opportunities to advance a political agenda, a radical political agenda he said that here in manhattan the scales of justice are being weighed down by politics, and they are but only today an america being rich, being powerful, even being president of the united states does not intitle you to violate the law with impunity. the republican-led house judiciary committee travels to new york city for partisan political theater. we ll is much more about this grievance-filled hearing in just a moment house speaker kevin mccarthy was also in new york talking about a plan to raise the debt ceiling but his proposal was messing several key details. and we have the latest from eastern europe following a rare trip out of russia by president vladimir putin good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, april 18th i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. following a two-week recess congress was back in session yesterday. but instead of legislating
us on this tuesday morning morning joe starts right now. the sorros-funded district attorney put criminals first and victims last. that is exactly what you get with the soros-ization. it s funded by george soros. who is funding these district attorneys? george soros the republican-led house judiciary committee took their grievances to new york city yesterday for a partisan hearing against the district attorney who is prosecuting donald trump. meanwhile, house speaker kevin mccarthy was on wall street touting a plan for the debt ceiling, but his proposal had very few specific detail and on capitol hill, most republican senators are coming out against an effort to temporarily replace dianne feinstein on the judiciary committee. we ll show you what they had to say about the ailing california democrat plus, ron desantis continues his fight with disney. floating some potential developments near the park, including a prison also ahead, we ll get the latest from
Prosecutor as someone not credible for taking this investigation on, and by the way the committee plans to hear from wise some time the end of september, beginning of october. in-house freedom caucus, some of the hard right members mccarthy needs to manage in his conference, they say they ll not go along with the plan mccarthy has for a short-term government funding deal. that could potentially threaten not only his speakership gavel if he fails to make do with those promises he made to some of the hard right members but it could also shut the government down, which nobody wants especially this close to an election. long story short it sounds like mccarthy taking this seriously. it happening because of other political matters on the table. speaking of other political matters and not happening in a vacuum as you said, how big of a role could this impeachment talk
Debt ceiling increase tied to spending cuts. mccarthy offered few specifics and used the speech as an opportunity to criticize president biden who s repeatedly ask republicans put out a formal plan mccarthy was later called out on cnbc for his own voting record take a look. 75 days ago, february 1st i sat down with this president i sat down to him and i said let s work together to be able to deal with the debt ceiling and our economy at the same time it s the same thing we ve done all in the past you ve mentioned. and for 75 days he s ignored us. i want to find a responsible, sensible way to do this. my message upstairs is if the president won t pay attention to this, if he doesn t believe they can find one dollar in savings republicans in the next cup of weeks will act and send a debt ceiling increase that will limit sachb and grow if the president doesn t want to take action we ll send this over to the senate. there s an appropriations committee and budget for all of this the fis
Impacting the health of women across america republican or democrat it is impacting their health by the way, house speaker kevin mccarthy also in new york city he made a visit to wall street yesterday to offer a preview of the gop plan to raise the debt ceiling. mccarthy delivered remarks at the new york stock exchange, saying republicans would vote in the coming weeks on one-year debt ceiling tied to spending cuts he offered a few specifics, not many, and used the speech as an opportunity to criticize president biden, who has re repeatedly ask republicans put out a formal plan. it is also uncloear whether the plan mccarthy pitched would get enough support to pass with the party s slim majority in the house. it would likely be dead on arrival in the senate. the u.s. could hit its debt limit as early as july unless congress acts to raise it. katty kay, your thoughts also, i wonder if kevin