that is incredibly notable because as brianna was saying, it s been this long-standing practice of strategic ambiguity. basically, that means that the white house will say, china, don t do this. we don t want to see you do this, but they wouldn t exactly spell out what would happen if china were to do that. and the president, of course, did that today, saying the u.s. military would be involved in this. so, yes, afterward, you did see some of the president s aides try to walk this back saying he wasn t articulating any kind of change in his policy, but it is a policy difference for him to come out and say explicitly they would do that. not just that they would provide arms to ukraine or arms to taiwan and weapons to taiwan like they are doing with ukraine, but saying they would go one step further, john. of course, it s a statement the president has come close to saying before. he articulated it very bluntly with no clarifications, no caveats. you can have aides walk it bac
Anger. Could that turn florida blue . Its still a long shot but it does give dems another opportunity to say look, voters, this is what happens when you let the other guys win. And while dems have this opportunity, republicans are hoping for their own opportunity on an issue they think they have the upper hand. Let us start with abortion. Joining us now, Washington Post National Reporter covering abortion, Car Caroline Kitchened matt dixon. You guys have done a lot of reports on whats happening in florida. Matt, this ruling, talk to me about the political underpinnings of it. Yeah, its a huge win for democrats here in florida who havent had a win in a decade or more. The Biden Campaign released a memo yesterday first given to nbc news that sort of said theyre going to build their florida strategy around the issue of abortion and really tieing it to yesterdays twopart rulings. So democrats are really hoping this is going to sort of put floridas Battleground State again. It hasnt been in
For a new nominee. Afterjim jordans defeat, back to square one with nine potential nominees. Tonight on the panel. , We Havejournalist and broadcaster Jenny Kleeman and ron christie, whos the former Special Assistant to george w bush. We will say hello to both in a moment. Welcome to the programme. A day of big developments in gaza. According to hamas, two more hostages have been released due to poor health. Its believed they are two elderly israeli women. Also, israels intense air strikes on gaza have been continued. Take a look at these pictures. Most of the strikes have been in the north gas and, whats on in the south as well. Some gazans are reported to be moving back to the north because the dire conditions in the south. Part of that is due to aid. These are the pictures of some aid getting across, 20 trucks across the border, hundreds a day are needed, though, according to the un, and in amongst the aid, food and water, still no fuel, and fuel is needed for hospitals and other vi
At morning, and welcome to the Sunday Edition of Morning Joe Weekend. It was another fastmoving newsweek, and here are some of the conversations you might have missed. I have, for 6 months since people have been freaking out, i am telling you every time, talk to anybody whos running the campaign, the big part of the campaign. I dont know what they are telling you, what they are telling other people. They act ing like people are holding four aces. How about this . Thats pretty bad. Oh, yeah. Looks really tough. Yeah. Is as a criticism . No, im telling you. They know something that i think a lot of us dont know. They look at numbers, they see where things are going, they have a theory of the case, and when they realize donald trump is going to be getting into the race, they understand that you win politics by raising money. They understand Donald Trumps numbers are way down in every way, and fundraising, and they say, no, they are not. And as far as organization goes, we all know anybody
Your studio, always. Jesse i did. It is jacket and tie only. Im looking forward to the debate moderated by goes by ingram and schneider. Take. Laura take it away. Jesse thank you so much. We are an hour away from the second republican primary debate at the Ronald Reagan president ial library in simi valley, california. Joe biden from the last election as the battle for the soul of america. The selection is a battle for civilization. Property memory americans are obsessed with the roman empire for a reason. They collapse because of Inflation Ideology and it was invaded by barbarians. And when the romans needed their government, rome was plagued by corruption. Today, america is succumbing to Invasions Inflation and evil ideologues. Numb politicians are caught with gold bars and diamonds. The entire government is protecting a person person on the take. But theres more concerned with themselves following the fall of america. The politicians tonight have to explain the stakes. Show backbone