g getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. donald trump s position on the national debt is identical to joe biden s. there have been promises made about draining the swamp, building the wall, doing all these things you know, none of that came to fruition. he is a child when someone disagrees with him. he engages in reckless conduct. i don t need to read the indictment or believe its allegations are true, though i m pretty confident they are. clearly, it was unauthorized, illegal and dangerous. i view them serious and disqualifying for a commander in chief. anybody who doesn t want to look at the facts should be disqualified from running, not just trump. so many of those people saying that worked for him yeah. you had his attorney general. you had his national security adviser. you had his secretary of defense. you had his top ranking officials. all republicans. all supporters of donald trump all people that stood
and in the streets. we will fight the woke in the halls of congress. we shall fight in the hills. we shall never surrender. we will never ever surrender to the woke mob. so sad. a little historical perspective on wars. there are wars. a little hysterical perspective on this. you know, there was a great profile piece of ron desantis by mark lebovich and it talked about how everything seemed so sort of i don t know i don t know triefd. that it was all just very contrived. when he is going on and on, there will be and he s trying to sound churchillian and he s talking about again, most americans are going, huh? what is this? what? and he just keeps beating it. it s like america is not florida and that one little area in florida, by the way, ron desantis, but he continues to brag about his efforts to fight woke. we ve got a lot to get this this morning. that is seriously so 19 so 2021. it really is. speaking of actual wars, we will have new reporti
dialed in they were listening in and american officials believe the spy balloon was tuned into u.s. conversations. president biden is down playing the entire episode. president biden: it is not a measurable breach. it is a violation of national law. or airspace. we can do what we want with it once it s there. the balloon had multiple antenna to eavesdrop and soak up information. the government wants to know exactly what the chinese heard. until we actually have the hardware that was on that balloon we can t say for sure. we can take educated guesses of it. we can t know for sure. that s why we should have shot it down as soon as it was approaching alaska, china should not be able to send air ships into our airspace. upset lawmakers pressed officials about what the balloon was doing and why the u.s. held off for so long before shooting down the balloon. you can just say yes or no. you don t need to get into specifics. did we know what they were trying to collect, yes
you do not represent our movement. you do not represent our country. and if you broke the law, i already said you will pay. the demonstrators who infiltrated the capitol have defied the seat of justice, defiled. see, i can t see it very well. i ll do the. i m going to do this. let s go. but this election is now over. congress has certified the results. i don t want to say the election is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay? let me go to the paragraph before. welcome back to morning joe. it s 9:00 a.m. in the east, 6:00 a.m. out west, and that was the raw footage of outtakes from former president trump s taped address the day after the capitol riot. now, this morning the committee in charge of investigating the attack has finally issued its findings. this report came out late last night, david ignatius. you look at donald trump the day after there is an attempt to overthrow america s government. and he h
is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay. now congress i didn t say over. go to the paragraph before. wow. how would you like to be ivanka stage managing that? back in july, the january 6th committee played raw footage of the outtakes of former president trump s taped address the day after the capitol riot when he was choking on every word. this morning, the day before he called them patriots, beautiful, this, that, the other. wow. this morning, the committee s full final report has finally been released. we re going to go through it all. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s friday, december 23rd. everybody s off. i m here. i hope you re not bothered too much by that. we re going to get through it together. we have former aide to george w. bush white house and state department s elise jordan. and the host of msnbc politics nation and president of the national action network, the hardest working m