a lake house. so reporters asked the white house if that s why he s not going to wilmington. guess what the now very familiar resounding response sounded like? watch. so as it relates to classified documents, information, which the president takes very seriously and you heard him speak to it when asked by colleagues in california, i d refer you to the white house counsel office for any statement coming from here. martha: yeah. basically just hit rewind and replay on that answer. takes it very seriously. so the president s lawyers found the first batch of these classified documents at the think tank in washington d.c. that was six days. i want to reiterate this. this find came six days before the mid-term elections. after all of the brouhaha, we know there s different situations. however, there s quite a few similarities, right? so why did we not learn about any of this for months? so this from the new york times. this says a lot. 68 days of silence. why the white house
continues to spawn violence across the country. meanwhile on capitol hill, the stalemate over the debt ceiling continues as the country hits its borrowing limit. we ll have the latest on efforts by the white house to find some sort of compromise. plus, the george santos saga takes another really strange turn. now there are questions about where his mother was on 9/11. also ahead, we are hours away from a decision on criminal charges in the deadly shooting on the set of rust. remember that? we ll get you caught up on the case that could come to a major development this morning. and we ll dig into new reporting on an aggressive new proposal from the biden administration as it pertains to the war in ukraine. joe has the morning off but willie and i are here in new york, and we have with us, the former aid to the george w. bush white house and state department, elise jordan, an msnbc political analyst. former white house communications director under president obama, jennifer
that wraps up the hour for me. i m jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. lindsey reiser picks up with more news right now. good morning. i m lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york. and right now we re watching for a major decision set to come any moment now about the deadly shooting on the set of the movie rust. it s been 15 months since cinematographer halyna hutchins was struck and killed by a live round fired from a prop gun by actor alec baldwin. now a new mexico district attorney is about to announce whether any charges in the case will be filed. i want to get right to nbc s vaughn hillyard in new mexico. what do we know so far? reporter: yeah, lindsey, we re talking about a tragic case here in which there was a certain level of intelligence, several layers of negligence on the part of alec baldwin and individuals who were a part of the crew on this western set here of rust which was being shot just outside of santa fe. but the ext
new picture of the embattled republican congressman performing as a drag queen in brazil, pictures santos denies are of him. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, president biden makes a promise, a promise to ukraine to give whatever it needs. all the help they need. it comes as the u.s. today targets the private russian military force the wagner group, designating it a transnational criminal organization. the wagner group is what is leading putin s war right now. right now making the only known progress on the battlefield for putin. that means the man running russia s most powerful private army is making a name for himself. here is yevgeny progozhin, publically declaring his men are the ones that captured a key city outside of bakhmut. translator: we can safely say that the settlement of one of the most important suburbs of bakhmut has been completely taken under the control of wagner pmc units, exclusively by wagner pmc units. klishchi
investigations. a move certain to frustrate newly-empowered republicans. plus, alec baldwin s lawyers say they were blind-sided when the actor was set to be charged with manslaughter this week. that has many wondering, do prosecutors actually have a case? are they overreaching? we ll discuss. and the desantis administration blocks an a.p. african american studies course from being taught in high schools. we re joined by one professor for a look at what s actually in that course and why she feels it s critical for students. your weekend is finally here. we are glad to have you. it s saturday, january 21st. good morning. good morning. good to see you. we are going to begin with the war in ukraine this morning. a stalemate over tanks. ukraine s president says the country desperately needs them and there s no alternative. but germany failed to reach an agreement on sending its leopard tanks to ukraine because german officials say they will not send those tanks unless th