your voice still. >> i think i was born that way. i think it's the only way we can live. it sometimes may sound naive. ooh i remember thinking what i was -- when i was at the civil rights march, we're going to change america. maybe we didn't change america completely. but we made huge changes at that time. if you have optimism, at least you have the confidence if you act something will happen. it may take a long time. as martin luther king talked about, the arc of the universe, all that stuff takes a long time, but it moves toward justice, and i do believe that. >> thank you, doris kearns goodwin, for this incredible conversation. >> i'm so glad to have been with you. that is all for today. thank you for watching. we will be back next week because if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." ♪♪ with all due respect, you didn't give me a plan for the

speaker's role, and does that mean again you're going to file the motion at some point? >> it's coming depending on what mike johnson decides do. we have three joining us for your the elections coming up very soon. people need to know this can happen. marjorie taylor greene telling fox news she's going to try to remove mike johnson. if mtg makes a move, johnson appears to have the support from some democrats, yes. we'll go through all the chaos on capitol hill in just a moment. plus, we'll get you caught up on donald trump's hush money trial and the legal arguments, which are set for later this morning. ♪♪ good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this monday, april 22nd.

i'm ali vitali in forthan lemaire. jury selection wrapped up more quickly than we thought it would on friday. it's made up of seven men and five women along with six alternates. according to "the new york times," the prosecution plans to frame trump's actions quiet about an alleged affair. that's going to be election interference. the defense, meanwhile, will seize on three apparent weak points, witness credibility, the president's culpability, and the case's legal complexity. one of the potential first witnesses expected to testify is david pecker who bought and buried damaging stories about trump. he's alleged to have worked with trump and his former attorney michael cohen to bury the stormy daniels story. other witnesses expected to testify include a who's who in

donald trump's world. karen mcdougal also alleged a sexual relationship with trump. as trump left the courthouse on friday, he continued to insist he plans to testify in his own defense. back here in washington after months of delay, house lawmakers have approved a $95 billion foreign aid package. in four back-to-back votes on saturday, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle overwhelmingly voted to approve the new funding package. a fourth bill would force tiktok's parent company based in china to sell the platform. president biden put out a statement saying members of both parties in the house voted to advance our national security interests and send a clear message about the powerful leadership on the world stage. it's expected to pass

legislation and be sent to the president's desk. speaker mike johnson is facing backlash after bringing the critical aid vote to the floor. take a look at what ro khanna said. >> he did the right thing here and he deserves to keep his job until the end of this term. >> i think you i've got a few progressive democrats and i've spoken to a few moderate democrats who say the same thing. meanwhile volodymyr zelenskyy reacted, speaking to our own kristen welker on "meet the press". >> el with, president zelenskyy, it is a historic morning. i want to get your reaction to this major news, the house

approving $61 billion to ukraine. will you get this aid in time to make a difference? >> translator: it's been so important. first of all, i would like to say thanks to the congress for the bipartisan support, and i'd like to say thanks to speaker johnson and president biden. >> can ukraine now win this war, or is the united states merely giving you enough aid to prolong this war? >> translator: thank you. i think this support will really strengthen the armed forces of ukraine, and we will have a chance for victory if ukraine really gets the weapon system, which we need so much. >> joining us now, capitol hill

reporter juliegrace roughky. i'm so glad you're with us. one thing that wasn't in this package is border security. what happened here? >> so far right republicans are furious about this right now and threatening johnson's gavel over it. now, they brought up another bill that was lesser than h.r.2. the gop-led bill that was passed earlier this year that biden had completely written off, arguing they should have come up with a weaker bill, republicans ultimately voting against it. i talked to a lot of republicans who said there were certain conservatives that if any ukraine funding came to floor, they would tank the rule. >> these are folks who would never be voting for it anyway,

right? i feel like that's the opening secret on capitol hill. you were never going to get bob good on board or the freedom caucus. >> we've heard some say this is jon's third strike. they're upset about how he handled appropriations and fisa. they're kind of arguing the last straw. that being said, that i didn't pull the trigger to try to out him. >> that's the question. when does that happen and when does the threat expire? at what point do you call their bluff? >> i think to some extent he's in a position where he has to call their bluff. marjorie taylor greene, we heard her say yesterday she's not backing down from this. mike massey said this is like a john boehner thing where he gets powered out. i talked to andy biggs on saturday. he said, i don't really see the point of this, hopping on board.

