and protected us. and i feel an obligation to the country to pay back. and this is the highest best use of my own set of skills to pay back. . for loved ones left behind, i know all too well. i know what it s like to not be there when it happens. i know what it s like when you are there holding their hands. as they look in your eye and they slip away. that black hole in your chest, you feel like you re being sucked into it. but survivors remorse, the anger, the questions of faith in your soul. powerful moments yesterday from the likely next attorney general first there and then the president, who tapped him for the judge. judge merrick garland reflecting on his own family s history and the promise of america. president biden led the country in a moment of silence for the half million americans lost to coronavirus. good morning. welcome to morning joe . it is tuesday, february 23rd. with us washington anchor for bbc world news america katty kay and pulitzer prize winning
staff with respect, how can he treat us first. cdc recommending boosters foragers 12 to 15. no data was really presented to show that a booster in younger populations actually decrease their very low risk of severe illness. california congressman eric swalwell spotted hanging out maskless. we have no bias when it comes to public health initiative. none of the people pushing them follow them themselves and we all know that age you be my glass of wine i ll be your glass of whiskey you be my sunny day i ll be your shade tree. steve: it s 6:01. currently clear there with a high today of about 40. right now it is 38 degrees as we look in live. good morning, folks on this, the 6th dave january, 2022. it s good happy new year, brian and ainsley. ainsley: welcome back, steve. it s so good to have you back. did you have a fun vacation? steve: you know, it was we gathered together as a family and then we a lot of people trade gifts. we traded omicron. it pr
today on inside politics, law and disorder. donald trump faces a 5:00 p.m. deadline to fight a justice department request. the former president claims it s an attempt to shut him up. prosecutors say it s to stop the defense from bullying witnesses into silence. plus, seeing is believing. joe biden heads west to literally point to progress. it s part of his plan to make americans feel and see how bidenomics is changing their lives for the better. and a woke up call? new polling suggests a red meat term is now overcooked, even among republicans with plenty of appetite for owning the left. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, a looming legal deadline, the trump legal team has until the close of business today to respond to a justice department demand for a protective order. the order would restrict what mr. trump can say about what evidence prosecutors turn over. let s start with cnn s katelyn polantz. what are you hearing? da
hostage negotiations. there has been a great deal in the press over the weekend. he asks whether i am optimistic. the answer is that i am neither optimistic nor pessimistic but i can tell them that the british government is doing everything it can to ensure that those negotiations are successful. i am sure the minister negotiations are successful. i am sure the minister agrees - negotiations are successful. i n sure the minister agrees that it is profoundly in the british interest that there should be a properly functioning system of international rules and laws and that the international court ofjustice is central to that system. so what concrete steps as the government taking to enforce its ruling with regard to this can affect conflict, enforcing the ruling and in relation to the assault on rafah, is at the minister s view that the assault and the impact it will have on the civilians, and as he points out, 600,000 children, that that would be in role with the lining
steve: if they won a masters. brian: they are eligible to play. phil mickelson is there we have dustin johnson is there. everybody that left. the question is when they go in the locker room is there going to be tension for the men that picked up and went for the money or for the opportunity to do something different? ainsley: greg norman, he left to go to liv and he is running the whole thing. is he president of liv. he was not invited to come to augusta national. brian: they are trying to kick him out. ainsley: you win the green jacket you are always invited back. steve: phil mickelson won three times he went to liv. apparently they had this dinner of chopper i don t knows and phil sat at the end of the table and didn t say anything. it s always one of those things. and the reason we were showing you the cloud situation is because janice has been talking about that line of thunderstorms that is sweeping from the, you know, across the eastern third of the united s