there s more to do, so let s finish the job president joe biden makes his 2024 re-election bid official, vowing to finish the job we ll take a look at how his campaign has already hit the ground running plus, the former fox news producer who s now suing the network weighs in on tucker carlson s ouster what she had to say about the hostile work environment that she faced at fox and during closing arguments in their seditious conspiracy trial yesterday, attorneys for members of the proud boys put the blame for the january 6th capitol attack squarely on donald trump we ll have the latest from the courtroom ahead of jury deliberations. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 26th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning in washington where just hours after announcing his re-election bid president joe biden gave his first campaign speech yesterday and was greeted with this warm reception. four more y
congress. plus, the ohio governor is visiting the site of this toxic train derailment in east palestine at this hour just as there s news of another train crash that s killed dozens of people overseas. and tiktok taking what it considers a major step to limit daily screen time for young people. how far does it go? this is what we re watching at this hello, everyone. i m kate bolduan. we begin on capitol hill where attorney general merrick garland is testifying before the senate judiciary committee at this hour. he s facing questions on everything from gun violence and social media regulation to the fentanyl crisis and that s just in the first few minutes. he is also expected to be asked about the special counsel investigations into president biden and former president trump and their handling of classified documents and there s more already facing questions about the ongoing investigation into president biden s son hunter that republicans are pushing on. paula reid is
as white house communications director. and tiktok on the clock again. now the white house and congress, set their sights on the mega popular app. over, over, guess what? security concerns. as data the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle, back at 30 rock, after dodging reporter questions for days, of speaker kevin mccarthy goes on the defensive today, after their controversial move to fox news host tucker carlson, first dibs on tens of thousands of hours of security video, from january 6th. last week, carlson said, he and his team have already access to the footage. democrats, of course, slammed mccarthy s decision, raising serious concerns about tucker carlson s false claims about the capitol attack. they are also worried that certain security operations on the hill can be made public. today, mccarthy made no apologies about that decision. tucker was interested. they have an exclusive. then i ll give it out to the
early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire former white house director of communicationspalmieri she s co-host of showtime s the circus. pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post , eugene washington attorney and contributing columnist for the washington post, george conway joins us this morning. great to have you all here. willie, why don t you hold up morning joe s official newspaper of record. what s on the front? it s happening. joe, it s happening. aaron rodgers coming to the new york jets. leaving the packers. it ll be an exciting new era for the team that s not been to the playoffs in a dozen years. it s going to also be very, very exciting for headline writers at t the new york post, as conspiracy theories spill out at press conferences my god, this is like a dream come true for the headline writer at the post. jets fans are excited they ve needed a quarterback for a long time. they had zach wilso
than $725 billion for lawsuits and without its biggest, brightest star, tucker carlson the new york times reports that his departure is made more stun big the fact that the network did nothing after carlson pushed the envelope over and over, pedaling inflammatory information. quote, the network stuck by him after carlson claimed that immigration had made america, quote, poor and dirty. he seemed to shrug off a racist conspiracy theory known as the great replacement, along with the fact that when russia invaded ukraine, he seemed to promote russia s point of view the fallout from carlson s ouster is unclear. quote, mr. carlson s rise prefigured trump s takeover of the republican party his own conversion from bow tied libertarian to popularist remade the party. he prospered with trump s presidency he made frank nativism the primary touch stones of republican politics. if fox and its host prospered because of trump, their efforts to deny the presidential results threw the netw