meanwhile, the trump desantis rivalry is heating up. we ll show you how the florida governor responded to the covid criticism. we ll look at the rnc s 2024 playbook as party leaders want to double down on an issue that lost them the elections in the midterms. running straight into loserville. and today, president joe biden and speaker kevin mccarthy sit down at the white house in hopes of ending the standoff over the debt ceiling. plus reverend al sharpton joins us live from memphis ahead of his eulogy today for tyre nichols. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s wednesday, february 1st. along with joe, good to have you back. good to be back. willie and me. we have jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news katty kay is with us. and member of the new york times editorial board mara gay. so we start with today s high stakes meeting between president joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. their focus, ending the standoff over the debt ce
was a hesitancy for a bit from some civil rights leaders because they didn t know exactly how to respond to five black officers beating up and killing a black man and you told me immediately that morning, doesn t matter. we have to charge forward and seek justice in this case just as aggressively as we do in any case. just as aggressively as we did in minneapolis. absolutely. i didn t hesitate because, as you know, i grew up as a teenager in new york, in dr. king s movement. and dr. king did not die in this building for blacks to have the right to beat each other to death even if you re in a blue uniform. so there is no morale gap between which you stand for. i was talking to martin luther king iii about this. we have to be consistent morally if we re going to get this country back on track.
passing the george floyd justice in policing act. and i think that there is a new drive, i ve been talking with my colleagues and civil rights leadership, as well as members of the senate to really try and push police reform in light of this. last night, as you said, we had the press conference and family and i stood at the spot where dr. king gave his last speech. the next day he was killed. i m standing in the building, the lorraine motel, that is now the national civil rights museum, where he was actually killed. my youngest daughter is we me i showed him the balcony where dr. king stepped out of his room, headed to dinner, and a man blew his brains out. to go to memphis and think about dr. king died here on a cold
question about middle east peace, your call? knicks. i was getting very exercised during that conversation, of course, looking at infrastructure spending around the world. i looked it up. we are behind 17th in the world behind turkey, saudi rab ya, russia, india have greater infrastructure spending than the united states. jfk is a mess. it needs to be fixed. dulles one of the most beautiful airports in the world. true. it s a gorgeous, gorgeous building. getting there is impossible unless you have a car but otherwise. richard, i was in morocco in early january, i was surprised at the degree of opposition to the abraham accords, just from moroccans i was speaking to. i wonder if that might play into the saudi calculations, too. but is there any other political capital that the u.s. might be holding back with israel because they are trying to bring israel on board further on ukraine? is there imagine ukraine was a big part of tony blinken s
temper mental new yorkers out of the spotlight. james dolan is you re the knicks fan at the table, willie disliked by the majority of knicks fans and not only run into trouble with his facial recognition technology to keep lawyers out of the building but suggested banning beer at madison square garden. knicks fans need to have more than one to get through another playoff-less season. but it s interesting to see hope hicks pop back into this point. at this point she stayed away from donald trump s 2024 bid. part of the scrap is with the state liquor board all right we won t have beer at the game. lebron beat the knicks at the garden, we couldn t lure lebron to the world s greatest arena. i really don t, the knicks could be the greatest show on