are tense again. thank you so much for joining us this morning. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. a self-loathing has swept our country. joe and kamala even say america is racist. this is not about identity politics. i don t believe in that, and i don t believe in glass ceilings either. strong and proud, not weak and woke. that s the america i see. [ applause ] the only challenger so far to donald trump in the 2024 presidential race kicks off her campaign. during that speech, nikki haley took a dig at her former boss and president joe biden. we ll play for you those comments. also today, we ll get our first look at the pieces of the grand jury investigating the president s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. plus, mike pence wants all the credit for doing the right thing on january 6th but doesn t want to talk about it under oath. we ll show you what he had to say abou
i don t know whether to be excited or bummed out. no one wants a snowless streak in new york city. and i m surprised by the favorite movie. thanks so much. it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. we re waiting for a news conference from monterey park, california. that s where ten people were killed. at least ten others hurt in this massacre inside a dance hall saturday night. now this is the deadliest mass shooting in the u.s. since the uvalde massacre last may, and 1 of 36 mass shootings in the u.s. this year. police say the shooter is a 72-year-old man who had visited the ballroom before. after the rampage, police say the gunman headed to another dance hall about ten minutes away north where he was confronted by brandon tsay. that s the hero who fought off the gunman and he told gm good morning america, he did not know the shooter. i lunged at him with both my hands, grabbed the weapon, and we had a struggle. we
rodriguez. services will be ongoing in the coming days. the mayor is calling for robb elementary school to be demolished. i don t think anybody s plans are to tear that building down. it needs to be torn down. i never expect a child to walk in those doors ever again. that building needs to be gone, taken away and gone. a teacher from the school is speaking out about the horrifying moments bullets shattered her classroom. i just kept hearing boom, boom, boom. it kept going off, felt like an eternity. i had one student lay og top of me and a bunch of other students here by me. i just remember praying, please god, please god, keep us safe. carley: that teacher is being hailed a hero for getting her students to hit the ground seconds before the bullets flew into her classroom. all 15 of her studentss survived the attack. texas governor greg abbott taking a moment to remember the students and teachers in the face of tragedy. what happened in uvalde was a horrific act o
Geopolitics of the cold war through the lens of two double agents who were pulling the strings behind the scenes threatening, did he stabilize diplomatic efforts? all right i always i think the early version, at least from the agency who really had a pretty good understanding of how the kgb worked there are no other the powers our everyday was so for little black he d write these studies. everybody would read them and say, oh, that s really great work, rick and then that would. be the end of it. you know, they didn t really send it anywhere and all new episode of secrets and spies, a nucleus and now, the hbo original series, real time with bill maher . how are you doing? how are you doing? thank you very much. i appreciate it. thank you, people. thank you very much. i appreciate it. all right. good to see you. thank you. please, there s so much to get to. oh, wow. i feel great about that. yes, the big news this week is hunter biden s trial. let s get right to that. it le
John heilemann i m bummed out. kettle drums here, i brought them. oh, you did? meacham is like, no kettle drums. it was true, when it turned out that donald trump that argument about american decline was the argument that was able to win. there are a lot of things to say about that. in general, it s been true. let s be clear, i would have had a very different view about what i just said if he had won the popular vote. well, yes. still ahead on morning joe, we ll get a live report from the sidelines of the munich security conference set to convene as we approach the one-year mark of russia s invasion of ukraine. plus, the latest from the pentagon ahead of president biden s expected speech on unidentified objects shot down by the u.s. military. also ahead, former national security adviser stephen hadley joins us with 30 newly declassified transition memoranda from the george w. bush administration. we ll talk about that. also, we ve already announced an incredible