go basically around the clock until the x date. margaret talev, thank you for joining us this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this tuesday morning with us. morning joe starts right now. optimistic we may be able to make some progress because we both agreed default is not really on the table. we have to get something done here. and the consequence of failing to pay our bills would be the american people would have a real kick in their economic well-being. as a matter of fact, the rest of the world would, too. president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy continue to take positive have that positive tone on the debt ceiling and how it is going, but there s still no deal with just over a week until the country could default completely. we ll look at the disagreements that are holding up a deal for now. also ahead, donald trump s comments about e. jean carroll during his town hall could cost him more money, as the writer takes new legal ac
blitzer in the situation room. happening now, a judge in manhattan just scheduled donald trump s criminal trial for next year right in the middle of the republican primary season. we ll share all the latest details from the former president s court appearance earlier this afternoon. also tonight, governor ron desantis is about to official. the florida republican is poised to launch his white house campaign tomorrow during a conversation with elon musk on twitter. we have new details on the announcement and how his gop rivals plan to respond. plus, we re learning new information right now about the driver who slammed a u haul truck into a white house barricade, what a court filing is revealing about the threats he allegedly made about president biden and his praise for adolph hitler. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. . let s get straight to the news on former president trump s criminal trial
we start this hour with a shocking incident at our southern border. look right there in that highlighted area. because a human smuggler is dropping a 4-year-old child over that very tall wall to american soil below. pete: this comes nearly two weeks after the expiration of title 42 and highlights the surgent need to stop those cartels and human smugglers. we have been watching, do you see the baby actually fall the 4-year-old. right there they say the child is okay. griff jenkins is live at the white house with the latest for us, griff? good morning, ainsley, pete and steve, these videos are far too common, yesterday the border patrol chief raúl ortiz tweeting that video out. it s hard to watch. it s heart breaking. you see the smuggler dropping the 4-year-old toddler near san diego. near the san ysidro port of entry. he drops. fortunately he was okay. border patrol agents and emsz quickly responded to begin rendering care and first aid to the child who fortunately was
better than any other time we ve had discussions. hello and welcome to the programme i m samantha simmomds. let s start with some breaking news coming in from washington. authorities say they have detained the driver of a truck after crashing into security barriers adjacent to the white house grounds, according to a us secret service spokesperson. this is the scene, as you can see a police cordon has been set up. we are hearing there were no reports of any injuries to any secret service or white house personnel and the cause, and the man in the crash will remain under investigation, according to the chief of communications from the secret service. he said on twitter, some pedestrian walkways have been closed and the nearby hotel has been evacuated. we have got these live pictures coming in. we know that law enforcement officers have approached a vehicle, a remote controlled robot opened the truck s door, revealing a dolly, but no other obvious cargo. after crashing the driv