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from donald trump's legal team. we'll get expert legal analysis on that and what we can expect in court today. meanwhile, the former president in his campaign seem to be growing concerned about robert f. kennedy jr. based on donald trump's new rant about the third party candidate on his social media site. plus we'll have more reaction from capitol hill on president biden's decision to with hold some weapons shipments to israel over a possible invasion of rafah. good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this friday, may 10th. we made it to friday. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we have a lot to get to this morning, and we'll begin with the donald trump hush money criminal trial, which picks back up later this morning, a day

after stormy daniels finished taking the stand, testifying more than seven hours over a two-day period. yesterday the defense aggressively tried to poke holes in daniels credibility, accusing her of extortion, rehearsing her testimony, and changing her story. all of which daniels denied, going toe to toe with the defense attorney with several sharp exchanges. at one point daniels said that if she were making up her sexual encounter with trump, she would have written a much better story. also during cross-examination daniels testified that she never spoke to trump about the 130,000 dllz hush money payment that she received from ex trump attorney michael cohen, and that she had no knowledge whether trump was aware of or involved in the transaction. when pressed daniels also noted that she did not negotiate directly with cohen either but that her lawyer at the time, a man named keith davidson, did

so. following daniels the prosecution called a series of new witnesses. one of them included trump executive -- trump organization executive assistant rebecca -- who testified about how checks were handled both before and during trump's time in the white house. and the time witness yesterday was madeleine westerhout. she served as trump's perm secretary and director of oval office operations for the trump white house until august of 2019. she described trump's working habits including his use of social media and that he would sign every check by hand in his office and return them to her in a folder. westerhout wiped away tears when describing how she was fire from the position after she shared private details about the job and the trump family during a dipper with reporters that she believed was off-the-record.

despite that, she spoke warmly of the former president, participating a picture of a family man who cared deeply about his wife. westerhout will return to the witness stand later this morning and we'll have more on this trial later in the show. to washington now where republican lawmakers are criticizing president biden's threat to with hold weapons shipments to israel. in an interview on cnn wednesday night, biden said he would not give the idf bombs or artillery shells if israel invades rafah, a southern gaza city where more than a million people have sought refuge. now some house republicans are trying to prevent any delays in arms shipments. one texas congressman introduced a bill that would transfer weapons to israel within 30 days of procurement. another house maker is preparing articles of impeachment against biden, charging the president with abuse of power. meanwhile, in the upper chamber

senate republicans voiced their frustrations saying the president's decision to delay arms to israel undercuts the $95 billion foreign aid package congress approved last month. >> i fought for months to secure passage of the national security supplemental to support israel, ukraine, and all of our agent partners and to make important investments in our own military. i've stood up to the opposition of my own party to do the right thing. if the commander in chief can't muster the political courage to stand up to the radicals on his left flank and stand up for an ally at war, the consequences will be grave. >> this is insane what is being suggested by this administration after the congress in huge bipartisan fashion supported over $14 billion to go to aid

israel, this administration would decide without any input from congress or anybody else that because they don't like the way that israel's defending itself against this threat, that somehow they're going to start cutting off the very assistance that the united states congress said that we want sent to israel to our ally to make sure they're able to defend themselves and to root out this -- this terrorist organization operating on their border. >> what you're doing is you're saying hamas has put palestinians in the cross hairs of israel so stand israel down? that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard in my friggen life is that you tell the person who's about to be wiped off the map you've got to slow down because your enemy is making it hard on the palestinian people to survive because they choose to put him in harm's way. >> two facts checks here. the white house is continuing to send defensive weapons to israel including to replenish the iron

dome system. and secondly it was republicans and their interparty squabbles that held up the aid to israel and ukraine for months until it was finally passed just a couple weeks ago. meanwhile the democratic party is divided over biden's threat to with hold those arms. the president is facing some criticism from lawmakers in battleground states where his position on israel carries the most political risk. when the war started last october the president's staunch support for israel alienated him for some voters. others, however, praised his position. now as he shifts his stance, the democratic party remains divided. john fetterman of pennsylvania called the president's threats deeply disappointing. the congressman of florida reiterated that sentiment saying the move sends a message to israel about its use of force. but also hamas, that means telling them that means the war is going to go on. meanwhile many progressives who earlier criticized biden's

