Babies. The Game Stop Frenzy continues with backlash against robin hood for redistricting amateur trading. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. Restricting. It is friday, january 29th. With us we have White House Reporter for the asci press, jonathan lemire, Michael Steele, and former aide to the george w. Bush white house elise jordan, msnbc analyst as well. So we will get to the latest in game stop. That story ahead. Plus, a full year into the fight against covid. And were learning troubling details about the pandemic. A federal investigation found that u. S. Officials who greeted american evacuees from wuhan did not have training in Infectious Disease control and were told not to wear masks. Thats according to the washington post. The states Attorney General is investigating why the Cuomo Administration failed to report 3,800 Hospital Deaths as being linked to nursing homes, an undercount of 40 . Weve got details on both of those stories coming up on morning joe. But we begin wi
Pair of legal bombshells here in washington today that could have huge ramifications for the 2024 election. Last hour, attorney general Merrick Garland announced a federal prosecutor who is raiding hunter biden has been Special Counsel, at his question. David weiss requested the status change. Garland did grant that. This comes just a few hour after trumps lawyers and Special Counsel prosecutors appeared for the first hearing in the election interference indictment. A key ruling could come down at any moment. Were on top of this. Lets star with the hunter biden news. Kara, tell us about this special appointment. Merrick garland announced this a little less than an hour ago, that david weiss, overseeing the investigation into hunter biden, requested Special Counsel on tuesday. Garland said he agreed to grant that. What this Special Counsel status means is david weiss, the u. S. Attorney for delaware, will have authority to investigate this case anywhere in the u. S. Thats been an issue,
it is a sad day for our country in so many sad day. and as predicted, hunter biden was just a get out of jail free card by his own by his own father s doj. nothing but a sweetheart deal only other americans could dream of. oh, what a shocdk. now, after a five year investigation and mountains of materialr investmountain of evid on top of each other, we had whistleblower s eyewitness accounts. hunter was ever so gently t slapped on the wrist with two misdemeanor tax violationshe for a missing an irs deadline. by the wayor a, we re talking at $3 million in taxes he didn txee pa dy and deferred gun charge. that will be dismissed if hunter s a really good boy for the next few years. now, formeryears. president i actually called it a traffic ticket when in reality thickets is a plea deal. it is little more than a political stunit it fromt froa a weaponized doj and nothing but pathetic attempt to merely f seem fair when they are anything but. now, keep in mind there s no fara
jackie. good evening, bret, the administration is still gauging the scope of today s cyberattack on multiple federal agencies and pressure is on to stay tough on china after its foreign minister told secretary blinken to show respect in a call yesterday. but the president keeps getting questions on things he doesn t want to answer. on the cyberattack. president biden not responding to bribery allegations detailed on an fbi 1023 form allege ago burisma executive paid then vice president joe biden and his son hunter to gain u.s. oil rights $5 million each. that money going to hunter and indirectly to the big guy via shell companies. why telling [inaudible] why do you ask such a dumb question? the document did not say joe biden received any payment. but the president also did not want to comment on federal agencies hit in a global cyberattack. initial reports from the administration suggesting china may not be behind it? we are trashing it as a criminal group. many
him settling scores. he s shown himself, most particular he doesn t give a damn about the american people. former new jersey governor chris christie is the loudest voice against donald trump so far in the 2024 republican race. it comes as the former president is set to be arraigned what are we? the falcon here? chewbacca. i don t think our viewers can see what was going on and i was covering perfectly. you were covering perfectly. everything was going fine. if i m not telling people one minute before did you see the lights go out on lemire? were you supposed to pay the electric bill? we rotate who does the bills. i wanted to have sort of the 1950s murrow vibe. it started up and it sounded like when hans was hammering the millennial falcon. that s how i fix everything. as you can see, joe and willie are back together al with katty and me. former president trump is set to be arraigned this afternoon on multiple federal charges for his handling of c