tonight on the reidout last month, we learned about a justice who for years has accepted lavish trips and real estate purchases worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. from a billionaire with interests before the court. that justice failed to disclose these gifts. how low can the court go? how low indeed. the senate judiciary committee holds a hearing on the mounting scandals involving supreme court justices. committee member sheldon whitehouse joins me in a moment. also tonight, it felt like trump had 40 zillion hands. that was testimony today from jessica leads, who claims she was molested by donald trump on a flight. she joins me tonight. plus, some of your favorite tv shows are going dark as hollywood writers go on strike. tonight, a look at the important issues that led to the walkout. and we begin tonight with the united states supreme court. the nine individuals with lifetime appointments highest law giving body in the nation, who have the power to determ
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
years of precedent and overturn roe versus wade, it was far from the final battle on either side over access to abortion health care in america. among independent voters, democratic voters and large numbers of republican voters, it s been a political spark that continues to jolt and potentially reshape our politics the power of the courts assault on a right supported by a majority of all americans is only exacerbated by the right s ongoing assault on access to reproductive health care the gop s war on women s reproductive freedom reached a new crescendo on friday night in the form of a ruling from a right-wing federal judge who was hand picked to make a decision that would further eliminate access to reproductive health care judge matthew kacsmaryk ordered the 23-year long fda approval of a drug called mifepristone be put on hold in every single state. it s one half of the two-drug regimen used in medication abortions. he gave the government seven days to appeal his ruling w
disastrous showing the biggest spike in consumer prices in over 40 years that the fed felt the need to move fast here to take a page out of the playbook of alan greenspan and paul volker with a very big interest rate increase, and they signaled that more aggressive steps are to come because that official said they are, quote, strongly committed to getting inflation back down to 2%. and given that it s nowhere near 2% right now, that does imply more big rate increases to come. as far as why this is happening, i think it s important to think about the economy as almost like a car on a highway, and the fed is the driver. when it needs to speed the car up, it will cut interest rates to stimulate demand. right now we have the opposite situation. it s going dangerously fast, and so the fed needs to slow things down. it s actually slamming the brakes on the economy. the problem here, victor, for the fed is if they don t do enough inflation can go out of control. if they do too much,
this is according to two senior law enforcement officials. authorities say that students were trapped inside the classroom with the gunman and repeatedly called 9-1-1 as local officers waited in the hallway for nearly an hour to take action. following days of confusion and misinformation, we are getting the clearest timeline yet. around 11:30 am, the shooter crashed his car. a 9-1-1 car was placed. shooting began outside of the school. within minutes, the scooter entered the school and fired off 100 rounds. by 12:03 pm, nearly 20 officers stood in a hallway outside of the classrooms. it was not until 12:50 that the classroom was reached using cues from the gender. by 12:58, the shooter was killed. some of the children who survived the massacre are describing what they saw, while desperately waiting for help to arrive. we were watching a movie. we heard banging. my teacher got up to see what it was was. she said, oh my god, he has a gun. when he started shooting we hid behin