and so he got upset and so he said he d take one and he d challenge me to one and he d beat me. maybe he would, maybe he wouldn t. but what i said is, okay, well, if that s the case, then get on a debate stage and let s go. bring it, donald. show me what you got. nikki haley going after donald trump at the very start of her speech in her home state of south carolina. a real shift from previous rallies. we ll have more from the campaign trail and the new polling from the gop front-runner. plus we ll bring you the latest from capitol hill where there are now serious doubts about the possibility of passing a border bill, which includes urgent funding for ukraine. and also ahead, we ll explain the new action by israeli forces inside gaza that could create even more tension with the biden administration. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, january 25th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we begin this morning with the race
from the president. plus, i would ask politicians in texas and washington how we get past empty platitudes of thoughts and prayers to create real change. i m a gunman, i have guns, i m a former police officer, i m a former army officer. these ar-15s, they have to get off the streets where this is gonna keep happening. or this is gonna keep happening. also, this hour, new legal questions surrounding former president trump. what did he really know about the classified documents in the basement of barr law go? we re gonna dive into what the special counsel was trying to learn. the surprising reason why it s great test scores and u.s. history are dropping around the country, a hint, the nation s covid lockdown three years ago is only partly to blame. and then, coming up in our next hour, one man is doing everything he can to help migrants left on el paso streets. my conversation with his concerns for so many people right now and when title 42 ends in just four days time. we w
space. we ll take a look at what security officials are saying about the puzzling phenomenon. plus, the latest from turkey. as rescue crews are pulling fewer and fewer earthquake survivors from the rubble. we ll get a live report in just a few minutes. and we re learning new detils about a classified documents folder that former president trump s legal team just recently turned over to the justice department. good morning. welcome to way too early on this monday, february 13th. thanks for starting your day and week with us. big news, the big game. the kansas city chiefs have won the super bowl, defeating the philadelphia eagles in comeback fashion last night. two-time nfl mvp quarterback, patrick mahomes, led the chiefs to a 38-35 victory and earned his second super bowl mvp and is already illustrious career. we ll have all of the highlights from last night s game. a fun one, not quite a classic. we ll break it all down in way too early. let s begin with the growing
already with big super pac backing. it s growing, anticipation of the trump-desantis run. thank you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. because we have not been able to definitively assess what these recent objects are, the president wanted to act out of abundance of caution. we are working hard to recover the debris to better understand, certainly the capability of the surveillance balloon from the prc, but also the nature of these unidentified objects, to better understand, were they surveillance objects? what was their purpose? what are their capabilities? close encounters of the unknown kind less than a week after the u.s. military brought down a suspected chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina. the white house ordered the shooting down of three more unidentified flying objects over the weekend. what are these things? it s interesting, they would not call them balloons. they said, there is a reason
twitter. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we begin this hour in sri lanka where protesters have stormed the president s official residence in colombo as the country s economic crisis deepens. the whereabouts of the president are unknown. police fired tear gas in an effort to disperse huge crowds gathered to demand the resignation of president rajapaksa. numerous groups have travelled from to the capital to join the demonstration, which went ahead after the authorities attempt to impose a curfew was abandoned. thousands of troops and police officers have been deployed. it s the latest protest to be sparked by the country s worst economic crisis in decades. sri lanka is suffering rampant inflation and is struggling to import food, fuel and medicine. a short time ago i spoke to our south asia editor anbarasan ethirajan. i began by asking him about his assessment today s events. there have been some dramatic developments over the past few hours