for you, including president biden s nod to a popular meme. also ahead, donald trump praises the january 6th rioter who has said members of congress who certified the 2020 election should be executed. plus, an international trip for ron desantis just didn t generate the headlines he was hoping for. in fact, most of the headlines, well, especially out of britain, were terrible. we ll have new reporting on that. and we re going to dig into the breaking financial news this morning. the third failure of an american bank since march, and who is coming in to save the day? good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is monday, may the 1st. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. oh, jonathan, we have much to talk to you about in the boston sports world. also, special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. the founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, charlie sykes. and columnist and associate editor for t
how this young man was able to get this many documents. and range over a wide area of subjects. that s one sign of just how hard a puzzle this is to solve. still a lot of questions, clearly some yeah, let s move on with the news. katty, really quickly, so sorry, front page of the wall street journal today. i know it s been going around this weekend. wall street journal got ahold of jeffrey epstein s private calendar. we have bank presidents, goldman sachs lawyer, cia directors. go down the list. this guy, even after he was charged with being a pedophile in florida and was in house arrest, this guy kept meeting with some of the most powerful people in, not only the united states government, but in banking and other areas, as well.
yeah. i found that list amazing. bill burns, you know, why does he need to meet with jeffrey epstein? did he have critical information he needed to pass along? the high-profile nature of the list was stunning. breaking news overnight, another american bank has failed. just this morning, financial regulators in california seized first republic bank after it lost $100 billion in deposits just in march. it marks the second largest bank to fail in american history. the fed struck a deal to sell most of the bank s operations to jpmorgan chase, according to the wall street journal. the move heads off a chaotic collapse that threatened to reignite the recent banking crisis. we ll get a live report from the nasdaq, coming up on morning joe. also, new reaction is pouring in after former president donald trump embraced a january 6th defendant at a diner during a campaign stop in new hampshire last week. trump called the woman, quote, terrific.