the glamorous actress, almost unrecognizable in a humble t-shirt and shorts. brianna, it s not just this one actress. the same week she was canceled, another actress was erased from the internet similarly and slapped with a $46 million fine for tax evasion. brianna. message loud and clear from the chinese government. ivan watson, thank you for that fascinating report. new day continues right now. i m john berman alongside brianna keilar. the search intensifies for the man who came home from a road trip without his fiancee and disappeared before her body was found. as the u.s. races toward a default and another government shutdown, president biden s party fights. damning new accusations that border officials warned months ago of the current surge of migrants, but the administration did nothing. cnn confronts a doctor spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. . with the tyranny nipping at our heels, rise up, rise up, rise up! yes! she why she is connected
careful because you re playing with fire. they warned that if you wait until the last minute to raise the debt ceiling, you risk an accidental default, which would be catastrophic for the economy. they acknowledged that we re in divided times right now politically but that doesn t mean we should default on our debt. what would a default mean for the economy, moody s analytics put out a report, and they said that if there was a default and a prolonged impasse over resoe resolving it there could be 6 million jobs that would disappear. unemployment rates would jump to 9%. payments would be delayed to social security recipients, federal workers, $15 trillion in household wealth would vanish, so bad. all of this explains why everyone expects congress to eventually do the right thing. no one wants to be held responsible for this, but we should point out that the longer they wait, the closer they get to the edge of the cliff, the greater the chance they accidentally go over it. we n
provide critical support to help relieve some of the drain and the strain on the health care system. and more relief. early indications suggest the omicron surge is starting to slow in a handful of northeastern cities such as new york and washington, d.c., that bianna got hit first with this. yeah. that is a promising sign. in moments, president biden will speak from the white house laying out his latest efforts to tackle the pandemic. then he ll be heading to capitol hill later this afternoon where he will make a direct appeal to senate democrats to take action on voting rights. this as house minority leader kevin mccarthy changes his tune, saying he will not cooperate with the committee investigating the capitol riot despite previously saying he d do so. we begin this morning at the white house with president biden set to address the nation as covid hospitalizations hit record highs. cnn white house correspondent john harwood is following. john, the president expect
president biden will meet with democrats on capitol hill this afternoon trying to get moderates on board with blowing up the senate rule book, the nuclear option. it would clear a path for democrats to federalize u.s. elections. bill: the president s big speech on that topic is being slammed by republicans. a few democrats chiming in, too. minority leader mitch mcconnell went to the floor of the senate with a stem winder of a speech and let it fly. this president said we should see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors. yesterday he called millions of americans his domestic enemies. the president s rant rant yesterday was incoherent, incorrect, and beneath his office. i did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday. dana: senator tom cotton had a memorable floor speech of his own. we ll talk to him in a moment. let s go to jackie heinrich at the white house as they wake to the number of 33% approval. good morning. senate democrats getting their first me
entire four years. now what they re going to continue to say is this is the presidency that s trying to work for you and do things. politico s eugene daniel, we appreciate. thank you all of you for waking up way too early for us. merry christmas everybody, see you at morning joe in just a minute. starts now. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s the day before the day before christmas. thursday, december 23rd, it s great to have you all with us this morning, along with joe and me, we have the host of way too early, jonathan lemire and sam stein is with us. good to see you, sam. let s get started. there are promising signs in this current wave of covid-19. new researches adding to the body of evidence that omicron strain results in milder illness. the research from scotland and south africa is still preliminary. the studies also found omicron is sending fewer people to hospitals. for example, the study in scotland found if omicron behaves like the delta