leaves in disgrace. then, breaking news on the debt ceiling. and progressive congressman mark joins me to call out kevin mccarthy s dangerous game. i am charles blow in for mehdi hasan. let s get started. tonight we begin with a surprising allegation from a former member of donald trump s legal team. tim peloton is now publicly blasting a current trump lawyer just days after the advising the former president on the special counsel s classified documents investigation. peloton longtime legal association boris epstein attempted to enter fear with searches for quote, in my opinion he has not been very honest with us or the cline on certain things. there were certain things like the searches that he had attempted to interfere with. parlatore, who said he had left the trump team due to infighting, may defending trump more difficult. a trump campaign spokesman said that his assertions were categorically false. it is also worth noting that parlatore hasn t just served on t
raised. it s nonnot an acceptable situation for us to be able to pay our bills. that s treasury secretary janet yellen, reiterating her belief that the united states will go into default if the debt ceiling is not raised in just nine days. it comes as president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy are set to meet again today in hopes of hashing out their growing differences on the budget. also ahead, we ll recap the president s trip to japan for the g7 summit, which included a meeting with the ukrainian president. plus, we ve got new reporting on turmoil inside the trump legal team that s representing him in the classified documents investigation. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, may 22nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we ll begin this morning with the debt ceiling. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy are expected to meet one-on-one today at the white house. this comes after a weekend of
lawyer has receipts, and that special counsel jack smith has them too. the guardian reporting trump s lawyer evan corcoran warned trump about retaining classified documents, which could be significant in the probe. corcoran memorialized the warning in nearly 50 pages of note described to the guardian with three people with knowledge of their contents. the notes being produced to a federal grand jury after an appeals court allowed the attorney/client and work product privileges between corcoran and trump to be pierced because judges believed trump might have used corcoran s legal advice in furtherance of a crime. prosecutors have fixated on trump s valet, walt nalta after he told the d.a. trump told him to move boxes out of the storage room before and after the subpoena. that does not look good for trump. meanwhile, trump s legal team is thinning out. one of his top lawyers, tim parlatoe resigning, and siting problems with lawyer boris epshteyn. epstein is particularly close t
, . . a candidates age and camp competency are always fair game in politics. even biden conceded earlier this month that he took a hard look at his age as he contemplated whether to seek reelection. one of the things people are going to find out, they re going to see a race and going to judge whether or not i have it or don t have it. i expect them to take a hard look at it, i take a hard look at it as well. i took a hard look at it before i started to run. i feel good, i feel excited about the prospects. but there are other truths that must be considered. as i wrote in the times, headlines and polls don t just measure and reflect public sentiments. they also influenced public sentiment. the persistence of a theme elevates and validates that theme. it s true that if he is reelected biden would be the oldest president we ve ever had. but he is already the oldest president we ve already had the first time he was elected. so what has changed? i would argue that the biggest
expel george santos from congress. republicans cheat to a room of accountability. and three democratic state attorneys general from colorado, california, and michigan join me to discuss reproductive rights, gun reform and combatting hate crimes. i m charles blow infirmity has some. let s get started. as we start the second hour, we want to flip the script on how president biden s reelection campaign is perceived. the common within much of the news media says that biden is struggling in parts of the electorate in 2024 because of how voters view his age. in a recent piece of the new york times, i argue that there is a chicken and egg expect to this coverage. let me say up front, candidates age and competency are always fair game in politics. even biden conceded earlier this month that he took a hard look at his age as he contemplated whether to seek reelection. one of the things people are going to find out, they re going to see a race and going to judge whether or not i ha