good morning. happy new year. welcome to a special new year s day edition of morning joe. we re on tape this morning with some of our top, recent conversations. we begin with a discussion about donald trump s increasing use of authoritarian language in his speeches and social media posts. in recent months, trump has repeated fascist rhetoric, including saying immigrants are, quote, poisoning the blood of our country, and referring to his political enemies as vermin. we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. the threat from outside forces is sinister, dangerous, and grave, more than the threat from within. donald trump echoing the words of 20th century authoritarians at a rally earlier this month. joining us now, national affairs analyst john heilemann. special correspondent at vanity fair and host of the fast politics podcast, molly jong-fast. and co
msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. developing this hour new report from the january six committee s questions swirl over whether donald trump will formally answer a subpoena from the panel. the former president avoiding the question in the 14-page response to the committee. a bit earlier today panel member reports trump testified live could be an option. that is going to be a negotiation i will only address that when we know for sure whether not to the president has tried to push this on to our lives. he s made it clear he has nothing to hide. so we are coming on the day we asked him to come in. he pushes off the on that we ll figure what to do next. also new today another member of the committee was pressed on why the committee did not vote to subpoena vice president mike pence. i think that is comparing apples to oranges. the former president was the perpetrator and the central figure in orchestrating the effort to ove
as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday nights. good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle. today, as its seventh hearing on the january 6th committee laid out its case, to donald trump summoned its mob to the capitol? on a december 19th, 2020 tweet promising that that they would be wild. this tweet served as a call to action and as some cases as a call to arms, for many of donald president trump s most loyal supporters. donald trump s 1:42 am tweet electrify to galvanize supporters especially the dangerous extremists and the oath keepers, proud keepers and other white nationalist groups. there were many revelations about the days that led up to january 6th. after joe biden had officially been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, we learned that trump was considering announcing a march ahead of his rally. the committee has obtained this draft, an dated tweet from the national archives. and includes a step saying president has seen. the draft
good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle. today, as its seventh hearing on the january 6th committee laid out its case, that donald trump summoned its mob to the capitol? with the now ominous december 19th, 2020 tweet promising that that they would be wild. this tweet served as a call to action and as some cases as a call to arms, for many of donald president trump s most loyal supporters. donald trump s 1:42 am tweet electrified and galvanized supporters especially the dangerous extremists and the oath keepers, proud keepers and other white nationalist groups. there were many revelations about the days that led up to january 6th after joe biden had officially been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, we learned that trump was considering announcing a march ahead of his january 6th rally. the committee has obtained this draft, an dated tweet from the national archives. and includes a stamp saying president has seen. the draft tweet reads, i will b
there for the first one. i was too young to make it up. these birds have a new appreciation of the words, let freedom ring. president biden with some age jokes during the turkey pardon at the white house. meanwhile, his campaign is facing calls from democrats to become more active and aggressive against donald trump. speaking of the former president, we have a lot going on this morning. we ll explain what happened yesterday in the gag order hearing for his federal election interference case. plus, republican senator tommy tuberville s latest outlandish reason for blocking oh, my gosh. hundreds of military promotions. he can t help himself. he intellectually degrades himself every single day. stop him before he humiliates himself again. please, don t double down on dumb. also ahead, we ll have the latest on the hostage negotiations between hamas and israel, which appears to be centered on the pause in fighting in gaza. we ll have the very latest on that