bargaining agreements and done it with employees so you already have a logicalinconsistency. if you work with players you have to be vaccinated. if you re a player, you don t have to be vaccinated. that s worrying about your contracts but the contentment of your fans by alienating the talent. i think mandates work. i think it s very sad we need them because we shouldn t have had to have them. what is the cultural value of lebron james? to me, personally, my kid loves him. i don t care what he thinks about most things other than sports. that s me. the society does. if he wants to talk about black lives matter and very racial and political things and i m not saying he shouldn t, this should be a layup pun intended. the reason that it isn t, i think he has to answer for. listen, you know, of course, people have their right and it s their choice and all that. okay, fine. but these are unusual circumstances and these are unusual times and you re right, if you re going to speak u
plus, republican presidential candidate and florida governor ron desantis reveals his biggest regret about the 2024 campaign. the key issue he says, quote, sucked the oxygen out of the gop primary race for everyone. all right. good morning. welcome to way too early on this friday. thank god it s friday december 22nd. i am sam stein in for jonathan lemire. don t fret all you jonathan lemire fans. he is going to be hosting morning joe in a little bit. you have me for the next hour, though. former president trump s legal team is expected to file an appeal in the colorado supreme court decision that removed the ex-president from the 2024 primary ballot immediately after christmas. trump s lawyers are on a tight, tight deadline forhe appeal. they will file before january 4th. the ruling trump is ineligible for office will stand and it his name will not appear on the colorado ballot. the supreme court will then decide if it ll take up the case. meanwhile, the former president
correspondent, keir simmons, is in moscow sharing this. reporter: this is the front page of russia s government newspaper with a picture of vladimir putin and the headline, no one should have any doubts. earlier in the white house, top adviser, john kirby, weighing in on this moment in the war. we don t know what the steps are here for mr. putin, but can you see from the reaction of the ukrainian people over the course of the weekends, they are not backing down and they are not slowing down. the fog of war escalating tensions and no clear signs of an off-ramp are obviously a dangerous combination for a country with nuclear weapons. we will get insight from a member of ukraine s parliament. plus, here at home, the political drum beat to the midterms is growing louder, and herschel walker will be getting an assist from big-name republicans as a new ad takes aim at his family scandals. later with the economy a big issue for voters, the stark new warning from the head o
the historic heat wave and an obama biden reunion, why the former president and first lady are returning to the white house this afternoon. we begin with new developments in the investigations into donald trump and his allies. people familiar with the matter tell the washington post the documents seized by the fbi during a search of trump s mar-a-lago estate last month included information about a foreign government s nuclear capabilities. nbc news has not independently confirmed this reporting. the justice department declined to comment. as the post wrote in its piece, quote, some of the seized documents detail top secret u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. and that quote, documents about such highly classified operations require special clearances on a need to know basis, not just top secret clearance but a trump spokesperson tweeted the washington post continues to serve as the propaganda ar
that everybody wants. many of the ideas have a popular ring on the doorstep. will voters trust those bearing the message? david grossman has been gauging reaction. i normally vote for labour. i m a member of the labour party. but i m loathe to say what i really think at the minute. go on, tell me. no. and where does this manifesto fit into the political firmament? 0ur panel is raring to go, with our left right blackboard. good evening. it was not so long ago we moaned about all political parties looking and sounding the same. failure to offer proper choice to the voter, failure to bring anything new to the table. well, no one looking at labour s manifesto in whatever form it finally emerges can parrot that line now. if the leaked draft remains true to character, then this is a bold political treatise, and one we re exploring across the show tonight. it offers a role for the state, perhaps not seen since the post war days of clement attlee. it seeks bigger national service