for a democratic president. oh, i see. i know what you mean. and we ll have the latest developments from eastern europe as allies are at odds in sending tanks to ukraine. germany was going to block the tanks, now they re talking about letting poland send tanks. it looks like the tanks are going to be going to ukraine. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s monday, january 23rd. with us the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, and msnbc contributor, mike barnicle. mike is here for the morning, that s if he doesn t, you know. the irish good-bye with the jacket on the back of the chair. we ll see you in a few minutes. we re going to get to all of these stories. we have an awful lot to talk about. ambassador bill taylor is going to be talking about ukraine. let s talk first, though, about nfl playoffs. first, jonathan lemire, i ll go to you. there are two quarterbacks that did very well. patrick mahomes gutted it
sure joe biden agrees with some of what dick durbin has to say, especially in the state of american politics today, i think he has a long way to go before he s diminished compared to the republicans. a little bit of a harsh word, having said that, the democrats are defining themselves as honest, as honest about the difference between right and wrong while republicans will literally drive forward over anything as from ranging from immoral stormy daniels to criminal possibly january 6th? they will defend anything. and go to certain media entities and you ll get the same thing. you ll get all, you know, glossed over stories about donald trump, but hunter biden, hunter biden, all these crazy stories about democrats, here, you look at it truthfully. it s not good. you look at it both sides, there s a reason, why, you know. and top officials at the white house told me they could not have imagined this happening, and they re
same thing, it s going to be political fallout. there s not going to be legal fallout. i do, though, start wondering what dick durbin, the head of the judiciary committee knows. when dick durbin starts talking about how serious this is, and how diminished joe biden is by what has been discovered. does that suggest, jonathan lemire, do we have this clip? let s play dick durbin s sound bite. we have senior democratic senators, allies of joe biden actually speaking out, take a listen. to think that any of them ended up in boxes in storage one place or the other is just unacceptable but having said that, let me make this point clear, joe biden has said from the start, we are going to be totally transparent about this. let the chips fall where they may. i m going to open my home voluntarily to a search. it s unbelievable how it
briefings. and as far as a classified document, if somebody tried to hand me a classified document, i d put my hands up in the air and let it drop on the floor. you are taught we don t know what you are taught, no, no, this is a cultural thing. it just is. you are taught to treat classified documents in a certain way, and so that s why durbin is responding the way durbin is responding. and why a lot of people are shocked by it, and you re just going like this. no, no, no, it s just as bad. i agree. it s just as bad if a democrat is doing it as a republican is doing it. now, listen, you look to intent and the intent for donald trump obviously far worse. with joe biden, based on what we know it was just sloppy, but man, it was sloppy with america s classified
document controversy leaves him diminished and the president should be embarrassed. what is this, mike? how do we keep finding documents now, even from biden s senate days? i think the president is embarrassed. that is an almost certainty, given the president of the united states, and given how he reacts to things like that. look, these things were packed up in 2016, late 2016. the stuff from the senate, more likely than not, not even be classified today, i would bet. we re not going to get to the bottom of this until there s much more information on exactly how many pieces of classified information are we talking about. what are the dates of the classified information, what s within the classified information. what do they have to do with, and we re not going to find that out until there s a full release, and full information given to us, and they re going to have to do that. jonathan just pointed out, this is not going to be a legal