inside the dea s year-long effort to get the deadly drug off the streets of america. we are doing everything we can to save american lives. norah: chilling new video of suspected quadruple murderer bryan kohberger. what the footage reveals. the world health organization now says covid-19 is no longer a global emergency. today s announcement is a symbolic end to the coronavirus pandemic, which killed more than 7 million people. we are just hours away from the coronation of king charles iii. i think he s an amazing, amazing guy, and i m proud to be a brit. norah: and on the road with a touching story of how this hand-drawn artwork led to an incredible friendship. this was a stranger, and she was doing that just for me, and that s the beauty of it. mwah! norah: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this friday night. we will get to the details of those major drug busts targeting fentanyl in just a moment. the dea revealing today
future rate hikes. the strong number suggesting we have a long way to go to tamp down inflation. dana: nothing to dissuade president biden from more big spending. he unveiled his election budget, $6.8 trillion. bill: more of a campaign stunt than serious proposal. republicans call it dead on arrival. the president begs to differ. dana: team fox coverage an all list from james freeman at the wall street journal. edward lawrence has the latest on the job numbers. good morning. those jobs numbers beat expectations. unemployment rate went up to 3.6 pers percent mainly because more people became unemployed than moved into a job. the people who were unemployed lost a job or finished temporary work. wages in this report are still out pacing inflation. if you look at the wage it is 4.6% year-over-year. that means workers are actually making seeing their paycheck go less far than they did. cpi inflation at 6.4%. the federal reserve is watching the wage growth. higher means
over biden and trump, why are so few of them backing anyone else? halfway across the world, the nation of sudan is careening toward a full-blown civil war. secretary of state antony blinken says dozens of americans have contacted his department trying to get out. that may be just a fraction of the thousands of americans still trapped there. we re following breaking news. two of the best-known media personalities at fox news and cnn, tucker carlson and don lemon are out. what we know about their departures but we start with all this new polling. the numbers showing that americans essentially are gritting their teeth over what s shaping up to be a $2 billion presidential rematch the vast majority of voters say they simply don t want joe biden or donald trump. both men are less popular than they were the first time they ran against each other with biden s announcement expected anyway, framing the election as the battle for the soul of the nation just as he did back in 2020 he en
meeting moments ago, symbolically at the reagan library is beijing warns the chinese government will quote resolutely fight back plus one day after donald trump s arrest and arraignment in new york. two major developments in the federal case investigating him one a cnn exclusive the grand jury testimony. revealing the trump was warned he could not legally sees voting machines, plus the decision from his vice president, mike pence that could set up his own historic testimony before the special counsel. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start with the world s superpowers on edge and potentially provocative show of solidarity between democracies. moments ago, taiwan s president, sighing when wrapped up a news conference with us house speaker kevin mccarthy on the republicans home turf in california in the chinese government is not happy about it. the top official in beijing warning that size visit could lead to a quote serious unquote confrontation with the united sta
freedom everywhere. it s about the kind of world we want to live in, and the world we want to leave to our children. president joe biden s remarks yesterday announcing that the u.s. will send several tanks to ukraine. we ll dig into this major policy reversal. and what impact the tanks could have on the war. plus, former president trump will soon have more places to post his social media rants. we ll tell you which platforms are reactivating his accounts. also ahead, republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene s ambitious plan to get to the white house. we ll bring you that exclusive reporting from nbc news. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, january 26th. joe is on assignment this morning. in a few minutes, we re going to explain what he s working on. and along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, and presidential historian, jon meacham joins us. he s the author of t