pressure arizona governor juicy to overturn the presidential election results. saying that if enough fraudulent votes could be found, it would overcome trump s narrow loss in arizona. we are learning about the content of this conversation for the first time. to already know trump and doocy spoke after the 2020 election. fact. trump tried to call doocy while he was certifying the election for biden on official government livestream. on november 20th, 30 30 2020, d.c. was signing papers to end the election as he did in front of the press. you have to listen closely, you can hear hail to chief as he reaches into the pocket to silence the call. the ring town is spectacular. do you see did eventually speak to trump, didn t recorded the call. we have some idea what it might sound like because trump, we ll, made a lot of calls in multiple states. trying to overturn the results of this election. for example, here s a recording of trump calling georgia s then chief investigator from
election, we re still uncovering more attempts by donald trump to overturn results. according to a new report in the washington post, president trump tried to pressure doug ducey to overturn the election results, saying if now fraudulent votes could be found, it could overcome trump s narrow loss in arizona. we re learning about the content of this conversation for the first time. we already knew trump and ducey spoke after the 2020 election. trump tried to call ducey while he was certifying the election for biden on an official government live stream. on 2020, ducey was literally signing the papers to end the election, seated in front of the press. but you have to listen carefully. you can make out hail to the chief as ducey reaches into his pocket to silence the call. the ring tone is just spectacular. ducey did eventually speak to trump. did not record the call. but we have some idea what it might sound like because trump made a lot of calls in multiple states, tryi
that case in just a moment. also on capitol hill republicans and democrats are sticking to their demands on the debt ceiling despite a fast approaching deadline. we ll look at the fall back options being discussed at the white house. and the latest from donald trump s civil rape trial as jurors yesterday watched more of the former president s video deposition. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, may 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we ll begin with the scramble to avoid a first ever government default. with the clock ticking both republicans and democrats are still refusing to budge when it comes to debt ceiling negotiations. according to new reporting in the wall street journal the white house is weighing potential fall back options. people familiar with the matter tell the newspaper administration officials and lawmakers are considering alternatives like a short-term increase in the borrowing limit that would buy them time to f
we ll explain what the ruling says. ahead, both lawmakers expelled from the tennessee statehouse for protesting gun violence have been reappointed to their seats we ll explain why this is not the end of the partisan turmoil in tennessee. and louisville police released a chilling 911 call from a woman who told the dispatcher she was the mother of the old national bank shooter. we ll play for you her frantic call and have the latest in that investigation. plus, donald trump is back in new york this morning for a different legal issue. this one with the state s attorney general we ll take you through what s happening today in that case meanwhile, there are new developments in the investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents we ll look at the reporting on a map trump may have taken with him to mar-a-lago after leaving the white house. with us this morning, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news ckatty kay.
president trump, partly out of concern it would give the appearance of pressure on the attorney general. politico argues that the first three hearings essentially did that for them, laying out stark evidence that trump and his allying now the election was not rig, but they pushed the big lie anyway. there s new evidence that the department of justice may be growing frustrated against the committee as well. we learned of a strongly worded letter by the doj, in which the department accuses committee members of complicating investigations by withholding transcripts of witness interviews, it says, quote, are not just potentially relevant to the overall communications, but likely relevant to specific prosecutions that have already commenced. however, committee chairman bennie thompson made it clear he is not rushing to help out. we ve interviewed over 1,000 witnesses, that would mean we have to stop what we re doing to then work with the department of justice. we will eventually