out with new details on the scope of its recent military drills and what role kim jong-un played in them . we twin in ukraine where two explosions have been reported in the country s capital. the mayor of kyiv says they happened in the city center and that all services are at the location. it comes after russia suffered a humiliating blow this weekend when an explosion damaged its bridge to crimea. a key supply line for his troops. president vladimir putin has blamed ukraine for the blast, calling it a terror attack. despite moscow s fury, a kremlin spokesman is playing down concerns that russia might respond with a nuclear attack. dmitry peskov was asked about it, but he simply dismissed the question. however, russia has been intensifying its missile strikes on the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia. hours ago, it reportedly destroyed an apartment block, leading to several casualties. before that attack, ukraine s president said the strikes this week had killed 43 civilians in
admitting their poor messaging are hurting their election chances. i m a loyal democrat but i am not happy. we did not listen to voters in the election. when voters tell you over and over and over again they care mostly about the economy, listen to them. john: democrats are not just bickering with each other over canned goods, but also canned lines on the campaign trail. no more drilling. there is no more drilling. i haven t formed any new drilling. sandra: that happened yesterday. bronxville, new york, the president promising again to put an industry out of business and enraging a senate in his own party. we ll see if the administration will try to walk back the president s remarks as we await the white house briefing this hour. john: also, mike roe is here to weigh in how the mixed messaging is affecting american workers. sandra: and newt gingrinch is here with some messages from 1994. john: on the ground in one of the senate races that could decide it all, pe
good morning and welcome back to morning joe on this friday, december 30th, new year s eve eve. it is 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. as you wake up out west. let s dive right in to a newly released batch of deposition transcripts from witnesses who spoke to the house select committee including members of former president donald trump s inner circle including former white house communications director alissa farah griffin. she spoke to the panel on april 15th describing her tenure at the trump white house as a wild eight months in her words. griffin revealed one serious and ongoing problem was a lack of organization. she described the trump white house in which jobs were filled with underqualified staff because more senior government officials would not take positions within the administration. griffin said any report about the trump white house being chaotic and operating without structure was, quote, more or less accurate. that included there being no competent gat
we re joined live with the very latest. david. john, at the outset it is not believed that anyone in lee zeldin s family was being targeted by this shooting. but it was literally at his front door. a few moments ago i talked to the congressman and he is running for governor here in the state of new york against a democrat cathy hochul and he did tell me his two 16-year-old daughters were in the kitchen when they heard the gunfire. one of the bullets he told me landed 30 feet from where his daughters were sitting. the two daughters immediately locked themselves in a bathroom and then called 911. he issued a statement saying in parting the two individuals shot were laying under my front porch in the pitches in front of our porch. my understanding is that they ve been transported to area hospitals and i do not know their identities and the law enforcement is at my house and my family is homeworking with investigators and working with home cameras and my daughters are shaken b
republicans need a win in just two of these states to take control of the senate. so democrats are bringing out some of the biggest names on the left to get their voters to the polls. president biden actually is coming back from the sidelines, he s been in and out of the game. he s going join his former boss in pennsylvania or he did yesterday arguably barack obama is still the democrats only star player and later today he will be once true blue state of new york campaigning for governor kathy hochul who you know her big sticking point has been crime should she help solve it, get rid of liberal da or standby on the sidelines much like a biden and jumping in hasn t been with the plan. it s been a hot mess sandwich and in the window of hot mess sandwich. the race is becoming purple. a red hot republican lee zeldin is pulling ahead. president biden mocking hecklers calling them idiots. give me a break. what idiots? socialist. no one ever doubts what i say, sometimes i say all