at every single stop now, reporters are looking, is he interacting with the crowd? is he take shaking hands, tae staying long enough? if you re advanced staff, you have to stay at least an extra 30 minutes to show, hey, he likes people. i saw tweets, what pizza is he having? is he talking to voters? do we have a timetable as to when other candidates will jump in? rumors about tim scott, mike pence and others. i think tim scott will come in. may 22nd is the date where they re circling. you ll see his super pac get bolstered. mike pence also in the next month. those are the two main candidates. national political correspondent for axios, alex thompson covering a lot of ground. thank you for being here. thank you for all of you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent year. the time for excuses is over. if we get distracted, focus the election on
Mitchell reports, House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy 24 hours from the biggest moment of his political career and still no closer to securing the votes he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Also this hour, i will speak to dr. Zeke emanuel about a tough holiday flu season along with new concerns about a new strain of covid19 in the u. S. And we will have a live report from rome as catholics travel to the vatican to Pope Emeritus Benedict during the three days he will lie in state ahead of thursdays funeral mass. Good day, im andrea in mitchell. Happy new year, everyone. Well, the pressure is on republican leader in this in you year, Kevin Mccarthy has to win over the hard line House Conservatives that he needs to become the next speaker of the house. Tomorrow the new Congress Returns to washington with the speaker vote as the top item on the agenda. But at this hour no one knows how long its going to take for republicans to secure the Majority Vote needed to appoint a le
storms threatening the west coast. 17 million people across california and nevada are under flood watches. the storm is known as an atmospheric river, basically a fire hose of water. the big concern, flooding from rising rivers and melting snowpack. the ground is already saturated from weeks of heavy rainfall. look at oakland. parts of the interstate shut down because of flooding. east of oakland, the roof of a dollar store collapsed from the wait of the rain on top of the snow still there from earlier storms. the store said to be a total loss. the good news, no one was hurt. evacuation warnings are in effect for five central california counties. officials are telling people to move to higher ground now. we re covering this from all angles. nick watt is just outside san jose. let s go to we ll start with nick. nick, what are you seeing there? reporter: victor, we re seeing a lot of water here in felton. we re a little bit up river from santa cruz. as you can see, if you
i ll speak with a top adviser to president volodymer zelenskyy about this new russian assault and plans for a ukrainian counter offensive that s expected to begin soon. also tonight, new moves by florida republicans designed to help governor ron desantis and his likely run for president. this amid deep concerns among republicans in congress about desantis war with the disney corporation. and we re tracking fears that another u.s. bank may collapse at any moment. first republic stock plunging as the white house says it does not have a rescue plan in the works. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour in ukraine where cnn is on the scene of the dead liest missile strike in this new wave of attacks. at least 23 killed when an apartment building, an parlapartment building was hit. nic robertson is on the scene. walk us through what you ve seen and the rescue operation under
another beating, the dow sinking into the bank that set off the crisis, silicon valley, not cut like goldman sachs. the banks work from hold culture is partly to blame for the collapse? or not. a story you see first out front. the chinese president xi jingpin facing record unemployment and unrest, how could this figure into a potential invasion of taiwan? it a good evening. out front tonight, new video just in. these are ukrainian soldiers shooting down a russian fighter jet. what i am about to show you i think will stand out to you, for the fact that the act appears to be so easy for ukrainians to take out a russian fighter jet that it almost takes him by surprise. so, here it is. what you are looking at is a ukrainian using a surface to air missile. so, shooting from the ground here, takes about three seconds to reach his target and the white circle, you see it, then the clash or explosion there, the soldiers reaction is total shock. it hit the plane. [ bleep ] as i sai