correspondent ken dilanian and also nbc legal analyst. ryan, what do we know at this moment? reporter: we know the jury will be delivering this verdict at any moment now. it s a partial verdict. we are expecting any second to find out what those initial conclusions were. we know after they deliver this verdict, whatever counts were outstanding, the judge is going order them to deliberate those counts. right now, we re unsure what counts they were able to reach a conclusion on, any one of the counts. and which ones they re still split on. they need to continue to deliberate and see if any of the holdouts on either side there were in the minority of the jurors will be able to ultimately move away from or be convinced of. being that they have been deliberating for about a week now, although there have been some half days mixed in there, i think when they go back, it will be a bit of a challenge. and that s why the judge at the beginning of this instructed them not to come in w
for you, including president biden s nod to a popular meme. also ahead, donald trump praises the january 6th rioter who has said members of congress who certified the 2020 election should be executed. plus, an international trip for ron desantis just didn t generate the headlines he was hoping for. in fact, most of the headlines, well, especially out of britain, were terrible. we ll have new reporting on that. and we re going to dig into the breaking financial news this morning. the third failure of an american bank since march, and who is coming in to save the day? good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is monday, may the 1st. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. oh, jonathan, we have much to talk to you about in the boston sports world. also, special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. the founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, charlie sykes. and columnist and associate editor for t
in case you have not heard, the midterms are about two weeks away and the threat of chaos around election day, is frankly very real. was discuss all of this. we have our political panel, analyst herndon, republican analyst doug hahn, and political commentator kerry, great to have all of you with us here tonight but there is so much to talk about in terms of chaos that could happen with the midterms, let start with election deniers. as you know, the place is lousy with them right now, particularly in places like arizona. then, today, ted cruz went on the view and could not answer the question as to whether or not joe biden was legitimately elected. he pivoted, and karen, this will be to you because this is the new talking point that i hear all the time now from republicans, when they get uncomfortable about the election denying, the pivot immediately to the past. with listen to this. was biden legitimately elected? half of the party thinks that he wasn t that it would be v
well, the new house judiciary chairman, jim jordan, announcing he s launching an investigation into the doj s actions related to president biden s handling of classified documents. he s demanding the department turn over a variety of information including all communications related to yesterday s appointment of special counsel. it s hard to believe this is what s happening one week ago, but at just about exactly this time there was a complete chaos on the house floor. a lawmaker lunging at another lawmaker, and we still didn t know way back then because last year was a whole year last week a whole year didn t know if kevin mccarthy would actually become speaker. what a difference a week makes, and of course when you think about in washington, d.c. every minute seems to be a new, well, crisis to avert or try to maintain. i want to bring in michael shnell, congressional reporter for the hill. and lia donovan. let me bring you into this conversation because, look, we re talkin
of our fiscal discipline. former health secretary and leadership candidate, jeremy hunt, is now tasked with bringing the financial turmoil under control. also in the programme. cyrell and s supreme leader warns no one can overturn the islamic republic iran s leader. and the actor, robbie coltrane, who played hagrid in the harry potter films, has died aged 72. and welcome to bbc news. less than 2a hours after kwasi kwarteng insisted he was 100% safe in his job as uk chancellor he has gone sacked by liz truss after he flew back early from washington. in a day of political drama, the prime minister also reversed another of her key tax policies in an attempt to calm the financial markets. our political editor, chris mason, reports. turning up for another u turn, the prime minister invited reporters to downing street this afternoon and scrapped one of her key policies that she s championed for months. it is clear that parts of our mini budget went further and faster than ma