long. morning joe starts right now. are you ready? food for everyone. food for everyone. okay, that s great. he paid everybody. food for everybody. what a guy. he was arrested. what a guy. and released. he kept everybody s spirits up. by buying lunch for them. food for everybody. local cuban restaurant in miami. willie, that is so kind of him. maybe he has been misjudged after all. willie, what do you think? i think mika called this in real time and every day since, but i ll let you reveal the story. well, the miami new times revealed nobody ordered anything during his ten-minute stop, and trump didn t pay for anything. i don t think there was an offer to do so. yeah. willie, nobody ordered nothing. nobody paid for nothing. there was no paying. i know this is going to shock you, coming from donald trump, it was all a scam. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s friday, june 16th. along with willie, joe, and me, we have former aide t
literally tilting at windmills. it comes as his legal team decides its best defense in his civil rape trial. no defense at all? another deadly mass shooting in america. the latest, a medical center in atlanta, prompting an impassioned plea from georgia senator raphael warnock. also, new reporting on the deep financial ties between supreme court justice clarence thomas and a texas billionaire. keep getting deeper. it keeps getting worse. on capitol hill, there is no off-ramp when it comes to a deal on the debt ceiling. we ll have the latest on the contentious negotiations. meanwhile, the markets mostly flat this morning in response to the latest interest rate hike from the federal reserve. we ll have a full breakdown of what could be the final move from the central bank in the fight to bring down inflation. good morning, everyone, and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 4th. we got two out of three birthdays under our belt here. exactly. willie
the lawyer who devised the plan to overturn the election. mr. eastman, we hardly knew you. it always happens, and they always seem so shocked. plus, president biden considers a move to provide a bit of relief at the gas pump, but he needs congress to agree. we also expect more economic data this morning that could offer clues into whether the u.s. is headed toward a recession. also, the crippling labor shortage. the latest industry to feel the pressure, airlines, with more chaos and canceled flights. cnbc s brian sullivan is standing by to discuss if the lack of labor is as big a threat to the economy as inflation and energy costs. would you or a family member like to fly a jumbo jet? if so, we have a job for you. that s the problem, it takes so long to become qualified to fly, and there are not pilots. often, people are waiting. it s crazy. or flights are literally canceled out underneath them. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, june
six months to plan. and brittney griner is returning to a russian courtroom as she is possibly learning her fate in a russian penal system. welcome to the lead with jake tapper. house speaker nancy pelosi is in taiwan and ignoring weeks of learning from president biden and threats of retaliation from the chinese government, and she says it is america s unwavering commitment to the american democracy which china views as inseparable part of its territory. and president biden said that the u.s. military does not believe it is a good idea for her to visit and it would and could increase tensions between beijing and washington, but president biden stopped short of instructing her not to go. and short of her arrival, there was a sign that flashed welcome to taiwan, speaker nancy pelosi. and china was furious. the foreign minister renewed xi jinping s warning that she was playing with fire in taiwan and added that those who play with fire shall surely perish by it. and ma
Wait so long to tell us. news outlet.leak ia french we know it lasd three hours according to demetri peskov, he doesn t y at exactly was discand that it involved 35 people. they are saying all unit commanders and the leadership of the complain including prigozhin. this seems to be deliberately ambiguous. they are not saying whether these are the commanders of the overall so-called special military operation, so ministry of defense figures, the kremlin would not comment on whether any representative of the ministry of defense was there, but they do say that putin listened to the explanations provided by the commanders and offered them further options for deployment and a farther combat use, again, major questions around that. does this signal that wagner could still have a role to play in this conflict. that of course is crucial to ukraine. we still don t know by the way where yevgeny prigozhin is, if this meeting was on the 29th we don t know where he has gone since then. there have be