too early on this wednesday, january 11. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president biden says he is cooperating fully with a review into how classified documents from the obama administration ended up in an office he used after his time he spent as vice president. he commented for the first time. people know i take classified documents, classified information, seriously. i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records taken there to that office. but i don t know what is in the documents. my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they were. and we re cooperating fully with the review which i hope will be finished soon and there will be more detail at that time. two sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news that president biden s personal lawyers discovered fewer than a dozen classified documents at the penn biden center, a think tank in washington, d.c., that discovery made back on n
presidential trapper. available at walgreens. some republicans are jumping on the discovery of classified documents at president biden s private office, equating it to former president trump s large stash of government material stored at mar-a-lago. apples to oranges, really. we re going to go through the differences and play for you president biden s first comments on the matter. house republicans creating a special committee for gop grievances and what they call the weaponization of government. what could possibly go wrong for republicans there? yeah. meanwhile, a republican lawmakers calling out her own party for being tone death on the re-elections. plus a significant development. dozens of soldiers coming to the u.s. for weapons training. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, january 11th. go to have you with us. we have san sfrin politico and host of way too early white house bureau chief at politico jonathan lemire. by the way, shoc
here in the uk, 2022 saw the highest number of excess deaths outside the covid pandemic in half a century. and france tries again to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. it s an unpopular reform that didn t go well last time it tried. we ll be live in paris. we start in ukraine. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine s army is facing an extremely difficult situation as fighting continues in the eastern donbas region. the focus is the salt mining town of soledar. the uk defence ministry says it s likely that russian forces including wagner group mercenaries now control most of the town. we ll be taking a look at why it s become central to this conflict. but first, here s president zelensky. translation: and what did russia want to win there? i everything is completely destroyed. there was almost no life left. thousands of their people are gone, the whole land in soledar is covered with the corpses of the invaders and scarred from the strikes. this is what madness loo
i love that boy. it s not fair thought he was taken from his children or from his family. jessie fell for vince, a man in uniform holding the fort during his long deployments. my hat goes off to all military wives. it s not easy. it s not. she was a good mom. she loved the kids. reunited at last, they celebrated. then, on the drive home there was a car there, stranded. vince tells his wife that he s going to go check on him. i heard two three popping sounds. he was laying there with atppeared to be several gunshot wounds to the head. her husband and father of five, dead. i want my mommy. and i want my kids. no one could understand it. the type of person that he was, i don t think he ever had an enemy. or did he? he said, we are now in debt to bad people. we knew that there was another person that needed to be looked at. a winding investigation leading deep into the dark. this sounds like a love triangle? i believe it was. it s horrific.
and emmy nominated journalist caroline modarressy tehrani. in washington, new house speaker kevin mccarthy is about to preside over his first order of business. the new republican led congress will sit in the next hour to vote on the rules package. now that might sound a bit in the weeds but it is the nearest thing to a formal contract, setting out everything the speaker gave away last week, as he fought to secure the support of those on the hard right. it includes a rule change that will meanjust one member can bring a motion to throw him out. there are also concerns among more moderate republicans that mccarthy has agreed to a budget deal that could result in a cut to defence spending. this has a proposed billions of dollars cut to defence, which i think is a horrible idea. when you have aggressive russia and ukraine, you ve got a growing threat of china in the pacific i m going to visit taiwan in a couple of weeks, how will i look our allies in the eyes and say, i nee