meanwhile, the trump desantis rivalry is heating up. we ll show you how the florida governor responded to the covid criticism. we ll look at the rnc s 2024 playbook as party leaders want to double down on an issue that lost them the elections in the midterms. running straight into loserville. and today, president joe biden and speaker kevin mccarthy sit down at the white house in hopes of ending the standoff over the debt ceiling. plus reverend al sharpton joins us live from memphis ahead of his eulogy today for tyre nichols. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s wednesday, february 1st. along with joe, good to have you back. good to be back. willie and me. we have jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news katty kay is with us. and member of the new york times editorial board mara gay. so we start with today s high stakes meeting between president joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. their focus, ending the standoff over the debt ce
do this in doses. or maybe the knicks saying we re going to do the next 20 years what we ve done the last 20 years because we like losing. it s fun. more losing is what the republicans save that for later. we ll save it for later. but it s crazy. we have to say this just a caveat because there was a lot of people out there, if trump had to raise their debt because of covid. and they talk that way, too, it s weird, i don t know why they talk that way but they do. but they were driving up record deficits and record federal debt before covid. we were complaining on this show before covid about how donald trump was the most reckless and, by the way, let me say it too, kevin mccarthy and everybody in republican leadership went along for the ride. the most reckless president ever
valuable sports franchise that year after year after year just collapse. and it s always ugly. and now facial recognition to keep people out that criticize him? yeah. i was 10 years old when the knicks won the draft lottery and we were going to get patrick ewe wing and the path was cleared to multiple titles. it s been a long time. they still fill the arena, they re the top five most valuable franchises in the world. they make tons and tons of money through media deals for everything that goes on at madison square garden. so james dolan is good, he s fine, though they have exciting players this year, but this has been going on like this for so long and so many people are making so much money he s not bothered by losing. we re supposed to go right now. we are. it s time to go to break. my pet peeve, you will remember from the early years of
question about middle east peace, your call? knicks. i was getting very exercised during that conversation, of course, looking at infrastructure spending around the world. i looked it up. we are behind 17th in the world behind turkey, saudi rab ya, russia, india have greater infrastructure spending than the united states. jfk is a mess. it needs to be fixed. dulles one of the most beautiful airports in the world. true. it s a gorgeous, gorgeous building. getting there is impossible unless you have a car but otherwise. richard, i was in morocco in early january, i was surprised at the degree of opposition to the abraham accords, just from moroccans i was speaking to. i wonder if that might play into the saudi calculations, too. but is there any other political capital that the u.s. might be holding back with israel because they are trying to bring israel on board further on ukraine? is there imagine ukraine was a big part of tony blinken s
temper mental new yorkers out of the spotlight. james dolan is you re the knicks fan at the table, willie disliked by the majority of knicks fans and not only run into trouble with his facial recognition technology to keep lawyers out of the building but suggested banning beer at madison square garden. knicks fans need to have more than one to get through another playoff-less season. but it s interesting to see hope hicks pop back into this point. at this point she stayed away from donald trump s 2024 bid. part of the scrap is with the state liquor board all right we won t have beer at the game. lebron beat the knicks at the garden, we couldn t lure lebron to the world s greatest arena. i really don t, the knicks could be the greatest show on