You know i agree with secretary pompeos assessment. It certainly appears to be the russians but i wont discuss it beyond that. Apparently, there is a bridge too far even for william barr. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, december 22. Along with joe, willie and me, we have White House Reporter for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire, learning to get up way too early this week. And washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay is with us. Well get to the slowmoving coup in just a moment. But first, overnight Congress Passed one of the largest stimulus packages in the countrys history. It totals 2. 3 trillion and it includes not only the 900 billion Coronavirus Relief bill, but a full government funding package as well. The combined bills which include direct payments and Unemployment Benefits tops out at nearly 5,600 pages. It was only given to lawmakers to read yesterday afternoon, due to some technical issues. In the house it passed 359 53. In the sen
And theyre not taking this white house. Were going to fight like hell, ill tell you right now. We won the president ial election. We won it big. Ill be here in about a year and a half campaigning against you, governor, i guarantee it. You must have a republican victory so big that the democrats cant steal it or cheat it away. Different setting. This afternoon joe biden reminded voters of his win there in november of the multiple recounts and of the ties between the republican candidates and one donald trump. You voted in record numbers in november. The will of people prevailed. We won three times here. We need you to vote again in record numbers to make your voices heard again and again to change georgia, to change america again. You have two senators who think their loyalty is to trump, not to georgia. You have two senators who think theyve sworn an oath to donald trump, not to the United States constitution. This crucial election comes in the wake of the most recent and perhaps most
Election. Take a look at this crowd today and tell me we cant win the election. And some Surprising New polling in an important super tuesday swing state. That also coming up. No drama obama. Former president barack obama is considering what role he will play in a possibly contested convention. Remember this . Are you fired up . Ready to go . Fired up . Ready to go . And fullcourt press. In an extraordinary move, federal judges call an emergency meeting to deal with the president s unprecedented attacks on judges and jurors and attorney general William Barrs interference with the prosecutors over sentencing. They feel like theres a crisis here. The president of the United States is tweeting and criticizing federal judges. That has not happened before in modern history. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. A big day in politics. Michael bloomberg, his bet seems to be paying off. Tomorrow nights debate could be a big showdown. Hell be on the stage for the first time,
That it would be a little fast and we both got we had some mishaps with altitude and cold and it was incredibly challenging and im so glad i did it but im so glad to be back. I thank katty kay and willie geist for stepping up with me and letting me have that time with my daughter. And you were just you were fine. You just are smoking a cigar and hanging out. You were worried. I wasnt doing well. She had the group had a Satellite Phone and there was going to be a checkin every day because it is it is its not it can be dangerous. The most dangerous thing that it was a little dangerous. Youll ever do. Yeah. She was supposed to call in every day for 30 seconds and say, were here. Were doing fine. Were moving forward tomorrow. But the phones froze up. It was unusually cold and i guess cell reception is not always great from arctic zones. So yeah, a little joe was a little mad. I was nervous. I was not mad, i was very nervous. Ill post pictures later. Kind of like the moon landing. It was cr
Interaction with a foreign leader included a promise that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the u. S. Intelligence community to file a former whistleblower complaint with the Inspector General. Who also said it was deeply troubling and then the Justice Department squelched it. At that point theyre supposed to automatically get information over to congress and the Oversight Committees, but well talk to the reporter behind that. Right now theres a coverup. Straight ahead. It is thursday, september nine teeth. Along with joe, willie and wee we have economic analyst steve radnor. Elise labott, and columnist and associate editor for the Washington Post David Ignatius. And theres just a little bit more of that border wall discussion, the president but wait, theres more. You can fry an egg on it. You can, really, its that hot. It was kind of disturbing, all most, to hear him sell this wall. Lets hear a little bit more President Trump speaking to the Southern Califor