carley: it s great point. thank you so much for joining us. always. thank you. carley: the second hour of fox & friends starts right now. don t stop believing hold on to that feeling streetlights people. carley: good morning. don t stop believing. all across america and especially in providence rhode island where it is also a rainy day and also a city i would look at and not know it was providence. griff: no. journey is maybe one of the greatest bands. i feel that song don t stop believin the most popular song ever. never goes away. rocking and always is great? i think it s probably the greatest karaoke song. i feel like i have sang that song with five to 50 marines maybe in a bar at least a dozen, two dozen times all over the world in japan and we didn t have cameras back then. probably good for you that there were no cameras back then. see where i was going with that? carley: no photographic evidence. griff: we begin this hour as the bidens va
the senate does not have. so is this going to get done today, tomorrow, or certainly before june 5th? reporter: we re hoping before june 5. senators are trying to haggle if they can do this today or if they can do this tomorrow. there is a real desire here to not have to work the weekend, and it s probably a combination of that desire, some jet fumes, the need to get out of town, and then also an agreement on amendments that s likely to get us there. one of the things that s holding this up is people like senator lindsey graham who are unhappy about the way they see defense spending capped in the current bill. he s upset with his own party for negotiating this. here s what he had to say about this. watch. i blame myself for not being more involved and more active because in my wildest dreams, i never believed that the republican party would take the biden budget that they ve attacked for a year and celebrate it as fully funding. reporter: and look, graham is not the onl
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
i m craig melvin and i m natalie morales. and this is dateline. the neighborhood ha everything a burglary wanted t find, private yards, wealthy homes and she had the worst o possible luck, in that h picked her yes i d like to report an attempted break in - a mother, home alone. cops raced to her front door a she walks into an ambush in he backyard how does somebody die in matter of seconds with officer around her home? it was surreal, it wa awful. your first thought of tha time it s a burglary gone wrong. but the burglar caugh red-handed starts pointing fingers. this is a guy who aspire to be a hit man - she was a sitting target. does it now mean that you charge them all with effort now the detectives lay a trap we triedd to play cat and mouse. we re getting reall paranoid about being - one are you wired will they catch their prey? you hold your breath, the world s gonna stop this. you never think it s goin to be you. oh no
jack smith has made a move. and mike pence going public on this legal strategy i ve been telling you about. how the man who has claimed repeatedly that he was the hero of january 6th now wants to resist telling the truth about january 6th. which, at a minimum, is odd if not downright legally suspicious. we have, i would say, a lot. yet, our top story isn t even one of those potentially important developments. our top story is a setback for the most powerful conservative megaphone in america. literally, measurably. it s also drinking drawing new legal heat on alleged trump allies who have been a part of the attacks on our democracy for years. new developments tonight. there is a wave of lawsuits. some of them quite effective against alleged defamation and specifically the powerful fox news empire. i m talking about multibillion- dollar lawsuits about the conspiracy theories that many of you, as a direct line to feeding the insurrection. the people suing fox are basically winni