circle. and i didn t do it, be if it did happen, there s nothing to be ashamed after. that was a short lived defense. to a report that he paid for a former girlfriend s abortion. we re going to go through his evolving denials on that developing story. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, october 7th. we have pulitzer prize winning columnist from the washington post, eugene robinson. ed luce is with us. officer at princeton university, eddie glaude jr., and jonathan lemire is with us this morning. mika, we were going to get into the news i just saw ed there. i saw a little smirk on ed s face. and i just have to talk about it. you know, ed, we have an expression, we ve always had an expression when people have congratulated me for anything i ve done, i go, well, i m the tallest building in schenectady. your headline, i love this, america is history s most successful failing state, i would define what you re describing here, i m an upstate new york guy
everything. and trump was pretty upset about the search and he put out a statement that said they even broke into my safe. they even broke into my safe [ laughter ] trump is like, dammit, i knew i should have flushed that safe down the toilet, i knew it. all right. 6:00 on the east coast, there are new developments on the justice department investigation of donald trump including confirmation that the fbi search of his florida home, mar-a-lago, was related to the handling of classified information. we will have the outlandish claims from his attorneys. desperate for some sort of defense here, i guess. plus, the former president is set to be deposed in new york state s investigation into the trump organization today. and a sixth trump-backed candidate wins the republican primary for governor, this time in wisconsin. we ll have the latest on that election and others. also, the very latest from ukraine. new information this morning on how ukrainian forces are pulling off
get it done. meantime, thanks for your concern. keep the faith. it s going to be okay. jesse: president biden saying he s doing well after testing positive for covid. experiencing very mild symptoms with a runny nose and dry cough and taking paxlovid. he will isolate for five days but says he s busy working. may have just noticed that biden was not masked up and the white house got called out over that. look, in the video that you saw, there was a videography that was there with him and wore an n-95 mask and had the six feet distance. the same situation as well with the photo. as you saw in the video, he was outside. jesse: the positive covid test comes days after joe biden s middle east trip to saudi arabia. yesterday the president was seen mingling with a bunch of people barking questions over whether biden got infected. where, we don t know. the white house is shutting down any discussion of that. where was he infected? i don t think we know. i certainly don t know
and then there were nine. trade minister penny mordaunt to throw her hat in the ring to be the next tory leader. many candidates but one key issue, taxes. former health secretary sajid javid will cut them if he is prime minister, including a tax rise to help the health service when he led it. iii tax rise to help the health service when he led it. tax rise to help the health service when he led it. if we don t have tax rises we will when he led it. if we don t have tax rises we will not when he led it. if we don t have tax rises we will not get when he led it. if we don t have tax rises we will not get growth, - when he led it. if we don t have tax rises we will not get growth, if - when he led it. if we don t have tax rises we will not get growth, if we | rises we will not get growth, if we do not get growth we will not be able to help the public services. i have never came across a decision, especially bay, which does not involve risk. especially bay, which does not
extreme heat across large parts of the uk is expected to last into early next week. the met office issues an amber weather warning. drivers at eight rail companies vote to strike in a dispute over pay, but scotrail drivers accept an improved pay offer of 5%. the president of sri lanka says he will resign after thousands of demonstrators stormed his official residence in protest at the state of the economy. the composer monty norman, whose works include the james bond theme tune, has died at the age of 94. and still to come in sportsday, england and northern ireland are an action at euro 2022 and we will have all the latest. hello and welcome to bbc news. so far, all 11 mps are in the running to replace borisjohnson. the tories aim to reduce that number to two over the next ten days. boris johnson has refused to endorse any candidate. you he said he didn t want to damage anybody s chances. ros atkins is at westminster. let s head there now. you thank you forjoining us on coueg