Governor is calling a special legislative session to make sure President Biden will be on the ballot this fall. And louisiana will soon be the first state to classify apportion pills as controlled, dangerous substances. Well go through the legislation and its possible impact in novembers elections. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday, may 24th. We made it to friday. It was in doubt there for a while. Thank goodness. Im jonathan lemire. Im alongside the bbcs katty kay. We are in for joe, mika, and willie. Good friday morning, katty. Yeah, news flash, donald trump knows how to put his trousers on. I think that is worth waiting for friday for. We now have that at least. I suppose we can put it in the appropriate context later, or we leave it out there like that and make people wonder just what he was talking about. Hanging, yeah. With us to dive into this important story, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and Associate Editor of the washington post, and msnbc political analy
about it. and anyone who can expect an incoming labour government to quickly turn on the spending tops will be disappointed. inflation, debt, taxes are now huge constraints. we will make different choices, on the non dom tax choices. invest it in high quality teaching and our children s mental health. but at the same time, we will be ruthless when it comes to spending every pound wisely. i run a public service in the days of austerity. i know how hard it can be, but i also know how hard it can be, but i also know you can always find ways to improve delivery. change your practice. your behaviour. reform your approach. when times are to have, like they are now, that is the least that people expect. put it like this. there some people in this country right now wake up in the morning and no everyday will bring a fight for every penny. just like the last day. my sister is one of them. i will say to her, let s go to the pub for lunch. and she will say straightaway, al make sandwich
okay so there are big weeks and really big weeks and this week is as big as it comes. after weeks of revealing witness testimony, after weeks of intense cross-examination. after a legal system has been tried, tested in ways that it has never been before. we re now reaching the end of this trial. closing arguments start tomorrow. those seven men and five women will deliberate and decide the fate of the former president. we don t know what the outcome will be. only they decide that. that s how our system works. i know it all sounds surreal but it s all really happening, starting tomorrow morning. if one person appears to be feeling the heat right now, it is truly a surprise, he shouted at the judge, the district attorney. hours away from closing arguments, the judge is probably past wanting to derail the. or the jury may be dead locked, unable to reach a consensus and this could end in a mistrial. or the jury could convict trump as former director has predicted. that would make
defendant trump himself, by the way, after weeks of revealing witness testimony, after weeks of intense cross-examination, after our legal system has been tried and tested in ways it has never before, we re now reaching the end of this trial. closing arguments in donald trump s criminal trial start after that judge juan merchan will deliver his instructions ti the jury. then those seven men and five women bill deliberate and give the result to former president. we don t know what the outcome will be. i know it sounds surreal, but it s all happening starting tomorrow morning. and if one person appears to be feeling the heat right now is clearly trump himself who surprise surprise, everyone, lashed out at the judge, the jury and over the weekend trump is pretty clearly testing the bounds of his gag order here because he knows at this point hours away from closing arguments the judge is probably past the point of wanting to derail they trial. as this case enters its final phase