we have only a couple of major priorities for the rest of the year. i think there are some conservatives who will probably see a challenge next year, but i think a lot of people are worried about u how it's going to impact them in november. >> i also think for music josh shapiro, he has problems in november, he doesn't have problems now. my problem is when he came to the speakership, we were reminded he was one of the architects of the way trump could have tried to overturn the election for congress. he's now the speaker of the house. he will have a prominent role in certifying the election results. how are democrats going to feel comfortable potentially saving his job come february if president biden were to lose? >> they think he's more of a straight broker. s he's very religious and

believes in what he says. maybe marjorie taylor greene waits until june, which may have set a lot of her pragmatic voters in congress. it's kind of where things stand right now. >> it might end up being something that angers the former president. certainly he does not want the chaos investigation of congress to bleed into him. >> absolutely. i think when i talked to people in that orbit worry, he worries about how it -- >> it was like a side hug. it was not like a full embrace. >> it's more than he gave kevin mccarthy when he was virtually in the same spot. he said, i stand with him. i believe marjorie taylor greene respects him. and now she came out -- >> i have a different view on

how marjorie taylor greene feels about the speaker. >> you kind of tamper down his rhetoric a couple of days after that, questions were asked outside of his trial, we'll see what happens. i think even within the conservative world there's been backlash and there's some fears with the one-seat majority right now, some moderates are fed up with the chaos and might just leave. >> might just leave. i think that's definitely an open question too. i've had some very unhappy text messages from republican lawmakers who do not want to go back. capitolhill reporter juliegrace brufke. over the weekend president trump canceled a rally due to severe weather. he called by phone announcing over the speaker system he needed to postpone because of thunder and lightning. he told supporters he has to reschedule due to a literal rain

check. this was before the start of his trial in new york city. new york news polling shows trump ahead of biden by two points, 46% over 44%. when the field expands to include third party candidates, biden takes the lead over trump, 39% to 37%. that's because 15% of voters whoous wheevously voted for trump would now vote for kennedy. fascinating. still ahead, what we're hearing about the u.s. sanctioning a combat unit. plus columbia univerity

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intentions to post an insanction on the idf is the height of absurdity and a moral low. columbia university is holding classes virtually following the demonstrations over the war in gaza on campus. the university's president made the announcement earlier this morning, but it comes a day after a well-known raby at the school urged students to leave campus as soon as possible. in an online post, he called the recent demonstrations terrible and tragic saying the university police and staff cannot guarantee the safety of students. a group representing jewish campus life, however, say they do not believe students should leave columbia and are calling on the university and city to do more to ensure students' safety. last week more than 100 people were arrested on campus. the pro-palestinian protest continued throughout the weekend. some jewish students say they've been threatened with heat speech and calls for violence.

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>> it's chilly in the northeast, the tennessee valley, mississippi valley, ohio valley. on the other side of the country, we're looking at desert heat. 100 degrees in phoenix. the middle of the nation, a front will bring us showers and storms. a second front will bring us storms into the afternoon into portions of central and southern florida. we're looking at freeze warnings. 76 million people impacted by the freeze alerts. we have light pink, frost warnings. this is why, we're just above freezing. you need coats. right above the freezing mark in charleston, west virginia. also lexington. it's cold, too, in chicago. 43. 44 in st. louis. we're going to keep it on the cool side as we head throughout the rest of the day. the rest of the nation below average. also in new orleans, 10 degrees below normal. look at the west.

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welcome back to "way too early." it's just before 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 out west. new developments in donald trump's civilian fraud case with the hearing to take place this morning. the hearing comes after new york attorney general letitia james on friday asked the judge to void trump's bond. she wonders if the company has the funds to back it up. in february the judge ruled trump and his colleagues engaged a decades-long scheme to inflate his net worth to get better deals and interest rates on loans. he was at risk at having his

property seized after he failed to obtain the bond for the $464 million judgment but a new york appellate judge reduced it. neither trump's lawyers or trump commented. dave, thanks for joining us from florida. what's the chance here that the judge will actually void trump's bond in the several fraud casing and what does that actually mean in the larger scheme of things fordonald trump? >> if the judge voids it, trump will have to go back to the drawing board and find someone to put up the bond. he had trouble getting anyone to help. it's hard to say. i think the courts in new york state seem to be bending over backward to allow trump to appeal and not pay the full judgment which is like four times the amount of the bond. he got a guy who is not admitted

