that process again and democrats simply do not want to do that given they are running into a midterm election year where control of congress is at stake and also by going that process, as i noted they ll have to specify the exact level they want to raise the national debt limit to. rather than suspending the national debt limit which is what democrats want to do. suspend it and say it does not apply up until after the november midterms. all about taking very difficult votes that democrats don t want to take and republicans, too, don t want to offer any of their support to suspending the national debt limit which is why this back and forth has been happening for weeks. who is going to own this vote? what is the process going to be running up into a potential default. at the moment short-term crisis. looks to be averted. we ll see if they can deal with it in the long term. god forbid politicians have to take a controversial position on an issue. kaitlan collins is live at t
400 people are known to have died. plans to send asylum seekers from the uk to rwanda are a breach of international law, according to the un s refugee agency. harry and meghan make a rare public appearance, as the invictus games get underway in the netherlands. russia has formally warned the united states and its allies against supplying further weapons to ukraine. the kremlin said the arms shipments could lead to what it called unpredictable consequences. speaking during an interview, president zelensky has acknowledged that up to 3,000 ukrainian soldiers have died and as many as 10,000 have been left injured since russia invaded his country in february. oovmeanwhile, the head of the un s world food program has said he s not getting a response from moscow about how to reach people starving to death in besieged parts of ukraine, including the city of mariupol. and in the latest developments, there have been reports of new strikes on the outskirts of the ukrainian capital kyiv
election interference case is moving to a pivotal phase. all 19 defendants, including former president donald trump, have now surrendered to fulton county authorities and district attorney fani willis is setting the stage for trial. the day she told all the defense attorneys that her office is ready to share evidence, as she is putting for arrangements to begin the week of september 5th, right after labor day. still, no decision on the judge from that. meanwhile, trump s codefendants in the georgia case are making their own moves. today, his former campaign lawyer, sydney powell, filed a motion for a speedy trial. she is accused of promoting false claims of ballot fraud in the 2020 election. powell joins chesbrough in demanding a speedy trial. he was allegedly a key architect of the fake electors scheme. tonight, political reports that three trump codefendants say they became fake electors because the former president and his campaign lawyers told them to. with all of this, a
of president joe biden s visit to hawaii later today. a lot to get to on this monday morning. welcome to morning joe. with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbckatty kay and charlie sykes is with us. willie will be back tomorrow. right now, we re following new polling that shows donald trump s hold over the republican base is as strong as ever, in the latest cbs poll, the former president has 62% support from likely gop voters, and among those likely trump voters the poll shows they trust the former president even more than their own loved ones. let s put a framer on that. they trust the former president more than they trust their own loved ones. they feel what trump tells them is the truth ahead of friends and family at 63%. conservative media figures at 56%. and a religious leader at 42%. all right, so this weekend, mika and i last night were having a conversation around the table and mika was just asking how could people still be so devoted still to donald tru