thank you for your time. the ron desantis wait is almost over. sources saying the paperwork will be filed next week. his how to beat trump battle p plan is a blizzard on abortion, guns and transgender rights. plus the paper trail punctures a donald trump defense. new reporting reveals the special counsel will soon have his hands on 16 records that show, yes, the former president and his advisers knew how the declassification process was supposed to work. and president biden is in japan for a meeting of the world s leading economies. peers want assurances the political divide over the debt ceiling won t lead to a global financial mess. and we have new reporting on relationship between the president and speaker mccarthy. we re not there. we haven t greened to anything yet. and i think we have a structure now. and everybody is working hard. and we re working two or three times a a day and going back and getting more numbers. i have the greatest respect. they are exceptiona
sandra: mercedes joins us in a moment, but first, matt is live on the ground in moscow, idaho. kohberger entered a rather unusual or uncommon plea today. we did not hear much from him, that s a big part of it. that s right, a couple minutes ago inside of the county courthouse, the attorneys for bryan kohberger told the judge they will stay silent on all five charges related to this murder case. therefore, the judge entered default not guilty plea for bryan kohberger and his attorney asked for a six-week trial beginning in october and no sides objected to that date. kohberger appeared in person in the past hour inside the courtroom wearing orange prison garb and this courtroom is basically a walking distance from the murder site where the four students were killed shortly before last thanksgiving. kohberger was wearing orange prison garb, looking extremely alert and observant. answered loud and clear, and today he was arraigned on four charges of murder in the first-degree
good evening, bret. this is a major step in the ongoing battle over tiktok and the growing attempts to limit its use or in this case, to ban it entirely. montana s law now signed by the state s republican governor prohibits any downloads of tiktok in the state and would find any, quote: entities, meaning an app. store or tiktok itself $10,000 per day for each time someone, quote, is offered the ability to access the social media platform or download the s enforce somebody scenes open question. ban come back increasing concern lawmakers nationwide and fbi and other agencies over tiktok, which is owned by a chinese tech company called bytedance. officials worry that the company could share data on american citizens with the chinese government. now, the montana ban, the first of its kind in the nation, seems certain to face legal challenges from tiktok, from those who provide access to the app. from businesses that use tiktok for advertising and f aclu who said the ban is unco
good morning. welcome to morning joe. this morning, a debt ceiling deal seems to be on the right path. house speaker kevin mccarthy had a much more optimistic tone yesterday while answering questions about the negotiations. we ll have those comments for you. it comes as president biden is busy with world leaders at the g7 summit in japan. the group just announced a new round of sanctions for russia, aimed at closing loopholes moscow has been using since the start of the ukraine invasion. meanwhile, ukraine could be receiving more u.s. military aid thanks to an accounting error. we ll explain what happened there. also ahead, the manhattan d.a. shuts down what appears to be a delay tactic from donald trump s defense team. and nikki haley finally pushes back against her old boss. we ll have her response to trump calling january 6th a beautiful day. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday. willie, can you believe it s friday? i m still processing.
i am harris faulkner with emily compagno, kayleigh mcenany, also known as washington examiner deputy editor of restoring america, kayleigh mcgee white is here. welcome. and ben ferguson, host of the ben ferguson pod cast. several cities have declared states of emergency. the overwhelmed border communities of brownsville, laredo, brownsville, texas. emergency orders have been ordered in a deep blue sanctuary city of chicago. the state of new york and even denver, colorado. this new video out of el paso shows border agents apprehended several people for illegally entering the country. and now we are being told to at least one of them is already back on american soil. actually, then, that isn t the jarring park today. the jarring part was watching the federal government through a memo acknowledge it. ben: they know what s happening to these kids and i think everyone needs to have a moment where you understand this was done by design. this wasn t an accident. this wasn t a cr