beautiful sunrise in washington, d.c. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 18th. donald trump has claimed that he could declassify materials just by thinking about them. like i dream of jeannie. but there is new evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation that proves he knows it s not true. the former president is seizing on two failed endorsements in florida from governor ron desantis, while ignoring the lack of success his candidates had in the last election. also ahead, the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations with both sides digging in on one big issue. we ll explain what that is. and we re keeping an eye on president biden this morning as he is in japan for the g7 summit. welcome, everybody. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan is with us. and former white ho
negotiations. we re live with where the deal stands less than two weeks before the june 1st deadline. in georgia, new reporting about when former president donald trump could possibly be charged in the investigation into whether he interfered with the 2020 election in that state. and a major development in the disney versus desantis feud. the company pulls the plug on a billion dollar project in florida. we begin this very busy hour in new york city where right now 30-year-old street performer jordan neely is being laid to rest. he died earlier this month on the subway after being held in a chokehold. the president of the national action network and msnbc host reverend al sharpton will deliver neely s eulogy. and at the request of his family. the former marine accused of putting neely in a chokehold, daniel penny, has been charged with second degree manslaughter. he has not yet entered a plea and his lawyers say neely was aggressively threatening passengers and penny ne
revelations about the gunman who killed eight people at a texas mall, including three young children. the neo-nazi sympathizer appearing to post hateful rants on a social media site and pictures of the mall where he carried out that attack. the victims include a 3-year-old boy and his parents, leaving his 6-year-old brother, the family s sole survivor. a mall security guard who is emotionally remembered by an eyewitness to the shooting. he always walked by our store and just he would wave to us. if we didn t wave back, he wouldn t go away. we had to wave at him. he was such a loving guy, such a caring guy. and in the other texas tragedy, the driver who slammed his car into a group of migrants now facing eight counts of manslaughter. it is a tense time along the border with the covid era restriction known as title 42 set to end on thursday. and in just the last 72 hours alone, there have been more than 26,000 illegal crossings. we have live reports from texas and mexico.
i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we re following two tragedies in texas, each centering on a flashpoint dividing our country, guns and immigration. first, the breaking news in brownsville, texas, where we expect to hear from police this morning after an suv crashed into a crowd outside a migrant shelter. the death toll rose to eight overnight. what we re learning about the driver and whether this incident was intentional. that horrific scene coming as thousands of migrants enter the u.s. with covid restrictions set to expire in two just two days. the mayor of el paso, who has already declared a state of emergency, will join us. new details in this weekend s mass shooting at a texas mall. what we re learning about the suspect who police say appears to be a neo-nazi sympathizer. he could have done that here. we don t know. why did he choose the mall in allen? it makes no sense at all to any of us. later, intensifying protests in manhattan. new yorkers shutting dow
people from asking for help. we begin with breaking news from russia, where the kremlin claims ukraine tried to assassinate vladimir putin in an overnight drone attack. this video, purports to show an explosion over the kremlin. wait for you. it you see it in the middle of your screen. russia has provided no clear evidence to back up this claim. a spokesperson for ukraine s president told local media that kyiv had nothing to do with this alleged incident and called it an expected trick from our opponents. moments ago, secretary of state blinken was asked about this during a press freedom day event. i can t in any way validate them. we simply don t know. i would take anything coming out of the kremlin with a very large shaker of salt. let s see. we ll see what the facts are. it s hard to comment or speculate without knowing what the facts are. joining us now to take a closer look, chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, and military analyst, barry mccafrey, and dan d