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lawyers are throwing their backs out trying to convince the jury that Stormy made this whole sex thing up.

Ted Cruz is on Fox defending Trump by saying the opposite.

There is no person on planet Earth that believes Donald Trump has been celibate all his life.

That is not news.

Thanks, Ted, that's going to make Mother's Day with Malani on a lot of fun this year.

Oh my God we have a lot to get to this morning on Donald Trump's criminal

hush money trial. What a week, Willie. It has been Stormy Daniels wrapping up her second day of testimony with a contentious

and at times bizarre cross-examination from Trump's legal team. We'll get expert legal analysis on that and what we can

expect in court today because it's not over yet. Plus we have reaction from

Capitol Hill to President Biden's threat to withhold some weapons shipments to Israel

over its possible invasion of Rafa.

More Republicans are criticizing the president and he's even facing backlash from some

Democrats and Kevin McCarthy seems to be having a hard time coping with the fact

that Mike Johnson did something he could not, which is simply hold on to his job.

We'll show you McCarthy's dig at his successor, it seems, I don't know, a little, not okay, Willie.

Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe.

It's Friday, May 10th.

With us, we have the host of Way Too Early, White House Bureau Chief

at Politico, Jonathan Lemir, and former aid to the George

W. Bush White House and State Department, Elise Jordan.

And Willie, we end this week, I guess the way we began it just as I mean it's a really bad

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