all right. so in just a few minutes they re going to try again. president biden, speaker mccarthy will continue their debt standdown face to face at the white house. biden is hosting mccarthy and three other congressional leaders to once again try to get closer at least to a deal to raise the debt ceiling, as has been done dozens of times. they have just over two weeks to do it before a potential u.s. default. somehow it is looking like the two sides have dug in even more since last week s meeting. we go to capitol hill. melanie, we ve seen this before, right? we re making progress, we re not making progress, it s sort of the definition of a game of chicken. the trouble is the economy hangs in the balance here. what s really happening? is there any real progress? do we expect any real probably in the white house? reporter: i will tell you, jim, staff have been working behind the scenes to come up with a potential number of policy options for a potential deal but there has b
the truth matters. lies have consequences over two years ago, a torrent of lies swept dominion and election officials across america into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories. causing grievance harm to dominion and the country today s settlement of $787 million represents vindication and accountability lies have consequences fox news avoids what could have been weeks more of an embarassing coverage by settling at the last minute with dominion we ll break down the terms of this historic deal and explain the other legal issues looming for the network. the obvious right here is, it was the worst of all worlds for fox news and a lot of people wanted to see all the dirty laundry put out. a lot of it was out. it was already out. there s going to be more, because there are more of these lawsuits the new york times this morning, oalternative reality bu now account for itself outside of the right-wing bubble how it would possibly do it was a matter of great expense
will be, and challenging the democratic incumbent senator who is defending a seat, a seat in a state where joe biden won by about two percentage points. a nail biter today. john king, you are following key races out of south carolina, incumbents, representative nancy mace and representative tom rice, one of the rare republicans to impeach trump after the insurrection. what is the latest there? let s move across the country and look at the house. pull up south carolina. votes coming in a little more quickly than nevada but we re several hours in now. this is very interesting here. the seventh district russell frey is donald trump s candidate here, a conservative running against the incumbent. tom rice had that seat since 2012 and won big in the tea party year. he is getting 25% of the vote right now, disappointing for a republican incumbent who represented the district for a decade. 99% of the vote in. we re still tallying the final votes. the 50% plus one you avoid a run-
Morning joe starts right now. And good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is tuesday april 2nd. We have a lot to get to this morning, including the expanded gag order in Donald Trumps jonathan, just have a seat may as well put my lipstick on. Someone is passing notes. Just getting set from the show. I had to mov from over here to over there. I had to put stuff down. Right behind willie. Sorry. Have a seat. Are you ready for us to begin the class . Yes, lets do it. I know its your first day. Queue it up her name is mika. Welcome everyone to morning joe. Thats a beautiful shot. If we still even have you. Thank you for joining us. I think its tuesday, everybody is in their seats and well get to all thats going on this morning. The expanded gag order in Donald Trumps Hush Money Case comes as the former president came up with the cash needed to appeal for his Civil Fraud Judgment. Well talk about that. On wall street, truth social looks more like a meme stock with shares lower im not sure
President say, 100 of first female black Vice President s. Its important what he has highlighted. It speaks to a concern that folks have about the support of hbcus, 16 billion is not cheap. Simone, thank you so very much. Its a pleasure to see you. Catch simone saturday and Sunday Morning at 8 00 a. M. Eastern as she cohosts the weekend right here on msnbc. Andrea mitchell picks up with more news next. Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, President Biden trying to fire up lagging support from black voters, speaking at the National Museum for African American history on the anniversary of the Brown Versus Board Of Education decision and facing an uncertain reception when he delivers the Commencement Speech at moorehouse. Sparks fly between Marjorie Taylor greene and aoc. How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person. Oh, girl, baby girl. The trump Hush Money Case moves closer to Closing Arguments and going to the jury, how much impact will the showdown between Donald Tr