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
air tonight. and on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow thank you for joining us this. evening so often plans are up in the air, but you can go ahead and you can circle this state in pan, june 1st. that is the deadline for congress to reach a deal or the u.s. is plunged into financial catastrophe. it s an important day, and man it is really coming, up really, around the corner. there was some hope that the debt ceiling deadline could be pushed off through financial hocus pocus, but no such luck. today said treasury secretary janet yellen confirmed that it was june 1st or we ll go over the cliff. and yes, today is may 16th. and after the type of person who likes to do math in your head, you may look at those two days and say oh no commerce congress only has 15 days to get this sorted out. but he would be wrong. because these are the days
the republicans in the house are going to go on record and make a decision if they re going to stand for truth and accountable or if they re going to stand with someone who is an admitted liar. republicans unable to clean up their own george santos mess, so it was left to a democrat to produce a resolution to expel him. i m ask hakeem jeffries about that and his meeting today with the white house on the looming debt ceiling crisis. also tonight, the serious new allegations against rudy giuliani. beyond the really pervy alleged sexual harassment, there s the accusation he and trump were trying to sell pardons and planned to split the cash. plus, keeping it right wing goes wrong. the culture war ron desantis is fighting is not only morally repugnant, it s economically disastrous. case in point, his most recent anti-immigration bi and we be to the brink of financial catastrophe. we are now just 15 days from the united states potentially running out of cash to pay its bi
end of the show. first, hunter s baby mom is not doing so great we remember learning to ride a bike. first time i rode a bike i crashed. some people remember their dads a little differently. what i do remember is you making me drive you home from the beach because you were too drunk. makes sense to me another hand to drive home. i was 8. you looked 14 because you were such a huge fat i m sorry. hunter biden did something no one has ever done. hunter biden went to court today to prove is he a deadbeat dad. usually deadbeat dads don t want anybody to know. hunter biden, the son of the president of the united states went to court and told the world i want to pay less child support. now hunter can t even pick his 4-year-old love child from a lineup. he doesn t even know what she looks like. he has never met her. those are his words, not ours. but in tomi hunter fashion, he had to advertise to the entire world how despicable. he is. just like hunter said the laptop is
dangerous. i hope that as a nation watches, that we put this light on this to say that this should sound the alarm across the nation, that we are entering into very dangerous territory. one of the two democrats in tennessee expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse we re going to have much more on this partisan punishment just ahead. meanwhile, on capitol hill, one of donald trump s most vocal allies in congress sends a subpoena for the this isn t going to work well for jim jordan the prosecutor is going to explain why he wrote a book saying that, actually, d.a. bragg didn t go after donald trump aggressively enough. but, you know, if you have them, smoke em, jimmy. yeah. this could backfire on jim jordan we ll explain. and we ll dig into the bombshell report exposing lavish vacations taken by supreme court justice clarence thomas, all paid for by a gop mega donor. boy, willie, the clarence thomas stuff keeps coming out