including line reminding him to thank the japanese prime minister for hosting him. todd: reminder to thank the audience for joining us on friday morning, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. clock ticks toward default, which could throw our country into recession and upset the global economy. the president says negotiating teams are making progress and he is confident they will come to a bipartisan agreement before the deadline. alexandria hoff has more. alexandria: the president did receive a briefing this morning from his negotiating team on capitol hill. steady progress is being made and he asked the team to keep pushing forward. house democrats are concerned about what an agreement might look like. on wednesday, they introduced procedural resolution that would allow members to force a vote to raise the debt ceiling. hakeem jeffries wrote to colleagues, given the impended june 1 deadline, it is important all options are pursued in the ev
democrats at this time. the whistleblower doesn t make committee rules, sir. that happened. jim jordan s weaponization of government hearing goes off the rails. his so-called fbi whistleblowers are getting paid by a trump supporter and recently had their security clearances revoked. that s just one example of how toxic the republican brand has become as speaker kevin mccarthy allows the most extreme members of his caucus to run wild. also tonight, the rapidly growing field of republican presidential candidates and the misplaced perception that any of them can take the nomination away from donald trump. i m michael steele in for joy reid, and we begin tonight with the republican party. the party of abraham lincoln, ronald reagan, the party i chaired for two years. the face of so many losses, you would think that maybe just maybe the party would take a beat and reconsider the brand. alas, the modern maga republican party looks failure in the face and says, please, sir,
the reason behind your suspension was it found you to have espoused conspiratorall views orly, in writing and indicated support for the events of january 6th, is that correct, yes or no? that is the language that they placed on the letter. that s a yes then. do you believe it s important for federal agents to have allegiance to the united states, yes or no. it is absolutely important that personnel have allegiance. do you believe you should have allegiance to the united states to possess a security clearance. absolutely. do you believe your obligations as an agent should supersede your please rephrase the question. do you believe your obligation as an agent should supersede your first amount right. do you believe that you have an obligation to serve as a federal agent regardless of what your personal political beliefs are? yes, i have an obligation to serve the united states. do you believe that f.b.i. agents should be permitted to express support for
consequences. that s 2000-plus jobs being welcomed back with open arms to the golden state. a desantis presidential election announcement is expected next week. i ll see you tomorrow. now time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. the las the story you just rd could not be subtitled, it is hard out there for a republican, because when the party stands for absolutely nothing, what do you do next? it s not that hard to remember. when one of the things that they stood for was, sucking up to and protecting in every way the biggest employers in your state, and when you abandon everything that you used to think, what are you left with? you end up with stories like that. you end up with not going to disney world in announcing that you re going to run for president. ron desantis, enjoy that ride. alex, i ve got a problem little struggle through here in this program. it is similar to the problem that i have with putting the words fox and news anywhere
these extraordinary times. the beat starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. this is one of those nights. we are tracking several developments, including a brand-new hearing over evidence in a case alleging unlawful lies by fox news. if you re thinking, wait, is this a rerun? did i dvr this? no, this is a different multibillion dollar case that the network is dealing with while reeling from the other original record defamation settlement in the defamation case. that is big. we re going to get to that. also, more tom hanks. we have new material from our interview that s airing tonight for the first time. it will be new, and i m excited to share it with you. we begin with cascading set backs and a political request that s backfiring in public with house republicans pushing on on their deep state in that nothing burger report from trump and bill barr s hand picked attorney general. you can make up your own mind about the evidence, because these kind of things involve eviden