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
today the sheriff is taking on some of the liberal idea blaming guns for the murders. here s what he had to say. i m just a simple man. i look at things simplistic as possible. i don t believe since and being politically correct or holding back. people think we, like myself are hard. we have heart. i have kids and i understand in these scenarios but the fact is, as we dance around the real issues, we want to focus on one thing that has no capability. i m here to tell you the gun didn t knock on the door, walk in the room and say look, let s go kill somebody today. they made a conscious decision and the failure here is the fact that we do not get to the root cause. family, our schools and even ourselves out here in society. we are enabling everything in which they do just because we don t hold them accountable. joey, it s so refreshing to hear someone speak the truth like that. a 12-year-old, a 6-year-old and 17-year-old are involved in these murders. shouldn t we be tryin
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