and welcome to morning joe: weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. let s begin this morning with a new report from house democrats that alleges the first two years of donald trump s presidency. his family business received seven point $8 million from foreign governments. democrats on the republican-led house oversight committee yesterday released the findings of an investigation that began back in 2016 into violations of the constitution s foreign cause. the report finds from 2017, to 2019 alone, trump s businesses received at least seven point $8 million from 24 in governments. most of that money? according to the report came from china! whose government allegedly paid more than five and a half million dollars to rent out trump s own properties during that time. the government of saudi arabia where, trump visited on his first foreign trip as president paid his business is more than $600,000. the. information stems from documents obtained from the trump s fo
the republican debate that is taking place just 12 days before the iowa caucus will feature only two candidates. cnn announced florida governor ron desantis and former u.s. ambassador nikki haley and former president trump made the cut, but trump is going to skip the debate of course, opting instead to buy dissipate and a town hall with fox news the same evening. willie? joining us now in the studio, publican presidential candidate former governor the great state new jersey chris christie. governor, good to see. you get to see, you. happy new year you miss the polling threshold on the debate stage for next week. when your plans for that? night i, off i haven t spent one day or $1 in iowa, and so the fact that he did make the polling for that is not something i was ever trying to do in iowa. so that s fine, the key will be at the debate that night, and given the fact that donald trump is not going to do a town hall on fox news, i don t know