Welcome to prime time weekend, and i am alex wagner. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. The banks and Financial Institutions that lent donald trump hundreds of millions of dollars to help build and expand the trump brand . They cannot be happy right now. Will any of them really want to loan donald trump any more money . Could they start demanding he pay back the money he owes them presently . Well, there is actually a historical precedent for all of this. Back in the early 1990s, trumps Business Empire was on the brink of insolvency. He had stretched himself thin, with casinos in Atlantic City and a fancy yacht, and for whatever reason, his own airline company. Trump had borrowed a ton of money from the banks to pay for all of this. And these businesses were not doing well, so the banks got together and decided it was time to rein in Donald Trumps finances. Trump had long cast himself as a winner. Now he was looking like a loser. As quickly as the banks loved him, thats as quick
be that difficult to get to a deal by the end of the week. the president is canceling part of his upcoming overseas trip. returning to the u.s. sunday after the g-7 economic meeting in japan. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has our top story live tonight from the north lawn. kevin mccarthy says there is a gap between the two sides in moving forward but, as the president leaves for japan tomorrow, the white house is appointing senior adviser stevery chety, louise taylor and shah landra young to run point for the white house and talk to will deputies. pressure is on after the treasury secretary put the deadline at june 1st or the days following. we re having a wonderful time everything is going well ha ha ha. message of reassurance convening congressional leaders as the country creeps forward to possibly defaulting on debt with no agreement to cut spending and raise the debt limit. biden canceled plans to visit australia and pap go p&a new guinea he would be out
are tense again. thank you so much for joining us this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. a self-loathing has swept our country. joe and kamala even say america is racist. this is not about identity politics. i don t believe in that, and i don t believe in glass ceilings either. strong and proud, not weak and woke. that s the america i see. [ applause ] the only challenger so far to donald trump in the 2024 presidential race kicks off her campaign. during that speech, nikki haley took a dig at her former boss and president joe biden. we ll play for you those comments. also today, we ll get our first look at the pieces of the grand jury investigating the president s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. plus, mike pence wants all the credit for doing the right thing on january 6th but doesn t want to talk about it under oath. we ll show you what he had to say abou
Reporting tonight why a seemingly donald trump chose to show up in court today to face the judge who found him liable for fraud in the Attorney General who brought the case against him. Ranging both of them on day one of his trial. And, a nineyearold tonight, who vanished on a camping trip. Has just been found alive. After 400 Rescue Workers are looking for her. A suspect is now in custody. And we have the latest. Im caitlin collins, this is the source. Shut outs on the way over how speaker Kevin Mccarthy can keep his job. A member of his conference. Packets of florida. More on the rights frontliners. Mccarthys greatest tractor. On moving commitment how speakership. He doesnt have my support anymore. And he does not have the support of a requisite number of republicans to continue as the republican speaker and now he might continue as the House Speaker and he might continue as a speaker of the democrats and some sort of uni Party Coalition but he is not going to be a speaker in power a
A and what writes do accused squatters have . Well, it depends on where they are squatting. Well bring you that. Bret good evening. Im bret baier. Tens of millions of americans look to the skies today to catch hopefully a protected glimpse of a rare total eclipse of the sun. Weather cooperated along much of the path of totality. The Lighting People who had ventured from around the world to what we are supposed to be prime viewing locations. Many others witnessed varying degrees of a partial eclipse. Chief correspondent Jonathan Hunt has a complete wrap up tonight from one of those prime spots, indianapolis. Good evening, jonathan. Good evening, bret. It has been an incredible day for so many americans. Awe inspiring, bret taking in its beauty. A cosmic coincidence that we wont see in the u. S. Again for 20 years. W. Telescopes and eyes pointed to the sky, tens of millions of eclipse watchers from mexico maine took in a rare and extraordinary total eclipse of the sun. Definitely worthy.