Around the world and to everyone streaming us On Cnn max, Im Rosemary Church in atlanta im, Becky Anderson in Tel Aviv in israel. It is 11 00 a. M. Here on monday ahead On Cnn newsroom, israel strikes inside the City Limits of beirut for a first time on this world, we are live in the region with the latest on the growing conflict with hezbollah. North carolina he was still reeling from Hurricane Helene days afterward, swept through the southeastern us. A look at the devastation and the dire situation on the ground right now. And Donald Trump repeats a very personal attack against his democratic rival Kamala Harris we have the latest from the Campaign Trail begin in the Middle East where israel says it has launched new Air Airstrikes in eastern and southern Lebanon Today the Israeli Military says it targeted hezbollah strongholds. Meanwhile, israel has also conducted airstrikes in the city of beirut. The first since the start of Israels War with hezbollah the damage from an attack near
Ch change. The types of things youre looking for change. Is austin the right person to handle rooting out extremism for the military . He absolutely is. Secretary austin is someone who because of that experience and because he came up through the ranks and served as an officer, first africanamerican secretary of defense, he does have a unique understanding of the challenges that we face here. I think theres some very specific things that he needs to do and i think he understands that. I think he understands that he needs to be more intrusive. We need to be more intrusive into the lives of our service members. I think he understands we need to be absolutely sure we are using the uniform code of military to prosecute people on active duty who engage in these activities. And i think he gets we need to fully understand the full nature of the problem. s important to point out the vast people in the military are not interested in this. They want to do the right thing. Secretary austin gets t
Representative Marjorie Taylor greene and the thirdranking house republican, liz cheney, who voted to impeach former president trump. Stand by for new information on that. And the republican infighting continues. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration is trying to stay focused on covid relief. The president meeting with fellow democrats today, urging them to go big and stick together as they move ahead on his nearly 2 trillion package without at least for now republican support. In just a moment ill talk with senator Bernie Sanders. Hes the new chairman of the Senate Budget committee. He was in that meeting with the president earlier today. But first lets go up to capitol hill. Our Congressional Correspondent ryan nobles is joining us. Ryan, were standing by to learn the outcome of this really critical meeting of House Republicans. What are you learning so far . Reporter well, wolf, the one thing we know for sure is that that meeting is still ongoing. More than two hours it has been as re
Starts right now. Today was the deadline for Donald Trumps legal team to file their brief with the senate for trumps upcoming Impeachment Trial. And it looks like trumps lawyers will be arguing that the trial is unconstitutional because trump is no longer president. Im going to use this. Im going to use this next time a cop pulls me over. Im going to be like, well, im no longer speeding. I was. I was. Im not now. Therefore this ticket is unconstitutional. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, february 3rd, along with joe, will li and me, we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press, jonathan lemire, former u. S. Senator now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst Claire Mccaskill and politics and Journalism Professor at Morgan State University and msnbc political contributor Jason Johnson is with us. So Donald Trumps second Impeachment Trial kicks off next week. And according to the case against him, the former president s role in the capitol hill riot is,
Guys. I will tell you this is actually bad news for the Biden Campaign because, for a long time, they have been saying that the longer nikki haley stays in the race the better for them. You had a second person on the headlines in the airwaves who was slamming donald trump as a risk to democracy. That and is how the Biden Campaign has been framing their 2024 approach. Basically hammering on the threat to democracy that trump poses. Hearkening back to january 6th. Searing in peoples minds images of his efforts to overturn the election. And they have been more than happy to see nikki haley echoing some of their messaging. And having it get out and having voters express to them about about donald trump, republicans, expressing that they cant get behind the likely and presumptive nominee up until now. So, the other factor is that while the biden team knows that they win, if donald trump is in the race, thats how they see it, this is certainly unwelcomed news. I think they would have liked t