in new york to do these kinds of bonds but wanted to do trump a faber. the guy's name is hankie, which is funny because we're talking about hankie painky. >> oh, lord, dave. it's not even 6:00 a.m. >> sorry, ali. there's a former judge, retired judge barbara jones. he gave her extra jurisdiction, oversight to look at who's paying the pond and where's the money coming from. the public should get more information about mr. hankie and this bond, who gets paid by donald trump, who actually works for the people. >> there's that case. i want to turn to the other case we're seeing movement in and have been watching closely, trump's hush money criminal

trial. opening statements are expected to begin in a few hours. what are we expecting to hear from the prosecutor and defense? this is happening faster than i think we thought it would. >> yes. donald trump is on trial, but the defense is going to try to change that. the defense is going to try to put michael cohen on trial. they're going to try to raise reasonable doubt that this guy is a convicted liar. they're going to try to concept over the part he hide to protect donald trump. they're going to try to say you cannot believe anything this guy says. he's a key witness, and if you don't believe him, the whole case goes away. the prosecution is going to show they've got corroboration. the first witness is going to be david pecker, the guy who can corroborate michael cohen and used to be on trump's side. he's going to set the stage for what this is about.

this is not a one-off payment to stormy daniels, but a scheme to prevent things being said. karen mcdougal is expected to testify. a doorman apparently had information that turned out to be false about trump's love child. i think it's damaging for the former president who's going to use the sergeant schultz defense, i know nothing. >> you look at how the prosecutors are going to paint a picture after the "access hollywood" case comes out. i was covering him at that point. people were freaking out. they thought it was over for trump. they didn't want it to get any worse. i have one legal moment. looking ahead later this week to thursday, there's a case with big implications in the supreme court. they'll take up trump's immunity

claims. litz cheney is out with a new op-ed this morning, do this quickly. why does speed matter here? >> it matters because the case that poses the greatest existential threat to donald trump's freedom is the d.c. election interference case in front of judge chutkan who wants this case to go, but she can't let it go until the supreme court finishes with this appeal. the longer they drag their feet, the less likely the case will be heard before the election. if he's elected, they're going to shut it all down. trump could win by losing. i document think he's going to win when it comes to absolutely presidential immunity, but if the supreme court throws it back and says you need to do a new hearing and examine all these factors, that's going to slow things down so much it's going to make it impossible for this case to be heard. that's why it hooks hike the

case that's the least strong case, the new york case that's going to trial today, i think that may be the only case that's going to be heard against donald trump before the election. >> yeah, time has always been of the essence here. i think the other thing congresswoman cheney has argued is prosecutors and the doj and jack smith was able to get, they've spoken to people like mike pence and mark meadows and she argues the public should be able to hear that information and i would like to too. thank you for joining us. still ahead, we'll go live to cnbc for an early look at what's driving the day on wall street. plus, the house passes a bill which could force the sale of tiktok. we'll break this down and the expected legal battle ahead. "way too early" is coming right back. "way too early" is coming right back

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time now for cnbcs by. let's bring in silvia amaro. what can we expect from wall street today? >> good morning. so it will be a positive start to the trading day and week on wall street. this is after we saw a very rough end to the trading week last week. just to give you an idea, there was a special focus on tech. we saw the sector ending the week, down by more than 7%. some analysts have explained that, suggesting what we saw was a repositioning among investors as we await to hear from some of the big tech companies that are due to report this week. just to give you an idea, we're going to hear from meta, microsoft, and alphabet. it's also likely to be a very busy week for investors on the data front. we're going to get new gdp figures in the united states as well as cpe numbers.

that's very important for the fed and investors will be waiting to hear what we might hear from the central bank in terms of potential rate cuts. no doubt this is going to be the start of a very business week, guys. meanwhile tesla has slashed prices of its cars globally. what prompted this? >> so tesla is under a lot of pressure. in fact, if you look at their shares in premarket trade, they are moving lower. what we heard from the company is that they are cutting prices by about $2,000 across all its models in china, and that comes after they announced price cuts in the united states as well as germany. there are several reasons behind this. one of them is following that. we'll see what we hear from the company. tesla is also due to report this week. and, finally, something that

a lot of viewers' ears are going to perk up to, but a potential ban against tiktok took a major step forward this weekend. what's the latest there, and can you assure people? we're not talking about an outright ban on tiktok. it's more a change in ownership, right? >> exactly. legislation suggested what congressmen would like to see is that bytedance, the chinese company that owns tiktok, they want them to sell their stake in the company. however, this is not something that's likely to take place any time soon. that's according to several analysts. however, if you look at the details in the legislation, they are indeed asking for that stake to be sold within a year, this, hour, comes after we saw a separate bill also in the house also pushing for the same thing, however, with a more, with a stricter timeline. the key here from a geopolitical

