who is claiming responsibility, and who is denying any involvement. plus, the border battle. the president taking his toughest stance yet on immigration as the gop-led house pushes ahead with the push to oust his homeland security secretary. also ahead, writer e. jean carroll speaking out publicly about her $83 million victory over donald trump, the message she believes the jury sent to the former president. is the conviction of a notorious double killer about to be thrown out? what we know about the potential retrail in the case of disgraced lawyer alec murdaugh. thanks for being here on a monday. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. president biden is vowing to retaliate after three u.s. troops were killed in a deadly drone attack at a base in jordan. it happened near the border of syria and iraq in a base known as tower 22. two u.s. officials tell us a drone packed with explosives made impact near a shelter where some troops were sleeping.
Fight over the debt ceiling and a possible plan b for House Democrats. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration has plans to send active duty troops to the Southern Border as soon as next week. We will explain what the Military Personnel will be doing down there. Also ahead, new testimony in the civil trial against donald trump. It comes as the former president decides not to take the stand in his own defense. New reporting this morning on Text Messages that ultimately led to Tucker Carlsons firing. We also will have a look at the latest aid package headed to ukraine as its forces prepare for a Spring Offensive against russias army. And writers expected back on the picket lines today as the wga strike is already impacting several shows, late night going dark for starters. Good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday, may 3rd, with us we have the host of Way Too Early, white house, jen palmieri, Cohost Of The Circus and former chairman o. Of the republican committee, Michael Steele.
fight over the debt ceiling and a possible plan b for house democrats. meanwhile, the biden administration has plans to send active duty troops to the southern border as soon as next week. we will explain what the military personnel will be doing down there. also ahead, new testimony in the civil trial against donald trump. it comes as the former president decides not to take the stand in his own defense. new reporting this morning on text messages that ultimately led to tucker carlson s firing. we also will have a look at the latest aid package headed to ukraine as its forces prepare for a spring offensive against russia s army. and writers expected back on the picket lines today as the wga strike is already impacting several shows, late night going dark for starters. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday, may 3rd, with us we have the host of way too early, white house, jen palmieri, cohost of the circus and former chairman o. of the republican committe
now i m being told that is actually a plane after the strike of a balloon and then the balloon then losing shape, going down. security analyst is back with us. juliette, maybe your eyeballs are more trained than mine. we can at least see, perhaps, with a tighter view it looked like that balloon was disintegrating, as we heard an eyewitness describe earlier. can you decipher what s going on here for me? i hear your doorbell. i m sorry. so you ve got the look, the f-22 or f-15, we don t know which ones yet, we ll get a debrief from the pentagon, from areas in the carolinas, the missile would have been launched from them. so what you re seeing on the bottom side is the airplane, what we re seeing now. what you saw was the airplane, not the balloon. and i don t know if we have images of the direct hit. so the balloon is now so this is the important thing for people to remember. the balloon is balloon and cargo. we want the cargo. it s ours now. sorry, chinese, it s ours now
we ll let you hear what they all had to say. and a major league baseball player pulled from him home in the middle of the night by armed men, but now we re told he s been found alive and safe. [ chanting ] and have you ever seen kids this excited about taking a test? not just any test. we re talking about the a.c.t. or s.a.t. equivalent. an entire country shuts down to do everything they can to help these students ace the tests. we re taking you to south korea this morning in our passport. let s start on the campus of penn state university. you remember, it was just a couple of days ago thousands of students were getting together on the campus, and they were rioting. well, last night, thousands of students got together at state college, pennsylvania, for this. a candlelight vigil to support the victims of the sexual abuse scandal. now, this is the same place, the same spot, where this vigil is taking place, is exactly where students were rioting in support of fired foot