democrats, senate republicans a time to work through the weekend in an effort to reach a framework agreement. our republican colleagues who have said action on the border is so urgent should have no problem with continuing to work next week. senate majority leader chuck schumer calling republicans bluff on border security. he s delaying the upper chamber s recess in hopes of hammering out a deal on foreign aid, which includes critical funding on ukraine. meanwhile, the biden administration put more pressure on the israeli prime minister to scale back the country s ground war in gaza. we ll have the latest developments from the middle east. also ahead how the biden campaign is trying to capitalize on the impeachment inquiry into the president. hey, everybody. good morning to you. and welcome to way too early on this friday, december 15th. i m yasmin vossoughian, in for jonathan lemire. there are signs this morning on a potential deal on immigration reform, which could pa
he s leading us to a depression. trump asked supporters on wednesday to name one thing that has gotten better under biden and, i don t know, there s a lot, i can think of a lot, but i think maybe number one is we re drinking less bleach. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is friday, december 15th. senate majority leader chuck schumer is calling the bluff, he has hopes of hammering out a deal on foreign aid which includes critical funder for ukraine. also ahead, how the biden campaign is trying to capitalize on the impeachment inquiry into the president. plus, rudy giuliani s defense team takes a very odd strategy in closing arguments in his defamation case. i will tell you about their pitch to the jurors. with us this morning we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius, member of the new york times editorial board mara gay, host of the podcast unbrand with donny deutsch, and the co-founder of punchbowl news don bresnahan.
posts years ago. saying they don t reflect her views today. apparently that was not enough. the new york post said no sin is ever forgiven in the brave new woke world. she is just the last in a long list of victims. to dr. seuss books and looney toons characters. even former president trump was banned from twitter. christina coleman is following the story. christina. hi, yeah, she has apologized over and over again for some of the things she tweeted a decade ago when she was just 17 at the time. but still because of those years-old tweets she will no longer start as editor in chief of teen vogue next week. it sparked outrage from some of teen vogue staffers and readers because of the homophobic and anti-asian tweets she posted a decade ago. the owner of teen vogue was aware of the tweets. the company s officer sent an email saying she was straight forward and transparent about these posts during our interview process and through public apologies years ago. they say she ha
georgia s 2020 elections which is expected to result in indictments against trump and others next month. coming as we learn that the target letter trump received from smith on sunday ahead of a possible indictment mentions three federal statutes. the deprivation of rights under color of law, conspiracy to defraud the u.s., and tampering with a witness. joining us to break it down, atlanta-journal constitution senior reporter tam ar hallerman. also with us former assistant u.s. attorney current president of the leadership conference on civil and huge rights, mya wiley, msnbc contributor alexei mchammond. why the subpoena is from jack smith, why is it so significant? as you mentioned, it shows the widening interest in georgia, which has had its own investigation into former president former president and his actions in the aftermath of the november 2020 elections.