republican proposal that could bring cuts to social security and medicare, calling out lawmakers by name who have supported those cuts. i mean, he negotiated, basically, with republicans on the house floor. it was quite a sight to see. they conceded. i mean, his position it s a strong one. meanwhile, house republicans yesterday were focused on hunter biden, big tech. that s what america really wants. and the fbi. we ll show you the big moments from a grievance-fueled house oversight committee hearing. plus, new york congressman george santos doubles down on his criticism of senator mitt romney following romney s confrontation of the embattled new york lawmaker at the state of the union. mitt romney, of course, saying what everyone should be saying on the republican side. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, february 9th. good to have you all with us. with us in washington, white house editor for politico, sam stein. washington bureau
well, gene, i mean, phoenix, you know, they ve got a pretty good booker. team. no flat earthers there. no flat earthers. that we know of. that we know of. you know, pretty good weather. i mean, you know, i think kevin durant is coming out fine here. the problem in brooklyn, really, was that in the nba, they play with only one basketball instead of three. right. if you re going to have harden and irving and durant, you really need three basketballs. because they all need and want the basketball to score. right. so that didn t work out. got it. but why do you think we only let mike barnicle on two, three days a week? he s a ball hog. and he doesn t show up. pass it, i m open, i m open. pass it, i m open. k.d., i think he s got a shot of doing in phoenix what he did in golden state. great ballplayer. mike barnicle, do you have
inducted into the baseball hall of fame today up in cooperstown, new york. would that be the first unanimous pick for the hall of fame? no, there have been others, haven t there? i think so. he s the only one, i think. i think jeter is the only one. that s what i just said. whatever. alex, can you check and see. my friend alex keith. there was a guy who voted. mariano? i thought he was. oh, mariano was the guy. he s one of those yankees. if you go through the list, there are people who didn t have willie mayes on their first ballot. but i digress, derek jeter is going into the hall of fame today. he s great. 14 time all star, five world series, 3,465 hits, obviously the leader of the dynasty for almost 20 years. you have larry walker going in. great ballplayer. marvin miller making it into
mark. and as you say, he just handled that so well from 1986. oh, my god. to 2008 where he finally came back to fenway. there was another moment you remember on curb your enthusiasm where larry david encouraged buckner to come back. bill buckner catches, i think, a baby or small child falling from a building during a fire and he makes the catch and the crowd goes wild. a great ballplayer, a red red sock and i m glad he s being treated with all the love he deserves in his passing. they would have never made the world series without the man. by the way, the sox pitching staff had given up a 5-3 lead in the tenth inning anyway. they all worked very hard to put him in a position to do that. anyway, that s that was our weekend, mika. of course, it had to do with baseball. how was your weekend? mine was great. i went to hanover, new
jonathan we saw the debut of snl version of hillary clinton. it was very funny. there are some stock in folks are taking in how you are portrayed on snl is how you are perceived. it s not the image hillary clinton wants out there. she s hoping this won t have longer life than patrick ewing. i wanted to make sure it wasn t sexist. no. i m thinking dream team. john stockton, great ballplayer. we have just turned the game