they d be nuts. you re asking me to give an instruction. i want to see the best picture. britney spears says it was the best day ever, telling fans, can i get an amen? it s official. the conservatorship of britney spears has been terminated. the free britney movement wins. what s next for the pop star after her conservatorship is finally ended. and will we see aaron rodgers back on the field today? why today is a huge day for the superstar quarterback as he recovers from both covid and the major backlash from his vaccine comments. good morning, everybody. it s saturday, november 13th. i m lindsey reiser. and i m kendis gibson. it s a big day. some would think it s the worst time of the year. here s why. you see the little scaffolding in the middle? they re getting ready for the big christmas tree to roll it on in here at rockefeller center. right now it s on a flatbed truck. it comes from maryland. really the tallest tree, one of our producers was saying, since
this tragedy. plus, we ll explain the cryptic statement on a national security threat from republican congressman mike turner of ohio that created chaos and confusion on capitol hill. also ahead, we ll preview a busy 48 hours for donald trump s various legal issues. there are two hearings today, including a criminal case you may have forgotten about. good morning. welcome to morning joe on this busy thursday, february 15th. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. and deputy managing editor for politics at politico, sam stein is with us this morning, as well. good to have you. willie, we have tom winter here and will be talking about the tragedy in kansas city. really quickly, though, the reverberations from that huge democratic win on long island a couple of nights ago still being felt in washington. here, the head editorial in the wall street journa
mirage. in biden s world, inflation is not at a four-decade high and 64% of americans are not living paycheck to paycheck. democrats are already cheering on the con job, chuck schumer s wetting himself with excitement. i think the president will do a very good job at selling the accomplishment. from what i hear there are like 40 million people to watch. it s not the super bowl but a heck of a lot of people. jesse: and general psaki thinks her old boss can seal the deal. people will get big, progressive, bold joe biden. he s done a lot of stuff, accomplished a lot of stuff, and nobody really knows about all those things. they can t make the speech about that, they know that. you can t do a list of all the things you ve done. people will tune out. they don t want to know about data. he needs to tell a story. joe biden is an amazing story teller. you sit in the oval office and karine can tell you and he can story tell for six hours. he needs to do that in the speech tonight
released audio of an interview of donald trump by jonathan carl. it shows the ex-president knew full well the power he had over the mob that stormed the capitol. just take a listen. but if you look a the real size of that crowd, i was never reported correctly. there were the biggest crowd i ve ever spoken in front of by far, really, by far, that went down to the washington that went back to the washington mo. you told them you were going to g up to the capitol. were you just i was going to a the secret service said you can t. and by the time i would have and wanted to go back, i was thinking about going back during doing it myself.top the problem secret service didn t like that idea too much. so i ve done that. and you know what, i would have been very well received. don t forget, the peopl that went to washington that day in my opinion, they went because they thought the election was rigged. that s why they went. trump s desire to go to the capitol was flushed ou
What s amazing and really amaze asking no one criticized president xi for what he s done and doing. we know there s strategic adversary and the cold ware adversary for our country in the 21st century and we have to be balanced how we talk about this and i will agree, jesse, must start tonight. the president can t make this a flippant throw away sentence and speech. he has to say what happened, how it happened and what we ll do to ensure not only a balloon but any do main awareness happen that we have and how we re closing that. jeanine: and, dana, as it relates to apparently there was a there was a call by secretary of defense lloyd austin, and china, the prc minister of national defense, declined to take the call. that s just reported in in the last few minutes. dana: yeah, it was supposed to be a secure call and they decided not to do that. i guess they re really, really mad that we shot down their