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listen to the evidence, i have to follow the law. you could have that stealth juror who slips on. the hope is you catch them early like the person who did not reveal his arrest. >> because he already lied to the court? >> exactly. better to get him now than when the jury is deliberating. i think you can find the fair and impartial jury who can follow the law and the evidence no matter what they feel about donald trump. >> this is a very esteemed panel. i have to do my job. i have to ask you about the new york tabloid underbelly of this whole sorted tale. you mentioned some things that were hidden, potentially legally hidden, because of their scandalous nature. we're going to turn to that part breaking down the trial, the tabloid scandal. the receipts and whether they were crimes. we'll turn to that with this panel next.
this trump criminal trial is on. we began the week picking jurors, making evidentiary rulings as i mentioned about the "access hollywood" tape and other issues. today the news broke late as the judge announced the full jury has been seated, sworn in, ready to go. tomorrow they pick alternates and as our da veteran was just telling us, monday opening arguments could begin. it is a fast track donald trump opposes given his long efforts of delay. that's what happens. it's barrelling towards us. what is the case we're going to see? the da says the tabloid scandal became a crime. the lawyer at the center of it all, michael cohen, worked with the tabloids to pay stormy daniels to hide the story. cohen even made a very unusual tape with his then client trump about the money they were going to pay to the tabloids through
civilization. he was elected mayor of cincinnati after his own tabloid scandal for patronizing a massage parlor. a critic once wrote springer wears his sleeves and slime like a chest full of metals but jerry, whose show lasted 27 seasons countered why is it so outrageous that people who aren't famous talk about their private lives? last night's white house correspondents dinner, president biden began with a call for russia to release imprisoned wall street journal reporter evan gerskovich. >> president biden: we are working every day on his release, bringing tools to bear to bring him home. howard: his tendency of keeping his distance from the press. >> president biden: in a lot of ways, this sums up my first two years in office. i will talk for ten minutes, take 0 questions and cheerfully walk away. howard: he invoked a comedian who would follow him, roy would
air. we don't know how long or if they're coming back ever. they have gotten a bum rap. i don't understand why the daily mail committed so many resources to show they're involved. their rep has been quoted saying the intimate relationship began in august after they had separated from their spouses. if that's true and abc says they haven't violated any company policy, why is it a big tabloid scandal? >> martha: that was my reaction as well, howie. look at this situation. these are two adults. they said they separated from their spouses back in august. people can make whatever personal judgments they want to make. it's hard to see why this develops in to a big story. we can think of examples at other networks where people left their spouses and had ongoing relationships. where do you think this goes for these two? you think they come back? >> i hope so. it would seem unfair for them to lose their jobs. i think it's nothing like the situation at cnn where
after admitting patronizing prostitutes. you admit that you knew from the beginning that our relationship would be a big tabloid story when it became public. why go there? why put this in the book. >> it was very much intertwined with my professional life. a lot of the mistakes that i made in my personal life did lead over until my professional life. my decision to date a controversial former governor led to me getting fired. i'm not sure the mayor could get away with that today. i wanted to share this story with people and i wanted to get them perspective on an experience that a lot of people don't have. what it feels like to be in a tabloid scandal. people shun you. also, how you handle it.
let's not have the kind of animus that it defines so much of what we were in the past. >> yeah. i mean, they know. they know. there may be lies and misinformation being spread around, jim, but they know it's the right thing to do, to extend the voting rights act, like they sid unanimously back in 2006. house majority whip jim clyburn, as always, thank you so much for your service, and thank you for being here today. >> thank you very much for having me. all right. mika, what do we have coming up next? >> still ahead on "morning joe," it's been over a year since jerry falwell jr. resigned as president of liberty university in the wake of a tabloid scandal. "vanity fair's" gabriel sherman joins us with his profile on farwell's unlikely rise and precipitous fall. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back.
♪ ♪ >> it was without question the biggest tabloid scandal in years, jeff bezos having affair that would ultimately cost half of his fortune and how the national inquirer broke the story remains under investigation, here is my report. federal prosecutors are escalating probe into two seriousalses stemming from the national inquirer disclosure of affair between amazon founder jeff bezos and los angeles tv personality lauren sánchez, one, charge by bezos that parent company american media inc try today blackmail to drop inquiry on how they obtained intimate texts which the company has strongly denied, bezos' belief that the saudi government obtained photos and texts by illegally getting access to his phone, claim that ami has called false and has also been denied by the saudi regime.
♪ ♪ >> it was without question the biggest tabloid scandal in years, jeff bezos having affair that would ultimately cost half of his fortune and how the national inquirer broke the story remains under investigation, here is my report. federal prosecutors are escalating probe into two seriousalses stemming from the national inquirer disclosure of affair between amazon founder jeff bezos and los angeles tv personality lauren sánchez, one, charge by bezos that parent company american media inc try today blackmail to drop inquiry on how they obtained intimate texts which the company has strongly denied, bezos' belief that the saudi government obtained photos and texts by illegally getting access to his phone, claim that ami has called false and has also been denied by the saudi regime.
2016. now the margin was less than 1.5 percentage points. if it's the blue areas that are growing, that could pose a problem for the president's re-election in 2020. now, we don't know for sure exactly who's moving in to and out of these places. but if it's the blue dots inside the red states that are the places that have been growing which we have seen a lot of, that could mean some of the states start to look more and more blue or purple over time. when we come back, the tabloid scandal that's so much more than just about "the national enquirer." coming up -- end game and postgame. brought to you by boeing. continuing our mission to connect, protect, explore and inspire. let's be honest.
a tabloid scandal or a politically motivated attack jeff bezos has accused to publish a link to president donald trump of blackmail in a post published on the website media. last month after the amazon c.e.o. and his wife announced that divorce the national enquirer published intimate messages revealing an extramarital affair eager to know how the paper came to possess these messages has also hired private investigators he suspected it was driven by dirty politics his suspicions grew stronger when he says the national enquirer parent company am i threatened to publish photos of him if you didn't make a public statement saying its previous coverage of him was not politically motivated. well that got my attention but not in the way the. any passionate. could cause me takes a backseat because there's