You know i agree with secretary pompeos assessment. It certainly appears to be the russians but i wont discuss it beyond that. Apparently, there is a bridge too far even for william barr. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, december 22. Along with joe, willie and me, we have White House Reporter for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire, learning to get up way too early this week. And washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay is with us. Well get to the slowmoving coup in just a moment. But first, overnight Congress Passed one of the largest stimulus packages in the countrys history. It totals 2. 3 trillion and it includes not only the 900 billion Coronavirus Relief bill, but a full government funding package as well. The combined bills which include direct payments and Unemployment Benefits tops out at nearly 5,600 pages. It was only given to lawmakers to read yesterday afternoon, due to some technical issues. In the house it passed 359 53. In the sen
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