not. my focus is to get justice for halyna hutchins and let everyone know just because you re an a-list actor, you re not going to be above the law. that is the special prosecutor in the rust shooting case speaking with nbc news after announcing alec baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer halyna hutchins. we ll have much more on this case and this surprising decision in just a moment. president biden s new comments about the investigation into the classified documents found at his home and personal office. we ll play for you that new information, that sound from him. also ahead, we ll explain why his administration is optimistic about the incendiary conservatives who are now serving on the house oversight committee. plus a live report from ukraine as dozens of allies are meeting to determine what military aid is needed to fend off russian forces. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, january
Right about that. Earlier this morning the president of the United States publicly hounded natos secretarygeneral, repeatedly disparaged germany and wondered aloud why america should be responsible for protecting europe against russia. Vladimir putin wants donald trump to break from American Allies. A few hours ago, that is exactly what he got. Wow. Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, july 11th. With us, msnbc contributor mike ba ba ba barniccal. And David Ignatius, nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d. C. On msnbc, kasie hunt and former u. S. Ambassador to nato and former state Department Spokesman nicholas burns, professor of diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy school of government. Great group to start with this morning, and, wow, what a start to the trip. What a start to the trip. And lets just play the clip. Heres donald trump actually doing exactly what Vladimir Putin would want him to do. Good morning. In many countries, they owe
management, jeffrey sonnenfeld, his latest piece the world economy no longer needs russia, in it, you write this, for much of the past year and since his invasion of ukraine last february, russian president vladimir putin has been riding high on his supposed energy omnipotence holding the global economy hostage to his whims. now as we approach the one-year anniversary, if you can believe it, of putin s invasion, it is apparent that russia has permanently forfeited its economic might in the global marketplace, thanks to an unseasonably warm winter in europe, putin s moment of maximum leverage has passed uneventfully as we correctly forecast last november the biggest victim of putin s gam butt was russia its. the gas leverage is nonexistent as the world and most importantly europe no longer
it is so shocking. my first nato summit was to bond then the capital of germany with ronald reagan in 1982 and europe was aflame with attacks from the left wing against the deployment, the collective deployment of intermediate range missiles and they all stood together, reagan leading the way, and to see an american president there with his secretary of state speechless, the u.s. ambassador to nato, very strong and smart woman, former texas senator who is just speechless, obviously her commander in chief, her leader is sitting there and deriding germany. and john kelly, a retired general, watching this. it s just absolutely stoopfying that he would say germany is controlled as captive to russia and that would be his opening gam butt.
republican news. today the news was from the way state fair. today the iowa state fair had to clarify publicly mr. trump will not be able to use his helicopters to give children helicopter rides as a way of promoting his candidacy. he apparently promised he would do this, but the state fair has said mr. trump is welcome to land his helicopters anywhere, and take people on rides or whatever he would like to do, but that will not be happening on iowa state fair grounds. that s the kind of thing you have to clarify when don t trump is your front-runner. we also learned that rick perry is keeping up hess sustaining of trying to be relevant by trying to continuing to pick fights with donald trump. governor perry s latest gam butt is a contest of pullups. apparently don t trump keeps calling him a weak ling.