consequences if lawmakers fail to raise it. a bill to eliminate the irs will soon come to the house floor. it s the result manufacture deals that kevin mccarthy made in order to become speaker. and also ahead, former president trump offers up a in you reason for why he had hundreds of classified documents stashed at his palm beach country club. they were cool keepsakes. we ll trin to explain that just ahead. we ll try to explain that just ahead. good morning. welcome to way too early. the united states is expected to reach the debt ceiling today. that means the country s borrowing limit is maxed out. that forces the treasury department to take extraordinary measures to keep the payments going through early june and prevent the united states from defaulting. there is little progress on capitol hill to resolve the problem. white house, senate democrats and republicans are all refusing to budge on the stances. the white house is warning that there should be no negotiat
continues to spawn violence across the country. meanwhile on capitol hill, the stalemate over the debt ceiling continues as the country hits its borrowing limit. we ll have the latest on efforts by the white house to find some sort of compromise. plus, the george santos saga takes another really strange turn. now there are questions about where his mother was on 9/11. also ahead, we are hours away from a decision on criminal charges in the deadly shooting on the set of rust. remember that? we ll get you caught up on the case that could come to a major development this morning. and we ll dig into new reporting on an aggressive new proposal from the biden administration as it pertains to the war in ukraine. joe has the morning off but willie and i are here in new york, and we have with us, the former aid to the george w. bush white house and state department, elise jordan, an msnbc political analyst. former white house communications director under president obama, jennifer
about the specifics of the investigation. their hope is this will be a short to medium term political hit. this will be resolved. their case will be sort of proven that it was inadvertent in the end, not a huge deal. they ll take lumps in the short-term, and long-term, especially as we get into 2024, this will be behind them. the president hasn t said anything about it in over a week. i don t think we should expect that to change anytime soon. eli solkols, author of the west wing play book, and thank you for getting up way too early on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is thursday, january 19th. this morning, we are learning more troubling details about the man accused of hiring gunmen to attack democrats in new mexico. we ll have those new developments. and how trump s big lie