garland appointed a special prosecutor to look into it. well, today we got the results of the investigation in a report. the special counsel will not seek criminal charges against president biden. so if you re in a fantasy league for presidential indictments, it s still, trump, 91. every other president ever, 0. you got that? clean that up. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, february 9th. good to have joe, willie and me here together. along with us, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. nbc news national affairs analyst john heilemann. former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor chuck rosenberg. and nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian is with us this morning. we have a lot going on. we ll start with the special counsel investigating president biden for his handling of classified documents will not bring charges against the president. that s the conclusion. he wrote in the report, wrot
partially correct. if, in fact, putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invadingef ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be able to worry less aboute nato and somehow starti this war s would make that happ, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine there were 30 i countries in nato. now there are about to be 32. finland was the 31st country to join in april. that gave russia 800 more miles of border directly with a nato country. and now as of tonight we know that sweden is going to join natoat as well. sweden said months ago that they wanted to join, but this is something that really until today looked like it couldn t happen and that s because for a new country to join nato, it has to be a unanimous decision. all the nato countries have to agree with h the decision, if o country doesn t agree it doesn t happen. and inre the case of sweden it s an original nato it was a nato w member, a single nato country,in turkey, that said no. they saidid finland was okay
this is bbc news. the headlines: the first picture of king charles since his cancer diagnosis. the king and queen camilla seen here leaving clarence house. he has now started his treatment. prince harry has arrived back in the uk from california to see his father. in other news, a us appeals court has ruled that donald trump doesn t have immunity from charges that he plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat. and we are here from michael] fox, who opens up about his parkinson s diagnosis ahead of a new documentary about his life. time for a look at the business news now with ben thompson. in the last few hours, the european commission has proposed new ambitous climate targets. it wants the eu to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 90% compared to 1990 levels by the year 2040. the eu s climate commissioner called for a fair transition that will allow eu businesses to thrive, and emphasises the urgency with which countries needed to act. we have just lived through the hotte
their new favorite target yet agaic their nn yesterday, senatm scott. let s take a look. you voted against the voting rights act. yeah. yeah. go to the george floyd policing act. came on this ver came on this yd systemic racism. i dited med see the well, i wase to tell you you can find i looked at him like he was he was a looney tom and joe biden partnered with the former klansman and to stop the integration of public schools. he didn t want them, in his words, to be he didn t wa racial jungles. anyway, senator tim scott will respond and join us later tonight. y lloydefense secretar austin made his first public appearance since his mysterious maden and was grilled by reporters. we ve got that tape for you. but first, last night we played you this disturbing video showing a group of illegal immigrants in times square viciously attacking nypds last officers last week. and now the suspects, they wer e arrested, they were taken to jail. but as per new york law, sadly,i they wer
from washington. tonight, the flimflam gang. the that s the focus of tonight s angle. all right. the talking point this year for globalists is that conservatives skeptical about the mcconnell schumer border servativ deal don t really wanta to solve the crisis. they re just bowing down to donalhuck schd, who opposes it s not surprising, i guess, but it s it s i mean, it s deeply. people are dying and people s lot you know, there are a lot of people s lives are in the balance here. i think that s a fundamental problem with trumpism. right. if i think is about nihilism, ie burn it down caucus. r they right. d they don t want to legislate n is solvingproblems problems. right? they don t want the government to wort thk similar flimsy thing coming from conservative stalwart mitt romney, another of trumpthin loathing pro-amnesy republicans like thom tillis. it is immoral for me to say you look the other way because . you think this is the linchpin for president trump to