13th, impeached, indict-able, and unrepentant. as he pursues another bid for the white house, the former president in the current front runner for the 2024 republican nomination continues to tessa limits of the law even as he remains tangled up in a multitude of legal troubles. all of this on full display for the public over the past week. on tuesday, a jury found the former president liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer and former magazine columnist ej carroll, who accused trump of raping her inside a bergdorf goodman dressing room back in the mid 1990s. yet just one day later, trump appeared on a nationally televised town hall event and mocked carroll again, and continue to claim that her allegations were quote, a fake story. now this is not an isolated incident for donald trump either. it s a pattern of behavior, he has a long history going back decades of weaponizing the legal system to his advantage. in just the last few years, we ve repeatedly witnessed
investigation and the response to lawmakers in just a moment. plus, president joe biden defends his division to send troupes to the southern border as the covid restrictions are set to end this week and the polls are sinking. and now on the wrong side of a potential rematch with donald trump in 2024. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, may 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we begin this morning with a second deadliest mass shooting in the united states this year. eight people were killed and several others injured on saturday when a gunman opened fire at an outlet mall in allen, texas, which is a suburb of dallas. we want to warn viewers that some of the footage you re about to see is disturbing. dash cam video, which police confirm is authentic, shows the moment the alleged gunman got out of his car and began firing. police have identified him as a 33-year-old suspected neo-nazi sympathizer. he was wearing
stephanie ruhle. speaker kevin mccarthy may hav won the battle to pass raising the debt limit, but now he i on a collision course with the urged president biden to make deal to give the u.s. from default, and economic disaster now the president can n longer put this economy in jeopardy, we - we have sent it to the senate. the majority of american overwhelmingly want us to si down and negotiate it is up to them now this afternoon, biden again insisted negotiations were out of the question. i m happy to meet with, mccarthy but not on whether or not the debt limit get extended that is not negotiable the clock is ticking, washington has until early jun to act mccarthy s bill now heads to the senate, but according to senate majority leader chuck schumer, the thing is dead o arrival. we are also following the civi rape trial involving forme president donald trump today e. jean carroll wh accused trump of sexual assaul gave explosive testimony i federal court. and we see t
stramos from memphis. alec baldwin formally charged along with the woman who handles the gun on the set, the armorer hannah gutierrez-reed. the evidence prosecutors say they have. mola lenghi on what both could now face. the newly elected new york congressman who lied about so many parts of his life story, george santos, and the apology today for lying about his education. embellishing his resume. and agreeing to step away from committee assignments for now. rachel scott tonight asking santos, was he pressured to do so? and the new interview tonight, santos on why he should get to stay in congress. president biden and the documents. the white house pressed tonight, why did the american people not know that the fbi searched his private office in november, the one he used after he was vice president, after his own team found those classified documents? the white house says the president has cooperated and has been transparent throughout all of this. mary bruce tonight.
stephanie ramos from memphis. alec baldwin formally charged along with the woman who handles the gun on the set, the armorer. the evidence prosecutors say they have. mola lenghi on what both could now face. the newly elected new york congressman who lied about so many parts of his life story, george santos, and the apology o mhing hisdgreeingawayrom santos, was he pressured to do so? and the n inter san why he sul ay in cong president biden and e documents. the white house press toght,di know that the fbi searched his private office in november. the one he used after he was vice president, after his own team found those classified documents? the white house says the president has cooperated and has been transparent throughout all of this. mary bruce tonight. for the first time, the up the situation video of former president trump in the case against his business. what he says over and over again when grilled by new york prosecutors. the critical testimony today in the