sodas to cereals. we ll go through that debate, joe, you and your diet coke. good morning and welcome to morning joe. well, let me say this, willie. let me say this, okay? yeah, i ve had a few diet coke in my day. five a day. growing up, growing up, i think we all knew three things. number one, of course, willie, we knew you never eat a big dinner before you go swimming, right? just don t do it. sure. number two, never, ever, ever, and mcarthur taught us this, don t get engaged in a ground war in asia. number three, i think we all knew from the first sip of diet coke that we had in 1982, like, we knew it caused cancer. no. you had a sip, you know, this tastes okay, but it is probably going to kill me. let me have another one. seriously, we were sitting around with our pop rocks and everything else, put down our tabs and mr. pibbs, then we pick those up. you drank diet coke, and you knew when you had the first sip, you knew, yeah, this is what killed elvi
ukraine fired after speaking out against putin s war. hear him in his own words. a truly remarkable audio recording that outfront has obtained showing putin s military in disarray tonight. plus, more breaking news. cnn learning about another official interviewed in the special counsel s probe into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. is jack smith closing in on a charging decision tonight? and kim jong un personally guiding north korea s latest missile launch, its longest missile flight ever, as we learn more about the growing influence of kim s sister. we have a special report on that coming up. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. a senior russian general fired for speaking out against putin s war. outfront tonight obtaining remarkable audio of a russian general in command of forces in southern ukraine right along that crucial front line near zaporizhzhia. the general says he was relieved of duty
supreme court being now felt across the country. this weekend, the conservative leaning high court, dealing a blow to lgbtq rights, while also striking down affirmative action at colleges, as well as killing president biden s student loan forgiveness plan. so, as a result, young americans telling msnbc, their faith in the court is shaken. i don t have a lot of confidence in the supreme court right now. i felt that for quite some time. it s just, all of it is infuriating in that the supreme court will just decide, well, yeah, this does not work and, you know, just no regard for the actual lived experience of people and what this is going to do to people. i am livid. meanwhile, a trump supporter who stormed the capitol on january 6th had two guns and 400 rounds of ammo in his van when he was arrested near former president barack obama s home. nbc news reports, taylor toronto showed up at obama s residence thursday, after former president trump posted screenshots on his tr
a special holiday edition of the last word. 2024 will be another year of defendant trump and another election here in which democracy itself is once again at stake. the republicansha only a three state majority in the house of representatives. the democrats have only a one seat majority in the united states senate with democratic senators facing difficult campaigns in ohio, montana, pennsylvania, michigan, and nevada. democrats will be running on a 3.7% unemployment rate. unemployment has not been has been below 4% for 22 months, the longest stretch since 1969. president biden was at a temperature of ain t at the cop with this international training center in battleground state of nevada. on the final jobs report floor 2023 was released. folks, all this project stands in stark contrast to my predecessor. he always talked about infrastructure week. [laughter] four years of infrastructure week, but it failed. he failed. on mount watch, the state of infrastructure week ameri
the republicans have only a three seat majority in the house of representatives. the democrats have only a one seat majority in the united states senate, with democratic senators facing difficult campaigns in ohio, michigan, montana, pennsylvania and nevada. democrats will be running on a 3. 7% unemployment rate. unemployment has not been, has been below 4% for 22 months. that s the longest stretch since 1969. president biden was at an infrastructure event at the carpenters international training center in the battleground state of nevada on the day the final jobs report for 2023 was released. folks, all this project stands in stark contrast to my predecessor. he always talked about infrastructure week. [laughter] for years infrastructure week. but it failed. he failed. on my watch instead of infrastructure week america is having infrastructure decade. [applause] decade. trump just talks the talk. we walk the walk. [applause] look, he likes to say america is a failing natio