okay. liz cheney. very good catching up with you. there grow, two very different directions for the gop. and apparently the republican party has made its choice. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 6th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. co-founder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei is with us. and member of the new york times editorial board, mara gay joins me this morning. we may as well dive right in. this morning, republicans are another step closer to pushing out congresswoman liz cheney from her role as gop conference chair. house minority whip steve scalise now publicly backing congresswoman elise stefanick to replace cheney in the position. a spokesperson for scalise said, quote, house republicans needs to be solely focused on taking back the house in 2022 and fighting against speaker pelosi and president biden s radical, socialist agenda. and elise stefanick is strongly committed to doing that. a spok
number of jobless claims since the start of the pandemic. republicans are waking up to this warning from one of their own. the gop is at a turning point. history is watching us. congresswoman liz cheney s cautionary tale as her colleagues try to push her out of republican leadership. first, we are following two big fights on voting rights. florida s governor put his signature on a bill that would make it harder for a lot of folks in florida to vote. we are watching right now to see whether the governor is going to take questions from reporters this hour after keeping most of them out when he actually signed that bill. in texas, any moment now, lawmakers could pass a new voting rights bill. protesters and even the business community are speaking out against that one. in a few moments, i will talk to two business leaders who put their names on a letter condemning the legislation. we start at the statehouse in austin, where protests are starting to pick up over the latest
unatentded on counting tables, computers sit abandoned at times open, unlocked and unmonitored. procedures are shifting. with untrained workers using different rules to count ballots. arizona secretary of state hobbs on wednesday sent a letter outlining a string of problems that she said observers from her office have witnessed at republican led at the republican-led recount of the 2020 presidential election results in arizona s largest county and now the justice department is stoeping in warning the republican-led state senate that the audit of the ballots could be breaking federal laws because the ballots were turned over to a private company when they re supposed to stay in the hands of election officials and that plans by the company to directly contact voters could amount to voter intimidation. but there s perhaps no greater sign of just how deranged the arizona autoit is than this. an auditor telling cbs news wait for it they re looking for tracing of bamboo in th
police have said that two people died and more than 20 others were injured when this happened sometime between midnight and 1:00 a.m. we are here at what is essentially a strip mall. and outside this business, which is both a bill yards lounge, a private club, there was a group of patrons standing outside, according to police, when this car pulled up, when these three people got out and started shooting, police say, indiscriminately at the crowd. that s why police are calling this targeted and why it s so difficult for a lot of people to comprehend why this would happen. another person showed up to this scene earlier today saying that they are son and nephew were here at the scene as well, and they were injured. here s what she said. that is my son, my only son, my only child. he s not a statistic. he s a graduate from college last year. so he s educated. he was going out with his educated cousin to just celebrate the weekend. and they had not made it into the club as of ye
and the cicadas are coming out, about a trillion of them. had in true 2021 style, what do you do if you find yourself in a cicada storm. we ll talk about it. it is sunday, may 9th. we wish all who celebrate a happy mother s day. thanks for waking up with us, and happy mother s day to you, christi. thank you, boris. happy mother s day to everybody out there. as far as i know, i think everybody just wants some sleep, so just from everything i have seen on instagram, just give me some sleep and a little bit of time by myself, which is counter productive as a mother, but whatever, it s just what we need sometimes. the perfect gift. and we also needed to know what was going to happen with this rocket, right? everybody was talking about it yesterday. the hours of guessing and uncertainty, they re over, this out of control chinese rocket did make a crash landing overnight. yeah, u.s. space command has confirmed the long march 5b rocket entered the earth s atmosphere over the a