Smith. And maryland, the president trying to handle growing threats in the pacific. A new Military Exercise Program to Counter China and north koreas ambitions. John and during the announcement, one reporter squeezed in a question about National Security concerns over the president s son. Listen here. Administration view this investigation as legitimate and the administration concerns that Hunter Bidens ties to china pose a National Security issue . I dont have any comment on that. John the white house shutting down that line of inquiry, trying to focus on the task at hand. Jacqui heinrich is live at camp david, with the podium behind her, the leaders will soon appear. Its significant to note just how interesting it is you are going to have these three leaders appearing on the same stage together. Two years ago the deputy secretary of state, Wendy Sherman had to appear solo on a Stage Following a trilateral event with the two countries and u. S. , the Japanese Foreign minister objected
course? i think the president going to kyiv doesn t settle that problem once and for all. ideally, it would have been great had he shown up, you know, with senator mcconnell or somebody like that who is strongly in support of the war. again, it sends a reassuring message to ukraine about american staying power. which, jonathan, is critical for europe. europe has followed behind and with the united states for the most part. this is leading from ahead, and that is what is required in this instance. we are now past 6:00. welcome to morning joe at this morning. joe, mika and willie have the day off. i want to bring in katty kay, special u.s. correspondent for bbc news, into our live, rolling coverage of this presidents day and president biden s surprise trip to ukraine, one meant to show a real symbol of solidarity, katty, with kyiv, as it has weathered russia s invasion now for 12 months. yeah, jonathan, what a day for us to kick off presidents s day, to see these images.
news digital, it is clear hunter and other members engaged in appalling shady business schemes to avoid scrutiny as they made millions from foreign adversaries like china. we been wondering where the doj and irs has been, it appears biden administration may have been working over time to prevent the bidens from facing consequences. todd: brooke singman has more. brooke: the unidentified whistleblower is claiming he has protected disclosures that detail pref rential treatment in politics affecting decisions that would be followed by career law enforcement professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected. the attorney says his client is ready to provide more information to congress investigating the president s son. listen. to him, the truth is one truth and he wants to come forward with it. he s ready to be questioned about what he knows and what he experienced under proper legal protection. brooke: documents reveal current crisis co
nonmerit requests we found a handful of documents were filed in the wrong place. we immediately turned over to the archives and the justice department. fully cooperating to get this resolved quickly. think you ll find there s nothing there i have no regrets i m following what the lawyers have told me they want me too do. it s exactly what we are doing. there s no there there picasso made out for merger attorney general of the united states, michael, judge thanks so much for coming in. at the top hear what he think of that answer? there is no they are, therefore the president. was not what theirs was to learn special counsel investigation? what s with all due respect there s a plenty there. because the documents were founs were found in an unauthorized place. they were there for several years. they were taken from the white house and placed in on the other unauthorized place for the first place they were founded not open till february 2018. there were some of them the highest
2020 election results and did not want trump to go to the capitol after his incendiary speech on january 6th. but hudson also told the public this baloney had the year of mark meadows that day and wanted him to convince the former president to stop the insurrectionists. now, as the january six committee gears up for more hearings this month, the panel says it s prepared to investigate efforts to intimidate witnesses. we now know that, before testify, hutchison was urged by a text message to, quote, do the right thing and remain loyal to the ex president. nbc news has learned that that message came from her former boss, mark meadows. a spokesman for meadows denies that he ever attempted to intimidate hutchison. for most of, us it s been clear from the start of the former president and his allies played a role in the attempt to overturn the election and influence the january six attacks. these hearings have only cemented that. the question remains, whether it s moving the dial