literally tilting at windmills. it comes as his legal team decides its best defense in his civil rape trial. no defense at all? another deadly mass shooting in america. the latest, a medical center in atlanta, prompting an impassioned plea from georgia senator raphael warnock. also, new reporting on the deep financial ties between supreme court justice clarence thomas and a texas billionaire. keep getting deeper. it keeps getting worse. on capitol hill, there is no off-ramp when it comes to a deal on the debt ceiling. we ll have the latest on the contentious negotiations. meanwhile, the markets mostly flat this morning in response to the latest interest rate hike from the federal reserve. we ll have a full breakdown of what could be the final move from the central bank in the fight to bring down inflation. good morning, everyone, and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 4th. we got two out of three birthdays under our belt here. exactly. willie
before seen. reporter: in a matter of seconds a country music festival turned tragic with a storm of gunfire raining down on an innocent crowd. he was shooting everybody and there was dead people everywhere and i don t even know what was happening. it was just shooting, randomly. reporter: it began a massive loss of life and hundred injured in the worst mass shooting in modern american history. the 2017 las vegas shooting was the worst mass shooting in modern american history. 58 people were killed, several hundred were wounded and two victims later died from their injuries. there have been more than 3500 mass shooting since then according to the gun violence archive. the las vegas shooting remains the deadliest and there is a reason for that. the shooter used a bump stock. america is the most unfriendly democracy in the world, yet even here it is illegal to own a fully automatic machine gun. but a bump stock essentially transforms the average semi automatic rifle int
entire supreme court, and i m contractually obliged to say that if anyone has information about other justices, they should get in touch. you know, seriously, we haven t we just haven t found anything like this relationship between crow and thomas with any of the other justices at this point. we re talking about a billionaire political donor who is funding, you know, multiple aspects of the life of a justice. this private school tuition, which we the story we broke today. lavish vacations on his yacht. private yet use for 20 years. harlan owns the house where thomas mother is apparently living rent free. we spoke to the chief ethics lawyer for the george w. bush white house, richard painter, who said that, you know, basically never seen anything like this. when he was in the government, if you had a staffer taking this
attended yesterday s event. this hour, billionaire political donor on his campaign for impeaching the president and on the big money he s spending to help democrats regain control of congress. we begin with politics. democrats sending their strongest signal yet in response to president trump s alleged remarks about people from haiti, el issalvador. minority leader releasing a statement last night saying democrats must insist on a clean dream act. as the chairman of the congressional black caucus plans to introduce censure, some of president trump s strongest supporters continue to come to his defense. in haiti, the average person s income is $804 a year. in norway, the average income is $97,000 a year.