they have a range of up to 560 kilometres about 350 miles and can only carry conventional warheads. the move prompted an instant response from the kremlin saying it would require in adequate response from our military. in december i informed the house that i was developing options to respond to a russia s continued aggression in a calibrated and determined manner. today i can confirm that the uk is donating storm shadow missiles to ukraine. storm shadow is a long range, conventional only precision strike capability. it compliments the long range systems already gifted including himars and harpoon missiles, as well as ukraine s own neptune cruise missile and longer range missions elsewhere gifted. the donation of these weapons systems gives ukraine the best chance to defend themselves against russia s continued brutality, especially the deliberate targeting of ukrainian civilian infrastructure, which is against international law. ukraine has a right to be able to defend its
second degree murder, and calls are growing for police to form a justice and we are asking the chair of the memphis city council in the minority leader in the tennessee state senate about what part of the city and state have. they want a meeting with president biden to discuss just that, accountability. they re calling for national reforms within the justice system. we are talking to congresswoman, maxine waters, y all. and just a few moments, we re going to find out what the congress plans to ask for, and why. plus, in the lead up to black history month, we re celebrating some pioneers in our community who are living black history right now. starting with dana kennedy, she s the first african american to have a major publishing company. it s one of our living firsts. i have something to say. and then today since the release of videos showing the vicious beating a 29 year old tyre nichols by memphis police officers, we ve heard a lot. anger, fear, sadness across america. th
comcast business. powering possibilities. i m gassed with sudan. if you re just joining us, welcome. it s good to see you. thank you for sticking around if you re sticking with us. we re just days away from an emotional farewell in memphis. the funeral for tyre nichols, killed at the hands of police. the unit that deployed the five officers now charged has been disbanded. it s just one of the actions the community is calling for after the release of that horrifying video. i m going to be talking to a police expert this hour. we re following some breaking political news. just days from now, a showdown between kevin mccarthy and president biden on the debt ceiling. we re going to meet this wednesday. the president said he did not want to have discussions. i think it s important that our whole government is designed to find compromise. they can take control of this runaway spending. coming up, i m going to speak to congressman adam schiff. he got kicked off the house intel c
and we ve just heard they re evacuating civilians from the line there. and russia continues to target critical infrastructure in ukraine, triggering power and water outages. overnight, central ukraine was hit, quote, all night long by russian attacks. also a new round of kamikaze drone strikes. ukraine claiming it shot down 13 drones in the mykolaiv region. clarissa ward is live with the latest. can you tell us what you re hearing happening near kherson? reporter: it s an interesting picture. one we didn t expect to see quite this quickly but what appears to be happening is the mass evacuation of civilians to the sort of left bank, if you will, on the dnipro river. to try to, in the words of russian authorities move these people to safety because there s a huge ukrainian attack anticipated. although ukrainian authorities are saying that s propaganda and they aren t planning any kind of attack, particularly not on civilian infrastructure or tarts. but nonetheless we do sta
midnight. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 30th. new year s eve on this final morning, joe, of the year. and this morning, there is more heat on new york congressman-elect george santos, who also now is under federal investigation after it was revealed that he lied about his resume while campaigning for congress. we ll have new reporting on what these charges could be. plus, newly released transcripts from the january 6th committee, showing the struggle within the trump white house to keep bad information, conspiracy theories, away from the president and the failure to do that in many cases. we ll take a closer look at former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, in his failed role as presidential gatekeeper. plus, after thousands of canceled flights and a reputation now in tarts, southwest airline says it finally expects to resume normal operations today. we ll tell you what the company is saying it plans to do to somehow make things right.