The Rachel Maddow Show

Former Manhattan Assistant DA Michael Horwitz joins Morning Joe to discuss the case against former President Trump.

Author Michael Specter joins Morning Joe to discuss his new audiobook ‘Higher Animals: Vaccines, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life’.

A federal judge in Texas on Friday suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s longtime approval of the drug mifepristone for use in medication abortions, a ruling that is set to go into effect on April 14 unless a higher court intervenes. Yet the Morning Joe panel discusses how abortion in the U.S. is no longer a 50/50 issue and why it is political quicksand for Republicans.

Taiwan has reported seeing 70 Chinese warplanes and 11 ships in its surrounding waters in the latest set of drills launched by China. Meanwhile, China’s military announced its mission has been completed. Janis Mackey Frayer reports.

Jon-Adrian ‘JJ’ Velazquez was convicted for the 1998 murder of former NYPD officer Albert Ward. Velazquez began serving a 25 years to life sentence at the maximum security Sing-Sing prison in New York after the conviction. The new podcast ‘Letters from Sing Sing’ details Velazquez’s case that began with a letter sent to NBC News Investigative Producer Dan Slepian. Velazquez was granted clemency in 2021 after nearly 24 years of imprisonment.

Tennessee Republicans have moved forward to expel three Democratic House members for their role leading recent protests to the House floor. The trio of Reps. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville, Justin Jones of Nashville and Justin Pearson of Memphis led protest chants for gun reform on the floor of the chamber last week in the wake of the deadly Covenant School shooting. Rep. Johnson joins Morning Joe to discuss.

Expelled Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones joins Morning Joe to discuss being removed by Republican legislators over protests on the chamber floor against gun violence last week.

The Morning Joe panel discusses the expulsion of two Black Democrats from the state House over their protests on the chamber floor against gun violence last week, while a vote to expel a third, white Democratic representative fell short. Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes says the stupidity of the move ‘burns’.

Republican legislators in Tennessee voted Thursday to expel two Black Democrats from the state House over their protests on the chamber floor against gun violence last week, while a vote to expel a third, white Democratic representative, Gloria Johnson, fell short. State Rep. Johnson joins Morning Joe to discuss.

The Morning Joe panel discusses the GOP’s ‘collapse into complete farce’ with Sen. Lindsey Graham’s pleas for Fox viewers to donate to Donald Trump and the rise of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene within the party.