would like to live a long life, longevity has its place, but i m not concerned about that now. i just want to do god s will. and he s allowed me to go up to the mountain, and i ve looked over, and i ve seen the promised land. i may not get there with you but i want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. a haunting speech from reverend martin luther king jr. delivered the night before he was assassinated in memphis. we ll be honoring dr. king this morning and exploring his legacy throughout the morning on morning joe. also ahead this hour, we ll have the latest developments on the classified documents found at president biden s home, and the gop s false equivalency when it comes to this discovery. hundreds of files of donald trump tried to stash away at mar-a-lago, to equate is a little tough. congress is on the clock to raise the country s debt limit. it comes after a dire warning from treasury secretary janet yellen. plus, we ll get a live
off-limits to you and all other american citizens who don t work for the government no matter what you heard the point of the system is not to protect the country from foreign adversaries. the point is to take power of the voters and the officials they elect and hand that power to the bureaucracy in washington. it s dangerous. for once we can report some meaningful push back against this deceit. kevin mccarthy became speaker of the house last friday. he is pledgeing to let americans see all that happened at the u.s. capital on january 6th, 2021. that means releasing 14,000 hours of surveillance footage from day that has remained hidden. i think the people should see it. i watched what nancy pelosi did. she politicized it. the first time in the history as a speaker not allowing a minority to appoint to a committee. to pick and choose. i think the american public should see what happened instead of a report written for a political basis. i want to be thoughtful about it bu
pence as the rioters approached. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday. big day, morning joe starts right now. tonight i come to you with a spring in my step, a song in my heart, emotionally and spiritually refreshed because you know how as humans we have to accept the fact that sometimes bad things happen to good people. well, by the grace of god, sometimes bad things happen to alex jones, and that s a good thing. oh, yes, conspiracy theorist alex jones ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars to sandy hook families for lying about the 2012 massacre being a hoax. we will speak with one of the plaintiffs in the case, a sandy hook mother. and you know, mika, we were watching this live, got breaking news. and as the verdicts were coming in, it was so painful. it was so painful. looking at the parents. you know, they re talking about, you know, basically a billion dollars in civic awards, and you just couldn t, you still looked at
to the violence that occurred here that day. we ve already seen this committee detail how donald trump pressured all aspects of the government to try to overturn the electoral results, the justice department, state officials, vice president mike pence. for tomorrow at the hearing they plan to show the oath keepers, and proud boys to take action and lead to the violence we saw in this building on january 6th. we will hear live testimony from one former member of the oath keepers, a former spokesperson, jason van patenhove someone he said had a lot of inside information, according to what he told a colorado tv station, said he had inside access to the oath keepers. we ll learn about that, and we ll also learn about a meeting that occurred mid-december, december 18th. jamie raskin, the congressman from maryland plans to lead the questioning tomorrow, says it will be a key focus of the hearing tomorrow. one of the things that people are going to learn is the fundamental importa
insurrection. also ahead, a travel nightmare for many americans as more than 3,000 flights were cancelled over the holiday weekend. why? no pilots, no labor, no fuel. there s new reporting this morning on the police response during the uvalde massacre. why one officer armed with a rifle did not fire at the gunman. the news keeps getting worse. and the latest on covid as vaccines are now cleared for the youngest americans. but we start with hearing number four of the january 6, select committee. set to take place tomorrow. we re expecting to learn more new details about then president donald trump s involvement in a failed scheme to overturn the 2020 election results. including the pressure campaign he waged on state officials. georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger is scheduled to testify before the committee, along with his top deputy, gabe sterling. some new poll numbers are revealing what americans now think about former president trump since the january 6t