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
newsroom . with regard to the debt limit things are looking good and very optimistic. that might be how president biden feels about debt ceiling negotiations, but it s not clear everyone agrees, we ll look at the obstacles still ahead. and we have to be on top of the plane we re going to get on top of the plane. yeah, buckle up for what s expected to be a very busy holiday travel weekend, it s the unofficial start of summer, people, and the u.s., and millions here, are on the move. plus, cnn sports andy scholes joins me live to look at how new rules in major league baseball are putting action back in the game. . announcer: live from cnn center this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. we begin with a renewed sense of optimism on capitol hill this hour that a financial disaster could be averted. white house and republican negotiators have been hammering out the details of a plan to raise the nation s debt limit and we re told an agreement could be reached as
support for access to advanced fighterjets and training for ukraine. shortly after landing in hiroshima, president zelensky tweeted that he was expecting to have important meetings with partners and friends of ukraine. he said peace will be closer as a result of the summit. in the last hour, he met british prime minister rish sunak. the two leaders greeted each other with an embrace. asked if it was a good day, the ukrainian president smiled, nodded and said thank you . they had already met on monday here in the uk, where it was announced that britain would send hundreds of air defence missiles and armed drones to ukraine. on the second days of talks injapan, the leaders of the g7 group of advanced nations have issued a statement on a shared approach to promote global economic resilience and to counter economic coercion. they said that any malign actor trying to, as they put it, weaponise economic dependence would fail. the g7 leaders added that their policy was not desi
we report with breaking news i california and the deadl weather situation unfoldin there. another atmospheric river is slamming the state, bringing millions under flood alerts. several roads washed away, communities cut off an evacuations ordered. that threat is not over, mor rain is expected this weeken and northern california, eve more snow in fact in the sierra s let s go to nbc steve patterson, he is joining us from sanger california that is in the central part of the state. steve, welcome and what it s like there yes the central part of the state is taken a lot of this water, take a look at this community here one of the communities tha really sort of dodged a bullet here alex, take a look here th river running through rushin water, all of this though was part of that river yesterday this entire communit waterlogged water coming ove this bridge. we just saw workers plot a massive log from the strea here it was clogging things up and they worked to shore thi up but it c
rescuing again. i ll ask one of the people who was at the center of the storm the last time around, the former ceo of goldman sachs lloyd blankfein about whether the system is stable, and is your bank account safe? also, how did it come to this? did we learn the wrong lessons the last time? i ll talk to julian tet of the financial times. then don t mess with the french people s retirement plans. that s the lesson from weeks of strikes and protests and then chaos in parliament as the government pushed through their policy anyway. [ speaking non-english ] which brought the outrage right back to the streets. we ll tell you what you need to know. but first, here s my take. on his trip to saudi arabia last year president biden made an emphatic declaration about u.s. policy in the middle east. he said we will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by china, russia or iran. last week s reproachment between saudi arabia and iran brokered by china suggests that th