The impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump took a new turn when a federal court on Friday handed a major legal victory to the Democrats essentially ruling that their impeachment inquiry is in fact legitimate. Rep. Joe Neguse joins Ayman Mohyeldin in for Joy Reid to discuss, followed by our AM JOY panel. Then: William Taylor’s explosive testimony this week during the House impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump may have moved House Republicans on Wednesday to storm a closed-door deposition of a Defense Department official. Plus: Donald Trump has called publicly many times for the various investigators investigating him to be investigated. Now the Justice Department is opening a criminal inquiry into its own Russia investigation. And: Donald Trump defended his use of the word ‘lynching’ to describe the House impeachment inquiry. Ayman Mohyeldin in for Joy Reid and panel discuss the dark, racist history of the term, and the backlash against the president’s statement. Finally: The Trump administration official who wrote an anonymous op-ed for The New York Times called, ‘I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,’ is now set to release a book called, ‘A Warning.’ All this and more in this Saturday edition of AM JOY on MSNBC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices