for its brutal aggression. the white house is being briefed on the debt ceiling negotiations back home. i will speak to a senate democrat leading the push for the president to bypass congress and raise the debt ceiling by invoking the 14th amendment. this hour, desantis versus trump. dueling positions on abortion, as the florida governor prepares to jump into the race as early as next week and signs four more bills positioning himself to the right in the culture wars. rising tensions over immigration boiling over far from the border. cities like new york run out of space to house migrants being sent north. it has overwhelmed our system. 65,000 people are coming to the city. a week and a half ago, we had 4,200. in one day, we had 900. the numbers are unbelievable when you think about it. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. president biden is balancing major domestic and foreign policy challenges while on the other side of the world. in japan today,
beautiful sunrise in washington, d.c. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 18th. donald trump has claimed that he could declassify materials just by thinking about them. like i dream of jeannie. but there is new evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation that proves he knows it s not true. the former president is seizing on two failed endorsements in florida from governor ron desantis, while ignoring the lack of success his candidates had in the last election. also ahead, the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations with both sides digging in on one big issue. we ll explain what that is. and we re keeping an eye on president biden this morning as he is in japan for the g7 summit. welcome, everybody. along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan is with us. and former white ho
expires. our border is not open. but with washington deadlocked on how to fix it, what s the long-term solution? i ll speak with homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas and house gop homeland security chairman mark green, next. and deal or no deal, as the u.s. barrels closer to a debt ceiling deadline, president biden says the two sides are making progress. can they strike a deal in time? deputy treasury secretary wally joins me ahead. plus, primary problems. the president frames his re-election pitch around donald trump. sinister forces may believe they ll determine america s future. weil ron desantis makes his case for change. if we focus the election on the past, the democrats are going to beat us again. will voters agree? hello, i m dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is wishing all of the moms out there a very happy mother s day. president biden is making his general election pitch to voters, painting 2024 as another battle fo
our current situation is the outcome of congress leaving a broken, outdated immigration system in place for over two decades. the white house has two years to plan for the end of title 42. we we all knew the deadline. but the white house produced no plan, missed the deadline and bum with bled into another crisis telephone bumbled into another crisis. paul: let s bring in wall street journal ist columnists journal column itselfs dan dan henninger kim strassel and jace isen riley. jason riley. this has really come to a head. how serious just from a practical point of view is surge? oh, i think it s very serious, paul. the democrats have pretended for years that the only people who care about this issue are fox news viewers. they ve demonized these border governors when they re republicans for complaining, for being hard-hearted, and i think all of that is changing right now. they re discovering the border for the first time, and i think it s going to cause them all k
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