Fight over the debt ceiling and a possible plan b for House Democrats. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration has plans to send active duty troops to the Southern Border as soon as next week. We will explain what the Military Personnel will be doing down there. Also ahead, new testimony in the civil trial against donald trump. It comes as the former president decides not to take the stand in his own defense. New reporting this morning on Text Messages that ultimately led to Tucker Carlsons firing. We also will have a look at the latest aid package headed to ukraine as its forces prepare for a Spring Offensive against russias army. And writers expected back on the picket lines today as the wga strike is already impacting several shows, late night going dark for starters. Good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday, may 3rd, with us we have the host of Way Too Early, white house, jen palmieri, Cohost Of The Circus and former chairman o. Of the republican committee, Michael Steele.
called section 702 and part of the foreign intelligence surveillance contact and the fbi is really only authorized to search the 702 data base when there s reason to believe it ll produce evidence on foreign actor crimes, usually the suspect has to be abroad. but in the year ending 2021, the filing shows the fbi used the warrant lesser much powers against u.s. citizens 278,000 times. the gorge floyd protests in the summer of 2020 and a batch of 19,000 donors and unnamed congressional campaign and one fbi searcher described in the filing the analyst said she ran the queries to determine whether individuals had foreign ties and indicated she had run thousands of names within the fbi systems in retaliation to the capitol break investigation and did not remember why she ran these 13 queries on raw visa information . fox news learning in the year ending 2022, the number of section 702 searches dropped by 92%. seen yore fbi official sayre senior fbi official shares as a judge i
following questions yesterday. what is the white house reaction to special counsel durham s report on how the fbi handled the trump-russia probe. i would leave it to the department of justice to speak to. does he agree with special counsel durham that there needs to be wholesale changes at the fbi. again that s with the department of justice and not something i am going to speak from the podium. as you just stated we believe in an independent department of justice that s what the president said when he was running and what the president said last year. thank you very much see new japan. not exactly shooting down the quote. aid to adam schiff. one of the house permanent select committee on intelligence staffers d.c. speak for the intel committee. their boss adam would soon take over leadership to of the committee. the researcher took the comment as a mild threat. kevin mccarthy questioned schiff s suitability for public office. it really raises the question about a
quickly escalated as the crowd spills out into traffic clashing with police. officers recovering a firebomb at the scene presenting a clear danger to the public. molotov cocktail was in a group of protestors. we don t have an arrest attached to that. it was there on the scene in a crowd of protestors. again, something very dangerous that we just really asking our communities, our people who want to come out and elevate their voices, not to engage in that kind of behavior. they can hurt themselves and members of this department and their co-protestors for innocent people. dana: laura engel live in the newsroom. hi. well, these protestors are vowing they will be back every day until charges are filed against former marine daniel penny. penny has said through his lawyers he never intended to harm neely and could not have foreseen his untimely death. take a look at this. 11 people were arrested during last night s protest. most accused of disorderly conduct. police say one
tonight about immigrants at the border. the governor of texas is now launching a new tackle force there point fingers and do little else. jacqui heinrich at the white house with the president s slumping approval data and the latest on the expiration of title 42 we begin with correspondent bill melugin along the border in brownsville, texas. good night good evening, bill. bill: bret, good evening to you. texas governor greg abbott made a major announcement today saying is he going to be deploying several hundred elite texas soldiers down here to the southern border equipped with riot gear in an effort to block any mass migrant crossings into his state. is as we are now just three days away from the end of title # 2 and, already, we are seeing record high illegal crossings. president biden s open border policies is going to cause a catastrophic disaster. bill: today, texas governor greg abbott announced the formation of a new elite border response force made up of hundr