one opportunity we have to fix it, and we say we d love to have fixed it but it was election season so i thought i d wait. that s republican senator kevin cramer of north dakota, one of the very few gop lawmakers to go on record in favor of passing the border deal despite donald trump s demands. we ll have more from capitol hill on those negotiations straight ahead. plus a potentially significant development in the hostage negotiations between israel and hamas with the cia director set to travel abroad in hopes of closing a deal. and also ahead, we ll go through donald trump s temper tantrum in court and get legal analysis on what s next in the defamation damages trial. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, january 26th. we made it to friday. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin with this news from the middle east. cia director william burns expected to travel starting in europe in the coming days to help broke
Congressional campaign committee, congresswoman Susan Delbene. Talk to us about what happens next. And, taking trump seriously, threatening rhetoric and promises of retribution arising in frequency. Miles taylor, molly john, fast and brian closs joined me to discuss why the leading candidate for the republican president ial nomination must not be ignored. Im jonathan capehart, this is The Sunday Show. Today, and a surprising turn of events, the government is open. Late last night, with less than an hour over a potential shutdown, President Biden signed a Stopgap Spending Bill into law. The Continuing Resolution passed by both the house and senateitbipartisan majorities. This will keep the government funded until november 17th. Th bl includes Disaster Relief funds, an extension of federal flight insurance program, and, faa reauthorization. No aid for ukraine, despite widespread bipartisan support for it in the senate. President biden was quick to address the issue, saying in a statement
Demand. We can go through them, washington, adams, jefferson . Lincoln . No, not lincoln. Anybody . Roosevelt . No. I hereby demand. Stunning. Erdogan and putin say that. This is maggie trump who is being investigated by a department of justice appointed special counsel consulted with his attorney on his order to the doj to investigate the investigation into himself. Why do you go to your personal attorney, why do you go to your white House Counsel . Thats why theyre there. This deals with the constitution this isnt a porn star payoff. This has to do with the constitution of the United States and upholding checks and balances that madison gave us 1787. Hes not interested in the checks and balances that madison gave us. And the second part is this is a political strategy. This isnt about the constitution. This is about trying to get him out of trouble and create a diversion from what bob mueller is looking into. Welcome to morning joe as we back into everything this morning. Its tuesday
And then with william barr mmmhmm. He was a party to. He knows every single thing that rosenstein allowed them to do or maybe was reluctant to allow them to do. Hes just filled with a level of detail that i think is invaluable. And because of that, because of his role as the person who was running the daytoday operations of the office but also that gobetween role at the Justice Department, youd sort of be i think particularly interested in what zebley might have to say about, you know, charging decisions around obstruction of justice and some of that really controversial stuff from volume ii of the report. Volume ii of the report is going to be what theyre discussing in the morning with the Judiciary Committee, which is the time youd want zebley to be able to answer those questions. As of right now we dont think hes going to be answering questions, hes just going to be sitting there whispering in muellers ear. As i said, i dont know if the Judiciary Committee has it within their power
Mueller. It should be a fascinating dynamic. I honestly wouldnt be surprised if over the course of this evening the Judiciary Committee didnt decide to sort of follow the same path that the intelligence is doing and just swear zebley in. Why have him sitting there and not able to answer your questions . Well see. Still evolving. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. You know, i think to that question that the Judiciary Committee has some slightly different rules on what it means once someone who is sworn in as a witness, but we have a Judiciary Committee member here with us who is going to answer all of that. I now believe that the Intelligence Committee hearing now might turn out to be the better of the two hearings because i think aaron zebleys contribution could be really invaluable tomorrow. I suspect he will be less tight and constricted in the way he talks about this. Hes certainly in a position to know everything, an