those comments were delivered to a new house select committee on china. we have a lot to get to this morning from the panel s prime time hearing. meanwhile, a trip to china by a putin ally is increasing concerns that beijing will ramp up support for russian forces. back here at home, president joe biden s student loan forgiveness plan went before the supreme court yesterday with the conservative majority expressing some skepticism about wiping away debt for some borrowers. also ahead, reaction to an historic defeat in chicago. for the first time in four decades, the city s mayor has lost a reelection bid. we ll get to that. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, march 1st. joe has the morning off, but along with willie and me, we have, of course, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, and the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass is
shut down one slaughter house, they re not just getting hired somewhere else down the road and continuing to be exploited. yeah, seems like we re just scratching the surface at this problem, julia, and i m curious, like, how young are these kids? how do they track them? do we know how many there are out there being used in the middle of the night, and what kinds of jobs are they doing beyond working in a slaughter house? well, in our case, the company we featured, they found children between the ages of 13 to 17, people we met, who met those children said there s no way that a 13-year-old could look like an 18-year-old or the 30-year-old that they presented on their identification. but of course in the block buster new reporting from hannah dryer at new york times over the weekend, she talked to 100 children, more than that across the country, working in jobs like these. she found them suing label into