republican proposal that could bring cuts to social security and medicare, calling out lawmakers by name who have supported those cuts. i mean, he negotiated, basically, with republicans on the house floor. it was quite a sight to see. they conceded. i mean, his position it s a strong one. meanwhile, house republicans yesterday were focused on hunter biden, big tech. that s what america really wants. and the fbi. we ll show you the big moments from a grievance-fueled house oversight committee hearing. plus, new york congressman george santos doubles down on his criticism of senator mitt romney following romney s confrontation of the embattled new york lawmaker at the state of the union. mitt romney, of course, saying what everyone should be saying on the republican side. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, february 9th. good to have you all with us. with us in washington, white house editor for politico, sam stein. washington bureau
in sport today, delight for scottish side darvel. how the sixth tier side upset all the odds to knock out premiership side aberdeen in what s being called the biggest upset in scottish cup history. 0k, set, and. . .action. and it s one of the biggest hits of the year so far. we go behind the scenes with star of happy valleyjames norton. there s an energy about tommy. there s a kind of animal, vital and unstoppable kind of force. and so when he s allowed to let rip, like he was yesterday, it s so fun. good morning. the northwest, southeast split in the weather once again today. the north and the west and cloudy with some patchy rain, and cloudy with some patchy rain, and the south has patchy fog and frost. it s tuesday 24th january. failings by the probation service left a serial offender free to commit murder, just days after he was released from prison, according to a damning watchdog report. the chief inspector of probation said a catalogue of errors led tojordan mcsweene
the murder of zara aleena, just days after he was released from prison. the chief inspector of the service says it is chronically understaffed . it is impossible to say whether the murder could have been avoided but we did find severe deficits in practice at many stages of jordan mcsweeney s supervision. nhs representatives will appear before mps on the health and social care committee to discuss the situation in a&e departments across england. let s cross live to the house of commons and listen in to the health and social care committee address the situation in a&e departments. a more nuanced question than that, demand has a bit with those figures, however, the reason we run into trouble is not the ancillary demand, the ability to deal with the demand. if we look at things like hospital admissions from an emergency department, those have remained relatively static. we have had problems with increased crowding, problems with increased crowding, problems in care in our depart
hurricane ian? absolutely, although it s been downgraded to a tropical storm ida it was one of the most powerful to hit florida ranked it s not finished with its damage. there is still rain to fall in florida and as you can see it s very extensive, the rain heading into northern florida and into georgia and the carolinas so again a lot of storm surge potentially here, five or six feet, nearly two metres and several hundred millimetres of rain forecast for other states in the usa in the south east in the next couple of days. close to our shores nothing quite as stormy but we do have our first autumnal gale is coming quite widely tomorrow with some wet weather as well, so quiet today in contrast, we ve got few wish i was around, more sunshine. the wind, that chilly northerly wind, starting to ease a bit so in the sunshine away from the showers, 16 17 feels quite pleasant, we are still in september after all but it is all change. not tonight necessarily in the south and east, te
necessarily focused on just the direct path and the direct impact of the storm. we are going to see some direct impacts along the west coast of florida and into the panhandle. but everybody in florida is going to have potential impacts from this storm. i ll be joined by marcus coleman, a veteran of fema and dhs who responded to multiple hurricanes. he ll have the latest information about where things stand now. the next january 6th hearing is just 24 hours away. and with several months worth of new evidence, actually an avalanche of new information according to one committee member, they have to decide what stays and what goes into tomorrow s two-hour presentation. nbc news has learned that one of those new pieces of evidence will be footage of donald trump s long-time friend roger stone interviewed by danish film makers four months before the 2020 election. in this clip, stone explains how trump is going to win no matter what. what they are assuming is the election will