We wont be live everywhere for long but now were screaming live on our Youtube Channel on facebook and also connected directly to the live stream at our local stage and we love doing these longform interviews like weve done with david marcus and earlier this week with chris c call for our book Club Interviews are doing with the rate lewis rosa about his book fiery but mostly peaceful and weve also done a couple of other book interviews. Inext week, in 10 days june 1 where going to have a very special exclusive Live Book Club interview with the great jack parr, former navy seal, now with his fifth book of this week and by the time we talked to him june 1 will be a New York Times number one bestseller in july premiere of the brandnew streaming series is series of books which will start chris pratt. The guy is bigtime and hes great and he loves his country and i just dropped j the book and hes going to be with us june 1. Heres the deal. All this stuff is live, eventually it always within
officials will be holding a press conference later this hour, and we ll of course bring you any detail we learn later this hour. but first most americans have spent at least some of their life living paycheck to paycheck not knowing how or even if they ll be able to pay their bills each month, and now that is not just americans, it is also the country america itself. the entire federal government is one month from being out of cash, and that is not an exaggeration. we re already four months past the debt limit. the treasury has been doing creative accounting to move the money around since then. and now the treasury is the warning the government of the united states could truly, truly be broke by june 1st. if republicans in congress do not raise the debt ceiling in the next 30 days the global economy could collapse. so given the staelks here this should be a relatively straightforward fix, because who would want to use the debt ceiling as a negotiating wedge. hopefully we
children were on lockdown this afternoon. i have two small children and their schools were on lockdown responding to this tragedy. they re there, i m here hoping and praying that they are safe. but the truth is none of us is safe. that s senator rafael warnock of georgia on the senate floor yesterday addressing another mass shooting in america, this one at a medical center in atlanta. we ll have much more on the deadly attack and the senator s call to action in just a moment. also ahead the latest on the suspicious claims out of russia accusing ukraine of a drone strike on the kremlin. plus donald trump s legal team makes an odd choice for its defense strategy in a civil rape and defamation trial. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 4th. i m jonathan lemire, thank you for starting your day with us. we begin with the latest mass shooting in america this time in atlanta, georgia. at least five women inside a medical center there were shot,
Publishing company and asked to edit an anthology of gonzo journalism, and i took the project because i wanted to talk it gonzo journalism will only seems to apply to that one writer, hunter thompson. I want to read a couple lines, and tell us what your approaches, why you go this way. Jean smit, from cincinnati ohio, you refer to her as a wrinkly, which like woman with a penchant for dressing like a , what are you doing there . I guess one of the things that happens when you try to , orr the inside of politics wall street, a lot of these basically inaccessible to broad audiences or really really difficult to sell to people if you want to talk about commercial and procedure. That one article is about the rules committee, and one of the things you have to do, i think, in order to get people interested in these topics is to turn it into a human drama. Characters ande you have to use fiction technique to characterize people so that people know that one person is a certain kind of her, and
instead of the obama election being in some ways the peak of that world it was the trump election a few years later. so talk to us about that, the idea conservative forces in so many ways have run rough shot, have dominated facebook and other sites. do you see that as will there be a course crash or that s where we are? when i went back it was a lot of the figures that would go onto dominate conservative media andrew brightbart, steve bannon and others. we re in this aurally as we re there and learning and actually internet media was a really good fit for donald trump s right-wing populism. it was always kind of anti-establishment, but the sort of anti-establishment of barack obama liberalism was not willing to go as far as the sort of steve bannon-donald trump