meanwhile, the trump desantis rivalry is heating up. we ll show you how the florida governor responded to the covid criticism. we ll look at the rnc s 2024 playbook as party leaders want to double down on an issue that lost them the elections in the midterms. running straight into loserville. and today, president joe biden and speaker kevin mccarthy sit down at the white house in hopes of ending the standoff over the debt ceiling. plus reverend al sharpton joins us live from memphis ahead of his eulogy today for tyre nichols. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s wednesday, february 1st. along with joe, good to have you back. good to be back. willie and me. we have jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news katty kay is with us. and member of the new york times editorial board mara gay. so we start with today s high stakes meeting between president joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. their focus, ending the standoff over the debt ce
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and he has done it again. it took five tries. everyone has a bad day. cnn this morning starts right now. everyone has a bad day. we hope yours is going well so far. we re going to begin with solomon pena, he was angry he lost the election last fall and claimed that the vote was rigged. now he is in police custody in connection with orchestrating four shootings at homes of local democratic officials in new mexico. no one was injured in any of the shootings that happened in albuquerque. police say that pena was the mastermind and allegedly conspired and paid four others to carry out the attacks. the evidence that we have is not only firearm, but it is also from cell phones and electronic records, surveillance video, and multiple witnesses inside and outside of this conspiracy that have helped us weave together what occurred. on the last shooting, we now have evidence too that pena himself went on this shooting, and actually pulled the trigger on at least one of the fire
alexandria hoff live on the late-night session. hey, alex. alex: late night, indeed, 14 failed vote over 4 days and tense negotiations to flip more than a dozen holdouts in final tally that took place well after midnight and ended up with speaker mccarthy handed the gavel and met with standing ovation. from the great state of california and next speaker of 118th congress kevin mccarthy. [cheers and applause] that was easy, huh? i never thought we would get up here. squeezedded by 216 votes, democrats backed ha ha hakeem jeffries. right after the 14th vote failure congressman elect mike rogers of alabama was physically restrained by other members after antic anticipate appeao confront matt gaetz. some of you are new but i hope one thing is clear after this week, i never give up. the first matter of business swearing in of the 118th congress that was delayed by the stalemate that started tuesday was led by members of the house freedom caucus that resistance broke do