thursday, january 25th. we have a lot to get to this morning, including the red flags with donald trump s campaign coming out of new hampshire. new exit polls are exposing his weaknesses in a general election. it comes as the haley campaign what a shock, by the way. you mean he s weak in a general election? who would have i don t know. ever seen that in 2017, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, or 23. this is so shocking. who could have seen this? it comes as the haley campaign says it has seen a significant bump in donations since tuesday s primary. look at the orange. okay. we re going to go back. it s a really pretty dress. it is a beautiful dress. gorgeous. we wonder about the makeup, you know, it is caked on orange. i i don t know what s going on there. look. could be i don t want to i don t think it d be right to talk about someone s appearance. it is not presidential. the dress and the orange. exactly. i think i would probably, if
be very clear. not one republican should vote for this deal. it is a bad deal. i thought the last plan wasn t good enough. i had no idea. i had no idea that we would see a plan as ephemeral as this plan. anyone who s spent any time on capitol hill will tell you those hard liners were probably never going to vote for any compromise. by necessity, it would not be what they wanted, which was major spending cuts to social programs but here is where it gets tricky. as part of the deal to get the gavel, mccarthy put a number of those hard liners on the rules committee in the house. and now two of them, chip roy and ralph norman, are openly trying to sink deal. will they, even though they re trying to sink it, still allow it to go to the floor for a vote? that that is an open question. we re going to ask garrett haake about it in a moment. there s also the question of whether enough house dems will sign on. the conventional wisdom is yes. that there s no way democrats will all
Fight over the debt ceiling and a possible plan b for House Democrats. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration has plans to send active duty troops to the Southern Border as soon as next week. We will explain what the Military Personnel will be doing down there. Also ahead, new testimony in the civil trial against donald trump. It comes as the former president decides not to take the stand in his own defense. New reporting this morning on Text Messages that ultimately led to Tucker Carlsons firing. We also will have a look at the latest aid package headed to ukraine as its forces prepare for a Spring Offensive against russias army. And writers expected back on the picket lines today as the wga strike is already impacting several shows, late night going dark for starters. Good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday, may 3rd, with us we have the host of Way Too Early, white house, jen palmieri, Cohost Of The Circus and former chairman o. Of the republican committee, Michael Steele.
really needed. he has been trying to re energise western support. don t forget, he left the us earlier this week having failed to secure some crucial defence fund and the decision in brussels was hanging in the balance because eu leaders pushed it through in a pretty bizarre fashion. the only one to oppose the plan, viktor orban left the room when the decision was made. it is a bit of the detailfor decision was made. it is a bit of the detail for now, an obstacle to overcome. while ukrainians know the road to eu membership is a long one with no guarantee of success, this is a morale boost right when they needed one. it s a crucial time for the country, as winter weather picks up and heavy fighting continues in bakhmut and avdeevka. our correspondent abdujalil abdurasulov reports from the frontline in bakhmut in the east of ukraine, where troops are under pressure because of a dwindling supply of military hardware. in the bitter cold of winter, this deadly war grinds on, and b
to respond to local government debt and real estate troubles. another priority is to get financial regulators to work more closely together so they can co ordinate the event of an economic shock. janet yellen is slowly emerging as a key player in the biden administration s handling of this challenging relationship between the world s two superpowers and she said she plans to visit china again and she said she plans to visit china again next year, her second visit since july. china industrial output grew 6%, faster than the 4.6% gain in october. retail sales also grew but missed forecast chinese consumers have been reluctant to spend amid a deepening crisis in the country s property sector and economic slowdown. a majorfault line between washington and beijing is the race to develop semiconductors. chips power everything from smartphones to military highend equipment and are increasingly seen as crucial to the global economy. south korea and the netherlands two keynotes south