Best in history. Asian american the best in history. Hispanic the best in history. Women, people with a diploma, people without a diploma. Donald trump yesterday making false claims about his economic record and the Unemployment Rate during his administration. Well have more from his rally In The South Bronx in just a moment. Also ahead well explain why ohios republican governor is calling a special legislative session to make sure President Biden is on the ballot this fall. And louisiana will soon become the first state to classify Abortion Pills as controlled dangerous substances. Well go through that legislation and its possible impact in novembers elections. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, may 24th. Im elise jordan in for jonathan lemire. Well start this morning with the race for the white house and Donald Trumps rally in New York City last night. After spending weeks in Lower Manhattan for his criminal hush money trial, trump traveled uptown to the bronx
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
chief of staff, an officer with the rank of colonel in reserve, and the brigade fire support commander with the rank of major have been dismissed from their positions. here s idf spokesperson daniel hagari. the findings of the investigation should show that there were in fact a number of armed gunmen who boarded and left some of the vehicles that were identified during the course of the event. after some of the vehicles split from the others the forces that were tracking the vehicles let self thinking that these were hamas vehicles. that hamas gunmen had entered. this operational misidentification and misclassification was the result of internal failures. america s top diplomat antony blinken reacted to the idf s findings earlier as he boarded a plane back to washington from brussels. it s very important that israel is taking full responsibility for this incident. it s also important that it appears to be taking steps to hold those responsible accountable. even more importa
the news today is that the jury in the hunter biden gun trial getting dismissed for the day as deliberations wrapped up with no verdict. they will be back at it tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. as they decide whether the first son gets up to 25 years in prison. hunter s defense as the president s son did not to knowingly lie about his drug use from purchasing a handgun in 2018. but federal prosecutors arguing hunter had lost the power of self-control when he bought it. and that the evidence backs that up. they showed off text messages, hunter biden sense, it drug dealer whom he had tried to meet up with a day before. he lied on the gun form. meanwhile the biden family is out in full force, first lady jill biden, the president s sister and brother were among the several family members present in court today to support hunter. president biden was not there, and the media and democrats are giving him credit for that. speak of the president of the united states has removed himself f