Czar. Here is a piece that is wringing its hands over the mainstreaming of crazy even as it main streams crazy. White House Press Secretary jen psaki seemed to chuckle when asked about the space force. Wow, space force. Its the plane of today. Will im grateful its been a while. Steve live from washington, d. C. And New York City. Its fox friends for wednesday, february 3rd, 2021. Were Groundhog Day plus one which means five more weeks and six days of winter according to that kind we weasel we saw yesterday in pennsylvania. Ainsley we love snow. Steve i have 30 inches of snow at my house. Ainsley you need that skip bedell thing that blows the snow out of your driveway. Steve my neighbor came and son came over and helped me too my sidewalk. Ainsley thats nice. Brian i have not had the opportunity to shovel my sidewalk since 1957 when we started the show. Every time it starts to snow they say you cant go home. Steve you havent been home in four days are brian brian i just got home last ni
We need to go big. And if we waste some money now, we waste some money. Absolutely we have too many people hurting and the economy is going to sputter and weve got to get ourselves out of this mess. And this is the way we need to go right now. Let me tell you something, that man has a future in Northwest Florida politics. I like him. Or West Virginia. Mika, thats interesting. Thats from the republican governor of a state that donald trump got 69 in. Jim justice, governor of West Virginia, urging congress to go big on covid19 relief. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, february 2nd. We have columnist and Associate Editor for the Washington Post, david ignatius. Back with us, capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt. And it seems more and more likely that democrats will push through the Biden Administrations nearly 2 trillion Economic Relief package with or without republicans. The president met with a group of Senate Republicans for about two hou
invasion of ukraine. and i will just end by saying that according to officials, there was a discussion of a possible face-to-face meeting going forward. there s no timeline for that, but they are going to follow up and set up that meeting. mj lee, thank you. let s turn now to selena wang in beijing, gathering chinese reaction to joe biden and xi jinping s phone call. what did china have to say about mo pelosi s possible trip to taiwan? reporter: while the readout did not specifically mention pelosi, they gave a strong warning about playing with fire when it comes to taiwan. in that readout, xi jinping said, we firmly oppose taiwan independence and interference of external forces and will never leave any space for taiwan independence forces in any form. if you play with fire you get burned, and i hope the u.s. side can see this clearly. america is sending in one of its top politicians to taiwan, is treating taiwan more like an independent country that. is a clear red line
toomey was opposed to it when it passed 82-14. we only got the cbo score that says it was $680 billion, not $280 billion in june. it was before that final vote. we all know that people don t focus on every aspect of legislation. sometimes they don t focus on it until late in the game. that s what happened here with republicans. again, i think this is going to be resolved and it will be independent of what happens to other pieces of legislation. one other thing, you said you think this is going to pass. pelosi s warning of land lines, warnock warns about republican booby traps. are you saying it s going to be easy? i don t think it s going to be easy, but i think ultimately it will pass for the reasons that i outline. now, there are very clearly going to be challenges, even the ways and means chairman, ritchie neil, is on the record being against the carried interest provision.
russia is doing. indeed, he went further and said this is the time now to put the padlocks on the embassies, to look at each other through field glasses and rifle scopes. so i think the initial reaction is just double down and keep fighting. russia, it s believed, has put aside approximately $680 billion, and just a couple days ago the central bank was saying we could use that money to help the government with lending, we were going to be able to hold off some of the sanctions that were coming earlier last week. how these new sanctions are going to impact isn t clear. what the government has been saying up until now, and they haven t spoken about s.w.i.f.t. precisely yet, they say they will respond. they re figuring out how and what, and it will be reciprocal, but it may be asymmetrical. it is likely that there s a response coming. in the previous weeks president putin had indicated, his