handling of the conflict are now calling the decision to with hold arms a step in the right direction. the white house, however, insists that it still supports israel. one senior administration official tells nbc news that biden's decision was, quote, motivated by our national security interests and by our values, not by politics. joining us now congressional reporter for axios, steven newcomb. good to see you this morning. this is nuanced argument that's sailing over the heads of most in washington as that often is the case. you got into some reporting for axios about the democrats, some praising biden's decision, some disagreeing with it. tell us a little bit more as to their reactions and how the white house is responding. >> yeah, good morning. i think overwhelmingly on capitol hill we saw in the senate but in the house as well there was not unanimous

democratic support for the decision here from the president, but it was pretty overwhelming. now, there were some standouts like john fetterman and there were some others in the house who were upset about the decision to with hold the aid. but by and large it was -- what we saw was many democrats falling behind the president and sort of giving him some leeway in the administration, some leeway to try and deal with the government on this one. >> so we heard republicans and they're outraged. just remind viewers here. there's nothing really they can do here, and let's knock down the bad faith argument where there are some comparing what biden did to trump's efforts to extort ukraine in holding back that shipment in order to get president zelenskyy to investigate the bidens. again, the u.s. is continuing to send aid to israel just defensive aid. >> right, exactly, defendantsive aid. and there are folks in the senate, for example i talked to

senator mark kelly a few days ago, and he said, look, i have grave concerns about the way that israel has been using their offensive weapons, and if we're in a position where, you know, we have a position of leverage to make sure that especially with the invasion of rafah that whatever offensive that they -- that they go forward with, that, one, if the u.s. does not agree with it, it will not use u.s. weapons, but sort of trying to shape the offensive there and make sure that it's acceptable on the white house's terms. >> and lastly this comes of course the real chaos in the house republican party. speaker johnson looks like he's survived for now a motion to vacate, but you've got new reporting about the judiciary chairman there, jim jordan, and his power play. tell us about it. >> jim jordan, you know, sort of came into congress as a conservative flamethrower, obviously tried to run for speaker after former speaker mccarthy was ousted last year. but jim jordan has been doing

the rounds and quietly sort of trying to build allowances with moderates and that includes fund raying around the country. obviously that holds a lot of weight in washington as we go toward 2024. and all signs point to him sort of quietly trying to build these alliances to -- whether it is a speakership bid in 2025 or the most likely outcome if house republicans are in the minority if he can launch a bid for minority leader that can possibly be catapulted into a speakership if they were to win back the majority. >> some smart reporting there. congressional reporter for axios, thank you for starting us off this morning. still ahead here on "way too early," what we're learning about nikki haley meeting with some of her biggest donors next week after she dropped out of the presidential race earlier this year. plus as mentioned earlier donald trump goes on the defensive

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friday morning. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we turn back now to donald trump's criminal hush money trial. judge juan merchan has for a second time denied a request for a mistrial from trump's lawyers. trump attorney todd blanche claimed that stormy daniels' testimony this week describing her alleged sexual encounter with the former president was unfairly prejudicial to trump. but the judge ruled that trump's lawyers had opened the door to that detailed testimony when they asserted in their opening statement that no sex had occurred putting the jury in a position of choosing who they believe. the judge also dismissed a request by trump's team to loosen the rules on the former president's gag order. trump's attorneys asked the judge if the order could be modified to respond to daniels testimony arguing she is no longer a witness. the judge responded this way, my concern is not just with protecting ms. daniels or a

witness who's already testified, my concern is with protecting the integrity of these proceedings as a whole. >> everybody saw what happened today. i don't think we have to do any explaining. i'm not allowed to dabecause this judge is corrupt. i've got to get back on the campaign trail. i'm not supposed to be here. we are so innocent. there's never been anything like it. >> joining us now msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos. danny, we'll ignore the former president's bluster there. but let's start with those two rulings from the judge, the decision not to change the gag order and a decision not to grant a mistrial. your take. >> so the gag order no big surprise there. the defense's argument i get it. they're saying stormy daniels is no longer a witness, there's no need to protect her. but that's not really what it's about it's about protecting

integrity of the proceedings. when you talk about the mistrial, you've got to make those motions. i'm sure the defense expected that they would be denied. what was interesting was that justice merchan went back to opening statements and used them against the defense saying, hey, if you were denying that the sex happened, you made it an issue in this case, which really highlights the fact that for defense council maybe opening statements should be no more than keep an open mind, remember the burden of proof because you have to be so careful during opening you don't step on a land mine and open the door -- i'm mixing my metaphors, but you get the point. you don't want to create a situation where you allow this evidence to now come in, because it's something you've said offhand in opening statements. believe me these mistrial motions the defense knows they're going to be denied. they're setting the stage for appeal and that issue may come back, which begs the question years from now will the prosecution wonder will stormy

