that the midwest remits. alexi mccammond, thank you very much for joining us early, and thank you for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning. morning joe startis right now. we need to take this grief and turn it into action. i am a person of faith, i was raisin raised in the church if you are a person of faith and you want to give us your thoughts and prayers, we want them and we need them. our community is hurting, but we need policies in place that will keep this from happening again so that thoughts and prayers do not have to be offered to yet another community ripped apart by the savage violence coming from guns. that s democratic congressman morgan mcgarvy making a plea for action on gun violence after monday s mass shooting in louisville we re getting a look at the deadly confrontation between police and the gun nan we ll have that and the latest in the investigation ahead. trump on fox news making outlandish claims about his arraignment
problems the manhattan district attorney leading the prosecution of donald trump is now suing a top house republican, alvin bragg filed the lawsuit against judiciary committee chairman jim jordan yesterday, in response to what bragg called a brazen attack in an ongoing criminal prosecution. bragg has come under increased scrutiny, to put it mildly by the ohio republicans since it became likely that the president would be charged in addition to calling on the d.a. himself to testify before congress, jordan issued a subpoena last week ordering a former prosecutor in the case to appear before the judiciary committee. the d.a. asked the court to block that subpoena, arguing it could cause irreparable harm to the case if certain secret material is disclosed, bragg s attorneys also argued that subpoena is unconstitutional because congress has no power to conduct oversight of a state prosecution. a federal judge has scheduled a hearing on the lawsuit for next unique joining us now senior lega
time when we are looking at vaccine booster timetables for everyone. what is your reaction to this? yeah, good morning. thanks for having me here. i m a little perplexed by that piece. there s some terrific scientists on there, so i want to be thoughtful about how we talk about it. but the bottom line is that as i look at the data, data out of israel, data out of the united states as well, is you clearly do see waning immunity in high-risk people. as i think about who needs boosters, elderly, frail, people with chronic diseases, the evidence is leaning towards that. both of the companies, moderna and pfizer have submitted more data to the fda. that will become available in the next week or so. i think the high risk individuals we almost surely need a booster. i want to ask you about an argument, you re hearing from republican politicians, jim jordan yesterday, and other people in surprising locations. say, look, if you re vaccinated,
plan. that was republican congressman jim jordan yesterday, but today, late in the day, starting to seem like speaker boehnor s fortunes were changing. his debt ceiling proposal was reevaluated by the congressional budget office and he pitched that plan to republicans in the house with some very persuasive language, as he explained on right wing radio this morning. is it true that you told some of the republican members this morning that you need to get your a-word in line behind this debt ceiling bill? i sure çdid. listen, this is time to do what is doable. joining us now from washington, for the very latest is john stanton, reporter for roll call newspaper, nice to have you, john. good to be here. so, i find myself in the strange position of actually sort of rooting for john boehner here, for him to do well, for him to have a better day today than he had yesterday. do you think it s fair to say