that is new york city mayor eric adams again calling out the republican governor of texas and the biden administration. we ll go through the mayor s executive action to address the busing of migrants from the border as the tension continues to grow between the democratic mayor and the president of the united states. this all comes as secretary of state antony blinken met yesterday with mexico s president to discuss what can be done about the surge of migrants with another caravan moving toward the border. also ahead this morning, nikki haley making headlines this morning for her response to a question about the civil war. it wasn t a hard one. we ll show you that exchange from a campaign stop in new hampshire. plus, another warning about donald trump s plans for a second term. this time coming from ron desantis, one of his opponents for the republican primary. good morning. welcome to morning joe. i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. with us, host of
ephemeral legislation. yeah. that went from being the word of the day a couple days ago, to now i think it s the word of the week. ephemeral or malodorous, it s one of the two. it s still early. we have a couple hours ahead. maybe we can find another one. meanwhile, the florida governor is seizing on a potential weakness in trump s third presidential bid. we ll show you what he had to say about that, and how he responded to questions about his last name. is it desantis, is it december desantis? did he answer it? he did, and it was unrevealing. huh. republicans are still upset with kevin mccarthy over the debt ceiling deal. wah. one calling for a day of reckoning. are you kidding me? it is a day of reckoning for the extremists, who thought that they were going to be able to hold, not only congress and kevin mccarthy and the president hostage, but also hold the united states economy hostage. they weren t able to do it. these guys struck a deal, and struck a
but as the ukraine war drags on, western countries, especially the us, are starting to think that it might be better to lessen their dependence on china as well, which has made everything for us, from beach balls to nuclear power stations. almost unnoticed by the outside world, president biden has been pushing ahead with wide ranging plans to replace chinese goods with american made ones. the bbc s economics editor, faisal islam, has been investigating the extent of this new america first policy. i was astounded by the scale and the speed of the transformation in terms of the deployment of public, government, taxpayer subsidy into strategic industries, particularly green industries. there s so much money going in that it s transforming the economic fabric of a whole belt of america. we used to talk about the rust belt. they are now talking about a battery belt. it sounds rather sort of roosevelt years, doesn t it? yes, and there s some conscious echoes of that. indeed, where
Tried to kill Vladimir Putin. They said they tried to do it with a drone attack on the kremlin aimed at the president ial residence inside the kremlin. There has been video released reporting to show this incident, that is the drone attack on the kremlin, and then according to the russians, they say with their radar sophistication, they were able to shoot the drones down. You see at least one blast in this alleged video of the attack. They go on to say, in a statement coming from the state media agency tatt, that they reserve the right to respond to this in any way. Branding it a terror attack. As for ukraine. Ukraine says they had nothing to do with it. A senior ukrainian president ial official saying this is not the kind of thing they do. I will give you a quote from them. Ukraine has nothing to do with it. We dont attack the kremlin. First of all, it does not resolve any Military Task and it asks for a lot more trouble. Folks, weve been looking at this video and listening to what ru
trump reacting to the possibility earlier claiming in social media post the investigation is a hoax and that he is done not being joining me now, laura jarrett and former lead prosecutor to special counsel robert mueller and former u.s. attorney, joyce vance. laura, take us through your latest specific reporting an the legal questions facing jack smith s team. what we know is that the grand jury is expected to meet once again after a pretty long lull. there would been so much frenetic activity at the white house, so many witnesses coming in and out then everything stopped and went dark. that was around early may. we ve now learned, sources familiar have confirmed that they are expected to meet again this week. reporting on grand jury is always fraught because the process is secret but that s what we re able to report at least at this moment. and andrew, give us a sense of what s going on behind the scenes. what does jack smith have to do before making a recommendation o