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
marianne rafferty is life with breaking information from a target insider. fox news digital is reportin some target employees are being told to move there lgbt cute pride displays to less prominen locations in the story to avoid customer backlash fraid so managers and district senior directors were on emergency calls on friday where they were told also that they could not have anything on manikins and n learned signage promoting those products read most of the locations affected our in rural southern stores according to that report. this comes just weeks after the company bud light came under fire for partnering with transgender influencer. sales plummeted 28.4 percent in the week ending may 13th alone pride in an interview last week target ceo brian cornell told fortunes leadership now podcast by promoting the lgbt cute friendly products is the right thing for society and a great thing for their brand. this year s target pride collection has renewed calls from conservative
following new details about that chinese spy balloon traveling across the country. new video into the cnn newsroom showing the balloon now hovering over asheville, and charlotte, north carolina in the last hour. and it could make it out to sea at any moment. the balloon was first spotted over montana on wednesday. china claims it s a civilian research vessel that blew offcourse, but the u.s. isn t buying that, calling the balloon s flight over u.s. soil an irresponsible act. secretary of state antony blinken postponing a planned trip to beijing in response. cnn s oren liebermann is at pentagon for us. oren, officials say the balloon doesn t currently seem to present a threat, but why is the pentagon also preceding with caution on it? reporter: so the pentagon has said for now that it will not be shooting this down, because of the risks from two different perspectives, first there s the risk to what s below, blow something up at 60,000 feet and that could be scattered over q
returned would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude. and a major victory for trump, a third party attorney outside of government will soon be tasked with sifting through thousands of documents to identify personal items and materials that could be protected by attorney client or executive privilege. while it does delay things and slow down, which of course is bad for doj in their case, i think, at the end of the day, we are not going to see a lot of documents pulled by the special master. a judge pointing out some of the seized materials include taxes and accounting information. the ruling, allowing u.s. intelligence agencies to continue their national security damage assessment, but halting the justice department criminal review of its mar-a-lago home. i don t think it has a massive impact in the investigation in the long run. if i were the prosecutor working on this case, i d say, let s just trench forward with a special master, to g
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