that s my line. we have got some headlines for you. let s begin here. big news this morning. ukraine s president volodymr zelenskyy heading in person the g7 summit in japan to meet face to face with president biden and other world leaders. also, that accused pentagon leaker is going appear in court in a few hours and former and current defense officials are expressing alarm that the young airman kept his job even after he was reported multiple times to commanders for mishandling class fight intelligence. disney delivered a huge $1 billion employee to ron desantis florida right before he is expected to announce a run for president. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. and we have been tracking developments really all morning out of japan this morning where white house now says president biden left dinner early with world leaders at the g7 summit to get an update on what is happening back in washington on the debt limit talks. the crisis in d.c. oversh
happy saturday. happy saturday. everybody. welcome to morning joe weekend, it was another busy week. crazy week. well, this week, on monday it felt like it should ve been friday. there was a major shake up. it felt like it should ve been thursday. on fox news, president biden officially launching his reelection campaign. we ll get into all of that, plus some of the week s other top stories, take a look. the new york times has new reporting on fox s firing of tucker carlson. two sources tell the times a day before the start of the dominion defamation trial against the network. the fox sport of directors and top executives learned about private messages sent by carlson that had been redacted in legal filings. according to the sources, the redacted material contained highly offensive and crude remarks that went beyond the inflammatory, often racist comments of his primetime show and anything disclosed in the lead up to the trial. well, go ahead. let s dissect what
good to see you. appreciate it. welcome, everyone, to the beat. i am ari melber. answered that question honestly. it s all i could do. top story is very important. major news coming out of the justice department which has been under sustained pressure to be more aggressive and the probe into the insurrection. to see why this news is significant, it is worth remembering something right off the top here, how a lot of credible people from legal experts to the house investigators themselves have said it s imperative that the doj bear down on any law breaking of subpoena defying by people linked to the events of january 6th. will the department of justice be quick and aggressive? how much pressure is gallen going to be under then from liberals, from democrats? he s going to be under a lot of pressure. this committee is doing its job. the department of justice needs to do theirs. what s the holdup at the department of justice? the department of justice has a duty
Disney didn t cite desantis but it s clear there is no love lost and desantis interestingly on this call saying basically it s me or biden, forget trump. good morning. certainly that is his wish going into this presidential race, that he believes he is running a two-man race. but that s getting ahead of ourselves. the reality here is that governer desantis is going to run to appeal to republican primary voters on his florida blueprint. that is all of the conservative laws he signed this year alone. but he is trying to make the case that he has a stronger electability argument. that may be true in the primary campaign. of course, that s where he begins. but the general election should he win the primary is a long ways off and do any of these conservative laws on abortion, on schools, on, you know, a raft of things, do they hurt him in a general election. so as he travels to new hampshire today, the florida governor, he is meeting with new hampshire legislators, of course. that is the
And this is disney. they have a board, had a board of five people that s a care of all the water, the fire, the building codes supervision and they paid for it. and then desantis came along when he got mad at them and said, we re going to take this away from you, and essentially make another city or county in the state of florida. then, desantis realize he will have to pay for all the stuff, and so he backed off that and said okay, i m not going to do that. instead, i m going to appoint this board and i m going to take over control of this district. he appointed a board, and then disney turned around and put a bunch of agreements in place before support took effect, that essentially limited the ports ability to do anything that disney didn t want them to do. then, the port came along and essentially try to avoid those agreements. that s where the lawsuit came in. and disney said, enough, and they sued them under the first