Tonights laid, campaign crunch time. A handful of caucuses and primaries this weekend will be among the lost opportunities to change the president ial picture ahead of super tuesday. Former President Trump is campaigning in virginia tonight as a divided Republican Party holds a Caucus Convention and michigan. Caucus is also being held in missouri and idaho. Meanwhile, tomorrows primary and the District Of Columbia could offer nikki haley one of her a few opportunities to win a contest outright. Main while, President Biden is preparing for his state of the union address, thursday, we are hell have an opportunity to speak directly to the American People about his accomplishments, including the Recovering Economy with Stock Markets at alltime highs. And possible progress in the middle east. They administration has begun airdrops of humanitarian aid into gaza and stays far discussions are underway. A well received speech could help reverse a different popularity that has the president lock
jack smith to accelerate a decision on donald trump s claim of presidential immunity in his federal election criminal interference case. now, the one sentence reply the order from the supreme court reads, quote, the petition for writ of serzh yry is denied. in other words we re going not going to the appeals process could give donald trump ample time to further delay this case, which is of course supposed to go to trial just a few months from now, the first week of march. trump may now try to delay the start of the trial until the calender begins to encroach on next november s election. in which if he s the nominee the next court could ask to put the case on pause until the next presidential contest is decide. and should trump win that election the case will go away entirely which is to be clear and we all understand including the people on the supreme court exactly what he wants. although i have to say it is stel unknown if trump will be allowed to meaningfully delay thi
beautiful sunrise in washington, d.c. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 18th. donald trump has claimed that he could declassify materials just by thinking about them. like i dream of jeannie. but there is new evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation that proves he knows it s not true. the former president is seizing on two failed endorsements in florida from governor ron desantis, while ignoring the lack of success his candidates had in the last election. also ahead, the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations with both sides digging in on one big issue. we ll explain what that is. and we re keeping an eye on president biden this morning as he is in japan for the g7 summit. welcome, everybody. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan is with us. and former white ho
there for the first one. i was too young to make it up. these birds have a new appreciation of the words, let freedom ring. president biden with some age jokes during the turkey pardon at the white house. meanwhile, his campaign is facing calls from democrats to become more active and aggressive against donald trump. speaking of the former president, we have a lot going on this morning. we ll explain what happened yesterday in the gag order hearing for his federal election interference case. plus, republican senator tommy tuberville s latest outlandish reason for blocking oh, my gosh. hundreds of military promotions. he can t help himself. he intellectually degrades himself every single day. stop him before he humiliates himself again. please, don t double down on dumb. also ahead, we ll have the latest on the hostage negotiations between hamas and israel, which appears to be centered on the pause in fighting in gaza. we ll have the very latest on that
trump, saying, if you want to declassify these documents, this is a proper way to do it. they got it. now, donald trump is trying to assert privilege, as mika said. this supreme court, the roberts supreme court, they reject every one of his claims when it comes to things like this. so it is, it is going to be extraordinarily important when it comes to intent. well, he had a chance to come clean, sensibly, and, yet, he still went back and messed around with the documents, tried to still intercept documents. right. that s not good for him. because you look at the way that president biden handled it, the way that vice president pence handled it, and it was just such dramatically different circumstances. so this case, to me, seems like he s at more of a risk of legal peril, really, than political peril. i don t think voters, frankly, care that much or understand that much object classified documents. but the legal risk seems to be. willie, they do understand about obstruction.