come with us. we re heading for the valley. going where? mexico. all the way down. you going all the way to mexico tonight in this heap of junk? reckon the town will get along without us? i was young enough to bounce, i would go with you. the last picture show was a movie that however old i was when i saw it, i said, this movie is about me. this movie is about us. this movie is about america as we are right now, here in the mid 70s, not as we were back in the early 1950s. do you think the last picture show is a john ford movie? no. i think it s a peter r bogdanoh type movie. peter loved movies. but had a very strong sensibility. he spoke to a new generation, both visually and emotionally. orson welles read the script, i would like everything to be sharp. he said, you will never get it in color. what do i do? shoot it in black and white. the last picture show is the movie that made me fall in love with movies. it just blew my mind. it s abo
don t worry, we won t go far. we ll head over to ohio for a bit so i can introduce you to josh mandel, the former state treasurer and senate candidate. if you really want to understand today s republican party, you need to understand this guy. josh mandel is currently the front runner in ohio s crowded republican senate primary field, filled with maga cult devotees and former state party chair. this is mandel s third try at becoming united states senator. the first time he lost to sheriff brown and called out for his campaign s caual relationship with the truth which is a nice way of saying they lied. bad enough. mandel goes further. there is nobody more shamelessly and pathetically devoted to donald trump than josh mandel because, let s face it, you re not going to go anywhere in the republican party unless you pledge undying fealty to trump s big lie. did president biden win the constitutional majority in the electoral college if he asked how definitive is your conclusion
soon. plus, all eyes on florida where a grand jury in the trump classified documents case heard from another witness today. the washington post reporting that if trump is indicted, a majority of the charges will be brought in florida. so what does that mean? and ukraine gaining background around bakhmut around the chief of russia s private army admits there will be major russian losses in ukraine. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the hazardous air now choking more than 75 million americans. it s an unbelievable situation. these are live pictures of new york. thick smoke from wildfires burning hundreds and hundreds of miles away is now smothering the city. you got more than 8 million people affected just there. and it is way bigger than new york, philadelphia, pittsburgh, syracuse, all of them, the images you see there, 75 million americans are suffering from the hazardous haze. it is so bad particularly in new york city that the air quality index th
look it up. the lead starts right now. from canada all the way down to the cloipiasarolinas, wildfie been burning for more than a month, why did it get so bad for today, and how long will this last, and former president donald trump swears he s being attacked up fairly again and desperately wants you to hear his side of the story, and he s just released a new tv ad starring some wild animals to make sure you get the message. all this while former vice president mike pence jumps in the race against trump and chris christie believes he can both them both. i ll ask governor christie how ahead when he joins me live on the lead. welcome to lead. i m jake tapper. we ll begin today with our health lead. as much of the eastern united states is being choked right now by a dangerous haze of smoke caused by more than 400 raging wildfires in canada. air quality alert are out for more than 55 million people across the northeast, midwest and mid-atlantic. the air is so unhealth
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