good morning. happy new year. welcome to a special new year s day edition of morning joe. we re on tape this morning with some of our top, recent conversations. we begin with a discussion about donald trump s increasing use of authoritarian language in his speeches and social media posts. in recent months, trump has repeated fascist rhetoric, including saying immigrants are, quote, poisoning the blood of our country, and referring to his political enemies as vermin. we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. the threat from outside forces is sinister, dangerous, and grave, more than the threat from within. donald trump echoing the words of 20th century authoritarians at a rally earlier this month. joining us now, national affairs analyst john heilemann. special correspondent at vanity fair and host of the fast politics podcast, molly jong-fast. and co
weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. it is interesting that nikki haley, again, is bad lane along with ron desantis, chris christie for first place, for second place right now. there may be a pathway for her to win new hampshire. there may be new hampshire s interest in this year. you don t have a democratic race. so you have a lot of independents that aren t going to be splitting between republican and democratic voting, but she has right now, and, again i, know she s a civet boosted to the shull polls, i ve also filed enough campaigns. when people start talking about somebody, that s usually a leading indicator. you see polls go up, you but you look at the debate, the men screaming. you look at ron desantis and gavin newsom shouting at each other with sean hannity shouting in the middle. serious. there s a lot of men out there shouting. a lot of buffoon airy, a lot of really loud voices, and so, if politics is about contrast, then what a contrast and n
after hamas. the security system continues to flow. that s not going to change. we re also going to do everything we can to make sure that they are properly accounting for the civilian population and minimizing the damage and casualties as much as possible. the other thing we re not going to take our foot off the gas on is seeing if we can get nood another pause and get more hostages out and more security aid in. that s john kirby laying out the top priorities. we ll show you what else he had to say about the failed negotiations for another humanitarian pause in gaza. also ahead, the latest on a string of attacks on an american warship and multiple commercial vessels in the middle east. plus, speaker mike johnson gives a timeline for a vote to launch an impeachment inquiry in the house of representatives and to president biden. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, december 4th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us
war on american democracy. joe biden is not the defender of american democracy. joe biden is the destroyer of american democracy. this is the latest trump defense against accusations he is being anti-democratic. yesterday, the trump campaign handed out signs to supporters during a rally in iowa. the i know you are but what am i playground retort is a familiar response from the former president. from everything i see has no respect for this person. that s because he would rather have a puppet as president. no puppet. it s pretty clear you are the puppet. you won t admit you are the puppet. with eyes on his next shot at the oval office, trump is previewing aboding message, telling supporters to guard the vote. guard the vote. you should go into detroit and go into philadelphia and you should go into some of these places, atlanta, and you should go into some of these places and we gotta watch those votes when they come in. the anti-democratic comments a
is cnn newsroom. u.s. president joe biden will soon be on his way here to atlanta, georgia, just days after eight people were killed in a shooting rampage at a local spas, six of them were asian women. biden was supposed to promote his huge coronavirus relief package, but will now instead offer his support to the community. he will be meeting with the mayor as well as state officials and asian-american leaders. vice president kamala harris who is a black asian-american is also on the trip. police say it s too soon to tell if the shootings were racially motivated about you that doesn t mean this had nothing to do with race as cnn s amara walker reports. our investigation is looking at everything, so nothing is off the table. reporter: as investigators take a hard look into what motivated the suspect to go on a mass shooting spree in the atlanta area that left eight dead including six asian women, comments and actions from the captain of the cherokee county sheriff s de