a lot of people are afraid of him. i ve been doing it for 22 years. i m not the least bit afraid of him. chris christie sure seems to be dropping more hits about a possible presidential campaign as he continues to criticize donald trump we ll have more of those comments straight ahead. and weeks after the first lady said he s running again, president joe biden finally appears ready to make it official, we think plus, the fight for endorsements in florida is not going well for ron desantis, his cool touch to republicans hadn t paid any dividends yet we re going have to have new reporting on trump s personal efforts to connect with lawmakers. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 21st i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begin with this news. president joe biden is preparing to formally announce he is running for re-election next week the president s team is plning to launch his 2024 campaign soon potentially as early a
welcome to morning joe at 6:00 a.m. in the morning willie geist not with us today, trying to relive some of the more exciting mornings of the 70s yes, that s him on chopper 5 going across it is not. see the little chopper 4, i m sorry. get it right. in the 70s, we didn t really numbers didn t count channels didn t counfreelancersi and i were. you were just there. beautiful look at new york city over the morning. it s friday. yes thursday was a very rough day for elon musk. oh, i don t know about that $3 billion rocket exploded. i m going to question that framing. they get a lot of great data out of that. it exploded. but it was a planned explosion. no. it was they got what they wanted they got massive data. it was a step forward. it was an unscheduled disas disassembly, as they call it. i have had many of those. exploded. i ve had many of those. then he planned to make people pay for twitter verification his plan to do that bl
was not rightly approved it would be ludicrous if it wasn t so serious. former house speaker nancy pelosi calls out the courts and lawmakers in the legal fight over the abortion pill her comments came just before the supreme court delayed its decision on the medication we ll break down what s next in that case. elsewhere on capitol hill kevin mccarthy finally releases the republican plan to address the debt ceiling we ll take you through the house speaker s proposal just ahead. plus yet another shocking act of gun violence in america this time in maine where a man just released from prison went on a deadly shooting spree good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, april 20th i m jonathan lemire. thanks so much for starting your day with us. we ll begin with this headline the supreme court has delayed making a decision on the abortion pill mifepristone by extending a temporary block on a lower court ruling until this friday that means the drug will co
welcome back we re hearing now from the lead attorney in smartmatics $2.7 billion defamation suit against fox news the voting software company says it was grievously harmed by the false claims made on the network accusing smartmatic of flipping votes to joe biden in the 2020 election yesterday the attorney representing the company said evidence in the recently won dominion lawsuit will be used in its case as well he also highlighted what separates the two suits and was asked about the possibility of forcing fox to give an on-air apology. in addition to that what i think is really unique about the smartmatic situation is the recklessness that was involved here smartmatic was in l.a. county,
danger that is donald trump on the republican side of the field is what has been animating biden all along. there s also a sense, if not me, who, in terms of other democrats who could take on trump. right now, they re preparing to launch now, we re waiting for the final go from the president. all right we ll be following that. now to the other big headline of the morning. we are hearing from the lead attorney in smartmatic s $2.7 billion defamation suit against fox news the voting software company says it was grievously harmed by the network talking about vote flipping from the 2020 election. the lawyer representing the company said evidence in the recently settled dominion lawsuit could be used in its case in addition to that, what i think is really unique about the smartmatic situation is the recklessness that was involved