believe he is a racist or bigot. i wouldn t have been his vice president if he was. people forget his daughter converted to judaism, his son-in-law is a devout jew, his grandchildren are jewish. mike pence sharing his thoughts on the former president following donald trump s dinner with a white supremacist, more on his comments and the reaction from other prominent republicans will be just ahead. meanwhile, president joe biden is calling on congress to take action on a looming rail strike that could cripple the economy. overseas this morning nato leaders are meeting to iron out a significant aid package for ukraine. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, november 29th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. a growing number of republicans are speaking out against donald
because as we heard reports yesterday, he doesn t want to defend the white nationalists and neo-nazis in his own base. and as georgia breaks its single day record for early voting, there s new reporting this morning that donald trump will not visit the state ahead of next week s senate runoff. we ll have the latest from georgia. we ll also get a live report from beijing amid the rare protests in china over the country s draconian covid lockdowns and, how the protests are affecting the global economy. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, november 29th. good to have you all with us along with joe, willie, and me, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, and the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. so willie, here we have in the wall street journal the words that a lot of soccer fans are thinking about this morning,
top documents. two words, and you know you re eating with scrum bag, sitting down with the ku klux kanye, that s hard to say, by the way. that s quite a plus one to bring to mar-a-lago with you, kanye. welcome back to morning joe, it is tuesday, november 29th. jonathan lemire and katty kay are still with us, and joining the conversation, we have pulitzer prize winning columnist at the washington post eugene robinson, former u.s. senator now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill, and msnbc contributor, mike barnicle is with us this morning. good to have you with us. we re one week away from the runoff with rafael warnock and heschel walker. 4,000 people turned out to the
built for speed. built for business. president-elect picked this hedge fund mortgage mogul guy to run the united states treasury. the hedge fund guy got announced for treasury secretary on a tuesday november 29th. the very next day, wednesday, november 30th, that same hedge fund guy went on tv and said what he thought should happen with a really big portion of the american economy. would you move to change fanny and freddie at this point and move to have these. tized? absolutely, we ve got get them out of government ownership. it makes no sense that these are owned by the government and had been controlled by the government for as long as they have. okay. so tuesday, that guy gets picked for treasury secretary. wednesday, he goes on tv and
tuesday november 29th. the very next day, wednesday, november 30th, that same hedge fund guy went on tv and said what he thought should happen with a really big portion of the american economy. would you move to change fanny and freddie at this point and move to have these. tized? absolutely, we ve got get them out of government ownership. it makes no sense that these are owned by the government and had been controlled by the government for as long as they have. okay. so tuesday, that guy gets picked for treasury secretary. wednesday, he goes on tv and says the government should privatize fannie and freddie. the government should release those two government run mortgage companies back into the wild. and then look what happened after he said that. boing. one of the big jest jumps in stock trieses those companies have seen since the crash, since the government took them over in the crash of 2008.