others have to sift through the pieces. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, nebil: addis ababa. anthony: admit it. you hear the name ethiopia and you think starving children with distended bellies. you think dust and famine and despair so awful, you frankly don t want to even think about it anymore. but take a look. addis ababa, capital city of ethiopia. a cool, high altitude, urban center that will both confirm and confound expectations. fueled largely by direct foreign investment and a returning ethiopian diaspora eager to be part of the new growth, things are changing in addis. it s one of the fastest growing economies in the world . it s not the first time the place has gone through a growth spurt. in the 1950s, emperor hai
literally tilting at windmills. it comes as his legal team decides its best defense in his civil rape trial. no defense at all? another deadly mass shooting in america. the latest, a medical center in atlanta, prompting an impassioned plea from georgia senator raphael warnock. also, new reporting on the deep financial ties between supreme court justice clarence thomas and a texas billionaire. keep getting deeper. it keeps getting worse. on capitol hill, there is no off-ramp when it comes to a deal on the debt ceiling. we ll have the latest on the contentious negotiations. meanwhile, the markets mostly flat this morning in response to the latest interest rate hike from the federal reserve. we ll have a full breakdown of what could be the final move from the central bank in the fight to bring down inflation. good morning, everyone, and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 4th. we got two out of three birthdays under our belt here. exactly. willie
trend. we will discuss. plus a lot can change in three days. elon musk sows chaos and spreads dangerous misinformation as he takes over twitter. and a master class on messaging. former president barack obama shows democrats what they need to do in these final days before the midterms. good evening. i am mehdi hasan. we begin tonight with the effort to kill a top california democrat. i m not talking about house speaker nancy pelosi and the brutal attack on her husband with a hammer by a home intruder. i ll come to that in a moment. actually, i m talking about congressman eric swalwell, a really dark case for the justice department that was concluded on friday. a pennsylvania man, that we are choosing not to name in an effort not to glorify his actions, pleaded guilty to making threats to kill the congressman and at least three different swalwell staffers he claimed he had ar-15 rifles and wanted to travel to d. c. to shoot the congressman from california, to kill him.
requests from congress. plus a house vote puts same-sex marriage one step closer to becoming federal law. now democrats must peel off ten republicans to sends a sweeping civil rights bill to the president s desk. would you vote for that? i m looking at the bill. i probably will. if and when he brings a bill to the floor, we ll take a hard look at it. and can democrat tim ryan turn ohio blue again? we ll talk to him live in just a couple of minutes. up first, new credibility questions for the secret service. the agency is alarming the january 6 panel by turning over just a single text message in response to a subpoena. the committee tells cnn this morning that they did receive radio traffic and emails from the service. tomorrow, though, the panel returns to primetime to focus on the 187 minutes of donald trump s inaction during the insurrection. but today we have more evidence that the former president is still engaged in an active plot to subvert the 2020 election
harris: the prosecution has rested their case in hunter biden s federal gun trial. ten witnesses over 3 1/2 days including an f.b.i. agent, d.e.a. agent and some of the first son s former romantic partners. that s one word for them. they were doing drugs. hallie biden was one of them. hu hunter s ex-girlfriend detailed finding his gun and who threw it out in a grocery store trash bin and hunter introduced her, she testified, to drugs as they were both battling with that and he was battling with addiction, heavy drug use. hunter arrived just ahead of court on this day five of trial earlier. first lady jill biden is back with him for support today. she made a long trip. she was able to be in normandy yesterday and there today. a few minutes left of the trial s 20-minute break and when they come back a live report from the courthouse and former assistant district attorney phil holloway will join me. let s first get to this. after flipping the trump-era policies that kept our n