is it over before it begins? i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. before a single primary vote has been cast, has donald trump already sown up the 2024 gop nomination, or is it still up for grabs? everybody has an opinion, but the data tells a pretty compelling story. peggy noonan in the wall street journal writing this week, i refuse to see the story is over. the voting begins now. after chris christie dropped out, the new york times wrote, the christie vote alone will probably not be enough, but haley has been steadily gaining in the polls and historically there s a lot of precedent for surging candidates to keep gaining, especially over a contest s final days. and new hampshire, which is second up, will be a wild card. independents can vote in the gop primary, and according to data released yesterday from gallup, 43% of americans consider themselves to be independent. the rs and ds are tied at 27. it ties a record for an independent showing, making them the largest
talking about the case over the weekend. it comes as trump s rivals for the 2024 nomination rally to his defense. some of them do. we will have the comments. some of them do. some don t. some do and don t. mixed bag. you know? what is the strategy there? sad thick. the latest from ukraine with the counteroffensive claiming small victories over the russian forces. also ahead, an update on the i- 95 collapse. a disaster that has shut down the section of one of the busiest highways in america. good lord. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. if is monday, june 12th. with us we have the host of way too early, eddie claude jr., and richard hoss joining us. richard, jonathan, so much news. we cannot talk about sports. is there a minute? not even a minute to talk about what happened at yankee stadium or the stadium as they call it. the red sox taking 2 of 3. we don t have time to talk about it? we don t have time to talk about it. the little league team
we are live in new hampshire. also tonight, a trump court victory keeping him on michigan s primary ballot. but will the same be true in november? and we have breaking news on a similar case, a trump defeat in colorado. later, the remarkable story of how two men s fishing day ended with them saving another man s life. a man trapped and lost to the world for near i will a week inside a wrecked truck, with deadly weather closing in. john berman in for anderson. what christmas break? that s what the republican presidential candidates must be asking tonight. there was virtually no time left before the first contest. and happening now, live pictures of former south carolina governor nikki haley. she is in the middle of an event in new hampshire. she s armed with the governor s endorsement there, a fresh infusion of cash, and possibly, she hopes at least, one of the most precious commodities in politics, momentum. it is a relative term, with donald trump looming over everyt
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on trial. several prosecutors are working on that very task, even as donald trump s civil fraud trial stretched through the december of 2023 and in 2024 as you probably heard because you re watching the news defendant trump faces several criminal trials in different jurisdictions while running for president again. so, special counsel jack smith leading the prosecution of trump s coup in washington. and separately the stolen intelligence documents case in florida. atlanta d.a. pushing ahead on a long-term plan for those rico trials after winning convictions of trump aides through this 2023. and then the smaller criminal case in new york. taken together, over 90 felonies charged. that is not normal even if it has been normalized. the first coup trial initially slated for march while those schedules can of course change, america s facing more serious warnings from people who know about this, from actual legal experts, discussing a very real possibility that one of the major poli