experience. are you really trying to diminish the significance of what happened here and the secret meeting that the president said son set up in trump tower to receive that incriminating information trying to diminish the significance of that? i m not trying to diminish it at all. the more complete story is they met, it was a ruse and they didn t talk about mrs. clinton. you think it was insignificant that he met for the purpose of getting dirt on hillary clinton and the only disappointment expressed in the meeting was the dirt they got wasn t better. you don t think that s significant? i don t think this was a well-advised thing to do. john durham hogs four year investigation of maga fever dreams is grilled on capitol hill. his failure a bump in the road for republicans bent on weaponizing and politicizing the doj. the confessions of donald trump. now a federal as well as a state criminal defendant, he continues to openly incriminate himself. seemingly obliv
adolf hitler saying that immigrants are quote, poisoning the blood of this country. that is similar to phrasing you can find in hitler s manifesto. with less than a month until the first votes are cast in the 2024 republican primary, rivals aren t sitting back. we ll give you what they said in a moment. the biden campaign responding. trump goes beyond the racial dog whistles. he is quoting dictators, and vowing to enact immigration policies that are extreme, round people up by the millions, bring them to deportation camps before forcing them out of the u.s. with no opportunity for due process. it s more than just dehumanizing language. should he win reelection in 2024, he is vowing to enact dehumanizing policies. joining us now, nbc news correspondent, vaughn hillyard, who is in west palm beach, florida. nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli, and senior political report aaron blake who has closely tracked the former president s rhetoric around immigration. thank you
president biden on the defensive as he faces a growing list of challenges. from inflation to immigration to questions about his age. all dragging down his poll numbers. joe biden s 36%. that is certainly not good. now a showdown with congress over the country s debt limit could lead to a crippling economic crisis. our spending is out of control. it s unfortunate we are where we are. as the president faces this latest task, we turn to one of his key allies on capitol hill, congressman james clyburn, who helped turn around biden s 2020 campaign. toont don t democrats risk that if you nominate joe biden, there s a real chance the country ends up with president trump again? later this hour, actress priyanka chopra jonas. i m sitting here talking to chris wallace. yeah, doesn t get better than then who won, who won? on her buzzy tv series, her new role as mom, and her high-profile marriage. is that part of your superpower? get it done, baby. it was possib
this, i don t know what the gunman s problem was, his motive, but it country mental health that killed these people. it was an automatic rifle with bullets. i m a gun owner, i have guns. former police officer, army officer, but these ar-15s, they have to get off the streets or this is going to keep happening. condolences and prayers won t bring these people back. we need action at the federal and state level for better gun control. i m saying that as somebody who loves guns. what texas is doing in a big-time way, we are working to address that anger and violence by going to its root cause, which is addressing the mental health problems behind it. we know that texas had been lagging in addressing mental health for years, and that s why, over the past three sessions, we ve added almost $25 billion to address mental health. we re in the waning days of a session right now where we will be adding even more funding. yeah. it s just really, right now, there are law enforceme
literally tilting at windmills. it comes as his legal team decides its best defense in his civil rape trial. no defense at all? another deadly mass shooting in america. the latest, a medical center in atlanta, prompting an impassioned plea from georgia senator raphael warnock. also, new reporting on the deep financial ties between supreme court justice clarence thomas and a texas billionaire. keep getting deeper. it keeps getting worse. on capitol hill, there is no off-ramp when it comes to a deal on the debt ceiling. we ll have the latest on the contentious negotiations. meanwhile, the markets mostly flat this morning in response to the latest interest rate hike from the federal reserve. we ll have a full breakdown of what could be the final move from the central bank in the fight to bring down inflation. good morning, everyone, and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 4th. we got two out of three birthdays under our belt here. exactly. willie