nothing i can see but you when you dance, dance, dance, girl [laughter] rachel: you guys, sometimes we just talk too much in the commercial break and we we forget that we re actually on tv. pete: uh-huh. i guess we are. [laughter] rachel: and here we are. dance dance, dance, guys. good miles an hour, everybody pete: good morning. rachel: welcome. joey, thanks for filling in for will with. joey: thanks for having me. pete: the second to last fox & friends of 2023 here on december 30th. rachel: yeah. we re so close to the the end o- pete: but we re actually at the end of nothing, okay? [laughter] it s the end of nothing. it s. the end of an arbitrary calendar. it s actually we re heading into madness. wonderful i mean, political season. we re heading into rachel: i don t think it s wonderful madness, i m just going to be really honest. i think the next year is going to be extremely pete: but if you love chaos like mentioner it s going to be great. joey: if you t
president biden is taking on a policy issue that republicans have been trying to turn into a dangerous political. weapon the president sending to the southern border this morning and then on to mexico city. we have a live report from el paso coming. a plus, what history tells us about what might be next in a bitterly divided u.s. congress, and why the speaker fight is not democracy at work. i somewhat have you. believe she received one of the highest civilian honor in the united states on friday, for her role in protecting democracy in the aftermath of the 2020 election. but today, the michigan secretary of state tell me about the bottles that still lie ahead. the book club creature has stories, a police brutality, and white allyship. which one suggests should be taught alongside the classic to kill a mockingbird. others wanted. band will talk about why this book is so, important in the incredible story of how it is two coauthors met. velshi begins now. good, morning it is
obama returned to the white house yesterday for the unveiling of their official portraits. president biden resuming a tradition that stalled under donald trump. we ll play more from the white house reunion. it was lovely. including poignant remarks from mrs. obama about why traditions like this are important for democracy. plus, former attorney general bill barr continues to speak out about the trump records case, saying the justice department is close to having enough evidence to indict him, but shouldn t. we ll discuss his reasoning. and the 60-day sprint to the midters begins today, and it seems whoever is managing the money for the republican senate candidates can t get it right. how republican senator rick scott explains burning through loads of cash with little to show for it. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, september 8th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, author of the big lie, white house bureau chi
are. kevin mccarthy made a mockery this week, of the idea of strong leadership. leadership is not running after your followers and saying, i am desperate for a job, i ll do anything you want me to if you will get me the time. strong leadership is the opposite. i want to ask you about hakeem jeffries. many people in this country have not heard hakeem jeffries. we have interviewed him several times. but that speech that he delivered, it might have been the speech you would have delivered a few had become speaker of the house. it was a very impassioned speech. what did you make of it? it was somebody who knows history and understands the idea that parties are not there just to grab power. they are there to try to bring certain ideas to government. it s not just have their names over a door and smile for pitchers. they are there to exercise leadership, and sometimes a people in his party or her
innovative economy that is very strong in terms of its particulars. we can provide the training that young people need in order to embrace these new technologies that are coming about. we can actually come together and govern our country. exercise leadership in a difficult world. we could be a america in renaissance. we could also be a america in decline. if we allow our fears, hates, frustrations to divide us and turn us against one another, i think there is a very good chance we could follow the path of past empires. we could lose our democracy. what is going to be the key to what path we take? it is the quality of leadership we elect in this country. if we have leadership willing to take the risks associated with leadership. and make no mistake about it, you want to lead in a democracy, you have to take risks.