paid to those materials when you are in office and after you leave office, and clearly that did not take place in this case. but the unequal treatment before the law was deeply troubling to me early this week. well, well, well. that was mike pence two weeks ago talking about president biden s classified documents. but now it s pence s lawyers who are explaining how classified material ended up at the former vice president s home. also ahead, kevin mccarthy makes food on his promises for committee assignments, procking high-profile democrats from one and adding fringe members of the gop to others. plus, the pentagon now appears to be ready to send tanks to ukraine after all. we ll explain why the move is as much about putting pressure on allies as it is about arming the ukrainians. good morning. welcome to way too early on this wednesday, january 25th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we have a packed show and we begin in washington where c
possession, and i i remain confident that that was done in a thorough and careful way. uh-oh. now it s mike pence. and his lawyers. got to be hard. i said it can t be that hard. it s hard. can t anybody play this game? what you ve got to be asking. well mike pence s lawyers are explaining how classified material ended up at the former vice president s home. more on the timeline and the response from pence s team in just a moment. also ahead speaker kevin mccarthy again rewards marjorie taylor greene. this time with placement on a subcommittee investigating the coronavirus. mtg previously had been kicked off social media platforms for spreading covid misinformation. great. plus, a special grand jury s report on efforts to overturn the 2020 election by former president trump and his allieses. it will stay sealed for now, but the d.a. is promising imminent action in the case. good morning to morning joe. it s wednesday january 25th. with us host of way too
here on fox and friends. brian: right. steve: meanwhile. brian: if we oversleep. steve: that s right. today is the 20th day of january. that means 11 more days of january, 11 more days of dry january. ainsley: yeah, that s right. i m proud have you you ve actually done it. i ve done damp january. steve: damp january. ainsley: i had an event with a bunch of my friends in the mountains last weekend and i said for that, it s a big trek, i really want to have. steve: just a drink. ainsley: some wine with them 11 more days. you know how many americans are participating. take a guess. ainsley: 50%. steve: five 0%. ainsley: 40%. steve: 35% of us legal adults skipped alcohol for the entirety of january 2022, up 14% from two years earlier, three years earlier so you have to figure even more have skipped it for 2023. brian: i want to support the bar industry i will not fall into that trap. a team of nine former u.s. and canadian service members will be out h
with a new majority, and who will lead them and congressman kevin mccarthy can t secure enough votes to become speaker? adding to the chaos, there are growing calls for congressman elect george santos to step aside before he s even sworn in. the freshman from new york shows no signs of doing that. will there be consequences for the lies he calls resume embellishments? we are going to ask a fellow new yorker congressman pat ryan in just a moment. case closed, folks, tory lanez was found guilty of shooting megan thee stallion. and now audio has surfaced of a phone call between tory and megan s former best friend. we are getting into all of it in the regroup. first, 2023. i m simone sanders, and i have something to say. new year, new congress in just two days. 118 congress will officially begin. and the new republican house majority will bark upon a legislative agenda divorced from the reality of what americans across our country actually care about. in a recent dear colle
to michael bloomberg, from the department of information, technology and telecommunications. so obviously can help us answer a lot of these questions. and, evan, i want to start with you, this has raised so many questions about what s going on, and why, if you can recover one message, where are the rest of them? right. and, you know, look, this letter that jamie gangel obtained indicates also that the committee, the committee asked the secret service to preserve these records on january 16th. this is before the so-called migration, this is before the devices were being changed over. this is what the secret service says is the cause of this deletion of these text messages. but what was being requested was all of these communications for 24 people at the secret service. we don t know exactly who those people are, but there are people who would have been in key positions to know what was happening in those days before january 6th and, of course, on that day. the only message t