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let s get started with five things to know for this tuesday, may 16th. new overnight, cnn obtained new video of a man chasing a screaming woman with a bat minutes before he allegedly attacked staffers at a congressman s field office. you hear the screams there. the suspect this morning is under arrest. virginia congressman says his staffers have nonlife threatening injuries. also in washington, president biden is going to meet with house speaker kevin mccarthy again today as both try to find a way forward when it comes to the debt ceiling. mccarthy said they re not closer than they were as a treasury secretary is doubling down that america is headed for a default as early as june 1st. durham is report is now out after three years in the making. the special counsel from the trump era the fbi should have never launched a full investigation into connections between the former president s 2016 campaign and russia. but he did not recommend any new criminal charges or, qu ....
good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, may 16th. ahead this hour, the latest developments from ukraine following new russian missile attacks overnight. the strikes come as the ukrainian president is touring europe, looking to restock his army s arsenal. plus, the durham report was supposed to vindicate donald trump of his alleged ties to russia, but now that it s finally out after four years, there s not much in it that we didn t already know. we re going to go through the findings just ahead. we ll also have an update on the debt ceiling talks ahead of a high-stakes meeting at the white house. also today, just ahead now, arnold schwarzenegger joins us live from austria, where some of the world s top climate activists and leaders are meeting right now. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay is with us. and columnist an ....
all. i look forward to bull durham s report. that s the one i look forward to. what happened to durham? where s durham? and by the way, where s durham? he disappeared. the long awaited durham report is now finally out, but it fails to prove the deep state conspiracy against donald trump that the former president and his allies claim that it would. we ll explain what it actually says just ahead. plus, an update on the progress of debt ceiling talks ahead of another high stakes meeting today at the white house. also we ll look at the latest on ukrainian president volodymyr you len skae s european tour aimed at restocking his arsenal. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, may 16th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. after four years of investigating the fbi s investigation into possible collusion between the trump 2016 campaign and russia, special counsel john durham finally released his findings yesterday. in a 300-page ....
look, willie. can you imagine? no. like, waking up every morning there. what a view mika has. again, i don t know about the satellite dish, but, you know, when she sees a ram, she goes out and moves it a little bit west, picks up, yeah. some people have the red zone package. mika gets out there game to game. if the team gets to the red zone, she turns it in that direction. you can watch the end of the game. okay. i ve never been invited up there. wonder what it looks like. i haven t either. sometimes she lets jack go up to move the satellite dish. jack, upstairs, downstairs. no. oh, ms. mika. funny with the two of you in new york city saying all this. ridiculous. are you up there? she s up there, straight up. no, this is not. do you see the cup? 15 years of this, 15. 15 years. you know what? it keeps getting easier every day, baby, doesn t it? no. wow, just wow, okay. look at that, the sun. i want some cat stevens. morning is broken, come ....
way too early on this tuesday, may 16th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. after four years of investigating the fbi s investigation into possible collusion between the trump 2016 campaign and russia, special counsel john durham finally released his findings yesterday. in a 300-page report durham, who was first appointed by then-attorney general william barr back in 2019, accused the bureau of acting negligently but did not reveal any bombshells as many republicans had long claimed that he would. instead durham wrote that the justice department and the fbi, quote, failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law. he added that senior fbi personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor towards the information they received from politically affiliated ....