questions over whether there is concern that putin may push farther than ukraine. we are making it clear that we re going to be prepared to defend our nato allies if it comes to that hopefully it won t come to that. at the pentagon questions about whether the u.s. knows more about putin s plans than officials are acknowledging publicly. do you have any evidence that putin plans to move beyond ukraine s borders? why are you bolstering these eastern flank allies if you do not have evidence of that? because it s important that we send a strong signal to mr. putin and frankly to the world that nato matters. 93-7 this is president biden ordering the military to more than double its presence in nato wednesday. sending 1,000 troops from germany with armored vehicles plus 2,000 from the u.s. to europe. 1700 from the 82nd airborne now heading to poland. 300 also from fort bragg will set up a joint task force exeable headquarters in germany. 8500 more remain at home on he
totally fixed the middle east. why not let his daughter-in-law fix the republican party. my very talented daughter-in-law has agreed to run as the rnc co-chair. lara is an extremely talented communicator and dedicated to all that maga stands for. she told me she wants to accept this challenge and would be great. eric, his wife got more compliments this that one post than his father gave him in his entire life so far. while donald trump is busy meddling with rnc leadership, president biden is pushing the republican-controlled house to pass a foreign aid package. and calling out trump for his latest un-american comments. but on capitol hill, speaker mike johnson and the gop tackled the not so pressing issue of impeaching the homeland security secretary. a move that s being called a waste of time by both sides of the aisle. that s because it is. it does literally nothing. good morning. and welcome to morning joe. well, it hurts them. makes them look dumber, if that s pos
about tom suozzi being the godfather of the migrant crisis, about sanctuary suozzi, despite the dirty tricks, despite the vaunted nassau county republican machine, we won! that s new york congressman-elect tom suozzi celebrating his special election victory as democrats flip the seat that was held by the disgraced george santos. and they now cut into the republicans already razor thin majority. the house gop tackle the not so pressing of impeaching the house secretary. a move being called a waste of time both member of both sides of the aisle. that comes as president biden pushes to pass a foreign aid package and slams donald trump for his un-american comments on nato. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, february 14th. happy valentine s day. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin with democrats celebrating this morning after former congressman tom suozzi s special election win in new york s third district. t
Nato alliance looks, again, putting troops on the border of borders of those countries that we all were just discussing, sends some strength, at least it looks strong, but, it s pretty clear that there are underlying tensions that are significant and that were exposed by putin s actions on border of ukraine. john: you have got to wonder if you are vladimir putin and looking at troop movements. you say to yourself they are not going to ukraine. i only want to go into ukraine. they are not that much of a deterrent. i want to change gears here. the news yesterday at about this time that johns hopkins study, which is really landed like a bombshell that there was only a 2% a .02% reduction in code deaths because of all of the lockdowns that we experienced. listen to what anthony fauci said about that two years ago. the fact that we shut down when we did, and the rest of the world did, has saved hundreds of