policy decisions. the house oversight committee has subpoenaed f.b.i. director christopher wray for documents. they want him to turn over that specific file at a meeting that they will have six days from now, may 10th. committee chair james comer and senator chuck grassley are leading the charge on this. we have a rough idea what is in the document and i just want to do what congressional oversight responsibilities i have to see what the f.b.i. and the d.o.j. has done to follow up on it. has there been political influence to not proceed if there is a reasonable possible criminal activity? harris: this directly from the white house now. republicans and congress have been lobbing unfounded and unproven politically unmotivated attacks against his family without offering evidence for their claims or decisions other than u.s. interests. we begin with peter doocy live at the white house. peter. the white house statement continues as white house officials claim that republican
literally tilting at windmills. it comes as his legal team decides its best defense in his civil rape trial. no defense at all? another deadly mass shooting in america. the latest, a medical center in atlanta, prompting an impassioned plea from georgia senator raphael warnock. also, new reporting on the deep financial ties between supreme court justice clarence thomas and a texas billionaire. keep getting deeper. it keeps getting worse. on capitol hill, there is no off-ramp when it comes to a deal on the debt ceiling. we ll have the latest on the contentious negotiations. meanwhile, the markets mostly flat this morning in response to the latest interest rate hike from the federal reserve. we ll have a full breakdown of what could be the final move from the central bank in the fight to bring down inflation. good morning, everyone, and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 4th. we got two out of three birthdays under our belt here. exactly. willie
regardless of what s behind the decision is cleared the democratic party doesn t want you to notice job item is obviously, physically and mentally in decline. or joe biden s record. don t believe your eyes come up believe us. joe biden has been a great president they insist. unfortunately the democratic party, that message seems to not be working. harvard harris poll from just a few weeks ago found nearly 60 percent of voters have doubts about biden s mental fitness. another poll by mammoth universities had nearly half of the democrats would prefer joe just sit out the next election. they don t want him to run. even some of joe botticelli s since his portability. for months they ve been pushing biden to step aside. eric times has recently run a number of pieces with all the same headlines. joe biden shouldn t run again. if it s any indication as to what they really think about joe biden s reelection. democrats have spent months waiting and plotting for biden s announcement. p
so what is dhs secretary mayorkas doing during his visit there? happening as we speak. to convince folks the government has things under control. and the gunman accused of shooting five people in atlanta is expected in court later today less than 24 hours after he was captured, why the police chief says technology was key to making the arrest. we are going to start, though, with the breaking news, four members of the right wing militia group the proud boys have been found guilty of rare seditious conspiracy charges, all of them now facing the possibility of spending up to 50 years behind bars. this is just a partial verdict. the jury was considering more than 40 counts against the five defendants, and is yet to decide several of them including a seditious conspiracy charge against the fifth man, dominick pizzola. i want to go ahead and bring in nbc s ryan reilly outside the courthouse in washington, carol lamb is a former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, and ma
over e-mails showing teacher s union helped coordinate the cdc s school s reopening guidance. weingarten says it s way out of proportion. to summarize, aft was provided with a full draft of the copy suggested line by line edits we did not, sir. did not suggest line by line edits to the document. well, do you remember how many edits that you suggested? we suggested concepts, sir. do you know how many edits were included? one. it s unusual for political union to have such a role in scientific guidance process and hopefully we can find more answers. weingarten forced to admit that she had a direct line to the cdc director, rochelle walensky. do you have a direct number to her? do i have her direct number? yes. yes, i have her directed enough. hopefully she will give it to me, too. the school lockdown fallout does not end there. dr. fauci said show me a school i shut down and factory i shut down. never. never i did. i gave a public health recommendatio