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
about. one question at the end over title 42 and he said he was working on something with mexico. but it wasn t much of an answer. a lot of people are wondering about the debt ceiling. they are going to raise the debt ceiling. they always raise the debt ceiling. they re just basically jockeying for position to see who doesn t catch most of the blame. now, america has been sliding backwards emotionally for the last decade. a small group of people has been picking at america s most tender scab for about 10 years. they have been working around the clock to convince you that the country is racist. and that you re racist. 60 years after the civil rights act, 15 years after electing the first black president, as a black vice president sits in the white house, half of america thinks the other half s racist. so how did we get here? we have been getting carpet bombed with racial propaganda. racial riots against police were fueled into our biggest cities. the media spread the hands up,
reilly gaines was second, meaning she was really first. she was the fastest college female swimmer in the country. she didn t like swimming against guys. she didn t like changes in the locker room with guys. and because she said that, she is being hunted down and attacked. [shouting] [shouting] [shouting. [[bleep] jesse: gaines had to barricade herself inside san francisco state university for over three hours. that s what you call a hostage situation. she was just there to deliver a speech on women s sports. turned into a riot. why? well, one reason, she didn t like interesting to undress in front of strange men. 22-year-old male male genitalia. let me be clear. we were not forewarned. we were not asked for our consent. we did not give our consent. i can attest to the tears that were shed on that pool deck by these four ninth place finish herb missed by one place. can i attest to the extreme discomfort in the locker room and you turn around and there is a male watching y
and for what? what were they doing to get that kind of cash from china? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. accounts tied to the president s son, hunter biden s business partner, rob walker, showed payments of more than $1 million from their chinese business ventures, pay-outs went directly to hunter, president biden s brother james and to his daughter-in-law haley. she is the widow of biden s son, beau. and was later romantically involved with hunter. that s not really critically part of the story but just a tawdry detail. house oversight chair james comer who pushed for the information, says democrats described our subpoena as providing nothing more than records for papa john s and starbucks. they failed to mention the records we ve received documenting the family s business schemes and there is a lot more to learn. what we want to know is what did china get if return? i don t think china would spend this much money on this many different members of t
country. velshi starts now. good morning to you. it is sunday, january the 28. i m ali velshi. demonstrators in major cities around the country took to the streets again yesterday after the memphis police department released footage of the brutal beating of tyre nichols by five members of its own police force. in the continuing aftermath, memphis pd announced yesterday that it has permanently deactivated its scorpion unit. scorpion what the departments anti violence group which has been under scrutiny in recent days after it became public that all five of the police officers who were fired, arrested, and charged with second degree murder in nichols death where members of the unit. joining me now from memphis, tennessee, is nbc s antonia hylton who have been covering the story from the beginning. antonia. welcome tell us a bit about this new development with the scorpion unit, of which all five of these police officers were members. ali, i was actually with protesters yest