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he s leading us to a depression. trump asked supporters on wednesday to name one thing that has gotten better under biden and, i don t know, there s a lot, i can think of a lot, but i think maybe number one is we re drinking less bleach. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is friday, december 15th. senate majority leader chuck schumer is calling the bluff, he has hopes of hammering out a deal on foreign aid which includes critical funder for ukraine. also ahead, how the biden campaign is trying to capitalize on the impeachment inquiry into the president. plus, rudy giuliani s defense team takes a very odd strategy in closing arguments in his defamation case. i will tell you about their pitch to the jurors. with us this morning we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius, member of the new york times editorial board mara gay, host of the podcast unbrand with donny deutsch, and the co-founder of punchbowl news don bresn ....
welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in thailand where there s huge uncertainty about the country s future direction. the two main opposition parties have agreed to form a ruling coalition. that s after they defeated their military backed rivals in a general election. but thailand s upper house the senate is dominated by the military and they could yet block a reformist prime minister. from bangkok, jonathan head reports. stunned by their success, thailand s youngest and most progressive party came to celebrate at the place they call democracy monument, built to commemorate a democracy that many thais say they have never had. today we have politics driven by hope in this country. they were told by an mp who, like so many in the party, has spent time in jail for his political views. this caught the public s imagination with the boldness and clarity of its manifesto. yes, the new era. you look very happy. yeah. i m s ....
announcer: live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in thailand. there s huge uncertainty about the country s future direction. the two main opposition parties have agreed to form a ruling coalition. that s after they defeated their military backed rivals in a general election. but thailand s upper house the senate is dominated by the military, and they could yet block a reformist prime minister. from bangkok, jonathan head reports. stunned by their success, thailand s youngest and most progressive party came to celebrate at the place they call democracy monument, built to commemorate a democracy that many thais say they have never had. today we have politics driven by hope in this country. they were told by an mp who, like so many in the party, has spent time injail for his political views. move forward caught the public s imagination with the boldness ....
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 ....
made available to the white house and congress, the department reaching the same conclusion as the fbi, that covid probably escaped from a lab. keep in mind, this was repeatedly dismissed as a conspiracy theory over and over again, both by scientists and members of the media. that is not the only thing that s giving folks whiplash in recent weeks. a major study finding masks made no difference in stopping the spread, concluding natural immunity provided as much protection as being double vaccinated. and the talking heads all too quick to dismiss it. i m really sorry that the lab leak has become a distraction for so many people. frankly we still don t know. there s no evidence really to say. it s very strongly leading to this could not have been artificially manipulated. just weeks ago, dr. jonathan fauci disputed the conspiracy that it was made in a lab in china. escaped from the lab, sounds like something from a marvel movie or a science book. this corona ....