plus, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell leads a delegation of senate republicans on an unannounced visit to ukraine even as one of his own members slows progress on military aid that washington has been trying to fast-track. we ll tell you where that legislation stands now. and a key component of russia s propaganda machine at risk, as bloggers imbedded with russian troops are fed up with the repeated failures and are now voicing concerns. good morning. and welcome to way too early on this monday, may 16th. i m jonathan lemire. thank you for being with us. we begin with the latest on the deadly shooting in buffalo over the weekend. the white house says the president and first lady will visit the city tomorrow, to quote grieve with the community. speaking at the national peace officer s memorial service in washington yesterday, president biden addressed with the justice department investigating as an act of racially-motivated, domestic extremism. a lone gunman,
and there s not a lot of folks jumping on that band wag onto the overturn election results in arizona. look, trump changed a lot. 10 years ago if you had not one but several election losers shouting about challenging the results and really just being poor sports they would have been laughed at. trump does it and it was normalized for a time. he gave people permission to do it and not be embarrassed by it. it s been so inreceivingive in that it has overturned no elections but it has really hurt the power and the image of the party. for independents, which, you know, you ll need if you are a republican running for office, it s a huge turnoff for the conspiracy theories and the never-ending phony audits and recounts and lawsuits. i think people are sick of it. and it s now sort of it s not getting the attention that it
trump was concerned that his senate-endorsed candidate dr. oz, may lose, and so he hopped on this bandwagon and it is a band wag than could be headed forward. the rise of barnett in the senate race is extraordinary. and there is, with that primary looming, real thought that she could win. she s an extraordinary candidate and democrats cheering her on as the nominee. let s switch to the supreme court. you are working on a story about concerns how the impending roe decision could im other civil rights. what can you tell us could impact other civil rights. what can you tell us? the landmark 2016 case that legalized same-sex marriage, but also, you know, a person who is just terrified, he is running for ohio state house, and you know, his concern is that if the supreme court were to overturn roe, then other legal
investigators said in that footnote what devin nunes and his allies have wanted to hide from us of the beyer timentire . in addition to that, chris, there are dozens upon dozens of pages of redacted texts that certainly bolsters the case that it contains by in the steele dossier as well as other information in the declassified report that speaks to the fact that carter page was the target of the concerted russian effort to recruit him as a spy. devin nunes is trying to mislead but apparently does not take into account that we have this before us. not everybody backstage, not everybody is jumping on that band wag i don t knwagon of wha tweeted. let s listen to what marco rubio had to say when he was asked about this yesterday.
today he says zauk dead and everyone is jufring on the band wag only. and he thinks these people crossing the border could be eligible which is obviously not the case will. you had to be in the u.s. by a specific date in the past. but congress is completely different than capitol hill. even senate republicans cannot agree on an immigration deal. the president is blaming the on democrats. it does not rest on their shoulders. 25 years ago, it was said about bill clinton, that it was a way of ginning up people out there who didn t know anything and it was vaguely racially tinged. not vaguely. ginning up people. these tweets, in fact, illegal entrance to the u.s. is down over the last year. quite substantially down in terms of numbers and trump has claimed credit for that.