Tonight. It is staggering to believe that yesterday for second time in last few months an individual was planning to assassinate President Trump. Tonight well cover the story and political ramifications. We want to emphasize these attacks on President Trump represent a major threat to the american system. When she was shot in pennsylvania, i warned the night of the attempt on his life that the entire system that weve gotten accustomed to loving has gotten releasing all findings and recommendations. That did not happen and now we face the fallout from another attempted shooting. My Angle in moments. But first, start with what we know about this suspect. David Spunt Suspect standing by live with details. Ryan Wesley Routh is facing possession of firearm by a convicted felon and with a scratched off serial number. He is placed at the scene from 1 59 a. M. To 12 hours. There was a News Conference and they said it may be time to change the protective Play Book of the agency. Watch. Im confi
all right. we start this friday night with a foxes alert tonight, retaliatory ai r that began in the middle east. according to the pentagon, the u.s. the military conducted strikes against iranian backed militiass in iraq and syria, striking more than 85 targets. the u.s. says, it had commandmad and control operations and intelligence centers and. t now, this comes after three american soldiers were killed, dozens more injured in a drone strike in a base in jordan this past weekend. wen launched by, of course, iranian proxies. iran is responsiblian proxe preh for all the trouble in the region. here are the very latest on jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. jennifer, any word on whgon. y the targets were not in iran considering? o they are the source of all of these proxy attacks and terror attacks. well, sean, officials who ik? spoke to said that they were ruling out striking inside iran an this first set of strikes and they want to messageing to g to iran that they ar
plus, anthony wink and tony blinken humiliated in beijing. we predicted this, now indicating that taiwan is up for grabs. what does that mean? and later, we ll bring the very latest from the north atlantic, where a desperate search is now under way for a submersible. and that is that went down to actually see the titanic and its five passengers who were on their way to the titanic at the bottom ofon t the ocean floor. but first, let us recap. joe biden s very troubling anotr weekend that began with yet another bizarre reference to lying. dog face, pony soldiers.. take a look. n now, some of you know, i dy usually come down and say hi, dog, or they tel mowl there sin a storm coming in. is that right? is still is that stille the deal? h don that s the truth. now, don t make a lie as that s that scene in the john wayne movie. don t make me a dog lion pony soldier. all right. it just is cringeworthy. every time, without exception. anyway, a short time later seemed to c
at every single stop now, reporters are looking, is he interacting with the crowd? is he take shaking hands, tae staying long enough? if you re advanced staff, you have to stay at least an extra 30 minutes to show, hey, he likes people. i saw tweets, what pizza is he having? is he talking to voters? do we have a timetable as to when other candidates will jump in? rumors about tim scott, mike pence and others. i think tim scott will come in. may 22nd is the date where they re circling. you ll see his super pac get bolstered. mike pence also in the next month. those are the two main candidates. national political correspondent for axios, alex thompson covering a lot of ground. thank you for being here. thank you for all of you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent year. the time for excuses is over. if we get distracted, focus the election on
that we have finalized by may 11th. thank you. just have a question for you, mr. secretary and a quick one for chief ortiz. we ve heard from mayors in the rio grande valley and across texas that they re not equipped to handle the number of migrants entering their streets. dhs just allocated $300 million to ngos and border communities. does the federal government have a real in standing up housing and medical care especially when hospitals and ngos and churches are at capacity and migrants are sleeping on the sidewalks and quickly to chief ortiz, can you explain geographically where troops will be located, which sectors are they staying? nicole, we are working very, very closely with city and local officials as i have expressed earlier. we re working with nonprofit organizations. this requires a community response. we are providing funding through our emergency food and shelter program. congress allocated $800 million to this program last year. we only had $150 million. we