morning joe. it is tuesday, december 26th, i m jonathan lemire. alongside me former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments elise jordan and the haass of msnbc s politics nation reverend al sharpton. president biden and first lady jill biden spent christmas eve fielding phone calls for the norad santa tracker. the president posted this picture on social media writing that he spoke to excited young americans worried about santa s whereabouts. then the president and first lady called units from each branch of the military to wish them a merry christmas and thank them for their service. republican front runner donald trump, on the other hand, spent the holiday weekend in a very different fashion, taking on his political enemies. the former president posted several, shall we say, unusual christmas messages on truth social that criticized people like joe biden and jack smith. in one post the channeled home alone kevin mccallister. merry christmas, y
the gloves are truly off tonight in the republican race for president. john king in for anderson tonight. thank you for your time. even if you re just paying a little attention to the republican race, it is hard to notice ron desantis and the former president openly throwing haymakers. never mind the old 11 d commandment. donald trump, of course, has never bought into that, and now it seems his fellow floridian doesn t either. over the last 48 hours, governor desantis has gone straight after the gop front-runner, most recently today on this conservative talk show. he s been attacking me by moving left, so this is a different guy than 2015/2016. 2 million illegal aliens he wanted to amnesty. we both faced covid-19, and we both responded in the way we did. he responded by elevating anthony fauci and really turning over the reins to dr. fauci. under the trump administration, he enacted a bill, basically a jailbreak bill. as for mr. trump, there s this, and, yes, listen close
captions by vitac www.vitac.com the gloves are truly off in the republican race for president. john king in for anderson t pay little attention to the republican race, it is hard to notice ron desantie former president openly throwing hay makers. donald trump, of course, has never bought into that. and now it seems his fellow floridian doesn t either. over the last 48 hours, governor desantis has gone straight after the gop front runner, most recently today on this conservative talk show. he s been attacking me by moving left. so, this is a different guy than 2015, 2016. 2 million illegal aliens he wanted to amnesty. we both faced covid-19, and we both responded the way we did. he responded by elevating anthony fauci and turning over the reigning to dr. fauci. he enacted a bill, basically a jailbreak bill. as for mr. trump, there s this. and yes, listen closely, he s deliberately calling the governor rob, not ron. rob desanctimonious and his poll numbers are dropp
speaker kevin mccarthy left the meeting sounding optimistic about how things were developing. biden told reporters that he was confident about reaching a deal, and that all parties were in agreement that default was not an option. mccarthy had even said that it, was, quote possible to get a deal for the end of the, week but signs of renewed discord svelte back out on friday. republican aides pause the discussion, and saying that it was, quote, not productive. democrats and republicans remain far apart on a number of issues, including spending cuts, and work requirements for federal benefits, which mccarthy has said is a red line for him. talks between congressional republicans in the white house have yet to, presuming yesterday, mccarthy s made his dissatisfaction public. tweeting, quote, president biden does think that there was a single dollar of savings to be found in the federal government s budget. he d rather be the first president in history to default in the death tha
you re a candidate now, ron. thanks to what is sure to be remembered as the most awkward campaign launch in american history. plus, that s not fair. trump s lawyers channel their inner 8-year-old in a whining complaint to the u.s. attorney general with due apologies to 8-year-olds. later, one year after 19 students and two teachers were gunned down in uvalde, texas, an activist group floats a radical proposal for reining in america s deadly gun culture. and we begin tonight with a question. would you ever hire someone who participated in a deadly insurrection to overtake the u.s. capitol or fellow rioters threatened to kill the house speaker and hang the vice president? would you hire a woman who was once arrested and charged with stealing the campaign signs of a political rival who she had run against for public office? personally i wouldn t and i imagine most of you wouldn t either. but florida governor ron desantis did. this is sandra atkinson. her investigation by