accusations of bribes and an inside look at his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. then fighting back with the free speech organization that is soon to block ron desantis s efforts to ban books in florida schools. i m charles blow in for ayman moyhyeldin. let s get started. this week, the facts finally caught up to two republican-led smear campaigns. let s start with the mess that was thursday s hearing on the so-called weaponization of the federal government. for months now, chairman jim jordan has promised testimony from, quote, dozens of whistleblowers on how the fbi is unfairly persecuting conservatives. and yet, just hours before jordan s promised blockbuster hearing on that very issue was set to begin, the fbi made a shocking revelation. two of the three self proclaimed whistleblowers who are set to testify have had this security clearances revoked over a question about their allegiance to the united states, reported criminal conduct, personal misconduct, an
you. we have got a lot more coming, up everybody. you are watching msnbc, or second hour starts right now. starts right now hey everybody, i m yasmin vossoughian. if you re just joining, us welcome. if you are sticking with, us we are so thankful for that. collision course, the president in the air right now, flying back to washington and right into a debt ceiling showdown with speaker mccarthy. the two men sit to meet tomorrow sometime, to try to resolve the gulf of differences between them as they face a deadline. it could lead to the unimaginable default by the united states of america. my assessment is that the odds of reaching june 15th will be unable to pay all of our bills. it s quite low. based on what i ve offered, i would be blameless. on the politics of, it no one would be blameless. it seems as though he wants to default more than he wants a deal. speaker mccarthy is allowing himself in the entire nation to be held hostage by the biden republicans. just by
country s rejection of donald trump in the 2020 election and became a critical battleground in the campaign by trump and his allies to overturn his defeat. a letter today from fulton county d.a. connie willis to judges and her fellow county officials saying in essence, clear your calendars. the new york times reports this, the georgia prosecutor leading an investigation into the former president and his allies has taken the unusual step of announcing remote workdays for most of her staff during the first three weeks of august. asking judges in the downtown atlanta courthouse not to schedule trials for part of that time, as she prepares to bring charges in the inquiry. the move suggests that the fulton county d.a. is expecting a grand jury to unseal indictments during that time period. thanks to court filings and reporting, we know that willis has cast a very wide net, with everyone from state gop officials to the ex-president himself, under scrutiny right now. the new york
meanwhile, president biden cuts a foreign trip short as time runs out to strike a deal on the debt limit. one of the senators urging biden to consider going around his republican house speaker s joins me live. later, a jog in the park with senator cory booker, we talk about his message of positivity amid so much cynicism and washington and his friendship with one of those republicans running for president. well, florida governor ron desantis is said to officially enter the race for president this week. let s be honest, he is a work in progress when it comes to retail politics. i saw, that you have, like, a 1955 portion there. that once nice. how much is that worth? oh, we won t even talk about that. so, it s safe to say there is some unknowns when it comes to the type of candidate he ll be the what there is very little doubt about is where he stands on policy issues right now. look no further than the last chapter of his book, he wrote it all there, make america flori
former new jersey governor chris christie. at the top of that list, it s florida governor ron desantis, the far-right culture warrior against abortion rights, the lgbt community, and disney. one of his states largest employers. desantis has said his term as governor will serve as a, quote, blueprint in his quest to remake america and florida s image. that would be more impressive if you were not losing an all out war with a cartoon mouse, but more on that later. donald trump may be a disgrace to twice impeached criminally indicted former president who fermented insurrection, and was recently found liable for sexual abuse and defamation, and is currently the subject of several federal and state investigations. but a new harvard capitalist poll shows none of that has hurt his standing with the republican base. joining me now, david jolly, the former republican congressman from florida who left the party in 2018, and michael steele, former chairman of the rnc, msnbc political an