the u.s. still doesn t know whether they were from china other foreign adversaries or civilians. nbc s jackie freyer asked china in beijing. can you confirm that any or all of the three other objects all belong to china or is this just a coincidence? he answered we re opposed to any attempt to smear china by creating something out of thin air. the u.s. has flown ten surveillance balloons over china in the last year, something the white house strongly denies and after the norad commander refused to rule out that the three most recent objects were aliens, this unreal moment at a white house briefing. i don t think the american people need to worry about aliens with respect to these craft. andrea, has the u.s. said anything about resuming talks with china? yes, lester. in fact, the state department said today it s important to keep lines of communication open and is not ruling out a meeting between secretary blinken and china s top diplomat in germany later this
the court therefore finds defendant intended her presence to be disruptive to congressional business. if judges and courts and juries are tieing the criminal acts of the insurrectionists themselves to the direction given by donald trump, isn t this you have congress, they have referred him criminally four times. you have a judge who said felonies have been committed. you have judges in the rioters cases tieing trump without any doubt into the conduct of the criminals. aren t we already there? haven t we crossed over? i believe we are. i think mary and others who have had direct experience, have been inside the building, will have a greater appreciation for this. clearly what the attorney general and the team of prosecutors has to know that they re going to get right is if you believe the elements are there, you really have to know you are going to be able to prove them. charging a former president, if
there was a threat of an assassination attempt on the conservative justices. i guess he had the whip count already. knew they could all be targeted. is there an obligation to take this investigation from the court and figure out who did the leaking that led to a, quote, assassination threat against the conservative justices? the question is, who would do that? who has the authority to do that? john roberts. i don t know well, the same john roberts who still doesn t hasn t drafted a code of ethics for his court. you want to talk about public perceptions, draft an ethics code, that would go a long way. he s the one who decided this case would be handled by the chief of police, right? that s her job. i m not making that phrase up or demeaning her role in any single way, the security at the supreme court is fantastic. but in writing, her job is chief of police.
20. i m assuming that the 20 outstanding here are probably the not kevin, and the probably huddling about what they want to do. that s very likely, right? we are still under the role of 2:18. if five republicans side with all the democrats, here you can likely stop he is a real temperature test, was there progress made in the last three hours that has never kevin crowd saying, let s let this go on for another night, if so, the lighthouse adjourn. if they really think that the screws to try, him then they won t let the house adjourn. look what we know after the last three hours, it s kevin mccarthy still doesn t have the votes to be speaker, and he s also not ready to throw in the towel, and give up. he believes they re making progress, and this motion to adjourn is an interesting test of, well this actually now get all republicans against all democrats, and begin to reflect
. welcome back to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 3rd, a live look at the capitol where a lot is going to happen there today. jonathan lemire and jen psaki are still with us. we have a lot of politics to get to. capitol hill is going to be rocking today. it s going to be fascinating to see what happens with kevin mccarthy. moving his stuff into the speaker s office. still doesn t have the votes. counting his chickens before they hatch. maybe a little bit. maybe he knows something we don t, but boy, if you read the headlines this morning, yeah, it looks like the battle for the next speakership of the u.s. house of representatives is going to go to the floor. kevin, or chaos? and it may be drawn out for quite some time. willie, of course, for so many americans who were up last night