illuminating conversations with offers. two years of powerful books. two years of reading resistance, there are two major takeaways, the direct attempts to remove books from classrooms and libraries are not slowing down. second, a book could quite literally save a life. i could say more, but today i will let the literature speak for itself. there are two things that encapsulate that truth, quite like the cult classic, the perks of being a wall flower. the perks of being a wall tower follows 15 year old charlie as he navigates high school after a friend s devastating suicide and reckons with the life altering intergenerational trauma. with the help of sam, a magnetic high school senior with an undeserving reputation, and patrick, who is harboring a secret relationship with the quarterback of the football team, charlie finds his footing and finds himself. i began by asking about his frequent use of 90s references throughout the book, including the song asleep by the smiths. i
are you ready for president kamala harris? we ve got her latest word salad. that s coming up tonight. new details from the federal criminal investigation into the biden family syndicate. wait until you hear donald trump s brand-new nickname for joey biden. it s a little bit reminiscent of hillary but we ll put it that way. karine jean-pierre was caught lying about joe on her cheat sheet. it even had to say you. you ve got to be kidding me. at had to remind them who was in his own cabinet. that s how bad it was. we have bad economic news but we have never a good economic news with him as president. the rate down the great larry kudlow right here in the studio. but first tonight a big day for joe biden. perhaps his favorite time of the year. it was bring your kid to work day to the white house. it was! for once hunter biden was nowhere to be found. joe was in rare form you guys are killing me tonight. joe was in rare form. somehow he resisted the urge to sniff and squeeze
republicans for their protests over guns. i want to be clear, the protest over asking for legislation to stop the massacre of children. two of them black were expelled yesterday by the republican super majority one lawmaker, gloria johnson, an older white woman, narrowly avoided expulsion. tonight, fears about the precedent this sets and the potential for a kind of revenge politics spreading to other states this is what happens when you lose democracy cries of anger and accusations after an extraordinary move by tennessee house republicans. expelled for so-called decorum violations it might have to do with the color of our skin. it looked like a jim crow era trial. if could happen in tennessee, it could happen anywhere. the first partisan expulsion in the state s modern history. it s a signal of authoritarianism. we will keep fighting it. it was nice to have somebody to fight with me for the first time i will keep fighting for you all- i won t stop forme
that massive spy balloon. we ll walk through what happened and take a look at the growing fallout. we re also following the devastating aftermath of a powerful earthquake that left hundreds of people dead in turkey and syria. this morning, rescue crews are searching through rubble for any survivors. and back in washington, there is a major gop donor looking to, quote, turn the page on the past several years in an apparent rebuke of former president trump. we ll explain that development. plus four more years! four more years! four more years! president biden got a surge of support at the democratic national committee s annual winter meeting in philadelphia on friday. as democrats approve a new primary calendar, reshaping the way the party picks its presidential nominees. we ll speak to the chairman of the dnc just ahead. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, february 6th. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at po
hello, everyone, thank you for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield and we begin with another norfolk southern derailment in ohio. two miles away from east palestine, the site of the toxic smil one month ago. 20 cars came off the track early saturday evening. nearby residents wither temporarily asked to shelter in place out of an abundance of caution and that order lifted early this morning. norfolk southern officials say there were no hazardous materials on board. still, hazmat teams from the epa and clark county each independently examining the site to confirm all of that. cnn s paulo sandoval is following the latest developments. another crash and same company and same state, all within a month. what are we learning? reporter: the time is interesting here. but in terms of this specific incident, you mentioned that shelter-in-place order that was lifted. that was done so after authorities on the groundwo worked through the night, and they lifted that. no injuri