morning. morning joe starts right now. it s the top of the hour. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 2nd. happy new year, everybody. israel s ground offensive in gaza is entering a new phase. the israeli military has plans to pull back some troops and shift to more localized operations. we re going to go through that development and the escalating tensions in the red sea. plus, a damning, new report on the intelligence failures by the israeli military. new york times investigation found there was no battle plan for a massive hamas invasion that they were warned about. also ahead, a look at the long to-do list for congress in 2024 with several crucial items that were simply not addressed late last year. plus, the supreme court has a tight timeline to rule on what would be one of the most consequential cases involving the presidency. we ll get expert, legal analysis on the issue of removing donald trump from the ballot in two states. are there going
arthel neville but the president is spending the weekend at his delaware home. but it won t be easy to get away from the firestorm of criticism in the nation s capitol. the announcement comes just days after turning general merrick garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the handling of those files. meantime house republicans say they will launch their own search for answers. there is a reason we have skiffs secure compartmentalized information facility. there is a reason for it in those documents are supposed to be in a skiff. they are never supposed to leave secure custody. your garage shall commence under lock and key as the president indicated you are never supposed to have classified information like that. eric: how about this situation? lucas thomason live at the white house with the very latest and they are. hey eric, let s go back to what president biden told our own peter doocy on thursday. he said some classified material had been discovered in that g
that s our show for tonight. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. we are joined by a former clerk for supreme court justice samuel alito who says justice alito should recuse himself from the trump cases. that clerk will join us to make her case. i m eager to hear that clerk s argument for something i agree with. i think it will sound familiar. i will be watching. thanks alex. have a good show. breaking defendant trump news of the night is that donald trump has to give up his guns. donald trump who has had bodyguards for many, many years before he had secret service protection. never had any rational reason to carry or even possess a firearm, but like many people who hope that a handgun might make them feel more like a man, donald trump owns three handguns. and he obtained a license to carry a concealed handgun. a license that the new york police department now wants to revoke. under the headline nypd moves to revoke tr
they involved a random third party. this hearing later this month. and those, and to your point, lawrence, those are the cases that have the weight, grandeur, and gravity to make it all the way to the supreme court. not in a small courtroom that has two rows of seat. what about this one, two of us have never seen this at the district court level? oh, we have a found problem with andrew s. i don t think we have andrew. sorry, is this better? we have you now. maybe the exception that proves the rule. there is no question that as adam points out, this is very
to task with. and adam, one of the other things that i have never seen at the trial court level. the district court level is she is inviting other so-called experts to come in and argue these points about the constitutionality of jack smith s appointment. you see briefs accepted by the supreme court. this is saying you can stand up in my courtroom and argue this. absolutely. and i have been covering the courts 50 years. this isn t something that i have seen. and when trying to quantify just how unusual is this, i found this helpful legal brief by one of the parties who wanted to respond. so i was looking at this brief