this is cnn breaking news. we start with breaking news this hour. cnn has learned that donald trump and his legal team are expected to file appeals this tuesday, challenging his removal not just from the ballot in colorado, but also in maine. cnn s paula reid has more reporting on the next steps in these disputes over who is going to be on the ballot. so much at stake for the 2024 election. reporter: the supreme court facing increasing pressure to weigh in on whether states can remove former president trump from the 2024 ballot. after maine became the second state to kick him off based on the 14th amendment s pan on insurrectionists holding public office. new secretary of state has a presidential candidate invalid access based on section 3 of the 14th amendment. no presidential candidate has engaged in insurrection and beenis disqualified. in maine, ballot eligibility questions first go to the secretary of state, not the courts. trump has called for democrat shenna
nancy, nancy! donald trump last night in his cnn town hall, calling january 6th a beautiful day. the event, of course, last night full of lies, misleading statements. we ll go through the biggest ones, and also his comments about writer e. jean carroll that drew laughs and cheers from the crowd. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 11th. we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief jonathan lemire. jen palmieri. jon meacham. and reporter for the washington post, jackie alemany. we watched a rerun from 2016 and what we saw throughout donald trump s presidency. he committed again last night the claim that the election was rigged in 2020. it was not, of course. he called january 6th a beautiful day. he said he was going to pardon the people who attacked police officers on that day. the list goes on and on and on. would not commit to supporting ukraine in its war with russia. we ll get into some of it but, frankly, no surprises in w
major cuts to discretionary spending. sure. let s just set a baseline for all our viewers to explain discretionary spending quickly. here s our budget, $6.3 trillion. most of it is made up of things congress doesn t appropriate on a yearly basis, social security, medicare, medicaid, those things are locked in. defense which people consider to be locked in. what we re fighting about, what republicans are aiming at, is this 11% slice of the budget. where that becomes important is because when you start cutting the amount they want to cut, you re only cutting from this, which means in order to achieve their number, they want to cut 47% of that. that includes all these things, nasa, energy, labor, justice, state, all would have budgets cut by 47%. that s after inflation. the actual cuts would be bigger.