killed and others were injured in a drone strike near the border of syria. we ll go through the details of the attack and show you how the president is responding. plus, donald trump is now on the hook for a massive payout to e. jean carroll after a jury awarded the writer $83 million in defamation damages. we ll get expert legal analysis on that as well as the looming case that can further impact trump s bank account. and a stunning second half comeback sends the san francisco 49ers to the super bowl, setting up a rematch of the 2020 big game with the kansas city chiefs. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, january 29th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we ve got a lot to get to. we ll begin this morning with developing news out of the middle east and the deaths of three u.s. servicemembers in nort jordan. it happened yesterday at a logistics support base near jordan s border with syria. a drone packed with e
we re going to de-bank. i don t know what the hell de-bank means, but he might have to take de-ambulance to see de-doctor. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is monday, january 29th. we have a lot to get to this morning, including the massive payout donald trump now owes e. jean carroll. talk about being de-banked. after a jury awarded the writer $83 million in defamation damages. we ll get expert legal analysis on that, as well as the looming case that could further impact donald trump s bank account. you know, that s the big one, really. a lot of de-banking. look at the fraud case, he s already found guilty. that one this is all just damages stage. i don t think he helped himself in the defamation case, though you haven t heard from him in the first time. has he defamed e. jean carroll since this came down on friday? i don t think he has. i haven t heard it yet. came close on stage. it s what the jury tried to do. we shall see. meanwh
i m in tennessee on a family vacation, visiting my sister in law, i have been lobbying in d.c. since we survived a mass shooting in july. i have met with lawmakers, how is this still happening? how are our children still dying and why are we failing them? those frustrated comments came following yet another deadly school shooting in america. this time, it was in nashville. where three young children are among the victims. we ll have a live report from the devastated city in just a moment. these tragedies always bring gun legislation and proposals to ban assault-style weapons back into the spotlight but given the current balance of congress any meaningful action remains unlikely. good morning. welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, march 28th. i m jonathan lemire. thank you for starting your day with us. we begin with the latest from nashville, tennessee. where six people including three children are dead following a school shooting that s left a community shattere
the media kept touting each ballot as a crushing defeat for ken mccash think kevin mccarthy, although he was winning 95% of house republicans. that was especially true late friday night when after flipping most of his opponents to his side, mccarthy lost by one vote. you could see he was stunned as he walks away there, and one ally, mike rogers, made a beeline for matt gaetz who had taken a half step by voting present. not until the early morning our hours yesterday did mccarthy win. some of the talking heads predicted mccarthy would drop out. i suspect that when they come back after dinner that mccarthy is going to end up withdrawing. oh, i think his goose is very much cooked. i don t think we re going to see a speaker kevin mccarthy. howard: only in the final late night drama did journalists say, hey, shocker, mccarthy, who we all branded the biggest loser, might actually win this thing. of i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, my exclusive int
classified documents. what he wanted his lawyer to tell the national archives. also ahead, another headline making moment for herschel walker s senate campaign. as new documents reveal the pro-life republican appears to have paid for an abortion. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, october 4th. i m jonathan lemire. thank you for starting your day us with. we have a new development in the mar-a-lago document case. the washington post reporting that former president donald trump asked one of his lawyers early 2022 to tell the national archives that trump had returned all materials requested by the agency. but that lawyer, alex cannon, declined to do so because he was not sure if that claim was true. that s according to people familiar with the matter. we now know that in fact that was not accurate. thousands more government documents, some highly classified, were found at mar-a-lago through a grand jury subpoena back in may and then, of course, that