we need to go big. and if we waste some money now, we waste some money. absolutely we have too many people hurting and the economy is going to sputter and we ve got to get ourselves out of this mess. and this is the way we need to go right now. let me tell you something, that man has a future in northwest florida politics. i like him. or west virginia. mika, that s interesting. that s from the republican governor of a state that donald trump got 69% in. jim justice, governor of west virginia, urging congress to go big on covid-19 relief. good morning. welcome to morning joe . it is tuesday, february 2nd. we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post , david ignatius. back with us, capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early , kasie hunt. and it seems more and more likely that democrats will push through the biden administration s nearly $2 trillion economic relief package with or without republicans. the president met with a group of senat
disinformation campaign against vaccines. so, maybe it doesn t work and they are simply not telling you that. and how the signature policy achievement for democrats is yielding unbelievably good results. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. after 27 years on the supreme court, today we learned that justice stephen breyer was 83 years old, is retiring. justice breyer is one of the three remaining liberal justices in the sits jury court. it is a huge announcement. this morning, when nbc news broke the story, it was that rare push alert on my phone that actually gave me kind of a sense of relief. because usually when something pops up, these days, it s like, oh god, what now? the broader announcement is still not official, in fact, the white house is expected to make a formal announcement about his retirement tomorrow. we expect the president and prior to appear together. for his part, today, biden declined to appear today until make
novels aren t nice. what do mankind hope to get out of all this print? happiness? what an idiot you must have been. this gibberish is enough to drive a man mad. welcome to the republican party of 2021. our future dystopia is already here. the republican party is all aboard when it comes to stoking the anxieties of conservative white suburbanites to maintain control, especially now that glenn youngkin rode a wave of fragile feelings to victory in virginia last week on the boogieman of critical race here are the and buoyed by a little book banning, mainly beloved. toni morrison s novel about the legacies of slavery and its black pain. which is really a book about feeling since youngkin s message was an ad featuring a white parent who advocated in banning the book in 2013 because it gave her son, a high school senior, nightmares. and within days of the election, the republican leader in the house kevin mccarthy declared the republicans are the party of education, announcing
corporations that report over a billion dollars in profit, a minimum tax of 15%. senator warren is now the junior most democratic member of the senate finance committee, which she got on specifically to get her hand in tax writing, and she s got the chairman on her side and now senator sinema tonight issued this statement saying yeah, that works for me in the infrastructure bill. now, on the so let me just ask you this, lawrence, because you ve been covering this super tightly. the objections such as we understand them from senator sinema have at least been in part about how the build back better bill was going to be paid for that she was objecting to lots of the proposals for how they will pay for it. now she s saying, one of the things she s in favor of is this corporate minimum tax rate. does senator mansion also say that he is in favor of that corporate minimum tax rate because if so, that means we re going to get a corporate minimum tax rate. he s not said he s opp
president zelenskyy s office announced the rescue effort but no word yet on how it can happen. in mariupol, an official says russian troops are blocking a section of the city right near the plant. it s possible russians will still storm that facility. survivors say they have not seen sunlight for weeks. this is the video of them in the basement. diapers are being reused. food, water, medication are almost gone. in just the past day, ukraine says 50 air strikes have rained down on that steel plant, wounding more than 600 civilians inside. a ukrainian commander from inside told cnn what it s like on day 64 as russians surround them. the situation is critical. it s beyond a humanitarian catastrophe. these are hundreds of people, and they have dozens of children with them. the youngest is 4 months old. we cannot tell you for sure how long we can hold on for. that all depends on the enemy movement and also on luck. with so many lives at stake, the pentagon was asked if vladimi