beautiful sunrise in washington, d.c. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 18th. donald trump has claimed that he could declassify materials just by thinking about them. like i dream of jeannie. but there is new evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation that proves he knows it s not true. the former president is seizing on two failed endorsements in florida from governor ron desantis, while ignoring the lack of success his candidates had in the last election. also ahead, the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations with both sides digging in on one big issue. we ll explain what that is. and we re keeping an eye on president biden this morning as he is in japan for the g7 summit. welcome, everybody. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan is with us. and former white ho
the virus latest strain powers a covid comeback. reporter: i m danya bacchus in los angeles where new restrictions could trigger a requirement to mask up. all-star spotlight. the wnba s biggest names gather while brittney griner s detention in russia takes centre court. and later, the stones still rolling after 60 years. the band this week marking the anniversary of their first performance. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from new york with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us on this sunday. we begin tonight with new developments from that january 6th committee investigating the capitol attack and what many have called an attack on american democracy. so far, the committee has held six hearings. and this week, we could see the final two. the back-to-back hearings will focus on white nationalist groups and what former president donald trump was doing as he capitol was under siege. today we re learning new information following friday s c
in a country that has no universal health care, no universal child care and no guaranteed paid or family medical leave. this relates to a whole host of supreme court decisions coming through and still to come. this is an america that has seen more mass shootings than the number of days so far this year. according to data from the gun violence archive, year-over-year mass shootings in the u.s. all on the rise. yet the court ruled cities and states across the country can no longer enact their own gun regulations, within the limitations defined by thursday s decision. by the end of the week the high court could strip the environmental protection agency, founded under republican president nixon, from enacting regulations that protect against pollution and climate change. this is a changing america. this weekend, many americans took to the streets in protest. some in favor, others opposed to the court s ruling. while most protests were peaceful, there were some arrests followi
Of dependent contractor, with workers able to get benefits such as holiday and sick pay. Now on bbc news, its time for wimbledon sportsday. Hello and welcome to wimbledon sportsday. Im hugh woozencroft. So much to come this evening, including this. CanJohanna Konta make it through into the semi finals of wimbledon . 7 these are live pictures. She is into a deciding set with simona halep. Venus williams will be waiting if she does the five time champion shows her class to defeat jelena 0stapenko. Pitfalls and potholes Novak Djokovic manages to avoid both on his way to the Quarter Finals. The courts, honestly, are not that great this year. Many players feel the same. It is what it is. And a fourth stage win at the Tour De France for germanys Marcel Kittel chris froome retains the yellow jersey. Good evening. And its been a far cooler and much wetter day eight here in south west london. There were plenty of umbrellas on the hill here today. The covers have been going on and off again and
those who labeled him an immigrant and a tax cheat are wrong. we begin this evening with an important lesson in attack politics. a plan no matter how controversial or audatious is useless unless someone is willing to bank roll it. at the moment, no one is willing to pay the estimated $10 million price tag to implement this plan. the defeat of barack hussein obama but think again. i repudiate that effort. i think it is the wrong course for a pack or a campaign. i hope that our campaigns can respectively be about the future and about issues. you heard governor romney there. implementing this campaign. this is about the president s past, more specifically, his two decades of attending the chicago church with the controversial pastor, jeremiah wright. he want us to sing god bless america, no, no, not god bless america, god damn america. that s in the bible, for killing innocent people. now, in the pitch trying to sell this plan to a superpac, gop ad guru wrote, while mu