right. with us we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire, professor at princeton university, eddy jr., former white house director of communications to president obama, jen palmary, co-host of showtime s the circus and member of the new york times editorial board mara gay. joe will join us in just a bit. willie, we have a lot to get to. i know we re not starting with this, but rudy giuliani was sued. did you hear about that? i did. there s some explosive and wild details that are coming out of that lawsuit that i think we re going to be talking about in just a few minute. do want to ask you first, though, jonathan lemire about this latest debt ceiling meeting at the white house the big four getting together, some glimmers of optimism. i guess we re grading on a curve here, though, based on there being no optimism out of the meeting a week ago. that june 1st date that secretary janet yellen has been warning about for several weeks is inching closer. what came o
you noted. and claiming the high ground, whether in the case of roy moore or in the case of president trump it was a very difficult place to be. to have somebody in their own ranks, a very high-profile of the democratic party, some accused them of giving him a pass. you heard gillibrand saying we re in the wrong conversation talking about the differences in the nuances. end of the day, public servants should be held to a higher standard. i this this will potentially put a lot more problems on republicans for the pressure they and have not sure what franken will say tomorrow when he makes his announcement but a lot of talk he will quote/unquote do the right thing according to democrats who talked to him today. that seems to suggest a resignation is in the offing and he certainly lost most of his support among democrats here on capitol hill. jen palmary, do you this this