republicans who are refusing to take action on an issue they clapriority. and asked the question whether they re smart enough to get away with it, which i actually, you know, started thinking over the past couple days. you ve got all of these republicans who are following this guy from louisiana, who just sort of stumbled into the speakership and doesn t seem to be that effective. this guy is now putting around the republican s political neck an open border for the next eight months and all that that brings, the collapse of ukraine, to former soviet kgb agent s invasion, and the refusal to fund israel in its time of need. so you have all of these republicans in the house, a lot of them who want to do the right thing but they re blindly following this young, inexperienced speaker who is blindly following there you go. a guy with 91 counts against him. that s the important point right there. yes, it s speaker johnson voicing this, but he is a vessel for what donald
we re going to de-bank. i don t know what the hell de-bank means, but he might have to take de-ambulance to see de-doctor. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is monday, january 29th. we have a lot to get to this morning, including the massive payout donald trump now owes e. jean carroll. talk about being de-banked. after a jury awarded the writer $83 million in defamation damages. we ll get expert legal analysis on that, as well as the looming case that could further impact donald trump s bank account. you know, that s the big one, really. a lot of de-banking. look at the fraud case, he s already found guilty. that one this is all just damages stage. i don t think he helped himself in the defamation case, though you haven t heard from him in the first time. has he defamed e. jean carroll since this came down on friday? i don t think he has. i haven t heard it yet. came close on stage. it s what the jury tried to do. we shall see. meanwh
first of all, i won a lot in 2020. that s not and if you look at all the tapes, if you look at everything you happen to look at, you take a look at truth to vote where they have people stuffing the ballot boxes on tapes or mr. president wait a minute, let s go to recent. fbi, twitter, let s go to recent, 51 agents all corrupt stuff that s cheating on the election. you lost the 2020 election. donald trump simply can t let go of the big lie. that s just part of a wide ranging and sometimes contentious interview with fox news last night in which the former president offered a new reason for why he had boxes of classified material stashed away at his palm beach country club. we ll dig into all of that in just a moment. also ahead we re learning more about antony blinken s meeting yesterday with chinese president xi jinping including what the secretary of state says china is not ready to do. and plus a race against time in the atlantic ocean. as rescuers
the u.s. strikes back. air strike in baghdad against militia leaders supported by iran. the u.s. believes they re behind the surge of attacks against american forces in iraq and in syria. we ve been on the story for some time and see where it goes now. live in new york i m bill hemmer. dana: i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. it s interesting it feels like every day we come here and there is another little bit and another little bit. the retaliation from the biden administration, it s been a long time coming since the middle of october pro-iranian mill i shalls have attacked 118 times. bill: let s get to senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot watching the story from london. let s begin with you. hello. bill and dana. our crack team at the pentagon in the last 30 minutes has been able to confirm this. a major strike by the united states on a militia leader right in the center of baghdad. we cannot confirm whether it was a drone strike or an air stri
i thought it would be almost impossible. we won this public narrative with the support of the american people. between president biden and speaker mccarthy, house republicans won from start to finish. lawrence lawrence president biden also praising it saying this in a tweet. i have been clear that the only path forward is a bipartisan compromise that can earn the support of both parties. this agreement meets that test. other lawmakers on the hill arguing it doesn t go far enough to curb spending. some republicans suggesting there might be an effort to oust mccarthy from his role as speaker do you think there will be discussion on the motion to vacate? stay tuned. it will be in a week or two. brian: before the default deadline set by treasury secretary yellen who obviously moves that deadline because everybody want add three day vacation for memorial day not clear when a vote will take place. ainsley: we were going to collapse. hold on, take a vacation. we will collaps