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markry taylor greene has promised to follow through with a plan to oust mike johnson. >> he's betrayed people under his leadership. he's passed biden administration's policies and fully funded them. mike johnson's speakership is over. he needs to do the right thing, to resign and allow us to move forward in a controlled process. if he doesn't do so, he will be vacated. >> and the speaker's been clear he's not resigning. but marjorie taylor greene has filed a motion. others have signaled they would vote to save johnson if that motion to brought to the floor. you and i often spend a bunch of time together in the halls. i'm excited to have a conversation with you. plain and simple, do you think he's going to get vacated? >> i don't see a path for marjorie taylor green at this

point. they're already saying openly they would block any motion to vacate. then they're also saying that, you know -- you look at republicans. when i talk to members, when i'm texting, they do not seem to have this appetite to, you know, push forward with a motion to vacate. most of them don't want to throw the house into chaos because they remember what happened in october. >> they also don't know who else would do this job. we said this during mccarthy, and obviously we ended up with speaker johnson. you can't replace someone with no one. i asked matt gaetz, if not johnson, who, and he pointed to the person next to him. >> no one knew who would be the predecessor ultimately and then they just -- there's no plan. here's this. imagine going back to constituents at this point saying that you are speakerless once again and then asking to vote for the house, to give

republicans the house again. >> bring us back to the majority, more of this, more of this. that's the concern from the trump campaign too. they don't want that chaos bleeding into an already pretty chaotic and tumultuous political scene. i think the thing that's surprising about this is there are democrats from ro khanna to adam smith who say all right, if the motion to vacate comes up, we'll save it. >> there's a difference. we talked about how mccarthy had, you know, kind of lost the trust of democrats the last time after they voted for the continuing resolution. he then went on television to say, oh, democrats wanted to, you know, stop the government. >> spat in their face. >> they took it very personally. it went downhill from there. i think there's a clear

difference between the two leaders. >> congresswoman jayapal said we should. be saving him. they say, hey, keep your powder dry. you don't get something for nothing. that i got the ukraine vote. is that enough? >> sure. i was talking to elizabeth slotkin the other day and she indicated that, sure, i would be open to conversations, but they already have the funding bill at this point. i think they kind of probably want more, but here's the deal. he won favor with putting this ukraine package on the floor. there's still faa pass, mda. >> the farm bill. >> the farm bill. there's plenty of stuff to lever ramming for the democrats, and i think it will probably happen. >> i'm fascinated by the dynamics here. we're in the election year and

people have tough senate races as well. >> it's so funny. >> yes, congress is funny. that's one way to put it. thank you for getting up. up next, some republicans are showing their unwasherring support for donald trump despite his mounting legal problems. coming up on "morning joe," the latest on capitol hill after the gp-led house approves a $95 billion foreign age package. senator reverend raphael warnock will weigh in when he joins the conversation. and in just a few hours, the attorneys court. "morning joe" is just moments away. oe" is just moments away

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south dakota governor kristi noem says she'll stand by donald trump even if convicted in his criminal hush money case. >> i'm hoping these jurors can come in and be unbiased and will let this case go forward in a swift manner that allows president trump to get back on

the campaign trail. americans deserve to hear from their candidates, and the democrats and the activists are using this trial to derail him, to keep him in court instead of out talking to americans about what their real concerns are. their real concerns are their everyday lives. they need a leader in the white house who gets up every day and puts them first and doesn't raise their taxes, doesn't overregulate them, take away their freedoms, and give our money to other countries instead of making sure we're taking care of america first and keeping us safe and secure. >> there is absolutely no evidence that president biden is involved in this. this is a case that is being brought in the state of new york by the manhattan d.a. >> and that's -- that's what i think is remarkable. if you look at president biden and what he's done, what his son has done, and the fact that -- >> that has nothing -- >> -- they're not being prosecuted for their crimes is unprecedented. >> that has nothing to do with this. big picture, governor, if donald trump is convicted in this trial, will you still support

