want to break it down, it will determine the state of our economy in weeks and months and years ahead. first we need to look at the constitution. let s take a look. who is responsible for spending and borrowing? raising taxes, is it the president? obviously not, article i section 8: the first part of that. it is not a suggestion. it is not ambiguous this say choir power that legislature has, when you look at history, back to britain and the parliament with the king. this was something that the framers of your constitution looked at, they wanted this power not to be with the king or this presidency they created or executive branch. they are supposed to execute the laws passed by congress, they gave this power to congress, to the people who are directly electioned in congress. senator of the time chosen by state legislators and house chosen by the people, you, we the people have some say so over the finances of our country. do you feel that way today? this is explicit. we don
want to break it down, it will determine the state of our economy in weeks and months and years ahead. first we need to look at the constitution. let s take a look. who is responsible for spending and borrowing? raising taxes, is it the president? obviously not, article i section 8: the first part of that. it is not a suggestion. it is not a ambiguous this say choir power that legislature has, when you look at history, back to britain and the parliament with the king. this was something that the framers of your constitution looked at, they wanted this power not to be with the king or this presidency they created or executive branch. they are supposed to execute the laws passed by congress, they gave this power to congress, to the people who are directly electioned in congress. senator of the time chosen by state legislators and house chosen by the people, you, we the people have some say so over the finances of our country. do you feel that way today? this is explicit. we d
beautiful sunrise in washington, d.c. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 18th. donald trump has claimed that he could declassify materials just by thinking about them. like i dream of jeannie. but there is new evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation that proves he knows it s not true. the former president is seizing on two failed endorsements in florida from governor ron desantis, while ignoring the lack of success his candidates had in the last election. also ahead, the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations with both sides digging in on one big issue. we ll explain what that is. and we re keeping an eye on president biden this morning as he is in japan for the g7 summit. welcome, everybody. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan is with us. and former white ho
a border is not open pretty has not been open and it will not be open subsequent to may 11. homeland security secretary downplaying expected chaos ahead of the end of covid air rules help manage millions showing up at the border. thousands prepared across our southern border now the white house says it has got a plan for the republican say communities along the border and beyond are being pushed to the breaking point. this is not a texas problem for this is a united states problem or. public and governor greg abbott is here only on fox news sunday . well skip border state democrat congressman henry cuellar. in just days and present biden will meet with house and senate leaders to hash out a plan to address the looming debt ceiling crisis after months of fighting in the press. it is time for the speaker and that maga republicans to stop the brinksmanship. house republicans voted for a plan. joe biden is missing in action. shannon: what happens to your while if the
$10 million from foreign nationals. jesse: $10 million to the biden family and nobody can tell us what the biden family business is. no one. and 20 different shell companies? that sounds legit. and it wasn t just money from china or ukraine. money was coming in from everywhere. while vice president biden with his lecturing romania on anticorruption policies, in reality he was a walking billboard for his son and family to collect money. the bidens received over $1 million for the deal. and 16 of the 17 payments to their associates account that funneled the biden s money occurred while joe biden was vice president. in fact, the money stops flowing from the romania nationals soon after joe biden leaves the vice presidency. jesse: kind of like the clinton foundation the money just stops flowing once he is not going to be in charge. corrupt foreigners were funneling millions into the biden family while joe biden was lecturing them about foreign corruption. what a react. fly