goli, taste your goals. the stakes are high, those words coming from jack smith as he responds to trump s legal team about the federal elections case. the special counsel pushing the supreme court to quickly take up the dispute over whether trump has presidential immunity. smith going so far as to invoke watergate and richard nixon plus, chaos on the streets of prague. at least 14 people are dead after a shooting at a university. this picture, now emblematic of the desperate length that students went to to keep themselves out of harms way, they are hiding on a ledge high above the ground . unbelievable plus hostage talks hitting a major snag after hamas says there will be no negotiations until the israeli military operation in gaza is over. in the meantime, disturbing new warnings from u.s. intelligence agency showing that the credibility and influence of hamas has grown since the brutal october 7th attack on israel. we are following these major developing stories and mor
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
hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with u. not your average balloon. u.s. officials sharing new information and they say, yes, china was spying. its balloon part of a surveillance op and scooping up communications snooping on locations in the united states, plus, the president s dual purpose road show. watch me, joe biden says, when asked if he s too old for a second term and today in florida, a state donald trump won twice, the president will warn seniors republicans want to gut social security and medicare. republicans say that s a lie and duct tape and bailing wire. congress gets new behind-the-scenes evidence of how southwest sputtered stranding thousands over christmas direct from its pilots union. up first, though for us a big new download of information on the chinese balloon. that courtesy of classified congressional briefings. american defense officials and the fbi. briefers telling l
and the gop s dog and pony sho comes to manhattan jim jordan s desperate attempt to attack the man holdin donald trump to account. good evening, i m mehdi hassan tomorrow morning in a court in wilmington, delaware, fox will finally be put on trial for it lies the media giant is facing landmark defamation case fro dominion voting systems, who allege that fox knowingl pushed false claims that they re voting machines rig th 2020 election. they didn t. and the days and weeks after that election, fox and its hos devoted hours of primetime t coverage to the voting machine company. to minion voting systems. dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion. dominion voting systems dominion voting systems now, over two years later fox terrific tucker carlson, and sean hannity, and even found a rupert murdoch me if i themselves on the witnes stand. and the stakes here could no be higher.
look at these individuals, this woman who you see pictured is the head master at the covenant school. her name was katherine koonce. so what did she do on that morning? she was on a zoom call in her office. typical morning. she hears shooting. she gets up from her desk. goes directly to the sound of the shooting in the hallway and that s where she lost her life against this shooter who was there to wreak tremendous havoc and heartbreak. bill: not just faculty members who sprang to action. this is evelyn. she tried to call for help. she was pulling a fire alarm in the hallway when the shooter shot and killed her. she was only nine years old. look at evelyn, right? this is hallie scruggs, william kinney is the other little boy who lost his life. so we re hearing the stories this morning of two of these people and what they were doing at this moment. tonight nashville will hold a candlelight vigil for them. the governor of tennessee, bill lee, is urging the people of his sta