he s leading us to a depression. trump asked supporters on wednesday to name one thing that has gotten better under biden and, i don t know, there s a lot, i can think of a lot, but i think maybe number one is we re drinking less bleach. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is friday, december 15th. senate majority leader chuck schumer is calling the bluff, he has hopes of hammering out a deal on foreign aid which includes critical funder for ukraine. also ahead, how the biden campaign is trying to capitalize on the impeachment inquiry into the president. plus, rudy giuliani s defense team takes a very odd strategy in closing arguments in his defamation case. i will tell you about their pitch to the jurors. with us this morning we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius, member of the new york times editorial board mara gay, host of the podcast unbrand with donny deutsch, and the co-founder of punchbowl news don bresnahan.
from outside europe. the british public will be invited to swear allegiance to king charles during his coronation on saturday. the mainly christian service will also see religious leaders from otherfaiths play a part for the first time. hello and welcome to sportsday i m jane dougall. haaland hits 50 as manchester city go top of the premier league for the first time since february. a first half header from jota settles the old firm at hampden park, as celtic go through to the scottish cup final. and sergio perez beats his teammate to take the chequered flag in azerbaijan. also coming up on sportsday. it s advantage luca brecel after the opening session of the world snooker final we ll bring you all the details. welcome to the programme. we will also bring you a very exciting and intense liverpool match. an exciting day in the premier league and we start with some big news as manchester city s race for the title intensifies. they have leap frogged arsenal to go top of the
from outside europe. the british public will be invited to swear allegiance to king charles during his coronation on saturday. the mainly christian service will also see religious leaders from otherfaiths play a part for the first time. now on bbc news, sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday i m jane dougall. haaland hits 50 as manchester city go top of the premier league for the first time since february. a seven goal thriller at anfield. but angerfrom interim manager ryan mason as tottenham lose again. a first half header from jota settles the old firm at hampden park, as celtic go through to the scottish cup final. and sergio perez beats his team mate to take the chequered flag in azerbaijan. also coming up on sportsday. it s advantage luca brecel as the second session of the world snooker final gets under way we ll bring you all the details. welcome to the programme. an exciting day in the premier league and we start with some big news as manchester city s race for
predawn attack. the target, an apartment building hundreds of miles from the front lines. and abortion rights advocates score victories in the unlikeliest of places, attempts to impose new bans fall short in a pair of red states. are they one-offs or warning signs for the republican party? we start with federal prosecutors poring over hours of new testimony from vice president mike pence. one of the few people with firsthand knowledge about former president trump s efforts to block certification of the 2020 election. pence s testimony came less than a day after a judge rejected trump s last ditch effort to block it. i want to bring in nbc s ryan reilly who s been covering all of the developments for us. also nbc s vaughn hillyard with the former president and his supporters in manchester, new hampshire, brendan buck who served as an aide to republican house speakers paul ryan and john boehner, and an msnbc political analyst, and carol lamb is a federal former rather for
day in congress. republicans who howled at republicans or democrats kicked marjorie taylor green off committees now turning around and kicking ilhan omar off the committee after giving green new assignments. congressman george santos who lied his way into congress, no penalties yet. today, he called on congress to fight bigotry and anti-semitism as well, pretty rich coming from a guy who repeatedly claimed to be jewish. plus we re waiting for the release of more than 20 hours of footage of the police beating that led to the death of tyre nichols. the talk in the country is about how policing has to change. the question is will that change come from washington or in a classroom. will we hear it from a local level and police chiefs themselves. and there s an investigation in ohio of an online home schooling network where parents allegedly shared messages of white supremacy and hitler quotes as educational resources for the students. why the state may not be able to do a thing a