daniels really worth the risk? >> let's talk a bit about stormy daniels. she is indeed wrapped up now for seven hours of testimony for two days. you mention the risk and tell us about that and also your impressions. >> i think stormy daniels was an unnecessary risk for the prosecution. other folks may disagree with me, but consider this is there any other piece of evidence you needed from stormy that the prosecution couldn't have gotten from somewhere else? there's no question in my mind beyond a reasonable doubt there was a transaction where michael cohen paid stormy daniels and including stormy daniels attorney keith davidson. do you need the evidence from stormy that the value of her story increased as the election approached? i don't think so. i think you got from t that from people like hope hicks and other witnesses already in this trial. you have to ask is stormy worth the risk of not just a possible mistrial but two years from now when it goes to appellate and it

gets overturned, which by the way is the first major appealable issue in this case that i see. then the question becomes if you could have gotten that evidence from somewhere else, was it worth it to be the evidence on the stand? >> as you sat down during the break you thought the other witnesses you heard from yesterday were more important. tell us why. >> we spent two days on stormy daniels and really in terms of compelling evidence for the prosecution's burden of proof, for the evidence they need to prove i think the effects was minimal, then you have madeleine westerhout, who's a name some people heard of. it described the situation, it prebutted the defense's argument that, hey, donald trump he's a boss man. he relies on his minions. he's not paying attention. he signs checks, he doesn't know what's going on. that evidence of her essentially facilitating the signing of the michael cohen checks quietly and briefly was arguably more important than two days of stormy daniels testimony about

donald trump in his satin pajamas or whatever else she testified to. that was much more compelling, and it's a witness in madeleine westerhout who has 0.0 credibility issues. >> and lastly give us what we're going to hear today. >> testimony continues. we don't know exactly what witnesses that are going to be called because we don't have their list, but what the prosecution has generally done is alternate between a flashy marquee name witness and someone who is -- i use the word boring cautiously because you might think a banker testifying about bank records is a little dry, but those are the witnesses, not your stormy daniels, not your keith davidson and not your karen mcdougal who i don't think will ever make it to the stand now. these are the key witnesses that will make the case, not the exciting names but questionable. >> we're going to hear from at some point in the days ahead.

danny cevallos, thank you. we'll talk to you again later on "morning joe." next up here we'll go live to cnbc for an early look at what's driving the day on wall street after the dow marked its seventh straight session of gains. plus the u.k.'s economy turns a corner exiting a shallow recession. what it means for that country's interest rates and how that decision could affect monetary policy back here in the u.s. we'll be right back with that. n. we'll be right back with that.

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end the week quite positively on wall street. you're in london and new data released today shows the united kingdom is officially out of a recession. tell us about that. >> exactly. so quite a lot of positive news also out of the united kingdom today. ipessence the u.k. entered the technical session at the end of 2023, but the data today show the economy growing by about 0.6% in the first quarter of 2024. that was well above the economic -- the forecast among economists suggesting it would only grow by about 0.4%. this is actually quite a positive story, and has led the bench mark here in the u.k. to extend its gains and actually hit a record high earlier this morning. quite a lot of positive news from the united kingdom, and that is being reflected also in the equity space, john. >> staying there in u.k. for one more, the bank of england is inching closer to its first rate cut since 2020. what's the latest, and will it have any bearing on what could

happen here in the u.s.? >> so what we heard from the bank of england yesterday was that they kept rates and changed it 5.25%. that's still quite high when compare today the historical rates. however, they sounded more dovish than what markets were expecting. rather than just seeing one member of the nine-member policy committee suggesting they could cut rates, we actually saw two of them. that could suggest we are moving closer to seeing the bank of england cutting rates. let me put it into context for you, here in europe we have seen the swiss national bank cutting rates, the swiss national bank also cutting rates. the ecb is on track to do so in june, and now the bunch of england on track to do so this summer. what does this mean for the fed? well, it is the only major central bank at this stage that is still not sounding this dovish and still sounding quite hawkish. let's see how this will actually impact markets for the rest of

