yesterday s hearings. expert legal analysis straight ahead on all of that. meanwhile the former president is floating another birther conspiracy. we ll tell you who he is targeting this time and on capitol hill, how republicans will hold two hearings today focused on hunter biden and homeland security secretary mayorkas. we ll have reporting on that. plus, the new developments out of the middle east following secretary of state blinken s meeting yesterday in israel, the two sides appear to be at odds over plans for a post-war gaza. and days after a mid-air explosion on a boeing max 9 jet, the ceo is acknowledging the company s mistakes. we ll have the latest on that investigation and the very latest on secretary of defense austin and what is going on with his health. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s a very busy wednesday, january 10th. joe? yeah, it s very busy, as far as boeing goes, not a great stretch that if your plane blow aparts in mid-air you take respo
in new jersey. in new york city in the northeast, the flood warnings and the alerts, potentially damaging winds. rob marciano on these deadly tornadoes, and ginger zee timing out tonight, tomorrow, and now yet another new storm right behind this one. tonight, the pentagon now saying that defense secretary lloyd austin is being treated for prostate cancer. and that the president and the white house only learned about it today. selina wang at the white house. more than 170 passenger planes now grounded tonight after that door plug came off the plane at 16,000 feet. what both alaska airlines and united airlines have now found while conducting their own inspections, and gio benitez reporting. former president trump in federal court today. his attorneys making the case that presidential immunity protects trump from anything related to the election and january 6th. a judge then asking trump s lawyers, if a president orders the assassination of a political rival, would preside
why not give it a try? good to be with you. i m katy tur. president biden once again today said donald trump is a threat to democracy. calling him a, quote, loser who tried to violate the constitution to stay in power. biden speaking at mother emanuel in charleston, south carolina, said a lot of the same things liz cheney said over the weekend in new hampshire. that donald trump is a want to be authoritarian, don t take that chance. he won t leave office, cheney warned. quote, i think there s a lot of living in a fantasy world that s going on with republicans telling themselves, look, we ll vote for him. it won t be so bad. it may well be the last real vote you ll ever get to cast. it will be that bad, and cheney says, the message is urgent. iowa is just one week away. and if you don t believe the urgency, abc news citing unnamed sources is reporting jack smith has yet another trump aide saying the former president didn t want to leave office. this time, it s dan scavino, t
if you paid any attention to the u.s. jobs report at any point over the last three years, there s a good chance you ve heard the phrase, better than expected. you ve probably heard it again over the last few days following the latest job in december. 216,000 new jobs were created. much better than expected for cnbc. back in the old days, weeks 150,000 or more jobs created in one month was good. there are now 100 one point 42 open positions for every job seeker in america. well every available job is not matched every available job seeker, mathematically, america has more jobs than it has available workers. that s just the fact. december s 2100is not anomaly either. that s largely been the trend of the biden presidency since the office in 2021. you can find similar headlines about better than expected numbers for june 2021, january 2022, june 2022, september 2023, for example. this has been one of the top achievements of the biden presidency. it shows that he s been able to
[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] pete: good morning and welcome to fox & friends. man alive, i say it every saturday, sunday, but your photos are phenomenal. they really are original, they really are for you. they land in our inbox, friends@foxnews.com, and we, we don t, although that last one had a picture of us and a fireplace. they mix it together with our nation s anthem, and it s magic. rachel: you ve been asking for this pete: i ve been asking for a coffee table book for years. i mean, you re welcome for the idea right here. a ray you re welcome, i agree. president.good to see you with, rachel. rachel: good to be back. i had a really nice time with my if family yesterday celebrating pete: what? rachel: the feast of the e epiphany, january 6th. not insurrection day will: the 12th day of christmas? rachel: it is. pete: did you give a gift every single day rachel: no, our kids get gifts from santa cla