never indicted or incited an insurrection. he loves his children. he doesn t hide classified documents. vote dernald turmp, and he ll make the united states goodest, as it once one. i approve this message. i didn t know. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, december 21st. great to have you with us. also with us, we have white house editor for politico, sam stein, who intimidates people who work for him to say that he is their favorite. we heard that, sam. also, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. washington bureau chief for the usa today, susan page. and staff writer at the atlantic, mark leibovich. president biden made his first remarks yesterday about the colorado supreme court ruling that donald trump is disqualified from that state s 204 primary ballot because of his role in the january 6th attack on the capitol. in milwaukee, biden initially refused to comment but then said this when asked if trump supported an insurrection. well, i think it
office in ohio completely stomach the president yesterday. said to be doing more to help their cause ahead of november. kellyanne conway says the failures of this white was impossible to ignore. cutting loose biden and harris, and look, the conspiracy or not the force of these. the democrats and liberals and biden and harris and the rest of them have always used as a stalking horse blaming that for that one. they can t do it anymore. good morning, mark. good morning. polls for the economy ahead of mine for voters. president biden knows he cannot avoid the topic. on wednesday, i was in cleveland, ohio, is plan passed congress last year. the president telling the crowd the economy has improved since the crop years but he admits admiration is a real problem americans face today. president biden: we got a long way to go because of inflation because of i call it the putin tax increase. all that great he is keeping from being able to get to the market. now i m fighting
few moments from now. it was here almost exactly 24 hours ago now that a gunman opened fire from the roof of a building about two blocks behind me, killing six people, you can hear the sounds of it right there, wounding 25. it caused hundreds of people to flee the scene. a real moment of sheer terror. you can see actually behind us now some of the chairs that they left behind still littering the scene here. police did find a gun on the roof of that building. ultimately about eight hours later they were able to apprehend someone there y re calling a person of interest, they used the phrase suspect, that person has been in custody overnight and several hours and investigators are going through his past trying to learn more about what might have led him to open fire on this celebration of the nation s independence. let s get the very latest on where the investigation stands this morning, i m joined by josh campbell who has been on the scene now for 20 hours at this point chasing
occurring in the madison area, i contemplated another attack with a firearm he had in his car. his cell phone was tapped in a 6500 block of university avenue in middleton. that was recovered yesterday by the fbi. it is being right now. investigators don t know exactly why crimo decided not to attack and instead drove back to illinois where he was later arrested, but they say there are indications that he had not put in up resorted to pulling off a second shooting. the mass shooting that killed seven people, the motive remains unclear. however, authorities say he went into detail about what you re done, opening fire from a rooftop in highland park, targeting barre chords. police citing 83 bullet shells and three ammunition magazines on the rooftop. there are also facing questions about how crimo was able to legally buy guns despite making threats of violence in the past. in 2019, police were called to his matters to me that he had threatened to kill everyone.