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haley and desantis did go after each other with haley presenting herself as the candidate of the future. we need a leader that is not looking at four years and eight years. we need a president that is looking at 20 and 30 years. good news, the frontrunner is looking at 30 years. 20 with good behavior. [ applause ] ah-ha. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, january 12th. willie, so much to talk about today. let s see, front page of the papers, daily news, we will not be speaking. not sure where morning joe paper of record is today. i guess because ms. bumiller is here, out of respect, they gave us the new york times. new york times, of course, talking about the missile strike against the houthis. washington post, also, we have the strike as the lead. on the other side, trump s trial. wall street journal, inflation ticking up. yeah, willie, nothing in there also about all the coaches that just sort of yesterday was the harve ....
nuclear launch sites. will the united states shoot it down? plus, the u.s. providing longer-range missiles to ukraine, double the range of what it currently has. this as zelenskyy warned that putin is out for revenge. and the money questions tonight mounting for congressman george santos, questions now about 37 expenses that were exactly in the amounts of $199.99, one penny shy of having to provide a receipt. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, will america shoot? china s spy balloon right now making its way east now over st. louis. the balloon flying over and lingering over some of america s most sensitive locations, near nuclear sites. cnn has obtained this exclusive video of the balloon over columbia, missouri. first of all, you see below it it s almost hinden burg style. you can see what appear to be solar panels underneath the balloon. just to be clear what you re looking at here is in columbia, missouri, which happens ....
jacqui heinrich. griff: it s great to be with you, i m griff jenkins. the balloon sighting dashing an attempt by the biden administration to ease u.s.-china tensions, with antony blinken calling off his trip to beijing. and we have coverage in london alexandria hoff in washington and let s start off. earlier some say the chinese balloon should have been shot down when this first crossed over alaska. we could have shot it down over open water, over dense, sparse parts of alaska and should it shot it down then. it leads me to believe that possibly a political decision was made by the white house not to do so for fear of interrupting the relationship with china. that s troubling if that it indeed the case. here at the white house, president biden only wanted to talk about the strong jobs report not that chinese sp, whe will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? the chinese spy balloon had been spotted over charlotte, north ....
Not going to ignore warning after warning after warning after warning. i mean, netanyahu has made israel less safe. we need a partner who will make israel more secure. joe, i think you re exactly right. you know who wants to have these discussions about the day after in gaza? it is the idf. you know, it is mossad, shinbet. they want to see the tax remittences go back to the palestinians because they understand the damage this has done. i think, ultimately, you know, we shouldn t be surprised we re at this point. the beginning of the war, there was the hug from the biden administration. that was the correct move. even some of the issues we ve had with, you know, lack of aid getting in or kind of the high-intensity campaign, these are issues that the u.s. and israel behind the scenes have worked on. now, we re almost at a task, and i think about secretary of state blinken, how do you get benjamin netanyahu to talk about the day after where he and his government will fall if they do thi ....
The secretary of state antony blinken is coming to israel to ask for a beginning a return of palestinians to their homes in the northern gaza strip where more or less the idea has finished its military operation and israelis think, at least from what i hear from israeli officials, that that is their leverage to try to get hamas to come to the table and soften their position and say we will allow palestinians to go back to their homes only as part of this new hostage deal. for now it doesn t seem to move hamas but talks are still ongoing. i can t imagine u.s. officials will receive that idea of leverage moving back to the north well. do we have any sense of where they stand on this? yeah, i agree. i spoke to special u.s. of i spoke to several u.s. officials. and so ahead of the blinken trip, several came to israel to ....