literally tilting at windmills. it comes as his legal team decides its best defense in his civil rape trial. no defense at all? another deadly mass shooting in america. the latest, a medical center in atlanta, prompting an impassioned plea from georgia senator raphael warnock. also, new reporting on the deep financial ties between supreme court justice clarence thomas and a texas billionaire. keep getting deeper. it keeps getting worse. on capitol hill, there is no off-ramp when it comes to a deal on the debt ceiling. we ll have the latest on the contentious negotiations. meanwhile, the markets mostly flat this morning in response to the latest interest rate hike from the federal reserve. we ll have a full breakdown of what could be the final move from the central bank in the fight to bring down inflation. good morning, everyone, and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 4th. we got two out of three birthdays under our belt here. exactly. willie
talking. this is brutal for president biden. the record low is actually six points down since february and the skepticism of his leadership extends deep inside his own party only 36% of democrats think the party should nominate joe biden for a second term, you see real weakness and the coalition the power joe biden to the presidency back in 2020, biden carried independence by 13 points against donald trump he is now trailing trump by nine points among the same voters, that does spillover into the head-to-head matchup, trump versus biden, right now seven-point our pool and trump leading biden even among the 56% people that think trump should face criminal charges, 18% say they would vote for donald trump over joe biden anyway. one in five people say they believe president trump should face criminal charges but they still vote for him. is remarkable. good evening welcome to the next revolution gets all of that in the political news even the border crisis on a moment
the cold war. if you thought ozwald wasn t a lone gunman they called you a crackpot. later, if you thought the fbi spied on trump, you were putin s puppet. and then came covid-19. if you didn t like that the government shut down your business, you were branded an outlaw. if you didn t think mask mandates worked, you were called a murderer. if you thought the wuhan virus might have come from a lab in wuhan that made viruses, the government called you crazy. they even censored you. the virus had to have come from a wet market. the sea the the sea sequences they evolve and mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species of an animal to a human. many of us feel that it is more likely this is a natural occurrence sars cov 1 animal reservoir to a human. we still don t know what the argument is. it is more likely to be a natural jumping of species from an animal reservoir to a human. jesse: but the first liberals who da
to comment but it appears they are basing this case on an untested legal theory president trump is criticizing the theory as well as da alvin bragg hours after posting this on truth social. the former president wrote in part, with no crime being able to be proven and based on an old fully debunked by numerous other prosecutors fairytale, the republican candidate and former president of united states of america will be arrested on tuesday of next week if this case centers around one 30,000 dollars hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels on the eve of the 2016 presidential election. president trumps lawyer at the time michael cohen we did guilty to his role in the payment in a federal case and claims it was meant to keep daniels quiet about alleged affair trump the nice. federal prosecutors claimed the former president and his business reimbursed infer that payment but the questions are, how to trump financial record the payment and can prosecutors prove he to p
during tomorrow s parade. aaron katersky stand ne week aftellse of silicon valley bank, its former parent company now filing for bankruptcy. the stock market sliding just 24 hours after a group of banks unveiled a $30 billion rescue plan for first republic bank. the new report claiming first republic executives sold $12 million in stock months before the crash. the severe storm system and where it s headed tonight. at least two tornadoes, including a confirmed ef-1 damaging homes and businesses in texas. winds up to 110 miles per hour. an arctic blast now on the way. below-zero wind chills tomorrow morning. our weather team tracking it all. new concerns tonight about tiktok. sources telling abc news the justice department is launching an investigation into the owners of the popular social media app over allegations of spying. a new report on the possible origins of covid-19. an international team of scientists reportedly finding genetic links tying the pandemic to anot