go basically around the clock until the x date. margaret talev, thank you for joining us this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this tuesday morning with us. morning joe starts right now. optimistic we may be able to make some progress because we both agreed default is not really on the table. we have to get something done here. and the consequence of failing to pay our bills would be the american people would have a real kick in their economic well-being. as a matter of fact, the rest of the world would, too. president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy continue to take positive have that positive tone on the debt ceiling and how it is going, but there s still no deal with just over a week until the country could default completely. we ll look at the disagreements that are holding up a deal for now. also ahead, donald trump s comments about e. jean carroll during his town hall could cost him more money, as the writer takes new legal ac
ahead. possible indictment of a former president trump. wall street journal is today reporting this, that special counsel jack smith has all but finished obtaining his evidence into whether donald trump mishandled evidence at the mar-a-lago. and some of the trump close associates are bracing for his indictment. they say that clashes within the trump legal team have led to the departure of a delawyer. and the wall street journal goes on to report that jack smith appears to be tying up loose ends saying in recent weeks prosecutors working for smith have completed interviews with nearly every employee at trump s florida home from top aides to maintenance staff. they have pressed witnesses on questions that appear to hone in on specific elements that they need to show to include a crime. and questions aimed at undermining potential defenses that trump could raise reports are that the special counsel as assembled evidence and much of that appears to obliterate many ofhe argume
john trump is a sexual abuser. six men and three women found him liable for sexually abusing e. jean carroll at a manhattan department store in the 1990s then defaming her about it on his social media site. the jury took under three hours to reach their verdict and award carroll approximately $5 million in damages. in a moment we ll be joined by jessica leeds who testified during the trial that a young donald trump groped her on a flight in the 70s, his lawyers neither put on a defense or called him a as witness leading the plaintiffs to play damaging portions of his testimony and heard the access hollywood tape where he said you could grab women by the genitals and doubled down on that in the deposition. historically it s true with stars. that they can grab women by the if you look over the last million years that s been largely true, not always but largely true. unfortunately or fortunately. and you consider yourself to be a star? i think you can say that, yeah
potentially of indictments in georgia, perhaps on the federal level from the special counsel, including in connection with january 6th. also the clear republican front-runner for 2024 at this point still lying about the 2020 election and january 6th, saying this when asked about those who attacked the capitol and people trying to protect it. 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 control. when you look at what antifa, what they ve done to portland, if you look at what antifa, look at what they ve done to minneapolis, so many other, so many other places, look at what they did to seattle and blm, blm, many people were killed. these people, i m not trying to justify anything, but you have two standards of justice in this country. and what they ve done, and i love that question, because what they ve done to so ma
finds former president donald j. trump sexually abused writer e. jean carroll. the witness who testified in the case is outfront tonight. plus, breaking news. embattled congressman george santos lied about his resume and he is now facing criminal charges from the doj and we learned he can be arrested in just hours. putin mocked after one single tank was on display for russia s big victory day parade, what happened? a russia insider who predicted this is my guest. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, sexual abuse. a new york jury today finding former president donald trump sexually abused writer e. jean carroll inside a department store dressing room in the 1990s. jurors needed to believe that trump subjected carroll to sexual contact by physical force without her consent. the jury did that and they also found trump liable of defaming carroll. it awarded her a massive sum of $5 million in damages. and in the statement carroll writes,