serve in congress. our panel will share their thoughts on that special number. plus, the case of the ex-buffalo bill player, matt awry sa, a rookie who was cut from the team after ugly accusations went public. now prosecutors have declined to press criminal charges against him. was his career ended prematurely. and the lawsuit by parents and authors against a florida school district that s been removing books from shelves, freedom of speech versus parents rights. which one will win. let s begin with dianne feinstein and questions about her fitness for office. she was out of work for a month fighting a bout of shingles. today we learned she suffered from inflammation of the brain, something she denied to cnn earlier today. she described it as a really bad flu. her staff also confirmed today that she s suffering from a rare neurological disorder called ramsey hunt syndrome, which causes facial paralysis. the pictures of her back at work show a more frail senator than we
good morning. welcome to morning joe. this morning, a debt ceiling deal seems to be on the right path. house speaker kevin mccarthy had a much more optimistic tone yesterday while answering questions about the negotiations. we ll have those comments for you. it comes as president biden is busy with world leaders at the g7 summit in japan. the group just announced a new round of sanctions for russia, aimed at closing loopholes moscow has been using since the start of the ukraine invasion. meanwhile, ukraine could be receiving more u.s. military aid thanks to an accounting error. we ll explain what happened there. also ahead, the manhattan d.a. shuts down what appears to be a delay tactic from donald trump s defense team. and nikki haley finally pushes back against her old boss. we ll have her response to trump calling january 6th a beautiful day. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday. willie, can you believe it s friday? i m still processing.
adrianne shropshire, susan del percio, online with chris hayes starts now. starts now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, one of the most frightening trends in american politics in recent months has been the prioritization, across the country, of conservatives and republicans from state to state targeting lgbtq folks. it s one of the, if not the unifying policy priorities in the modern republican party 2023. it s especially pronounced at the state level. the american civil liberties union says it s tracking nearly 400 anti lgbtq bills across the country. tennessee, to name one state, in particular, is home to multiple examples of this particular noxious trend. there is a new law criminalizing many types of drag performance. is 12th night fond of? that will find out. a bill working its way through the legislature which would allow state clerks to refuse to officiate gay marriages if they so choose. but it s not just the states. we are seeing this disturbing trend of
good evening, everyone. thanks for tuning in i m alison camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. let s start with the culture wars. in the past 24 hours the battlefield has been noisy. more battles about books in the classroom, drama over drag shows, and gaslighting about gas stoves. here is florida governor ron desantis this morning surrounded by and taking urgent action to protect gas stoves. they are trying to take away your gas stove. they are coming for any little thing in your life that they can do, and i think what they want to be able to do is they ultimately want to control the amount of energy you consume. well, it turns 92% of floridians use electric stoves, but let s not let that get in the way. what is this really about? well, governor sarah huckabee sanders spelled it out. we are under attack in a left wing culture war we didn t start and never wanted to fight. sure seems like some people do want this fight. but what s the truth about culture war rhetoric? we
cnn s casey hunt above that discovery. because of the intelligence community made this a priority after the direction of president biden, we enhanced our surveillance of our territorial airspace. we enhanced our capacity to be able to detect things as the trump administration wasn t able to detect. we were also able to go back and look at the historical patterns. and that led us to come to understand that during the trump administration as you said, there were multiple instances where the surveillance balloons traversed american airspace, and american territory. okay, let me bring in our guest now. we have cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. political commentators era louis and scott jennings, and national security analyst john turner. sean, i wanna start with. you help us understand how the intel community can enhance their detection process and look into the past to see how many balloons floated over years ago. yeah, i ll say it s clear to