him in november? >> if my choice is joe biden and donald trump, every single day of the week, yes, i will support donald trump. i have from the very beginning. he has been someone that i have supported since 2016 because i recognize that he didn't think he was better than anybody else in this country. he wanted to go run for this office so he could serve the people here and fight for them every single day. >> joining us now, msnbc's political analyst brendan buck. he was communications strategy and former aide to house speakers ryan and speaker boehner. you know i'm going to ask a congress question, but what we just watched, i asked nikki haley, would you vote for someone convicted of a crime, and the fact that kristi noem's answer is yes, what does that tell you? >> it's not surprising at all. four years ago, certainly eight years ago, there was a large faction of the republican party, including kristi noem, who thought, let's get through this moment and we'll figure out what

the party looks like. she and a lot of people have realized this is not a short-term moment. even if donald trump is not elected president, there is no future from anybody, kristi noem, who thinks she has a future in the republican party, probably wants to run for something herself, you have to be aligned with donald trump. no one is waiting for him to go away. she's also trying to be his vice president. >> that could be an easy springboard. >> of course. there's one train leaving right now, and it is with donald trump. doesn't matter what he does. it's because the voters are still there. we've seen poll after poll show voters understand the things that are being thrown at donald trump right now, and they're still sticking by him sh at least in the republican party. we shouldn't expect anything different anytime soon. >> if this is what is required to be on the vp short list, think of how that translates into a white house like trump's. >> obviously, we saw with mike pence, as well, there's very little room for that. in some sense, it's normal. if you're on the ticket with the president, you back them up in everything they do. i think what is interesting, so many people are willing to put

themselves in that position right now. so many are willing to say, i know what donald trump is like. i know what it'll be like to stand next to him and say, yes, sir, and repeat all the things he says, and they're willing to line up because they know if they want a future, that's the price you pay. >> this is not like backing a tariff's policy, though. this is backing someone who would have been convicted in at least one of the trials. that's the simulation that they're being asked to respond to. i want to switch gears. you have a new opinion piece out in "the new york times" titled, "mike johnson steps into his power even as he might lose it." do you think he is getting vacated? i hear the name john boehner a lot, and i don't think johnson is going to do what beohner did and resign. >> i think marjorie taylor greene would have brought the vote last week. democrats have said they'll probably stand by johnson because the context they're doing this is he brought up something they wanted. it'd seem, i don't know, unfair to take him out for that. i think the question for the long term is, is that goodwill

he has with democrats going to last? kevin mccarthy lost his job because democrats didn't think he was an honest broker. right now, they like johnson. things could change quickly. say they impeach joe biden. are they going to stick around for him? say they have to bring up funding bills for the rest of the year and, once again, they abandon the bipartisan agreement. if they find mike johnson is no longer a good faith actor, or they're not getting something out of the deal -- i mean, a coalition only works if both sides are getting something out of the deal. democrats could lose their motivation for supporting him, and maybe that's marjorie taylor greene's plan, to let it stretch out and democrats lose patience, as well. >> i don't know how many rounds you can go. the motions to vacate, one person can trigger it an infinite number of times. say they save him this time and another vote happens immediately. i don't know how many rounds democrats have in them. >> exactly. that might be the marjorie taylor greene plan.

okay, you can survive one, but it'll be unpopular among republicans. you'll be more unpopular among republicans. my numbers may go up and democrats go down, but at what point? that's why you said the trump folks don't want that to happen. if this bleeds into the summer, that's certainly, you know -- the problem for conservatives, they don't have enough members. they have a small majority. they don't control the senate. >> a lot of them are leaving. >> they should be thinking about, how do we grow our numbers if we actually to get the things we want? this doesn't grow your numbers. this is bad politics for everybody, making the house look like a circus. marjorie taylor greene has been running that play for her entire time here. >> i think it is absolutely striking to see the way we're seeing members go against members through this lens, too, the way they're helping in primaries with each other. you know, it's been really striking. when you zoom out and you look at the way that you knew the house and now you watch the house, does this place even worse anymore? >> the place is built to work on party unity. it is a majoritarian

institution. you bring up bills because you have your entire party with you. everybody is a free agent and working against each other, and it can't work this way. if democrats and johnson are not on the same page, we could have real, big problems. >> yeah, just the fact the speaker was on tv saying, we only control one chamber, and i barely control that, i thought that was striking. brendan buck, msnbc political analyst, thank you for joining us. thank you for getting up "way too early" with us on this monday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. this trial the wearing on donald trump. i've been watching him. you know, people get to talk about him, and he has to sit there for hours without saying anything. kind of like he did on january 6th. we'll get you caught up on donald trump's hush money trial with expert legal analysis ahead of opening statements, which are setor