those comments were delivered to a new house select committee on china. we have a lot to get to this morning from the panel s prime time hearing. meanwhile, a trip to china by a putin ally is increasing concerns that beijing will ramp up support for russian forces. back here at home, president joe biden s student loan forgiveness plan went before the supreme court yesterday with the conservative majority expressing some skepticism about wiping away debt for some borrowers. also ahead, reaction to an historic defeat in chicago. for the first time in four decades, the city s mayor has lost a reelection bid. we ll get to that. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, march 1st. joe has the morning off, but along with willie and me, we have, of course, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, and the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass is
speaker kevin mccarthy has yet to issue a budget for the next fiscal year. but did manage to cobble together one frankenstein monster of a debt ceilin proposal this week mccarthy presented a sweeping 320-page bill tha would pair 4.5 trillion dollar in spending cuts with a 1. trillion-dollar increase in th federal dilemma that would kee the bill collectors at bay until march 24th, just in time for the campaign season to hea up the white house says thi spending cuts wish list tied t the debt ceiling is nonstarter meanwhile, golden sach economists are saying that the united states could crash th limit on borrowing for thing already purchase as early as the first week and june. mccarthy has a more immediat problem. the speaker doesn t have the votes just yet to pass his plan that snot good for a perso who only holds a four seat majority but took 15 ballots t win the gavel. still, he insists that congres won t allow the u.s. t default. sure, jan. joining me now, director shalan
you know, have not gotten invitations recently, mehdi, to get out to iowa. but i was happy to see the dmz finally make a change, and put south carolina first. i agree we should have a primary calendar that looks more like america, you are very bold at the time to go to iowa and talk about something other than ethanol. appreciate you, appreciate you show, have a great rest of your sunday night. thanks, mehdi. tonight, on the mehdi hasan show, a racing black history from our classrooms. ron desantis is leading the charge, but the effects will be felt across the country. when will liberals fight back? and, what we ever get any real, genuine reform of the police? i ll speak to new york congressman and squad member jamal bowman, who s himself a former victim of police violence. plus, new victims on that suspected chinese surveillance balloon, and this year it is idiocy of the responses from some republicans. good evening, welcome to the show, and congratulations
the country. when the liberals fight back? will we ever get any real genuine reform from the place? i ll speak to new york congressman and sworn member, who is himself a former police violence. and more on that surveillance balloon from china and the sheer it is sea of the response from some republicans. good evening. welcome to the show. congratulations on surviving another week in the life of our public. 70s of craziness, mainly from the republican party. mainly, i mean, no words that more true these days and the right-wing state that has become the lip artery for extremism. america s country within the country, florida, land of sunshine. and the leadership of that tropical autocrat in training, governor ron desantis. perhaps we could start calling florida america s very own mini hungary, authoritarian narcissistic bully. because in only the last seven days, mind you, ron desantis and florida republicans have managed to, on monday, introduce a bill to make it illegal to
so we can focus on this little guy. singers: safelite repair, safelite replace. hey there. i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. and i m alisyn camerota. a sixth officer is now off the memphis police force in connection with the beating death of tyre nichols. preston hemphill was relieved of duty, and his lawyer confirms he was wearing a body camera on january 7th. the footage from it was released friday along with the other videos that show nichols ultimately fatal encounter with police. we have a warning for you. what we re about to play is disturbing. footage from the multiple cameras shows nichols getting kicked and punched and pepper sprayed and beaten with a baton. and when the assault stopped, no one gave nichols any medical attention for at least 25 minutes. now, five of the officers seen in the video have been fired and charged with second-degree murder and their unit to fight street crimes and guns known as scorpion, that s now gone. it s been