right now. good evening from new york. i m chris has. good to have you here on the holiday weekend. i hope you are getting to where you need go and you are tucked in with us here. today, they have done the deed. s have done the deed. some don t have the respect or courage to stick around, to show their face. republicans have success bli filibustered the creation for an in, and attempted to overthrow a free and fair election while we all watched on television. and republicans did it with the health of a key accomplice. the senate rules. here is the vote cally. let s see if we can figure it out. 54 yeas, in the sus its, you need 60 votes. not even 60% of the senators bother to stick around, and hence the absences, two democrats were absence. nine republicans were absent, including senator pat toomey who missed the vote due to a family commitment. i get it, you are hours away from the memorial day weekend. you have commitments. right now, frankly, i would love to be with my fa
covid-19 could orange nate in a chinese lab. are you still confident that it developed naturally. no, i m not convinced. woe should continue to investigate. implications for china nationally and globally would be massive. here it is, biggest moment of the legendary career. phil defeats father time i want to put on my boogie shoes and boogie with you. steve: i think i would take my shoes off if i m going to walk on mirmingts beach. good morning, myrtle beach, 72 trees. going for a high today in south carolina of 88 trees. ainsley: nice. steve: speaking of south carolina, just up the coast where phil mickelson made history yesterday becoming the oldest guy to ever win a pro. ainsley: it was awesome. he was kia island. he won at 50. brian: not like he was on a roll. he was not making cuts week after week. asked a couple weeks ago are you going to play the pga and use the special exemption for having won before? he said i don t know. i don t know if i will do it. i thin
now getting ready to reopen. republican governor greg abbott has just lifted almost all of the state s covid restrictions, including mask mandates, despite very dire warnings from the cdc. and i m quoting now, that we aren t out of the woods yet. also breaking right,000, fbi director christopher wray, testifying before congress today for the first time since the january 6th capitol siege, which he calls domestic terrorism. he was unable to explain intelligence failures ahead of the attack. wray also debunking republican conspiracy theories about the insurrection, saying there s absolutely no evidence that fake trump protesters were behind the riot. let s get to the breaking pandemic news first. our senior white house correspondent phil mattingly is joining us. president biden significantly moved up the timeline when the vaccine will be ready for all american adults who want one. tell our viewers what he said. reporter: that s right, wolf. it was supposed to be by the end of
comment. have a wonderful weekend, get some sleep. morning joe starts now. the faa proposed more than $200,000 in fines for ten unruly passengers. this is nice, starting today if you are flying from florida, they ask you if you want to prepaid four your fine. oh, that s unbelievable. it s funny because it s true. as we take a look at the top, look at the light and the house view from the top of the comcast. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it s friday, november the 12th. mika is under the weather and willie has the morning off. with us, we have our nbc news political analyst, claire mckaskill and former prosecutor coming through a lot of legal cases, host and executive producer of show time the circus john island and eugene robinson. good to have all of you here. let s start with the defense resting of the murder trial of kyle rittenhouse. nbc news, gabe gutierrez, has the details. reporter: the kyle rittenhouse is towards the conclusion. the defense
not unusual for there to be an affidavit that makes up the bulk of the complaint. an fbi agent or some other law enforcement officer basically writes a first person narrative. that s an explanation of why the charges are being brought. the law enforcement official or the fbi agent explains his or her background and expertise in law enforcement. the person describes the investigation that has led to the charges being filed against the defendant. if the defendant got interviewed before or after the arrest. the fbi agent of the officer will explain what the defendant said in that interview. it s a narrative. it explains basically the nature of the evidence, what s the investigation turned up, and why the charges are warranted from the point of view of the prosecution. so that s often how these things are structured. we and along those lines, here s what we got from an fbi agents affidavit filed in support of criminal charges against a nnsylvania woman named dawn bancroft. the fb