increasing inflation. well, it has the advantage of not only people being able to live longer and better and be able to perform their prescription drugs, but, guess what? it reduces the deficit $158 billion. [ applause ] don t forget that part to tell people. it s not just that you pay less for the drug. it means that the federal government isn t paying for the drugs for medicare. president joe biden in baltimore last night, debunking republican claims about the deficit and calling on democrats to remind americans what his administration has achieved over the past two years. meanwhile, on capitol hill, a hearing dominated by grievance politics, as attorney general merrick garland makes his first appearance before the new congress. he actually had insurrectionists. right. like, the guy with, like what is it, willie, the bird bone hands, like, doing the power to the people signal. the raised fist. that s right. raised fist of a bird. yeah. there it is. the
machine company dominion several weeks ago as fox news lawyers prepared for a courtroom showdown with dominion voting systems, they presented tucker carlson with what they thought was good news. they had persuaded the court to redract from a legal filing the time he called a fox news executive the c-word mr. carlson, fox news most watched primetime host was not impressed. he told his colleagues that he wanted the world to know what he had said about that executive in a private message the people said mr. carlson said comments he made about former president donald trump, i hate him passionately that were in the court documents, were said during a momentary spasm of anger, while his dislike of the executive was deep and enduring. the tensions between tucker carlson and fox news leadership had been simmering for some time the wall street journal also reports within fox s management, reservations had been mounting about risks mr. carlson presented for the network. some of the
course? i think the president going to kyiv doesn t settle that problem once and for all. ideally, it would have been great had he shown up, you know, with senator mcconnell or somebody like that who is strongly in support of the war. again, it sends a reassuring message to ukraine about american staying power. which, jonathan, is critical for europe. europe has followed behind and with the united states for the most part. this is leading from ahead, and that is what is required in this instance. we are now past 6:00. welcome to morning joe at this morning. joe, mika and willie have the day off. i want to bring in katty kay, special u.s. correspondent for bbc news, into our live, rolling coverage of this presidents day and president biden s surprise trip to ukraine, one meant to show a real symbol of solidarity, katty, with kyiv, as it has weathered russia s invasion now for 12 months. yeah, jonathan, what a day for us to kick off presidents s day, to see these images.
the latest on the biden administration s response. hey, lucas. before leaving ireland last night president biden spoke to reporters in dublin about the leak of classified information. i ve instructed the department to make sure that they get to the root of why he had access in the first place, number one, and number two, to focus extensively on the extent to which it all occurred. there s no way to predict how long an investigation will take. i don t think it s going to take very long. i think we re getting to the bottom of it quicker. now more leaks of highly classified information has been discovered. u.s. intelligence agencies were made aware of additional four chinese spy balloons in addition to the 4,000 chinese craft that made the odyssey over the u.s. before it was shot down. over a million have top secret clearance, the pentagon is looking how many in addition to the leaker had access to the military s joint wide intelligence communication system better known by