never indicted or incited an insurrection. he loves his children. he doesn t hide classified documents. vote dernald turmp, and he ll make the united states goodest, as it once one. i approve this message. i didn t know. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, december 21st. great to have you with us. also with us, we have white house editor for politico, sam stein, who intimidates people who work for him to say that he is their favorite. we heard that, sam. also, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. washington bureau chief for the usa today, susan page. and staff writer at the atlantic, mark leibovich. president biden made his first remarks yesterday about the colorado supreme court ruling that donald trump is disqualified from that state s 204 primary ballot because of his role in the january 6th attack on the capitol. in milwaukee, biden initially refused to comment but then said this when asked if trump supported an insurrection. well, i think it
Lago. La surrounding himself with donors and potential Vice President ial picks. Many of them going on the Sunday Talk Shows today touting him as president. The amount of talent that we have in the Republican Party is extraordinary. He has a bunch of choices for cabinet. He will have an Extraordinary Group of talented people that can serve this country. If the election was held today, trump would be winning in places where he had success, joe biden is having failure. Were present trump is strong, joe biden has been week. We were excited to have a conversation. Weve had no conversations about the vp pick. Trump used the word to stop to describe the Biden Administration and complaining about his legal troubles. President biden spent a quiet weekend in delaware. His campaign using a less is more strategy. A new poll of registered voters shows a tight race with joe biden leading 1 and that is within the margin of error. The Hush Money Trial resumes tomorrow after an explosive dave testimon
United states, joe biden, genocide joe. Angry antiisrael protestors relentless antiisrael protestors and theyre getting bolder. Yesterday they stormed a Senate Building raging against israels war with hamas. Democrat lawmakers are feeling the political pressure just like the president. Turning our strongest ally in the middle east away. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Capitol hill Police Arrested 50 protestors. It forced the Senate Cafeteria to shut down. They chanted the senate cant eat until gaza eats. They also interrupted defense secretary lloyd austins testimony on the Pentagon Budget going on yesterday morning and during that hearing he smacked down one of the protestors most incendiary claims about israel. I want to address what the protestors raised earlier. Is israel committing genocide in gaza . Senator cotton, we dont have any evidence of genocide created. Thats a no. Israel is not creating genocide in gaza. We dont have evidence of that. Harris senator
donald trump is not an acceptable alternative. he is not the lesser of two evils. he is a completely unfit man for office. he s already shown us what he would do and can never be near the oval office again. that is former republican congresswoman liz cheney sounding the alarm about the possibility, the real possibility of a second trump presidency. good morning, everyone. so glad you re with us. i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly here in new york match lot of news to get to on this tuesday, december 5th. including warning from cheney and others. six weeks to go until the iowa caucuses and one day until the next republican primary debate. once again the republican front-runner trump is skipping. we re following the latest in the israel-hamas war. a top u.n. official says the situation in gaza is getting, quote, more apocalyptic and no more safe to go as the idf intensifies its offensive. and a new warning this morning, it could become even more hell if new aid doesn t
israel and hamas. what we know about the 13, among them women and children, and more on the separate deal that led to the release of 12 thai nationals. in gaza where it s about 5:00 p.m. local time, the fragile four-day pause in fighting appears to be holding, but today new warnings from israel that fighting will resume when the four days are done, dropping leaflets over gaza. what israel s campaign could look like once this pause is over. and we begin with breaking news this morning, any moment the first group of hostages will be released under the deal between israel and hamas. 13 women and children will be among the first group of released hostages. nbc news can confirm that 12 thai nationals have already been released under a separate deal. a fragile four-day pause in fighting began just hours ago to make way for these releases. the column of israeli tanks seen leaving gaza, and we see these bulldozers there as well. new video captured just after the pause took effec