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First of All With Victor Blackwell

state of israel i understand that. >> i do, and i am sympathetic to that the point that the republicans were trying hi to make was not actually in support of jews across this country, but this also was not brought just by republicans. this was sponsored also by democrats. and there were many democrats who voted for it i understand words matter and so when you have a phrase like from the river to the sea being used by extremists on both sides. there is nuance, there is complexity. and we do not. those of us who voted against the resolution do not stand with hamas. we are simply saying we have constituents who are not using it in an anti-symmetric way representative becky ballot democrat of vermont. >> thank you so much for being with me. let's continue this conversation now with nicholas wu. he covers congress for politico balance, opposition to this israel aid bill is not

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Jesse Watters Primetime

be here, joe biden is a crook. >> jesse: the day started out about like a juror number 2, the unmarried nurse dropped out because her friends asked her if she was one of the trump support is "jesse watters primetime" she said she cannot take the pressure and cannot be fair to the form president. juror number 4, the puerto rican grandfather who founded trump fascinating and mysterious and rubbing a stealth jury. he lied on his jury form about his comment no record. it turns out he was arrested for vandalizing republican lawn signs. he was working with the democratic mayor, so the judge booted the undercover grandfather. by the way all the information about of these jurors coeternal report is in the room, the same things and reporting, so as the washington post, cnn, politico. the media also knows trump's lawyers have caught it respective jurors being sneaky. jurors for letterforms a savior not biased, i've never done this are that, and trump steam keeps

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Morning Joe

thing where you're trying to get a cut of down ballot candidates who use donald trump's image in an ad is not the effort of a campaign that's trying to put together an organization in michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania. it's an organization that is trying to placate donald trump and pick up some cash while doing it. i think a lot of their time, willie, is focused on keeping mr. trump happy. when you're doing that, you're not putting together a winning campaign. >> well, and he's just got to be mi miserable, having to sit in court all day. good luck trying to keep him happy. >> one can imagine. >> i don't know what that's like. senior political columnist for "politico," jonathan martin. always good to have you on. >> thank you, mika. coming up on "morning joe," a strong show of force from the kennedy family as more than a dozen members endorse joe biden for president. we'll play for you their comments even as robert f. kennedy jr. continues his

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Chris Jansing Reports

avoid, judgment. it will be an intense weekend for the lawyers putting the finishing touches on opening arguments, tweaking strategy, and for the defense preparing a client who is famously uncontrollable and who has spent this week as "politico" puts it, having to sit and listen to strangers insult him, quote, trump has heard himself described by a those under consideration as racist, sexist and a narcissist. he's been presented with a social media post calling for officials to lock him up. he's been told to his face that he's very selfish and self-serving. with the prosecution about to make its case and the judge planning to rule on whether trump broke the gag order, the opinions of would be jurors are just the beginning. nbc's vaughn hillyard reports from outside the courthouse. i also want to bring in former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, paul butler, jury consultant, alan turnen halftimer is with us as well. apparently the pressure is

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The Story With Martha MacCallum

securing the ukrainian border instead of securing our own southern border. >> martha: this is the former house speaker newt gingrich and an article by politico you can't govern by shooting yourself in the head every day he says, my question would be show me the 218 you have for someone that's for support for mike johnson you have to remember this is not a game at a pta meeting this is the house of representatives it is a serious constitutional obligation we live in a dangerous world and we look like we are absurdly incapable of governing ourselves so will you support keeping mike johnson as speaker? and what's your response to a newt gingrich on this? >> i supported mccarthy i thought that matt gates and those guys made a mistake when they made the motion to vacate five thought that really disrupted our conference in a bad way now mike johnson walked into a bad situation and it has gotten a lot worse since he has been year but changing speakers

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Special Report With Bret Baier

republican leadership and voted to keep rules from passing this session. let's bring in our panel. fox news senior political analyst juan williams. mollie hemingway editor and chief at "the federalist" and daniel lippman of politico. let me start with you. is there a sense that johnson had surpassed the tough part here or that he may still lose his job in coming days? >> i think the sense i get from talking to people on capitol hill is that he has managed this really complicated conference to get a multiple aid packages that they can vote on this weekend. and not lose his job in the meantime. and so i think there's a lot of republicans who say having another kevin mccarthy scenario where we oust our own speaker is not going to be good for the party or its image. >> bret: here are some house g.o.p. members on the motion to vacate. that's to kick johnson out of his job. i do not support a motion to vacate. as disappointed i am with the

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The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell

nbc news notes not only have democrats been out raising the republican challengers and building their cash reserves, new reports show they are now largely outspending the republican opponents and politico reports how trump is harming republican senate campaigns. in a letter received by digital vendors this week, the trump campaign is asking for down ballot candidates who use his name, image and likeness to give at least 5% of the proceeds to the campaign. that is trump imposing a five percent trump tariff on republican candidates who will discover that like other tariffs, the campaign terrace or not paid by china. joining us now is democratic senator gary peters, chair of the democratic campaign committee. you are the mastermind of this fix big lead that the candidates

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The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell

favorite. so we are pushing that race from tossup to leans democratic. congressman rubin gallego is likely to face kari lake. at this point, he is ahead of her in fund raising. just about every democrat running in competitive senate races this year significantly out-raised their gop challenger in the first quarter. nbc news notes not only have democrats been out-raising their republican challengers and building up their cash reserves, new fund raising reporting also show that they are now largely outspending their republican opponenting and politico reports today how donald trump is harming senate republican campaigns. in a letter received by republican digital vendors this week, the trump campaign is asking for down ballot candidates to use his name, image, and likeness in fund raising appeals to give at least 5% of the proceeds to the

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The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle

decision about testifying he is entitled to this notice of the things alvin bragg will point out so he can make a informed choice about whether or not he should take the stand. >> let's talk about the campaign. politico has extraordinary reporting. i want to say this slow. trumps campaign is now asking for a financial cut from down ballot gop candidates from their fundraising when they use trump's name or image. we know a lot of candidates rely on their ties to him but how big of a windfall willoughby for his campaign if they all have to give him a cut? will they go for this? >> it is a interesting question. you have to wonder whether or not the candidates will agree to this but it does underscore how trump is continuing to make up for the cash gap he has with

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CNN News Central

they're gonna go after him with everything they have and that's why you saw you saw prosecutor's asking the jurors the potential jurors, whether it's like the difference between likeability and believability that goes right? fight to michael cohen because they're worried that the durer's might not like michael cohen. and there they've got to do everything they can to make him believable. and that's gonna be a really tough hill for the prosecutors declined i'm really curious about this because i saw this morning politico is reporting that the defense team could end up if thing please don't look like they're going so well, trying to get the judge to allow the jury the option of considering misdemeanor charges instead of felony charges that the de has brought. >> what do you think about this strategy? >> well, i think it's just week this in the case, right? no doubt about it. and we all know that the misdemeanor charges at the statute, there's an argument statute of limitations has expired on misdemeanor

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