the administration is under intense scrutiny as it tries to put out firestorm of criticism over a lack of transparency, but president biden says he is fully cooperating with investigators while arguing, quote, there s no there there. all this coming as two senate democrats are calling for a full investigation. former federal prosecutor alex little is standing by with the big picture, but first, let s go to lucas tomlinson live at the white house with the very latest. hello, lucas. reporter: good afternoon, arthel. many republicans asking more questions about the timeline and why the decision was made not to reveal these classified documents before the midterm elections. nobody should be above the law, but what it comes down to here is the deliberate misleading of the american people. again, when did they know, how many people knew, and did they choose to keep it secret from the american people. reporter: now two democratic senators, tim kaine and joe manchin, say they
members of congress were still dodging the disgraced ex-president s phone calls on the floor of the house. kevin mccarthy was still cutting back room deals, negotiating with his hostage-takers, trading away everything but the gavel so he could ascend finally, at long last, to the speakership. now less than one week into republican rule of the house of representatives, here we are, one newly minted republican of the house, george santos, is facing multiple open investigations and mounting evidence that he is both a pathological liar and a potential campaign finance violator among other things. speaker mccarthy is dangling the possibility of expuning one of the disgraced ex-president s impeachments. republicans are unleashing a so-called weaponization with mccarthy. democrats of the house are now receiving death threats like this one against congressman eric swalwell. getting your kicked off the committee is the least of your problems. the american people aren t going to be
to martha s vineyard in massachusetts and even to the doorstep of the vice president s residence in d.c. we re going to have much more on that in just a moment. but gets begin with jeremy diamond live at the white house on the very late night and early morning negotiations to avert this rail strike. what are you learning about the deal, jeremy? 20 hours of negotiations between the union leaders. the railway companies and also involved the white house and the labor secretary marty walsh. president biden was being kept updated throughout the day yesterday. the negotiations began at 9:00 a.m. yesterday and they ended at 5:00 a.m. today with this tentative agreement that is now going up to the union s membership for a vote. that is expected to pass. because these union leaders say they would have not have struck the deal if they didn t believe it had the support of the membership. let s get into the details. a 24% wage increase over five years from 2020 through 2024. an immedia
floodgates open when title 42 goes away next week. coming up, senator bill hagerty on the crises created by bad policies and what gets done in the senate in the final sprint to the memorial day recess. if then, theatrics in washington, another dirty trick from democrats bombs badly this week as an animated joe biden tried to turn make america great again, or maga, into a dirty world. let me tell you about this ultra-maga agenda, the ultra-maga agenda. under my predecessor, the great maga king where d he come up with ultra-maga? if what did he call president trump, big maga? i don t know. can king the king of maga? remember those long lines on television, people lining up in all kinds of vehicles just to get a box of food in their trump. how quickly we forget, people were hurting. what did this maga crowd want to do? forget it. forget it. maria: oh, god. congressman jim jordan separates the fake and the fraud and zeros in on what matters to america. who are the real
happy monday, thanks, nicole, welcome to the beat, everyone. we are tracking a major development in this criminal trial of trump. the judge today going farther than ever, warning defendant donald trump that he can be jailed if there are more gag order violations. let me show you exactly what happened. you may have heard about it, but we re going to walk through it specifically. the judge telling trump today he can face a, quote, jail sanction. that is the big key part, which is why we put it in big letters. jail sanction for defendant trump if he repeats these gag order violations. judge merchan drawing a line and directly noting why this is a big deal with the repeated violations of the gag order. other defendants have been jailed for less. you probably heard about that. but on the other hand, let s be clear, defendant trump has not been convicted in this case. and there are practical issues around the unprecedented prospect of jailing an ex-president and current candidate