes you. Thank you, today, Ellie Schneider is a sir. Proud fighter. Ellie and robin, and it comes a day before his impeachment trial is due to wrap up. We are proud to have you with us tonight. Applause. Ellie mr trump declined to testify in those proceedings, applause. But he will be front and centre tonight. Over the course of the next few hours, well bring you analysis and reaction, as well as the speech itself as soon as it gets underway. Lets bring in ron christie, former advisor to George W Bush hes in washington for us. From the pilgrims to the founders, from the solder that valleys forged to the marchers and from president lincoln to the reverend Martin Luther reminds us that every child is king, americans have always a miracle of life, and thanks to modern medical wonders, 50 state of the unions our test rejected limits on our childrens future stop members of premature very premature for the president. If he goes of congress, we must never fo
His intel chiefs public refuting their warning to congress that russias up to the old tricks again in 2020. Trying to help trump get reelected. Trump fired his top intel official for giving that warning. Ill talk to one of them who is trying to stop Bernie Sanders and trump in november. Pete buttigieg is joining me live and ill speak to someone who knows more about the nevada politics former senator harry reid. We begin tonight with the aftermath of the explosive New York Times report that in a briefing last week u. S. Intelligence officials warned house lawmakers that russia is meddling in the 2020 election to help get President Trump reelected. Today in a rally here in las vegas, however, trump argued the democrats were the ones pushing this story of russian interference. I was told a week ago they said you know theyre trying to start a rumor, its disinformation. Thats on the thing theyre good at. They get nothing do. Do nothing democrats, theyre that putin wants to make sure i get e