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israeli officials have responded to president biden's warning against a full-scale invasion of rafah for which the u.s. says will not provide weapons. speaking to an israeli news channel, israel's ambassador to the united nations deemed the decision frustrating and suggested that it was the result of domestic pressure. on social media israel's foreign minister vowed to continue fighting hamas until it's destroyed, adding there's no more just war than this. however, certain members of israel's government reacted with

much harsher criticism. israel's minister of national security posted this on social media, a tweet that reads hamas heart biden. his office did not immediately respond to request from further comment from nbc news. on "x" israel's prime minister suggested the president has set in place an arms embargo while vowing to achieve complete victory. speaking with dr. phil netanyahu had this to say about biden's stance. >> i've known joe biden for many years, 40 years or more. we've often had our agreements but we've had disagreements but we've been able to overcome them. i hope we can overcome them now, but we will do what we have to do to protect our country, and that means to protect our future, and that means we'll defeat hamas including in rafah. we have no other choice. i think like-minded people,

rational minded people understand that we don't have a choice, but there's strong opposition. i've said in the holocaust memorial service we had the other day, i had it in the holocaust we stood alone, but we were defenseless. and today if israel has to stand alone, we'll stand alone. but we also know we're not alone because we have so many decent people everywhere who do support us, who do understand the truth. and we will defeat our enemies, and we will secure our future. >> joining us now danny, a member of israel's parliament and former israeli ambassador to the united nations. mr. ambassador, thank you for joining us this morning. president biden this week stressed the u.s. would continue to send defensive weapons to israel to replenish the iron dome and the like, but he's drawing the line about giving weapons we use for a full-scale invasion of rafah. let's get your own reaction to

that. >> jonathan, good morning. firth, we are disappointed. we're in the middle of a tough war. we're being attacked on many fronts from the north, in the east, and in the south we're fighting hamas terrorist organization. and we expect our ally to stand with us when we're in a war. yes, we're disappointed. we still respect the president, we respect the friendship with the u.s., we'll continue the dialogue with our colleagues in d.c., but at the same time we have no other choice. we cannot allow to stop the war now. we're a little confused also because president biden say many times that israel should finish the job and eliminate hamas. so how can we do that with our hands tied behind our back? we cannot win the war without going into rafah, without facing the hamas battalion. >> the u.s. has said their concerns about the rafah

operation is that israel -- it was saying israel has not provided any sort of plan to provide safety for the civilians there. is there such a plan, and what is it? >> absolutely, and that's of course assumption because look at the time line. we have been in gaza for seven months. one of the reasons it's taking so long because we are very conscious and before we operate we allow the operation to move to a different direction. we have shown to our colleagues in the u.s. very specific plans to allow the population in rafah to move to other areas and we're prepared to accept them with the ngos, and we will do that before we will attack rafah. and what happened in the last few days the u.s. changed the tone. if you look back president biden has said we want to see what you're planning to do in rafah, we're not against the operation in rafah. and all of a sudden i think because of maybe domestic issues the language changed, and all of

a sudden we hear don't go into rafah. >> so on that note, lead national security communications advisor john kirby told reporters yesterday in a briefing that the administration believes that a major rafah ground operation would actually strengthen hamas' position at the negotiating table and not israel's. what's your reaction to that? >> i beg to differ about that. you know, look what we are facing now. we are more than 130 hostages. we don't know how many of them are alive including five americans. no one knows what's happening to them as we speak. we cannot wait idly by and expect hamas to release themno . we have to use military force in order to eradicate hamas and release the hostages. the fact that they are not telling us who is alive and who is not, when we are negotiating

with them, we list hostages alive or death, that's not acceptable. they don't have the decency of actually telling whom from the hostages is still alive. >> that's what i wanted to ask next, does the israeli government have any sense as to how many hostages are alive and can you provide us an update on the cease fire for hostage negotiations, where do things stand? >> that's very tough, when we find the first agreement with hamas, last year they promised to allow the red cross visitation to the hostages. it never happened, and today they haven't sent any lists about the hostages, we don't know. i'm very worried. what we have seen in the last few days that they are saying they are not capable of releasing 33 hostages alive. so i'm very troubled by that message coming from hamas. we don't have the exact number. that's why we have no other option. we are determined to go all the way to release those we can release and to eliminate this

terrorist organization. it's a threat to israel. it's a threat to the u.s. the iranians are doubling their shipments to the proxies, while the u.s. is stopping the shipment. we know we are on the front line and we are committed to winning this war. >> we share the hope those hostages are freed soon and returned to their families. member of the israeli knessets danny danon, thank you very much this morning. >> president biden prepares to attend a slew of campaign fundraisers. then coming up on "morning joe," we'll bring you the key take aways from donald trump's hush money trial as stormy daniels wrapped up his testimony, and what to expect when trump's former white house aide returns to the witness stand this morning. we'll be right back with all of that. ight back with all of that some people say, "why should i take prevagen? i don't have a problem with my memory." memory loss is, is not something that occurs overnight.

