meanwhile, the trump desantis rivalry is heating up. we ll show you how the florida governor responded to the covid criticism. we ll look at the rnc s 2024 playbook as party leaders want to double down on an issue that lost them the elections in the midterms. running straight into loserville. and today, president joe biden and speaker kevin mccarthy sit down at the white house in hopes of ending the standoff over the debt ceiling. plus reverend al sharpton joins us live from memphis ahead of his eulogy today for tyre nichols. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s wednesday, february 1st. along with joe, good to have you back. good to be back. willie and me. we have jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news katty kay is with us. and member of the new york times editorial board mara gay. so we start with today s high stakes meeting between president joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. their focus, ending the standoff over the debt ce
get to feel piecemeal but when you think about in the state of new york, there s a state law against choke holds, the eric garner law, and other states we ve seen, there will be state-wide legislation. the failure has been national and the strategy certainly has rethought every time we can, but the strategy is to put people in office that will vote for that. we came very close to passing the george floyd justice in policing act. and i think we must continue to put people in, and to pressure those that are in. some are now facing re-election in 24 that we may be able to get it now. let s not forget, mara, that even when we failed to get the george floyd justice in policing act after george floyd, that we did get the president of the united states, joe biden stepped forward and did an executive order around some of the same things that we wanted, in terms
get this far. i thank everyone that sois on t front line. we won this fight. and for, you know, commissioner o neal, i thank you for doing the right thing. i truly, sincerely thank you for firing the officer. regardless of however you came to your decision, you finally made a decision that should have been made five years ago. that s right. and it s unfortunate we went from one administration to the next. we can t talk about what happened in the past. we can only talk about what we re going to do moving forward. we ll be going for the congressional hearings. we will be trying to reopen the case. we ll be going after the rest of the officers involved because its not over. justice for new york city means pantaleo is fired and there is no murdering cop on the police force. so commissioner o neal, while we appreciate you making your decision, we are definitely still calling for eric garner law which will ban the choke hold and ban officers being protected by a shield and not
he is down. he s down. put your hands behind your back. shepard: it s a video that sparked years of protest. i can t breathe became a rallying cry for the black lives matter movement against racial injustice. following garner s death, a straight dominant , before today s decision. he used an approved technique. the judge recommended his termination. today garner s daughter thanks the police for their decision. he says this is not over. we are definitely still calling for the eric garner law, which will ban the choke hold, which will ban officers from
family has waited long enough. we ve waited five years. ccrb has made the recommendation. commissioner o neill, fire pantaleo, that s all we re asking. we re asking for the congressional hearings. we re going to keep fighting for the eric garner law, but five years is too long. cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joey jackson with us right now. good morning to you, joey. what do you think is going to happen here? what do you think is the right thing to do? good morning, i think the right thing would be to do is to have him in jail but that s a separate issue. let me discuss it anyway. i think we have to recognize the nypd does a lot of good. they serve and protect us every day, walk the beat, when an officer, however, steps across that line, i think we have an obligation to call it out. let s reverse before we go forward. the fact is this family has waited such a long time for justice. there was a ground swell of support in the community for his state prosecution. of