not. my focus is to get justice for halyna hutchins and let everyone know just because you re an a-list actor, you re not going to be above the law. that is the special prosecutor in the rust shooting case speaking with nbc news after announcing alec baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer halyna hutchins. we ll have much more on this case and this surprising decision in just a moment. president biden s new comments about the investigation into the classified documents found at his home and personal office. we ll play for you that new information, that sound from him. also ahead, we ll explain why his administration is optimistic about the incendiary conservatives who are now serving on the house oversight committee. plus a live report from ukraine as dozens of allies are meeting to determine what military aid is needed to fend off russian forces. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, january
her, and you don t have that here. you have somebody who s like a golden retriever, which has been written about him before. the ability to be effective. molly jong-fast, great piece, thank you very much for being on this morning. it s two minutes past the top of the hour. as donald trump looks to retake the white house in 2024, tensions are growing between the former president and one of the key groups that help propel him to the oval office in 2016. evangelicals. in a radio interview this week, trump had a prickly response when asked about evangelical leaders who may choose to support other candidates in the next presidential election. take a listen. well, i don t really care. look, that s a sign of disloyalty. there s great disloyalty in the world of politics and that s a sign of disloyalty because nobody, as you know, and you would know better than anybody because you do such a great job, nobody has ever done more for right to life than donald trump. i put three supreme court
him for sweating, and then jabs, jabs, jabs. he sweats a little bit more, and then just goes in for the kill. trump did that with 16 people in 2016. and, again, i haven t seen anybody that can get in his face, that s good enough to get in his face. i had a good friend of mine, a republican friend that was at the desantis inauguration, and he said business leaders from across the country were flying in. they were lined up as far as you could see to just be in the presence of ron desantis. i said, yeah, and a lot of those guys, they were doing the same thing with jeb bush in 2015. so we ll see. maybe desantis can take a punch. my guess is just all of us talking right now, my guess is desantis says wait a second, why do i go to the meat grinder to
but now they want to win the white house and they re not sure if trump is the right guy to do it. so, david french, what did we learn? what did you and i learn about evangelical leaders in the age of trump? what we learned was they re not leaders. they re followers. they follow the flock. this is one of the things that we ve had some guests on before, pastor stanley on talking about how discourages he was that, you know, if people in the flock told the pastors not to support vaccines and not to support basic medicine, they wouldn t do it. so this goes back to reverend al s question earlier, like who s going to knock out the champ? trump is the champ, and the same people that wanted to give money to jeb bush in 2015 now want to
fiving and acting giddy. you can wait until you get home and say that to your husband or wife or partner but i think this is a time where everyone needs to act at all times more like an adult and let the other side destroy themselves. i think the giddiness is more for their political prospects in the white house and not for the country to have these people in real positions of power. as we look ahead at 2024, at the polling between donald trump and ron desantis, if he decided to run. other candidates now are starting to step forward. former president trump s early announcement that he s running for president, again, doesn t seem to have had the effect of freezing out the rest of the potential field. former u.n. ambassador and south carolina governor nikki haley had this to say when asked about her 2024 plans. when you re looking at a run for president, you look at two things. first you look at, does the current situation push for new leadership, the second question is am i that per