borzou daragahi is a senior fellow at the atlantic council and an iranian journalist. he explains who ebraham raisi is and how he came to power. raisi was a mid ranking cleric who is in the inner circle of the supreme leader and one of his close allies and, you know, he became president after all of the reformist and moderate candidates were pretty much disqualified in an election that was considered engineered and many voters stayed away from. earlier, i spoke to trita parsi, co founder and executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible macro what can we expect to hear from the regime macro what can we expect to hearfrom the regime in the coming hours and days here? i think the expectation at this point is that by in a few hours, morning time in tehran, there will be an announcement that even if they may have found the helicopter, it looks extremely unlikely that there will be any survivors. they may have survived the crash, but surviving the night in the c
hi everyone. i m jessica gene in washington and we begin with breaking news, oversees a frantic search and rescue operation is underway weigh in northern iran. after a helicopter crash involving iranian president ebrahim raisi. officials say they have now detected the exact location of the crash site after hours of struggling to find it due to extreme fog and bad weather there that crash happening early this morning after the president and other officials attended a ceremony for the open putting of a new near the border with azure by john cnn s nic robertson ies tracking all the latest developments from london and pentagon correspondent oren liebermann is here in washington with us with reaction from the us nic. let s start first with you. and what we re learning about this search the search has been hampered because there s dense fog and that s the reason it s understood that the helicopter crash in the first place. it s raining. i ve been looking at video that s been posted
i m jesse watters with the judge jeanine pirro piero, dane fowler greg gutfeld and others.t joe biden did his best clean ina clint eastwood impression challenging him to debates. has he s acting like he wants to debate me again will make my day pal i ll even do it twice. let s get the dates donald i hear you are free on wednesdays. noticed 5 jump cuts a 142nd video. trump accepted the challenge tot take on the worst president ine the history of the united stated in a true threat to democracy.t they talked to trash for monthso biden s own n divisors don t wat him to do debates but it s personal for joe we re told sleep he is seething with hatred for donald trump because he dear calls out he has listed demands saying joe biden wants no third-party groups and they have the microphones cut when themics speakers and called up on. but is this really an attempt to change the conversation it s no secret joe is bombing in the polls. should we see this set an offer from the pre
president biden challenged former president trump to two debates, and trump accepted. oh. yeah. trump agreed. he said, i ll be there, assuming it s okay with my parole officer. the first debate will be next month, which is the earliest a presidential debate has ever been. if we re being honest, an early bird debate feels right for these guys. boom, just like that, head-to-head, toe to toe, mano and mango. trump posted, just tell me when. i ll be there. let s get ready to rumble! rumble? i ve seen your rallies. i think you mean, let s get ready to ramble. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 16th. i just have to ask, the question alex asks, why is it not friday? how is it not friday, guys? it s thursday. we re grateful that god has given us another day to come in and be together. i m very grateful. we re close to friday. we re not at friday. 24 hours, it ll be friday. a lot to talk about. we have white house bureau chief for pol
deadline: white house starts right now. hi, everyone, welcome to wednesday, a critical chapter in the trial of the ex-president is coming to a close. questions now swirl about what happens next n trump election interference trial. todd blanche failed to land any significant blows to michael cohen s credibility, something they re desperate to do after he was put in the center of the scheme to catch and kill negative stories that could have hurt donald trump s campaign. he told the jury that the president himself signed off on the plan to hide the expenses. todd blanche started this way, these are literally the first words out of the his mouth. you and i have never spoken or met, have we? to which cohen replied, we have not. todd blanche, but you know who i am? cohen answers, i do blanche asking, on april 23rd, so after the trial started in this case, you went on tiktok and called me a, quote, crying little cohen supplies that might be something i would say. blanche went