good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 8th. glad it s friday, but we do have a lot to get to this morning, willie. president biden is putting more pressure on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to allow additional aid into gaza. we ll have more details on the first conversation between the two leaders in 11 days. a lot of questions. meanwhile, the president s son is facing several new tax charges. we ll break down the allegations against hunter biden. plus, a recap of donald trump s day in court for his civil tax fraud trial. he was there as the former president is now expected to be the last person to take the stand. that should happen next week. also ahead, a rare ruling in a post roe world. a judge in texas granted an emergency request for an abortion, but the state s attorney general is threatening to prosecute any doctor who treats the woman. we ll talk about that. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bur
the budget director, mark, so maybe you can tell us what the impact of these decisions would be. the budget director said that these decisions would be. the budget director said that the these decisions would be. the budget director said that the united - these decisions would be. the budget director said that the united states i director said that the united states is almost out of money, and that s certainly true. it is true that the money is committed. it s not all spent. that means there won t be any new money, new purchases, but there will be a flow of previous purchases and previous commitments going to ukraine. that will decline over time. what that means is that over time, as this flow decreases, ukrainian military capabilities will decrease also. militaries and back need to constant flow of munitions and supplies to replace what s lost and supplies to replace what s lost and used up, and without those, they become less effective, and we will see that happening wi
to flee to for safety, earlier in the conflict. hospitals say they re overwhelmed with new arrivals. the world health organization says it s been told by israel to move medical supplies out of two warehouses in southern gaza within 2a hours although israel has denied this. these pictures show explosions in gaza on monday evening. a spokesman for the un children s charity, unicef, says there s simply nowhere safe for people to go. all this comes as the us state department says it s too early to say for sure whether israel is heeding us advice to protect civilians in gaza. but it did say israel was making more targeted requests for civilian evacuations in southern gaza. here is the latest from the ground from our middle east correspondent yolande knell. in the past few days israel has put out evacuation orders, particularly for the south of the gaza strip, affecting tens of thousands of palestinians, many of them people who have already been displaced by the fighting. it is t
and coming up on bbc news: qualification at stake for britain at the olympics. we ll tell you why it matters for england and scotland later at hampden. good afternoon. the home secretary james cleverly is in rwanda signing a treaty this lunchtime on the controversial plan to send some asylum seekers there. downing street hopes it will remove legal obstacles to the scheme after the supreme court ruled last month that it s unlawful. the rwanda plan is aimed at deterring migrants coming to the uk on small boats. mr cleverly is the third home secretary to visit the country, but so far not a single migrant has actually been sent there. in a moment, we ll hear from our political editor chris mason, who s in rwanda with the home secretary, but first, this report from helen catt. the home secretary, touching down in rwanda this morning. it s where the government still hopes to send some people who arrive in the uk illegally to seek asylum. despite the supreme court ruling last month
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