we have a lot to get to this morning, including donald trump formally taking his fight to remain on colorado s ballot to the supreme court. we ll tell you what his lawyers are arguing and why the former president is concerned about how the justices may rule. plus, back in 2020, donald trump hired an expert to prove election fraud. instead, that person found the 2020 election was not stolen. we re going to speak with that expert about what his data firm actually uncovered. also ahead, we ll dig into the ultimatum from house republicans following their visit to the southern border. do they want a deal? along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. and msnbc host jen psaki. she s a former white house press secretary. good to have you all on board this morning. willie? let s start in colorado. former president trump s legal team officially has petitioned the supreme court to overturn last month s co
difficult. you see, i mean, history is littered with the bodies of mainstream media journalists who tried to cover autocracy. i just think it is a fundamental disconnect. you know, we have a supposition of normal that gets us in a lot of trouble. i think we re getting better at it. i think we ve seen this happen over time, but it s really this is really a structurally difficult problem. vanity fair s molly jong-fast, thank you so much for coming on this morning. great piece. still ahead on morning joe, a new year means a new chance for self-improvement. the atlantic has an interactive series to help you better yourself in 2024. the author, arthur brooks, joins us next to share some of his tips. later, the secretary of the air force will join the conversation. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back.
the culture it s because of the one phrase i used a few minutes ago. the mainstream media journalists will always i mean, they will run over their grandmother to get a headline. but they will always salivate more when going after?5 a conservative republican than when going after a liberal democrat. that s a rule of thumb. it s not 100 percent correct. but it s pretty close to is 100 percent correct. i don t think anybody is going to disagree with that we will bring back bernie at 11:00. he has a big supply of red bull. he will be up, not like krauthammer who is taking a nap right now. we will see you later. a note next we re dennis miller and i will be taking our live tour to it a number of places it will be called who wants to be president? we ll do a lot of that. three big shows already booked los angeles microsoft theater march 12th. fairfax virginia may 7th. mohican sun in connecticut
speaking with jim jordan, for a moment, republican from ohio. you rivered to it in your first answer, steve. why do you believe there is so little coverage of the story across the board, mainstream media? you know. it is having question, i think to certain extent, many mainstream media journalists, they think they know what they believe about abortion. they don t need to question those beliefs. secondarily, maybe more important this is tough stuff. hard to cover to look at videos. they were extraordinarily hard to watch. i watched them for first time, felt physically ill what i was seeing. that is not something most journalists who cover these issues want to do. and i think it is a shame that they don t. bill: she is going to say only 1% of the planned parenthood facilities, of which there are 59 harvest fetal tissue.
new york times wouldn t cover that story in that scenario, perhaps. come on, there is no way is that a joke? playing devil s advocate here. we don t know for sure, do we? we do? you hinted at something that s important. let me try to expand on it for the past five years, a little more than five years, there has been a tendency among the so-called mainstream media journalists to play stories the way the obama administration wants the stories to be played so if he thinks this is a phony scandal, they will treat it as a phony scandal. i know it sounds simple, but that s what it is. do you think there is back door stuff? do you think members of the obama administration actually call editors and certain reporters and discuss this stuff with them