morning joe. it is tuesday, december 26th, i m jonathan lemire. alongside me former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments elise jordan and the haass of msnbc s politics nation reverend al sharpton. president biden and first lady jill biden spent christmas eve fielding phone calls for the norad santa tracker. the president posted this picture on social media writing that he spoke to excited young americans worried about santa s whereabouts. then the president and first lady called units from each branch of the military to wish them a merry christmas and thank them for their service. republican front runner donald trump, on the other hand, spent the holiday weekend in a very different fashion, taking on his political enemies. the former president posted several, shall we say, unusual christmas messages on truth social that criticized people like joe biden and jack smith. in one post the channeled home alone kevin mccallister. merry christmas, y
documents case against donald trump. it comes as the former president is being condemned for praising a dictator. we ll dig in to both of those stories. and a look at the republican hopefuls campaigning in iowa, as two more names are likely to join the field this week. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, june 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. and we ll begin this morning with a deadly plane crash near the nation s capitol. yesterday afternoon the military scrambled two f-16 fighter jets to respond to a private business jet that was flying over restricted airspace in dc. the response caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the region around unsettled many of the residents there. here s some of the sound surveillance cameras captured. the sound was heard across many miles. the cessna was not responding to radio transmissions. it then crashed in the shenandoah wall i have in virginia. officials say ther
we didn t to it by taking the easy way. right now on early start, can the senate now fast track the debt limit bill just days before the default deadline. plus the former president on tape talking about a document he kept. and the republican race for president heating up with mike pence and chris christie about to jump in. who is next. welcome to our viewers in the united states and arntround the. i m christine romans pl the bill is in the hands of the senate. yeas are 314, nays are 117. the bill is passed. last night the house overwhelming passed a bipartisan agreement cutting spending and suspending the debt ceiling through next year. speaker kevin mccarthy took a victory lap after the house passed the deal. i wanted to do something no other congress has done. that we would literally turn the ship. for the first time in quite some time, we d spend less than we spent the year before. tonight we all made history. because this is the biggest cut and savings this
as soon as possible. the launch prompted neighbours south korea and japan to briefly issue then rescind alerts to millions of residents. japan has condemned pyongyang s actions. south korea correspondentjean mckenzie has more from seoul. there was panic and confusion in seoul this morning as we awoke to the sound of this air raid siren which is extremely rare. and messages from loudspeakers telling people to prepare for an evacuation, only to be told 20 minutes later it was a mistake. north korea did fire a missile this morning. it was believed to be carrying a spy satellite. but we now know it was a failure and the rocket exploded in midair and crashed into the sea. this will be a big disappointment for the north korean leader kim jong un. he has been working to give north korea its first ever spy satellite and he announced this week he was planning the launch. a spy satellite would give north korea a strategic advantage to allow it to monitor its enemies from the sky, s
russia- white house press secretary karinejean pierre raised concerns about the strikes. we do not support the use of us made equipment being used for attacks inside russia, we ve been very clear about that, and we continue to do that. we have been clear notjust publicly but privately with the ukrainians. meanwhile, ukraine says four people have been killed in the past day from russian drone strikes. these are the latest pictures coming in to us from kyiv. officials said air defence systems destroyed many of the drones, but debris hit a residential building in kyiv overnight. 3a people were injured, including two children. our diplomatic correspondent james landale is in the ukrainian capital. ukraine has denied responsibility for the attacks in moscow, but i wouldn t describe their denials as full throated. one adviser said very specifically, we have nothing directly to do without. now, thatis directly to do without. now, that is a phrase that leaves open a wealth of other