Vote. He lost the recounts. He lost the Electoral College, and now hes lost Mitch Mcconnell. Good morning, and welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, december 16th joe has the morning off. Along with willie and me we have White House Reporter for the washington press, Jonathan Lemire. Jim vandehigh, elise jordan is with us, and nbc news and correspondent of way too early, kasie hunt. Vladimir putin may have beaten him to it but well dive in with the most powerful republican in Congress Finally acknowledging who won the election. The Electoral College has spoken. I want to congratulate president elect joe biden. I also want to congratulate the Vice President elect our colleague from california, senator harris. All americans can take pride that the nation has a female Vice President elect for the first time. The president reacted to the comments tweeting that its too soon to give up. Wow. And that the Republican Party must finally learn to fight. But any sort of fight isnt likely to co
Of the cold war and the lifting of Eastern Europe on carson, but fail to prevent the collapse of the u. S. I saw i was there as rob reynolds as interviewed mikhail gorbachev. Here came mikhail gorbachev. A member of a new generation, a not of the old communists who had lived and worked under stalin, but of a different generation warbler technocrat, more of a man with ideas and he did have ideas about how to change the soviet union, how to allow it was to develop and survive, glass nosed openness in english, perestroika that means restructuring, glass nosed, gave russian, and other peoples living in. At that time, the soviet union, the opportunity to speak out are to to, to talk about their society to talk about their leaders to examine. And this is, i think its very important the history of the soviet union, the horrors that the people endured under stalin under lenin. Pakistan says its not responsible for climate change. And as calling on wealthy countries to help the millions of peop
A 3rd of the planet. Many nations of pushing for them to be set out by 2030. Currently, just one percent of International Waters is protect it. Ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. Pakistan has declared a National Emergency after months of record monsoon brian flooding has devastated large swathes of land. Displacing thousands of people. The government is appealing for international assistance. The acting governor of Sind Province told al jazeera the relief. It is making progress, but more help is needed. Road door, we work. We are working on dont tune feed, then no, we got, we got some facilities. You go them balloon through the through your grading dr. Will to make sure everybody of the but the really difficult job. Renewed load of hill. Anybody who can help us really golf. Wanted to go that route on the road all the time. The u. S. Justice department has released a censored version of the document that help secure permission to search Donald Trumps home this month.
Monsoon rains across pakistan. 33000000 people are affected by the worst flooding and decades, and they might, emergency is in place. Ca hider is in one of the hardest sit towns of trust. But 200000 people have been ordered from the hens. According to the fog, over 70000 livestock, missing extensive damage to a proper day. And you can see behind me, people are taking shelter on the plastic under top ball and theyve been telling us that theyve been getting help from the local population who are bringing them food and water. However, they said that in bad need of dance and dot boylen, ive got their been able to get their life to god. But most of their valuable taylor told, flooding is also causing destruction in afghanistan, thousands of homes and large areas of farm land have been destroyed. Taliban Officials Say at least a 182 people died. At least 7 people have been killed after severe flooding in easton, sudan, 3 inch rains, destroyed around 4000 homes in castle estate, forcing peopl
Erupted early around 1 30 am local time between these rival militias and things escalated quite quickly. We saw of forces affiliated with the parallel government, led by fatigue, basha, advanced towards the west of tripoli. They also advanced in the south of tripoli, which saw, you know, crashes erupt in and around, around the capitol. Unprecedented flooding across pakistan has now killed more than 1000 people since mid june. More than 30000000 people have been affected. Same bus robbie has this update where im standing right now is really a snapshot of whats happening all over the province of sin flood survivors are fleeing the affected areas and they are setting up camps make shift in at the waters edge in places all over the country on the 1st piece of dry land they can find. Now just over my shoulder is a small group of tanza small encampment locally. Theyre calling this a 10 city. But these are barely tense, theyre very, very rudimentary shelters. We spoke to people there who say