brian: we begin this hour with a brand new development with jeffrey document dump. steve: another one last night. another 300 documents were dumped or unsealed to the public, putting more scrutiny on former president bill clinton . ainsley: we are learning more about the hollywood stars in epstein s orbit and we expect more document to come out today. peter doocy joins us now live from the white house with the latest. hey, peter. latest accusation was bill clinton was doing some kind of crisis p.r. for jeffrey epstein. one of the epstein accusers virginia giuffre was writing a book and in it she claimed about bill clinton he walked into vanity fair and threatened them not to write sex trafficking articles about his good friend jeffrey epstein. those are disputed in the pages of the telegraph quote there is no evidence to support the claims and strenuously denied by a representative vanity fair s long time former editor who told the telegraph this categorically did not
but the debt deal just pass a crucial test. not one republican should vote for this deal. it s a bad deal. how much confidence do you have in the speaker right now? none. zero. speaker lying about the way he s characterizing this bill? yes, he s lying. but members of the house freedom caucus like congressman roy and bishop are struggling to come up with a strategy that block the deal tonight. and there s also a divide over whether to try to oust mccarthy as speaker. now, as for the republican leader, he says he s not concerned about losing his post and can t seem to understand what all the fuss is about. i m not sure what in the bill people are concerned about. it is the largest savings of 2.1 trillion we have ever had. now, a quick refresher of what is in this deal struck by president biden and the speaker over this memorial day weekend. it would replenish our near empty treasury with borrowed cash by suspending the debt ceiling for two years. it also include
you are live in the cnn newsroom, i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with donald trump arguing that lobbying owe election officials to overturn the 2020 election was within his official responsibilities as president. that argument was part of a brief filed last night in which attorneys for the former president asked an appeals court to dismiss his criminal election subversion case, one day after the supreme court refused to decide for now whether he is protected from prosecution. in the filing trump s attorneys argue that, quote, president trump has absolute immunity, the judicial branch cannot sit in judgment over a president s official acts. the legal wrangling could push a verdict into the heat of the 2024 campaign or even after the election if trump is elected he will try to pardon himself. politico argues trump s legal argument seems to be as much about prevailing in the appeals court as a bid to slow down the case against him. let s discuss that and mo
so we re gonna move right to it. have a great show. thanks, alex. the breaking news of the night is that the colorado supreme court made 43 decision ruled that donald trump, quote, is disqualified from holding the office of president under section three of the 14th amendment of united states constitution because he is disqualified it would be a wrongful act under the election code for the colorado secretary of state to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot. neal katyal on andrew weissmann will join us to discuss that historic ruling later in the hour, but we begin tonight as we promised you a week ago, with the vice president of the united states and an exclusive interview. i met kamala harris when she was district journey of san francisco, and an actor friend who was wiser than most of us about politics or to be one day, would you like to meet the first black woman president? the next day i found myself in a gathering of lawyers in century city in lo
andrea mitchell report. chris jansing is here right now. good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. it s a case that could short circuit donald trump s re-election run before the first votes are even cast. now that colorado s highest court has barred him from the ballot, the u.s. supreme court gets the chance to have the last word, but will they take it? key israel hamas negotiations are happening right now, egyptian officials trying to broker a new cease fire in gaza, even as hamas looks for a way to stop the conflict entirely. is there potentially a pathway to peace? and the conservative push to promote pro-american values in the nation s classrooms, in some cases using cartoons to reach kids as young as kindergarten. we start with that explosive ruling by colorado s highest court stripping donald trump s name from the state s presidential ballot and putting the fate of his candidacy squarely in the hands of the supreme court. the nar