with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. as you know, i can t talk about the particulars of this or any other ongoing criminal matter. as i said when i pointed mr. smith, i did so because it underscores the justice department s commitment to both independence and accountability. mr. smith is a veteran career prosecutor. he has assembled a group of experienced and talented prosecutors and agents who share his commitment to integrity and the rule of law. any questions about this matter will have to be answered by their filings in court. attorney general merrick gar garland with brief words for the first time since donald trump s federal indictment. is it just me or, willie, are we starting to see again not a complete breaking of ice but sort of more thawing of ice, mike pence day one, this is horrible. day two, it s bad, but i m going to pardon him. day three, too early to talk about pardons. because you know, the news came out and i m sure mike p
these members voted against bills they actually support. it is the same cast of characters from january who tried to derail the speaker. what point are they trying to make if any, let s find out, joining a speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy from the great state of california, thank you for joining us mr. speaker, the first question why are the members voting with democrats to keep gop bills from coming up from about. they haven t spelled out what they want. you know this better than anyone we miss you serving with us in congress. the republicans only control the house by five votes. the democrats control the senate and the white house read what happened less than 5% of our members joined in voted with democrats to deny us from bringing conservative bills to the floor. if you can t bring bills to the floor to be debated you are turning the house over to democrats. that is why we ve got to come together we have no other choice than to have the conservative voice for the ameri
but at least they have, like, i don t know it s nicer there generally. what a day. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. tonight we have new reporting which confirms something that up to this point we d only suspected. former president donald trump is officially a target of the criminal investigation of alleged mishandling of documents at mar-a-lago. that news reported first today by the guardian. multiple outlets are now reporting federal prosecutors notified trump in a letter that he is the target. now, nbc news has not independently verified those reports, but donald trump is the person who allegedly took those classified documents from the white house and then refused to comply with the justice department s order to return them. so if anyone in this case is going to be targeted for potential criminal charges, it is probably donald trump. for his part trump today posted a caps lock-heavy statement arguing being the target of an invest
on tuesday, representatives of us presidentjoe biden and congressional republicans met again on capitol hill. the two sides have untiljune 1st to come to an agreement on raising the govenrment s borrowing limit, or risk the us not being able to pay its bills. some analysts have warned a default could lead to huge job losses in the us and even a global recession. stocks on wall street finished sharply lower on tuesday. despite this, optimism among leaders remains. negotiations are very hard, very difficult, both sides have to understand they won t get everything they want. we are trying to get to a budget that is reasonable and bipartisan. that democrats and republicans in the house and senate will be able to vote on and agree on. this is the process, that s why we are moving in this way, to make sure it s bipartisan, but also reasonable. that s what you all can look forward to. for the latest on this story, i spoke to cbs news congressional correspondent, nikole killion. has
we go undercover to expose those behind this criminal enterprise. this fake fathers scam is incredibly elaborate, very sophisticated, incredibly difficult to police. we found some men are being paid thousands to be fake dads. and it s happening across communities under the radar of the authorities. shocking, isn t it? it s not a one off. it s been going on for years. there s a scandal waiting to be exposed. i m divya talwar, an investigative journalist. a year ago, i stumbled across some strange posts on social media. i had no idea then that these posts would lead me to uncover a brazen, sophisticated criminal operation. there are so many posts here. if anyone wants me to be their baby s father to make fake documents, contact me. and hejust left his mobile number. the posts seemed out of place. they were in open vietnamese facebook groups, supposedly for people trying to find jobs. and the same words kept cropping up in the dozens of posts we came across. almost all of thes