democrats panic is muzzled if poll numbers stay. there are big events, including donald trump s sentencing coming up shortly. john heilemann, we ll talk again in a little bit on morning joe. thanks for getting up way too early on this friday morning from atlanta. morning joe starts right now. i ll fix the taxes. we have a thousand trillionaires in america, i mean billionaires. what s happening? they, in fact, pay 8.2% taxes. if they just paid 24%, 25%, either one of those numbers, they ve raised $500 million billion dollars, i should say, in a ten-year period. wipe out the debt. we can help make sure all those things we need to do, child care, elder care, making sure we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure we re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what i ve been able to do with the covid excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do look, if we finally beat medicare after you rallied your supporters that da
independents were minus 11 for the democrats, and, you know, and joe biden was minus 25 points in job approval. so those are the statistics, those are the data points that are going to potentially cause a lot of moderate democrats to think twice about the votes that they are making. because a lot of these votes can be career ending or career enhaning votes, right? there are usually three or four congressional votes every cycle that could make or break a candidate. it s a major finding. neil: you know what s interesting about the durham emergence, we now and then, david, see it play out in politics where someone out of the blue with very little money makes a go of it and wins. we ve even seen, you know, in the white house back in 1976 when jimmy carter was running,
neil: congressman, you did touch on afghanistan. i know you and your committee have been looking into this and now there are reports that there are thousands of u.s. residents still stuck over there. can you explain what you discovered? to me, this is the most dishonran, disgraceful thing i ve seen in my professional career, to unconditionally surrender to the taliban. we had the deputy testify, he admitted as much, they didn t have a plan or strategy to get the american citizens out. neil, i ve got these private operations that are going on with active duty and veterans and private funding, they have given me more information than i ve gotten from the state department and it s very sad. you see pictures of mothers and their little girls holding up their blue passports but not able to leave the airport in afghanistan, and the state