Formidable adversary. President bidens hope is to open the lines of communication with russia. He wants to stop any further deterioration in the relationship which he admits has reached a new low point. Theres a lot on the agenda from nuclear arms and Climate Change to recent Cyber Attacks and a potential Prisoner Swap for americans detained in russia. There will be no, repeat, no typical joint News Conference afterward. Instead each lead letter hold his own press briefing. The white house is determined to avoid the kind of embarrassing spectacle we witnessed back in 2018 in helsinki when then President Trump took the stage with putin and said he believed the russian leader over his own, his own u. S. Intelligence agencies. The long awaited biden putin summit takes place next hour at the historic villa la grange. Our team is here covering every monumental level and the stakes are enormous. Lets begin with natasha. Who will be there . How will it be structured . Yeah, wolf. So the forma
pete: at the university of dayton flyers, the basketball team of march madness. rachel: pete was applying rachel: he was davidson. peter supplying his literary skills to how he maintains the sharpness of the table. will: we need some good order and discipline on this couch. this is people are waking up looking at the screen and don t want to see a mess. they had a party last night or whatever. speaking of orderly, today is national set a good example day. think about that. it is national tell a fairytale day. and lastly. rachel: biden s favorite policy. everything going great. will: national letter to an elder day. rachel: people love to get mail, a great time. will: right your grandmother or grandmother or papa or nana today. he will be setting a good example if you wrote them a letter. then you could mail all three of them. rachel: it is a lost art. it is a lost art and people love getting mail. pete: i have three things at my house that i have to return that i ordered
fellows, i need 11,000 votes, give me a break. so look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes. which is one more than we have. because we won the state. there s nothing wrong with saying that, you know, that you ve recalculated. no, i mean, nothing wrong with it if you want to commit a federal crime and state crime. yeah, totally fine. donald trump made that phone call just over two years ago, and he could soon face criminal charges because of it. a special grand jury in georgia sent its final report on the former president s efforts to overturn the 2020 election to a judge in fulton county. we ll take you through what is next in that probe. also ahead, the department of justice is reviewing classified documents found at a personal office for president joe biden. this discovery appears to be very different from what happened at mar-a-lago. we ll explain. plus, after hundreds i m going to ask jonathan lemire, actually. we re going to go down this
his college and work history and what republican leaders are saying about the controversy also this morning with the war still raging on, ukraine s foreign minister is hoping for peace talks by the end of february we will get expert analysis on that idea. plus, parts of the united states are still under multiple feet of snow this morning as the death toll from a major winter storm continues to climb in western new york rescue crews are going car by car searching for any stranded survivors this as chaos unfolds at some of the nation s busiest airports thousands of flights have been canceled, as many americans try to head home after the holidays. we will have the very latest on the travel delays. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s tuesday, december 27th. i m jonathan lemire in for joe, mika and willie. also with us at the table msnbc and nbc news national affairs analyst executive editor of the recount, host of the hell and high water podcast, the man of ma