Morning Joe 3/31/23

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

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3.9 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Trump indicted and expected to surrender to authorities next week

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0:00.0	Trump indicted the first ever criminal indictment of a former president of the United States
0:08.3	came down yesterday when a New York City grand jury convened by the Manhattan District Attorney's
0:14.7	Office took the unprecedented step of voting to charge Donald Trump.
0:20.1	Because the indictment is under seal, the exact charges are unknown, but we do know they
0:24.6	center around that $130,000 payment Trump allegedly made to porn star Stormy Daniels just
0:32.6	days before the 2016 election.
0:35.4	To keep her silent about an affair, she claims that she had a decade earlier.
0:41.0	According to the star witness in the case, Trump's own former lawyer, Michael Cohen, the
0:46.0	Trump organization tried to cover up the payment, falsely claiming it was a legal expense.
0:55.0	Good morning, and welcome to morning Joe.
0:57.1	It is Friday, March 31st, along with Joe Willie and me.
1:00.8	We have the host of Way Too Early, White House Bureau Chief Epiolitico Jonathan Lamir,
1:05.3	the host of MSNBC's Politics Nation, president of the National Action Network, Reverend
1:10.4	Al Sharpton, the host of MSNBC's Inside with Jen Saki.
1:15.4	Jen Saki, she's a former White House press secretary, and with us presidential historian
1:20.7	John Meacham, NBC News legal analyst Andrew Weissman, former general counsel of the FBI,
1:26.7	and served as lead prosecutor in the Mueller Special Counsel's office.
1:32.6	A big news day, also a sad day as history has been made.
1:37.7	Right, right.
1:40.2	You know, a lot of yammering going on yesterday, a lot of people talking about police states
1:46.1	and about this, and that we don't know what's in the indictment.
1:50.0	That's the most important thing to remember.
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