g getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. donald trump s position on the national debt is identical to joe biden s. there have been promises made about draining the swamp, building the wall, doing all these things you know, none of that came to fruition. he is a child when someone disagrees with him. he engages in reckless conduct. i don t need to read the indictment or believe its allegations are true, though i m pretty confident they are. clearly, it was unauthorized, illegal and dangerous. i view them serious and disqualifying for a commander in chief. anybody who doesn t want to look at the facts should be disqualified from running, not just trump. so many of those people saying that worked for him yeah. you had his attorney general. you had his national security adviser. you had his secretary of defense. you had his top ranking officials. all republicans. all supporters of donald trump all people that stood
aggressively anti, anti-trump shamelessly over the last several years. you look at the national review that turned anti, anti-trumpism into an art form they re all saying that this is much worse than it looks. well, we ll have more on these leading republican voices speaking out about the former president in a moment. we want to get to developing news out of beijing this morning. secretary of state antony blinken met with chinese president xi jinping t the associated press reports their meeting lasted roughly 35 minutes. the ap also cites footage from the meeting released by chinese state media in which chinese president xi is attributed as saying, quote, the two sides have agreed to follow through on the common understandings president biden and i have reached in bali. so that meeting taking place this morning yup very early.