as it drifted toward restricted air face, emitting a sonic boom that prompted 911 calls from d.c. to maryland. the pilot unresponsive as the jets reportedly repeatedly tried to make contact. at least four now confirmed dead. what went wrong. an nbc news exclusive. the grand jury hearing evidence about former president trump s handling of classified documents is meeting again this week. is that investigation nearing its conclusion? also ahead, a big week in the 2024 race, three more republicans set to enter the already-crowded field. this after gop hopefuls roared into iowa for the traditional roast and ride, everyone, that, but donald trump. i don t know. we re not big trump fans. a lot of bluster. some good ideas but a lot of bluster. i m a republican. later, yet another close call with a chinese war machine. the encounter with an american destroyer that s ratcheting up tensions between the u.s. and china. we ll begin with the new details out of virginia, no surviv
leaves in disgrace. then, breaking news on the debt ceiling. and progressive congressman mark joins me to call out kevin mccarthy s dangerous game. i am charles blow in for mehdi hasan. let s get started. tonight we begin with a surprising allegation from a former member of donald trump s legal team. tim peloton is now publicly blasting a current trump lawyer just days after the advising the former president on the special counsel s classified documents investigation. peloton longtime legal association boris epstein attempted to enter fear with searches for quote, in my opinion he has not been very honest with us or the cline on certain things. there were certain things like the searches that he had attempted to interfere with. parlatore, who said he had left the trump team due to infighting, may defending trump more difficult. a trump campaign spokesman said that his assertions were categorically false. it is also worth noting that parlatore hasn t just served on t
this would play out before the electorate and whether any opinions or any votes or legislation might change. we ve also been waiting for what the person who obviously seems to be at the center of the committee s attention, former president donald j. trump, wondering what he has to say about all the committee s assertions, and there are a lot of them. like that he was told his scheme was to told overturn the election was in fact illegal, but he pressured his vice president to go along with it anyway. things like he knew that mike pence s life was in danger at the capitol but kept publicly lashing out at him during the attack anyway. well, the wayit seems to be ove because today in his first public appearance since the hearing, he didn t really deny any of that exactly. instead, he admitted he did pressure pence to try to keep him in power. but he did deny one thing. never called mike pence a wimp. i never called him a wimp. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chanc
they re waiting to see how this is actually playing out before the electorate or whether any opinions let alone potential votes or legislation might actually change. we ve also been waiting for what the person who obviously seems to be at the center, former president donald trump, what he has to say about all the committee s assertions, and there are a lot of them like that he was told his scheme was to overturn the election was in fact illegal, but he pressured his vice president to go along with it anyway. things like he knew that mike pence s life was in arj at the capitol but kept publicly lashing out at him during the attack anyway. well, the wait seems to be over. in his first public appearance since the hearing he didn t deny any of that exactly. instead he admitted he did pressure pence to try and keep him in power, but he did deny one thing. i never called mike pence a wimp. i never called him a wimp. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be, fran
Governor is calling a special legislative session to make sure President Biden will be on the ballot this fall. And louisiana will soon be the first state to classify apportion pills as controlled, dangerous substances. Well go through the legislation and its possible impact in novembers elections. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday, may 24th. We made it to friday. It was in doubt there for a while. Thank goodness. Im jonathan lemire. Im alongside the bbcs katty kay. We are in for joe, mika, and willie. Good friday morning, katty. Yeah, news flash, donald trump knows how to put his trousers on. I think that is worth waiting for friday for. We now have that at least. I suppose we can put it in the appropriate context later, or we leave it out there like that and make people wonder just what he was talking about. Hanging, yeah. With us to dive into this important story, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and Associate Editor of the washington post, and msnbc political analy