introducing storm-ready wifi. now you can stay reliably connected through power outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery back-up to keep you online. only from xfinity. home of the xfinity 10g network. right now on early start, donald trump asks the supreme court to decide, should he be disqualified from colorado s ballot over january 6. plus the long sealed list of jeffrey epstein s associates was just released. what it means and more importantly what it doesn t mean. and just hours from now, ron desantis and nikki haley will be live on cnn for back to back down halls. is it too late to catch the far and away frontrunner, donald trump. good morning. i m kasie hunt. it is thursday, january 4, just after 5:00 a.m. in washington where of course we are all looking just down the road from where i sit at the u.s. supreme court. donald trump is asking the justices to overturn a historic colorado ruling. two weeks ago the state supreme court ordered t
he s leading us to a depression. trump asked supporters on wednesday to name one thing that has gotten better under biden and, i don t know, there s a lot, i can think of a lot, but i think maybe number one is we re drinking less bleach. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is friday, december 15th. senate majority leader chuck schumer is calling the bluff, he has hopes of hammering out a deal on foreign aid which includes critical funder for ukraine. also ahead, how the biden campaign is trying to capitalize on the impeachment inquiry into the president. plus, rudy giuliani s defense team takes a very odd strategy in closing arguments in his defamation case. i will tell you about their pitch to the jurors. with us this morning we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius, member of the new york times editorial board mara gay, host of the podcast unbrand with donny deutsch, and the co-founder of punchbowl news don bresnahan.
biden set to lay out his budget proposal to the nation in a few hours. mj lee is following this. walk us through what we believe the president s priorities will be, particularly now since he does not control both houses of congress. reporter: we do expect the full details of this budget to come out in a matter of hours but there are major come po ne components of the budget that we know. we know the president is going to propose cutting the deficit by $3 trillion, this is notable because in recent weeks he s been talking about that figure being more like 2 trillion so this is more aggressive. we know he wants the cuts to the deficit coming in part from taxing high earners and large corporations. he has said he doesn t want to put extra taxes on people learning less than $400,000. we are talking ant tbout thingse allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices and savings there would go back to the program. and boosting federal fund for early education and child care, including m
sieve. you didn t see a lot of drama or palace intrigue. what you saw was surgical execution day after day after day. ron desantis taking a not so subtle jab at former president donald trump. the florida governor s book tour is bringing more attention to the 2024 gop presidential race even though he s not yet officially a candidate. also ahead, the latest on the kidnapping of four americans in mexico and why officials think the group was ambushed right after crossing the border. plus, we ll have expert analysis on the major fight happening right now in ukraine as both sides battle over the city of bakhmut. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, march 7th. i m jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin here as election deniers are claiming victory this morning after three more republican led states announced that they re pulling out of a national bipartisan program that helps protect against voter fraud. election official
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