and welcome to morning joe: weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. let s begin this morning with a new report from house democrats that alleges the first two years of donald trump s presidency. his family business received seven point $8 million from foreign governments. democrats on the republican-led house oversight committee yesterday released the findings of an investigation that began back in 2016 into violations of the constitution s foreign cause. the report finds from 2017, to 2019 alone, trump s businesses received at least seven point $8 million from 24 in governments. most of that money? according to the report came from china! whose government allegedly paid more than five and a half million dollars to rent out trump s own properties during that time. the government of saudi arabia where, trump visited on his first foreign trip as president paid his business is more than $600,000. the. information stems from documents obtained from the trump s fo
like desantis, haley, pence, scott, for this fund-raiser. the bulk of the g.o.p. field will be here. before they come to the iowa fairgrounds, some campaigning to do across the country. you are going to see a lot of us in south carolina. florida governor ron desantis hits his third early voting state of the week, south carolina after campaigning in iowa and new hampshire. don t let anyone tell you they can do this in 24 hours or six months or anything like that. this is going to be trench warfare. ron desantis is responding to former president donald trump was arguing could break the country in six months. desantis says that the republican president would need to go consecutive terms to rein in government. trump wrapped his two day iowa trip with a town hall in des moines and responded to reports that federal prosecutors have the reporting of the present acknowledging that he had a classified document about about iran war plans. everything i did was right. the
sandra: all new at 2:00, the pentagon set to brief the press any moment now as president xi and putin wrap up day two of their historic summit bringing america s top two adversaries even closer together. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m sandra smith in new york. we are certainly monitoring the pentagon for any news that comes from there, john. john: it could be a big news hour. we ll keep an eye on the pentagon for any updates as president xi tries to broker a peace plan for putin s war. experts warn any china-backed peace plan would have one winner, china. that s where we start with the fox news alert. sandra: president biden just wrapped his remarks on a day he has devoted to talking about climate and environmental justice. at the same time as china and russia are plotting against the united states. the two major powers showing off their close relationship during today s second round of talks. john: president biden under fire for still
their party leader. and divided by the growing feud good day, everyone. i m andrea mitch until washington. as capitol police here and law enforcement in new york are bracing for a possible indictment of former president trump, multiple agencies, including the u joining me now, garrett haake in manhattan, chuck rosenberg and barbara me1cquade and yamichee1 alcindor. garrett, take us through the updates we got from attorney costello.e1 reporter: we got a little back and forth yesterday. we expected all of ite1 would py out behind closed doors.fá prosecutors determined they did not need to hearxd from the secd witness of the day yesterday. what happened instead was testimony from robert costello, a witness put forward by mr. trump s attorneys, essentially on a mission to discredit michael cohen, who has emerged as the star witness to the prosecution. cohen was kept around in case he was needed to rebut costñ prosecutors decided that wouldn t be necessary for the grand juro
bill: also the debate that has everybody taking sides, while some restaurants let kids eat free, one restaurant is letting kids eat free from kids. no children allowed, people who want to dine in peace. some parents say it s a slap in the face. we ll take you there coming up this hour. jacqui: welcome back as america reports rolls into the second hour, jacqui heinrich in washington. bill, good to be with you. bill: nice to see you, jacqui. sandra and john have the day off. first, a fox news alert from overseas, check it out. jacqui: begin this hour with a duelling display on the world stage. president biden making a surprise visit to war torn ukraine all while china prepares to send its top diplomat to russia. bill: so that s happening as president putin gears up for a major address, marking one year since the invasion began. tomorrow morning early our time. he s hoping for some support from the communist nation, he might just get it, jacqui. jacqui: the u.s. is