go basically around the clock until the x date. margaret talev, thank you for joining us this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this tuesday morning with us. morning joe starts right now. optimistic we may be able to make some progress because we both agreed default is not really on the table. we have to get something done here. and the consequence of failing to pay our bills would be the american people would have a real kick in their economic well-being. as a matter of fact, the rest of the world would, too. president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy continue to take positive have that positive tone on the debt ceiling and how it is going, but there s still no deal with just over a week until the country could default completely. we ll look at the disagreements that are holding up a deal for now. also ahead, donald trump s comments about e. jean carroll during his town hall could cost him more money, as the writer takes new legal ac
shortages. new criticism and outcry over israel s military tragedy. i m ramy inocencio in tel aviv. the uk, france and germany are now calling for a ceasefire. adding to pressure, the u.s. defense secretary arrives tomorrow. plus, hamas tunnel revealed. israeli forces take our charlie d agata inside. this is the biggest tunnel we found ever. ever? donald trump on the attack. joe biden is a threat to democracy. praising putin and targeting immigrants. they re poisoning the blood of our country. new cbs polling tonight on his standing and the republican race for president. and countdown to christmas. the shopping rush and the shipping crunch. i m elise preston in los angeles at the nation s largest postal processing plant where elves are working around the clock. and later, tree trade. millions are grown, harvested and sold every year. john blackstone shows us a new way to go green. do you tell the trees how lucky they are not to be chopped down? the
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. digital breakdown, ron desantis starts his 2024 campaign with embarrassing technical dysfunction. when we could hear him, worgs and spending in contrast with donald trump and he will not be timt in using presidential power to get what he wants and to punish those he doesn t like. plus right now, the sentencing hearing underway in washington. a judge deciding how long oath keepers convicted of january 6th crimes will spend behind bars. and your congress not at work. the government could default on its bills a week from today. but the house speaker sends lawmakers home because negotiations are moving so s slowly. up first for us, a day two riddle for ron desantis. how to prove to voters, to donors and maybe to everyone that he s ready for prime time. the governor now plot ting a campaign kickoff tour through the early voting states of iowa, new hampshire and south ca
witnesses ttrial date now set and the timing in the middle of the presidential campaign. the furious talks at the white house and on the hill. president biden, house speaker kevin mccarthy over the debt ceiling. mccarthy saying publicly we will finish this by june 1st, but privately saying we re nowhere near a deal. so mary bruce tonight on what s really playing out behind the scenes we re tracking the potential for severe storms tonight and heading right into memorial day so ginger zee is here to time this out. the disturbing new report any accusing hundreds of clergy in the catholic church in illinois of sexually abusing nearly 2,000 children the war in ukraine tonight and the rare assault inside russia by anti-putin russians. and tonight, the claim that u.s. equipment is now showing up on russia s side of the border. how the pentagon is now responding here in the u.s. the alarming scene at the southern border video showing a 4-year-old being dropped over the border
sorry about that. we ve got so many people here, that i think we are kind of melting the servers. answering messages begin coming in over the station s teletype. ron desanctimonious needs a personally transplant, and those are not yet available. killed at $14 million, the station emboies the last word in radio transmission. let s see. crashing, huh? wow. ah. okay, you have to give a hat tip to dan and the gang for putting that together. good job. well. that was awkward. welcome to morning joe. that was our producers putting together their view of his failure to launch, ron desantis. on twitter. we can obviously talk about this an awful lot. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 25th. willie, the thing is, we re in the age of twitter. we re in the age of social media. everybody is going to freak out at that exact moment, and they certainly did. there was a meltdown over the meltdown. it was bad. i mean, it was bad on so