go basically around the clock until the x date. margaret talev, thank you for joining us this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this tuesday morning with us. morning joe starts right now. optimistic we may be able to make some progress because we both agreed default is not really on the table. we have to get something done here. and the consequence of failing to pay our bills would be the american people would have a real kick in their economic well-being. as a matter of fact, the rest of the world would, too. president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy continue to take positive have that positive tone on the debt ceiling and how it is going, but there s still no deal with just over a week until the country could default completely. we ll look at the disagreements that are holding up a deal for now. also ahead, donald trump s comments about e. jean carroll during his town hall could cost him more money, as the writer takes new legal ac
along with congressman byron donal accountas and john james i roy and republican conference confchair, at least the phonic. now, coming up, we will dove headfirst into the republican agenda from investigations to oversight to the abuse ofg power to removing fang fang s boyfriend from the intel. committee. weamittee. special look at the u. penn biden center for diplomacyo engagement made possible, itt appears, by the communist party of china.y afte now in 2014, shortly after acade establishing the academic center all in biden s name and appointing appointing the former vice president to lead the new department, 50 former million dollars in anonymous donations from china magically just poured right into the coffers. and the coffers. watchdog demanded that these sketchy donationsnd be investigated out of national security concerns. and now lndo and behold, breaking this week, a trove of top secret classified documents, including sensitive compartmented information from the oba
we were getting ready for a big celebration. we were winning everything, and all of a sudden, it was just called off. so we ll be going to the u.s. supreme court. we want all voting to stop. we don t want them to find any ballots at 4:00 in the morning and add them to the list. that, of course, was donald trump on election night, calling for the nullification of mail-in ballots. that was part of the plot to overturn the election. and now, text messages have surfaced from former georgia senator kelly loeffler revealing even more details of that plot. plus, the phony republican narrative that abortion rights is fading as an issue. they re gaslighting women about what s at stake in the midterms and tonight s democracy defender is taking on the powerful maga forces in arizona. who want to control how votes are cast and counted, as the threat of violence increases against election workers. we begin tonight with the midterm elections. now just 19 days away. but here s the thi
i m not the governor who attacked walt disney world because they expressed their point of view. i m not the governor who attacked the cruise industry because they wanted to make sure they weren t sick before they got on the boat. you re the most ant-business governor i have seen. a baseball team for send ago tweet saying that they were sorry that children were gunned down in uvalde, suddenly the governor of florida decided to actually penalize a baseball team for expressing sympathy with the parents of dead children. culture wars were a major topic in last night s debate between the two candidates for governor of florida. we re going to have more from that show down this morning, including the big question ron desantis would not answer. plus, the latest from eastern europe as there are growing fears that vladimir putin is planning a new type of attack as a justification for escalating the war with ukraine. also ahead, adidas finally appears to be taking action on its
so moving. and william shatner, this guy, he s just people are just commenting, i m getting so many texts and seeing it on twitter, so many people talking about what an incredible guy he is. i m scoring points right now, the fact that you pulled out shatner s note lucy in the sky with diamonds, that s 100 points right there. you just came back from the today show, talking about the list with hoda. that was very moving too pop. oh, my gosh. a lot of tears. hoda s on the list and savannah nominated her and we have two women over 50 hosting the today show. talk about that never happen 20 or 30 years ago, how thing have changed. the second annual forbes 50 over 50 list has chemical engineers, actresses, singers, dancers, civil rights activists in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and, yes, 90s. these women are phenomenal and there are so many of them. there really are. it s an incredible list. jonathan lemire, the red sox have something in common with people on that li