janelle buoy. good job, buddy. thank you for joining us this hour. this morning new york congressman and serial fabulist george santos surrendered himself into custody. congressman santos is now out on bail, but he has been charged with 13he felonies, and if convicted he canphasy up to 20 years in prison. and that s just for the most serious felonies. which ones are the most serious felonies, you ask? congressman santos had had so many scandals it would be genuinely difficult to talk about here. it s not about mr. santos inventing his entire résumé or about inventing spiderman, turn off the dark. it s a weird lie, or not even he was a college volleyball player or that his mother was in the southt tower on 9/11 or steali money from a veteran s gofundme, though the fbi is looking into that one, too. today is about how santos made his money. santos reported a salary of $55,000. by 2022 santos reported a salary of $750,000 a year plus a million dollars in dividends. he d some
control. what they ve done to these people, they ve persecuted these people. and yeah, my answer is i am most likely if i get in i ll most likely i ll say it would be a large portion of them. donald trump s town hall went exactly how most expected and feared it would. he repeated lies about january 6th, the 2020 election, and he inflated his own record. we ll have much more coverage on all of that in just a moment. plus, we ve got new polling on president joe biden s approval rating and a potential rematch with his predecessor. and also ahead the latest from the border as a pandemic restriction on immigration is set to expire at midnight. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 11th. i m johnlen lemere, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with former president donald trump continuing to cling to conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, an election he lost. within the first few minutes of his cnn town hall las
i think so as he did in 2020. i think he has to here. it s probably going to be on fighting about the issues, abortion access, democracy, the economy that helped him win the first time, so i think he s going to be very specific about where he throws his punches. we are going to we ll see what station the airplane televisions are tuned to in the coming days. we ll see. stay tuned. hopefully msnbc on sunday at noon for your program. jen psaki, my friend and colleague, thank you for your time tonight. that is our show for this evening. we ll see you tomorrow. way too early with jonathan lemire is coming up next. the question to you is will you pardon the january 6th rioters who were convicted of federal offenses? i am inclined to pardon many of them. i can t say for every single one because a couple of them probably they got out of