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the totally torqued-out crossover. welcome back, president biden is hitting the campaign trail on the west coast this weekend. biden will visit the san francisco bay area for two fundraisers today, and then he'll head up to seattle where he'll tend another campaign reception. he'll remain in seattle

overnight. the trip marks the president's first visit to the northwest city since 2022. joining us now, white house reporter from bloomberg, kayla gardener. good morning, good to see you. obviously california and the state of washington not in play this november. they're both safely blue but they are hot beds of cash. give us a sense of the president's fundraising efforts on the west coast this weekend. >> the president is going to be in the bay area as you mentioned over the coming days. he'll be there for multiple fundraisers and both california and washington are home to silicon valley money, hollywood, which the president has tapped into time and again. this comes at a time when the biden campaign has almost $200 million in the bank. the war trust is one of the biggest assets right now. they are trying to run a strong round game, something they were not able to do in 2020, of course, with the pandemic, and they're really trying to differentiate themselves from trump. they believe they have a stronger infrastructure in

battleground states, they are more aggressively buying ads on television, and trump is catching up in the fundraising game. they need to continue the case now that trump is able to fund raise at a larger scale and without the thresholds and in conjunction with the rnc that biden has been able to do for some time now with the dnc. >> let's talk about the cash advantage and the effort by the biden campaign to flood the air waves now, april, may, june, frankly before a lot of americans are paying attention to define the race ahead. it comes with the split screen of donald trump sitting in a manhattan courthouse. >> it's been quite fascinating, really the fact that they are buying this early is going to make it a lot harder for trump to get on some of these programs because they are putting out these bids so early. they're running in daytime programs like "good morning america," jeopardy, "the price is right," trying to reach older americans who have a lot more and higher attention spans than

other americans and of course are watching traditional cable television. i have heard from the biden campaign that they specifically believe older voters can make a difference in key battle ground states where there's frankly more than a million older voters in states like pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, also in arizona and nevada. so these are certainly demographics that could make a difference here. >> the biden campaign is struggling with some young voters but showing surprising strength with older voters at this point in the race. so kayla, the biden administration, there's been reporting, considering new rules to the asylum screening process. tell us more about that. >> essentially this rule will allow immigration officials to screen people for potential public safety risks, national security risks, these are folks who have been convicted of serious crimes or could pose terrorist threats to the united states, and essentially it would allow officials to screen them

earlier in the process. that doesn't happen until months, years after people are screened. this is how president biden is trying to flex his executive powers here as we're in the final months of his first term, and he's doing similarly with student loans. he's pardoning people who have been convicted of marijuana possessions. he'll really trying to find ways around some of the stalemates he has had in congress and key issues that a lot of key blocs are passionate about. >> we have been covering all morning the president's decision to draw this red line with rafah, not send arms to israel for an invasion there. we had a member of the israeli knesset saying how disappointed his government does, republicans being outraged, a handful of democrats too. explain how the white house is defending its decisions. >> this has caused tensions with progressives and conservatives. progressives are saying this is a step in the right direction but they want to see the administration go further with

withholding aid to israel. the white house is holding defensive weapons. their commitment to israel is ironclad. you have some democrats and republicans very upset about this decision to hold these bombs back from israel. that would have been more than 3,000 bombs delivered but the white house says at the bottom line is their concern about how those weapons could be used and they don't want to see more deaths in gaza which have now passed more than 30,000 palestinians there. so something we have heard from the vice president and other members of the administration is they do not want to see this indiscriminate is the term they're using, they do not want to see indiscriminate bombing of the area. they want to see israel take more precautions for civilians. >> thank you, we appreciate. and thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" on this friday morning and all week long. have a good weekend, everybody. "morning joe" starts right now. it's funny while trump's lawyers are throwing their backs out trying to convince the jury that