that case in just a moment. also on capitol hill republicans and democrats are sticking to their demands on the debt ceiling despite a fast approaching deadline. we ll look at the fall back options being discussed at the white house. and the latest from donald trump s civil rape trial as jurors yesterday watched more of the former president s video deposition. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, may 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we ll begin with the scramble to avoid a first ever government default. with the clock ticking both republicans and democrats are still refusing to budge when it comes to debt ceiling negotiations. according to new reporting in the wall street journal the white house is weighing potential fall back options. people familiar with the matter tell the newspaper administration officials and lawmakers are considering alternatives like a short-term increase in the borrowing limit that would buy them time to f
conservative viewpoints an telling lies to the american public tonight, former fox anchor, gretchen carlson, on what need to happen for change at he former network plus, another shady real estat deal at the supreme court, a the chief justice dismisse calls for oversight. then, riveting testimony fro the woman accusing donald trum of rape. but we learn from each - date on the witness stand. and congresswoman katie porter on the maga vote to slas funding for medicaid, veterans childcare, and more. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. tonight, the supreme court o the united states is under a cloud of scandal it all started earlier thi month with republican feel tha conservative justice, clarence thomas, was acceptin undisclosed gifts from right wing billionaire thomas accepted gifts includin luxury vacations worth literally hundreds of thousand of dollars, and this really, truly special painting from man named harlan crow, who has well, inter
biden administration as lawmakers pass a bill. what the legislation means for americans. and millions of americans are suffering through record heat and drought. we re live from madrid on when people can see relief. we now know why the fbi searched former u.s. president donald trump s home. according to a warrant, they were look for things under the espionage act. we re also learning details about some of the items recovered during monday s search. property received on friend shows fbi receive 11 sets of classified documents including top secret sci, which stands for sensitive classified information. they also received three packets marked confidential and three marked secret. we have more on the ongoing investigation. reporter: court documents are revealing new information, more information about exactly what the fbi took when they searched mar-a-lago earlier this week. they took 11 sets of classified documents including four sets of top-secret documents including on
the ground offensive the russians may not be able to mount, the intel community is looking historically we ve watched the russians kind of falter throughout this entire campaign and kind of ground down to the stalemate that s along the eastern provinces. so it is true while russia may not be able to mount a very deliberate counter offensive or offensive, we re going to be stuck in this position for a long time if somebody doesn t start working these parties towards that negotiating settlement. i continue to talk about it because this can go on forever and you saw it last week the increasing tensions. we just don t know what s happening enough. it s a careful moment for the united states, and in order to provide the biden administration a real chance to put a victory behind this from taking this from where it s at to a deescalation over the next several months or year or so. it does seem the next several months will be key to how successful the counter offensive
concerned. i say i m surprised becaus they had not seen it previously by the way, we also ar reporting that some senior executives have not seen som of this unredacted materia before this is right on the eve o trial. the board moved to start towar a potential internal investigation of tucker, but bringing in an outside firm to do it. and that s right as they r negotiating settlement and it sets the path towar tucker s ouster, because the concern is that these redacted messages, should they ever become public, will be eve more embarrassing than the copious amount of informatio that was already out, and lead to other exposure and perhap in other cases yeah, there s a few lines i don t have the piece right i front of me, but there is on line where you say - along the lines of, offensive, crude texts, even over and above the racist comments he had made on air. then there is another referenc to, like, one specifically particularly offensive tex