it s 5:00 and this is the five in new york city. is trump an insurrectionist sir? it s self-evident. you saw it all. let the court make that decision. no question about it, none. jesse: joe biden giving his blessing to the bomb shell ruling that kicked donald trump off of the ballot in colorado. you can blame these justices for the landmark decision. they pushed a novel legal theory that sounds like it s written by msnbc s prime time. deciding the former president s actions make him ineligible to even run for president again and used the 14th amendment, a relic from the civil war era to stop insurrectionists from holding off. change-up has not even be charged with insurrectionist. the trump campaign vowing to appeal at the supreme court and the former president himself railing against it. listen. they want to silence me because i will never let them silence you. in the end, they re not after me, they re after you. i just happen to be standing in their way. the lib
i m jesse waters with emily compagno, harold ford jr., dana perino and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 and this is the five in new york city. is trump an insurrectionist, sir? it s self-evident. you saw it all. let the court make that decision. no question about it, none. jesse: joe biden giving his blessing to the bomb shell ruling that kicked donald trump off of the ballot in colorado. you can blame these justices for the landmark decision. they pushed a novel legal theory that sounds like it s written by msnbc s prime time. deciding the former president s actions make him ineligible to even run for president again and used the 14th amendment, a relic from the civil war era to stop insurrectionists from holding off. change-up has not even be charged with insurrectionist. the trump campaign vowing to appeal at the supreme court and the former president himself railing against it. listen. they want to silence me because i will never let them silence you. in the end, they re
beautiful sunrise in washington, d.c. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 18th. donald trump has claimed that he could declassify materials just by thinking about them. like i dream of jeannie. but there is new evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation that proves he knows it s not true. the former president is seizing on two failed endorsements in florida from governor ron desantis, while ignoring the lack of success his candidates had in the last election. also ahead, the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations with both sides digging in on one big issue. we ll explain what that is. and we re keeping an eye on president biden this morning as he is in japan for the g7 summit. welcome, everybody. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan is with us. and former white ho
press secretary did about just why this this 21 year old air national guardsman was allowed, apparently to have access to such classified material and what pentagon press secretary writer told reporters that essentially the military and trust highly classified information to people of all ages, including very young service members, essentially depends on what your job is and what you need to do that job. he gave the example of course of very young service members at leading people into combat. he said that basically it doesn t matter what your age is. it is just the job that you need to do. and so the pentagon did say, however, that they are taking steps to mitigate any potential leaks like this in the future. they are limiting the amount of information, for example, that they are disseminating widely across the u. s government. we have been told that people who were receiving these kinds of highly classified documents over the last several months have simply stopped receivin
we cover the devastation caused by hurricane ian. here is the newest information coming in this saturday evening. the storm s death toll in florida now stands at 66. this is the scene in north port, which is in sarasota county. state officials say the latest known death is that of a 62-year-old woman also from that county. she apparently drowned after getting trapped in her vehicle. take a look at the massive amount of water people risked traveling through today east of sarasota. they re in their car. this is a car, not a boat, makes its way down a very flooded state highway. sheriff s deputies and firefighters went door to door in the community of hidden river warning people about a potentially levee beach. on cape coral, they are checking on victims who may need urgent help. fire rescue say they have been collecting people and pets and taking them to a fire station where helicopters are ferrying people to safety. this afternoon, governor ron desantis said while more than ha