policies. she said don t make the city s first black woman and openly gay mayor. and in 40 years. prime sort under lightfoot s watch since 2019, murders jumped 40% and skyrocketed a whopping 40%. a recent poll shows overwhelming number of chicago s say that the cities on the wrong track. lori lightfoot does not attribute to that. she claims she was treated unfairly because she has a black woman in america. she conceded the race after coming in third and failing to advance to a runoff. we didn t win the election today, but i stand here with my head held high and my heart full. regardless of tonight s outcome, we fought the right fights and put the city on a better path, no doubt about it. kayleigh: that better path, brian, included homicide rate the highest in years and 53% of chicago s not feeling safe. brian: this is where you lie in a concession speech. and what she said also, did she say 63%? kayleigh: 63%. brian: the other percentage left chicago. and now, empty
traversed the nation before our military shot it down. after china said it is still thinking about arming russia in its war on ukraine. the list is so long. i m harris faulkner. the action against china fully on display. a china select committee held its first hearing in prime time yesterday. just because this congress is divided we cannot afford to waste the next two years. our policy over the next ten years will set the stage for the next 100. we can now allow the ccp to prevail. earlier yesterday democrats called for accountability. democrats calling for it from both china and the biden administration. there is a considerable dispute as to whether covid came from a wet market or came from the lab. the reason for this dispute is that china was absolutely opaque. they failed to cooperate. they failed to come clean. state department has done almost nothing to tell the world how china s responsible not maybe for the virus but certainly for their failure to cooperate afte
coast time. he what has to overcome low approval ratings and looking into his son. his republican critics have taken notice already. the president really focused on the past more and some of the divisions. i would hope and would think he would be talking about the economy, talking about america s position in the world, and strength. so i was a little disappointed in that. it shows the contrast. it sounds like he is heading forward now on, you know, dividing our country in a way that i think will have a lasting impact that will be very negative. dana: will voters give biden four more years to finish the job? reaction. first david spunt live at the justice department for the latest on the hunter biden probe. what s going on there, david? federal prosecutors continue to weigh potential misdemeanor and felony charges against hunter biden. no decisions have been made that we know of yet. this is an investigation going on for almost half a decade over a variety issues inclu
trump with quite the opening statement on the chinese communist party and president xi jinping. we have a lot to unpack from last night s hearing held by the new house committee on china. plus a new nonpartisan report is detailing more of the failures that led to the january 6th capitol attack. and also ahead, we ll break down what happened at the supreme court as justices heard arguments on president joe biden s student loan forgiveness plan. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, march 1st. march already. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. amid rising tensions between the two countries the new house select committee on the strew edgic competition between the united states and the chinese communist party held its first hearing last night. in prime time a bipartisan group of lawmakers set the stage for what republican chairman mike gallagher called an existential struggle over the future of america. we may call this a strategi
those comments were delivered to a new house select committee on china. we have a lot to get to this morning from the panel s prime time hearing. meanwhile, a trip to china by a putin ally is increasing concerns that beijing will ramp up support for russian forces. back here at home, president joe biden s student loan forgiveness plan went before the supreme court yesterday with the conservative majority expressing some skepticism about wiping away debt for some borrowers. also ahead, reaction to an historic defeat in chicago. for the first time in four decades, the city s mayor has lost a reelection bid. we ll get to that. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, march 1st. joe has the morning off, but along with willie and me, we have, of course, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, and the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass is