good morning, everyone. we begin this hour with breaking news overnight. last-minute changes to house speaker kevin mccarthy s debt limit bill. the rules committee worked through the night, ajudge at 5:20 this morning as mccarthy scrambles for republican support ahead of today s possible vote. breaking news just in. ukrainian president zelenskyy has just had a conversation with chinese president xi jinping. that s notable. they had not spoken since before russia invaded ukraine. also, a multi-state manhunt underway this hour for four inmates who escaped from a mississippi jail. one them accused of killing a man and stealing his truck after breaking out of prison. where that investigation is this morning. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. we begin on the u.s. economy and breaking news. house speaker kevin mccarthy reversing course and making big changes to his debt limit plan in the early morning hours as he scrambles to try to get enough republican vot
tensions with china. nbc news was first to report the suspected chinese surveillance balloon hovering over the northern united states around montana for the past few days. china is now responding claiming it is a civilian airship used for weather research that was blown off course. but how credible is that claim? minutes ago we learned secretary of state antony blinken is postponing his trip to china for what was supposed to be a highly anticipated meeting with china s leader next week. the pentagon is set to hold a briefing in the next hour. we know the department of defense is tracking the balloon closely, even at one point discussing shooting it down. we even have air traffic audio from wednesday about a, quote, special mission. we just got alerted from salt lake tmu we re on a ground stop right now until further notice for a special mission going on over the livingston area. we don t know exactly when we can have our next departure. it is landing with a thud on capito
soon. putin s speech comes with new reporting this morning on china s growing concerns about russia s weakened status on the world stage. meanwhile, we will hear from president joe biden later this morning as he is in poland now to meet with allies following that historic trip to ukraine. also ahead, the maga members of congress staying on brand, criticizing the president for visiting ukraine. we ll go through some of their comments. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, february 21st. with me here in new york, way too early host and the white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. at the table with joe in washington, pulitzer prize-winning columnist at the washington post, eugene robinson. former white house press secretary now msnbc host jen psaki. editor for the washington post, david ignatius. also with us, founder of the bulwark, charlie sykes. joe, incredible, staggering, historic scenes yesterday of president biden walking th
now. what are you doing? and good morning. thanks, joe. it s 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific i m jose diaz-balart. we begin this hour with breaking news from london where british prime minister liz truss announced a short time ago she is resigning after being in office for 44 days. i recognize, though, given the situation i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. i therefore spoken to his majesty, the king, to notify him that i am resigning as leader of the conservative party. her resignation comes after a series of high profile resignations and revolt by members of her conservative party over her economic plan. truss is by far the shortest serving prime minister in british history. with us now to talk about this from london, nbc news foreign correspondent kelly cobella. reporter: it was a string of issues i guess you could say. problems unforced errors for the prime minister over the past six weeks or so. she said today t
viewers watching from around the world, i m laila harrak, and ahead on cnn newsroom former president donald trump s tax information is finally about to go public after his years-long fight to keep it secret. what we can expect to find out in the coming hours plus one of russia s largest strikes yet. that s ten months into the war, russia launches dozens of missiles into ukraine, just days before the new year. and remembering a football legend. tributes pour in from around the world for pelé. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom we have laila harrak. we begin with the latest chapter of a legal battle that has been playing out in washington for years. in the coming hours, u.s. house lawmakers will release some of former president donald trump s tax returns. he refused to make them public when he ran for the white house, breaking with a presidential tradition going back decades. and he fought every effort to get them released, calling it an abuse of power and a