Formalized a deal that cements their control of the United States senate. President biden and his colleagues have made it clear that on covid relief, they have zero interest in waiting on republicans. Yesterday democrats pushed forward with a motion to pass bidens 1. 9 trillion covid package with or without republican support. Mitch mcconnell called the move totally partisan. Which is rich coming from a guy who used the exact same tool to pass a 1. 5 trillion tax cut for the rich. Youll notice that republicans love to wave the word unity like a bloody shirt when they criticize democrats. You know whats better than fake unity, action, action that helps people. Thats the job of governing. In many ways, were now down to just one governing party. This morning speak nancy pelosi and Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer led a congressional tribute to Brian Sicknick who died during the insurrection last month. Each day when members enter the capitol hill, this temple of democracy, we will rem
sodas to cereals. we ll go through that debate, joe, you and your diet coke. good morning and welcome to morning joe. well, let me say this, willie. let me say this, okay? yeah, i ve had a few diet coke in my day. five a day. growing up, growing up, i think we all knew three things. number one, of course, willie, we knew you never eat a big dinner before you go swimming, right? just don t do it. sure. number two, never, ever, ever, and mcarthur taught us this, don t get engaged in a ground war in asia. number three, i think we all knew from the first sip of diet coke that we had in 1982, like, we knew it caused cancer. no. you had a sip, you know, this tastes okay, but it is probably going to kill me. let me have another one. seriously, we were sitting around with our pop rocks and everything else, put down our tabs and mr. pibbs, then we pick those up. you drank diet coke, and you knew when you had the first sip, you knew, yeah, this is what killed elvi
people off to the insurrection or lied and defamed people in ways that damaged them or their companies. now, the people who have sued aren t always fox haters or critics, the voting company that got over half a billion dollars out of them didn t have longstanding grievances with the company. they were just able to get so far in their punishing lawsuit that they got over half a b out of rupert murdoch and tucker carlson was fired. i say that before i bring in james carville because this comes from a trump supporter, ray epps. he says that tucker carlson, the former fox host, ousted after a different lawsuit, was at an illegal or defamatory level, peddling knowingly false conspiracy theories, specifically against him. he says, quote, carlson was telling a fantastical story in which epps was some sort of undercover fbi agent responsible for the actual mob that broke into the capital. so what you re about to see is what we warned you before, not offered as true, not offered as
and while the world searches for the missing owner of a dime bag, he puts a dim his feet uphl and chills at camp david. maybe it s because hunters ba is innocent. reports are the bidenshe left cam isp david on fridayon i and the coke wasn t found until sunday. it is pretty hardad to believes. cocaine would sit around for 70 2 hours in the white house, so therefore, it should be pretty easy to clear the bidens. i m just saying once and for al clear the.l, whether or not e belonged to the biden familythe so a couple of things there. he mentioned the hatch act because. the question was posed to him in the donald and using donald trump. and so he was trying to be very mindful, oh t, okay, i hear you. but you re asking me a question, so i m answering it fou ar ngr you. and so that s why he said the hatch act. so i would i would, you know, th have you read the transcript and read the transcript fully tr exactly what he was trying to say. so that s number one. so we re not a
is also setting up a taskforce to find alternate routes, while ikea is warning of potential product shortages. ryan petersen from the supply chain management company flexport told me more about how the disruption is already impacting businesses. it s just getting started. over the weekend and through today we have had all ten of the top container shipping lines in the world, representing about 95% capacity, have begun to divert vessels to avoid sailing through the red sea and to go around the tip of africa, as you said. it takes about 25% longer to go that way from asia to europe and, well, 25% reduction in supply of shipping, we re going to see huge delays, obviously, but also big price increases because, well, it s a supply and demand and if the supply comes down 25%, one thing we have learned in the last few years is a small destruction and supply can lead to a huge swing in price. indeed. we re seeing an impact on oil prices as well. the united states planning to form an