mystery in how much she is getting under his skin. plus trump is back at a regular campaign stop, the courtroom as a jury weighs how much he has to pay in damages after being found liable for defamation and sexual abuse. the question everyone is asking is will he take the stand. still pushing bidenomics. president biden is hitting a key swing state to convince voters the economy is strong and his policies are why. i m dana bash let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. first up, donald trump wants nikki haley out of the republican race for president. she said she s not going anywhere. so trump is using a familiar tactic. bullying. the former president is insulting his last rival standing threatening to blacklist her donors it came after she announced her campaign raised more than a million dollars after her new hampshire loss and trump s election night speech. last night haley was back in her home state of south carolina which votes four weeks from now and sh
where he ll finally experience consequences for some of his actions. next week, tuesday, marks the beginning of the second e. jean carroll defamation trial. news on that later on. but first things first, developments ahead of closing arguments. tomorrow in new york s $250 million civil fraud lawsuit. the judge revealed he would not allow donald trump to deliver part of those closing arguments himself as he had requested. the reasoning, neither trump nor his attorneys ever got back to the judge agreeing to preconditions. in truth, it is hard to imagine what trump wanted more, an opportunity to put himself at the center of proceedings to deliver his message in his own way, or an opportunity like this, to complain, whine about being silenced, despite the fact his own team failed to respond to the judge on time. remember, in both cases, e. jean carroll s defamation and new york s civil fraud, trump s guilt has already been determined. these decisions will only settle the punish.
we have a lot to get to this morning, including donald trump formally taking his fight to remain on colorado s ballot to the supreme court. we ll tell you what his lawyers are arguing and why the former president is concerned about how the justices may rule. plus, back in 2020, donald trump hired an expert to prove election fraud. instead, that person found the 2020 election was not stolen. we re going to speak with that expert about what his data firm actually uncovered. also ahead, we ll dig into the ultimatum from house republicans following their visit to the southern border. do they want a deal? along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. and msnbc host jen psaki. she s a former white house press secretary. good to have you all on board this morning. willie? let s start in colorado. former president trump s legal team officially has petitioned the supreme court to overturn last month s co
spokesperson denied that allegation, but we already know special counsel jack smith has been eyeing obstruction charges, and that does not look good for donald trump. new reports also depicting chaos on trump s legal team. the daily beast reporting trump s lawyers are starting to wonder if there might be a snitch. snitches get stitches. one of the his legal team saying, there s a lot of lawyers and a lot of jealousy. i wrote a piece for this on msnbc.com and wrote with trump you have the perfect storm of lawyers fighting for pole position and client who s prone to embracing the microphone and didn t meet a camera he didn t love. rolling stone reporting trump s team is scrambling to unmask the feds investigating him. he wants to immediately and quickly purge the fbi and doj of officials. joining me now, the reporter who broke the story just hugo, i m going start with you. what can you add to your great reporting about evan corcoran being steered away from searching trump s per
senator chris murphy is coming up with a view from congress, and vice president s top economic adviser is stand by as well. plus, all of the technical glitches during his ill-fated announcement, we heard something awfully concerning regarding the kind of conservative ron desantis is. also today, eye-popping reporting on the destruction of the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and later, ukraine is on the brink of launching its counteroffensive against russia. i ll ask the ambassador what success looks like and how they hope to achieve it. so late last night a deal to raise the debt ceiling was struck between the white house and speaker kevin mccarthy. while the president was able to protect most of his priorities including medicaid, student debt relief, around funding to fight the climate crisis, he did make clear in his stand he doesn t love everything in it, and a number of democrats aren t going to like what they see either, work programs that help poor people, peo