two big names jumping into the republican field. south carolina senator tim scott is launching his campaign in just about an hour while florida governor ron desantis is expected to make it official within days. can either break through the noise that is donald trump? intensifying negotiations. president biden and speaker kevin mccarthy meeting this afternoon for the latest round of debt talks with just days left to avoid a catastrophic default. where our differences are and how could we solve those, and i felt that part was productive. look, there s no agreement. we re still apart. also today, the man charged with murdering four university of idaho students will appear in court for his arraignment. bryan kohberger faces a judge as new details emerge about the possible murder weapon. later, the new space race. a crew of private astronauts just docked at the international space station. we ll have a live report from cape canaveral, florida, with a look at that and how n
good afternoon. i m yamiche alcindor. back for another hour. and it s not been a good day for donald trump. after fighting it for years, his tax returns are out, and there s a lot to unpack. from the former president s federal tax payments, to the foreign bank accounts held, while he, that he held while in office, the lack of mandatory irs audits, our expert panel is here to comb through it all. and the january 6th committee just dropped another batch of witness transcripts, like yesterday, they contain a lot of familiar trump world names, we ve got the biggest take-aways. and following major breaking news in idaho and the murder case there, a person has been arrested in connection to the killings of four college students. law enforcement officials tell nbc news the 28-year-old was apprehended in pennsylvania. we ve got the details and new year, new covid variants. medical experts are warning of a new infectious strain going through the north east right now. what you ca
grabs, dysfunction and this is not a partisan criticism. understand this, it s embarrassing, it s dysfunctional. it s dangerous, it s stupid. those are the word that is republicans have used. 11 rounds of voting and we still don t have a house speaker. as the deadlock enters a fourth day we have new reporting about another potential deal in the works that just might give kevin mccarthy the gavel. plus, we get the latest from the war in ukraine as russia calls for a brief cease-fire to observe the orthodox christmas holiday. ukrainians leaders are dismissing the idea. some good news, damar hamlin is showing improvement after collapsing on the field during monday night football. the buffalo bills safety is alert and responding to commands. we ll show you what his doctors are saying. good morning, and welcome to way too early. i m jonathan lemire on this friday, january 6th. it is, of course, the second anniversary of one of the darkest days in our nation s history and we wi
fights behind closed doors. you walk out and wow. willie what? you know. nancy pelosi would never allow this never. to happen. never. you just don t go out there and get humiliated three times in a row. what a contrast. nancy pelosi never went to the house floor. people saying, what it s going to happen? you went to the house floor, you knew if nancy put it on the floor it s going to pass. did all the work before. hear from a lot of people, willie, kevin pl m had a month to lock it up and didn t do it. he didn t flow how to closed deal so humiliated yesterday. i got to say, that marjorie taylor greene fed up saying she s had enough. you had kevin mccarthy attacking members of his own caucus yesterday. you have the wall street journal editorial page, gop chaos caucus. house republicans said they want to drain the swamp and save america, but they can t even get through day one without a display of dysfunction. it s just it s just chaos. new york post a
dumpster fire, hasn t it. these are two people that are troubled and the details that are disturbing, they both accuse each other of abuse. and a lot of people have looked at amber heard s testimony and found some of the things that she s claimed dubious. the same could be said also of johnny depp and i think you see a little bit of that play out. and in terms of victims of abuse coming forward, regardless of how this shakes out, there may be people who take away from this that their allegations of abuse may not be taken seriously. it certainly would be unfortunate if that were the case, joe. nbc s stephanie gosk, thank you very much. that is worth looking into more and talking about more. it is now the top of the fourth hour of morning joe. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west and we have a lot to get to this morning. we ll have the latest from ukraine where after months of holding out, ukraine has officially ceded the key port city of mariupol as russian miss