talking about the case over the weekend. it comes as trump s rivals for the 2024 nomination rally to his defense. some of them do. we will have the comments. some of them do. some don t. some do and don t. mixed bag. you know? what is the strategy there? sad thick. the latest from ukraine with the counteroffensive claiming small victories over the russian forces. also ahead, an update on the i- 95 collapse. a disaster that has shut down the section of one of the busiest highways in america. good lord. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. if is monday, june 12th. with us we have the host of way too early, eddie claude jr., and richard hoss joining us. richard, jonathan, so much news. we cannot talk about sports. is there a minute? not even a minute to talk about what happened at yankee stadium or the stadium as they call it. the red sox taking 2 of 3. we don t have time to talk about it? we don t have time to talk about it. the little league team
washington where things stand with our chad pergram. hi, chad. neil, good afternoon. the house freedom caucus just took a formal position in the debt ceiling debate. it endorses the bill passed by the house in april. the caucus says there should be no further discussion until the senate passes the legislation. the house bill, we passed it. that is the mechanism right now sitting there that there s 11 democrats in the senate and the democratic president of the united states that stand between that bill and it becoming law. it was thought that house speaker kevin mccarthy would lose a good chunk of republicans who could not accept anything less than the house passed bill. the question is can mccarthy get just enough gop members on board and can democrats provide the rest. speaker mccarthy has limited capacity to really negotiate. he s handcuffed and in leg irons from that 15 votes that it took to get them elected. if he is able to negotiate something, once he tries to
by russian fighter pilots forcing down an american drone. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. get set to roll again, sandra. sandra: a breaking news two hours, john, and following through on that. the latest move by an american rival, and just like the spy balloon, critics are calling on the president to act. response can t we do nothing. our adversaries are going to be on the march as long as we let them. direct test of the biden administration to try to see what the limits are and it s a message of their displeasure, and a test to see if we ll respond to it. john: how will the white house respond to the criticism? sandra: start us off, jacqui, a lot could come up a few moments from new. no kidding, sandra. after the spy balloon, the biden administration responded by sanctionings some of the chinese entities involve in the airship of this. and russia hawks are saying the biden administration has to strongly respond to a fighter jet taki
tonight on the reidout we just learned about another shooting in tennessee. a school shooting. and i am truly without words. and our children deserve better. first lady and teacher dr. jill biden responding to the latest horrific acts of mass violence as politicians in states like tennessee worry more about drag shows and banning books than about actually protecting our children. also tonight, public protests in israel and elsewhere against the rising wave of authoritarianism. while here in the u.s., there s a shocking lack of urgency in repudiating the conspiratorial and violent rhetoric from our home-grown autocrat in waiting, donald trump. meanwhile, trump continues to lash out at the manhattan d.a. and the manhattan grand jury hears from a key player in trump s hush money scheme. bebut we begin with a tragedy that is unique to america. another school massacre. this time in nashville, tennessee. where a 28-year-old woman shot and killed three students and t
and it was all apparently to impress a bunch of his teenage friends in a video game chat room. the washington post interviewing one of the members, who says teixeira acted like a father figure to the group during covid. it felt like i was on top of mount everest. it felt like i was above everybody else, to some degree, in that i would be able to brag to some people that i knew stuff that they didn t. he is not interested in helping any foreign agencies with their attack on the u.s. or other countries. he was a young, charismatic man, who loved nature, god, and bottom line, if they want these to be private, it is because they have something to hide. dana: so, the biden administration appears to have been caught flat-footed by this leak. teixeira was essentially an i.t. worker with the highest level of clearance and access to military intel systems. we had been circulating information for months on line with the pentagon only learning about it last week through the media.