student loan forgiveness plan, but the president won t get the last word. their senior national correspondent s life in the nation s capital with more on this. a mixed bag for the presiden of the united states today heading into the weekend with a pair of bills on his desk. one of them a victory for the administration and a nation teetering on the brink of default. this takes could not have been higher. if we had failed there were extreme voices threatening to take america for the first time in our to hundred 47 year history into default on our national debt 50 gate the default bill goes as a victory lap happens at the white house in the meantime a rejection of the biden student loan forgiveness program in both houses of congress congress would be to feed for the president if not for his pen. to give the president is going to veto this bill 90 percent of the relief will go to americans who make $75,000 or less. this is part of the president s economic policy and economic
remind you, this is not just a u.s. issue. it s this is an international problem and deserves an international response. john: so, what does that response look like and will the u.s. lead it? hello, john roberts in washington, here we go for another hour. sandra: sandra smith in new york, this is america reports . shooting down drones and missiles in the red sea, troops in the middle east are on high alert. john: new attacks on u.s. bases ins iraq and syria, that brings the total to 100 attacks since october 7th. right to the chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon with more. early this morning cayman island flagged chemical shipping vessel issued a distress call, a houthi attack drone had struck the tanker. 11th attack on international shipping in the red sea since the gaza conflict began. the same u.s. navy destroyer, u.s.s. carney, who released this video two weeks ago showing it intercepting houthi missiles and drones in seve
course? i think the president going to kyiv doesn t settle that problem once and for all. ideally, it would have been great had he shown up, you know, with senator mcconnell or somebody like that who is strongly in support of the war. again, it sends a reassuring message to ukraine about american staying power. which, jonathan, is critical for europe. europe has followed behind and with the united states for the most part. this is leading from ahead, and that is what is required in this instance. we are now past 6:00. welcome to morning joe at this morning. joe, mika and willie have the day off. i want to bring in katty kay, special u.s. correspondent for bbc news, into our live, rolling coverage of this presidents day and president biden s surprise trip to ukraine, one meant to show a real symbol of solidarity, katty, with kyiv, as it has weathered russia s invasion now for 12 months. yeah, jonathan, what a day for us to kick off presidents s day, to see these images.
come from. new video appears to show that russian jets spraying fuel on to our american drone before colliding with it, the defense department says it attacked the american drone damaging the propeller and forcing the u.s. to crash the $30 million drone. russia has suggested the video doesn t show the jet contacting the drone but the biden administration says russia is responsible for its unsafe behavior. the video is pretty conclusive about what happened and absolutely just december mates the russian lie about what they said happened or didn t happen and it s pretty darn good evidence when you look at it that that fighter jet hit the drone. it happened about 40 naught camp miles southwest of crimea. the u.s. thinks its unlikely russia will be able to recover the drone and the pentagon took steps to protect information on the drone. the defense department says the u.s. did not ask for apology for the down drone. the u.s. insists it will continue to fly in the air space
a tornado has killed at least 23 people in the us state of mississippi, in the south of the country. the authorities said the storm left a trail of damage for more than 150 kilometres. president biden has called the storms heartbreaking and vowed federal support. map one of the worst affected towns is rolling fork our north america correspondent, david willis, reports.(vt dozens are still missing, but it is difficult to imagine anyone emerging from this sort of devastation alive. the tornado struck at night, leaving bewildered residents struggling to take in the impact of such a malevolent force of nature. around 820 we had the tofnado sirens on, warning people to take cover. it happened so fast. right now, we ve got multiple homes damaged in sioux city and also in other areas of the county. local residents say the first they knew of it was when the lights started flickering. many were left stranded after their vehicles were swept away. we had to get ourselves into the