Babies. The Game Stop Frenzy continues with backlash against robin hood for redistricting amateur trading. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. Restricting. It is friday, january 29th. With us we have White House Reporter for the asci press, jonathan lemire, Michael Steele, and former aide to the george w. Bush white house elise jordan, msnbc analyst as well. So we will get to the latest in game stop. That story ahead. Plus, a full year into the fight against covid. And were learning troubling details about the pandemic. A federal investigation found that u. S. Officials who greeted american evacuees from wuhan did not have training in Infectious Disease control and were told not to wear masks. Thats according to the washington post. The states Attorney General is investigating why the Cuomo Administration failed to report 3,800 Hospital Deaths as being linked to nursing homes, an undercount of 40 . Weve got details on both of those stories coming up on morning joe. But we begin wi
The Ukrainian Government adopted a unilateral position in favor of one candidate. More than that, certain oligarchs certainly with the approval of the Political Leadership funded this candidate or female candidate to be more precise. And if there was ever any doubt about who benefits from this unfounded theory put forward by President Trump and his associates, President Putin made it clear very recently when he said thank god no one is accusing us anymore of interfering in u. S. Elections. Now theyre accusing ukraine. In the face of clear evidence, not only from Intelligence Community experts, but from his own National Security team that russia, not ukraine, interfered in the 2016 election for the benefit of donald trump, President Trump still pressed the Ukrainian Government to announce an investigation into this Conspiracy Theory. Why . Because it would help his own
political standing. President trump even saukt sought to with hold an Oval Office Meeting from the president of ukraine
i don t think it s shoddy work. i think it was very difficult work. and that it was made harder by the white house s refusing to allow people to testify. i disagree respectfully with the senator. i think people held as thorough an investigation as they could and that the senate needs to do their job, which they re not doing on 400 other bills to get the facts and those facts include having white house witnesses. sandra: we ll see what the next move is and we appreciate your time this morning. thank you for coming on with us. thank you. bill: to the floor of the senate we move. 9:31 in washington mitch mcconnell will address the latest steps in the impeachment matter so we re watching this and keeping a close eye on it. we have an indication what he will talk about and he will suggest there is some bizarre back pedaling on behalf of democrats in the house. stand by. back to that as they conclude
anderson. any indication about how impeachment is playing out? i mean we re obviously at the start of 2020 very shortly. how the inquiry will impact the president s chances at re-election? yeah. we asked folks in this poll, do you think this impeachment matter will help his re-election chances, it will hurt him, or it won t make any difference? take a look at the numbers here. you see the pluralality, 37% at the bottom, no difference. but among those who say it is going to make a difference, more people think it s going to help the president s chances than hurt. 32% say will help. 25% say will hurt. i note republicans think it will help more than democrats think it will hurt, which i thought was pretty interesting as well. this poll hurts my head. i m in the 1% of those people. david, do you believe these polls? i don t know what to believe poll-wise anymore. i believe these polls. i believe polls are always best read in the aggregate of everything that s out there and in the u
15 most competitive states, he s at 45% approval in the battleground, 50% disapprove. that s where he is nationally as well, anderson. any indication of how impeachment is playing out? we re at the start of 2020 very shortly, how the inquiry will impact the president s chances for re-election? we asked if the impeachment matter will help, hurt him or not make any difference. the plurality, 37%. at the bottom saying no difference. among those who say it is going to make a difference, more people think it s going to help the president s chances than hurt. 32% say it will help. 25% say will hurt. i will note that republicans think it will help more than democrats think it will hurt, which i thought was pretty interesting as well.