his college and work history and what republican leaders are saying about the controversy also this morning with the war still raging on, ukraine s foreign minister is hoping for peace talks by the end of february we will get expert analysis on that idea. plus, parts of the united states are still under multiple feet of snow this morning as the death toll from a major winter storm continues to climb in western new york rescue crews are going car by car searching for any stranded survivors this as chaos unfolds at some of the nation s busiest airports thousands of flights have been canceled, as many americans try to head home after the holidays. we will have the very latest on the travel delays. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s tuesday, december 27th. i m jonathan lemire in for joe, mika and willie. also with us at the table msnbc and nbc news national affairs analyst executive editor of the recount, host of the hell and high water podcast, the man of ma
high water podcast, the man of many titles, john heilemann and sitting here professor at princeton university our friend eddie glaude jr. i m in for joe, mika, willie, tinkers, everest, chance. i do the jobs of many people. you fill a lot of space on the show. i wear many hats. we don t want to wait another moment before diving into our first story. congressman elect george santos admitting that he lied about several key details in his experience and biography in an interview with the new york post santos confessed to what he called embellishing his resumé, but insists he will serve in the next congress santos confessed he had never worked directly for goldman sachs and citi group chalking that fib up to to a, quote, poor choice of words. he also admitted he never graduated from any college despite previously claiming to have received a degree from baruch back in 2010.
quote, potential republican rivals to donald trump are ramping up their 2024 maneuverings reflecting a growing sense in the party that former president donald trump is far from the nominee the paper continues, both publicly and behind the scenes major republican figures are laying the foundations for potential campaigns. many operatives said they see benefits sitting back while trump deals with growing problems let s bring in eugene robinson and matt lewis matt, in your latest piece titled these doomed candidates could help trump survive a primary, you write in party, choosing to run in a crowded primary against trump in 2024 is a very different moral choice than it was in 2016.
by sending these weapons, by sending these dollars we limit, we weaken this malignant force in the world and then i think these are smart folks and you can go to them and say, let s look at history here. 100 years ago we had this choice, we were given the opportunity to stay after the first world war in the 1920s in europe, we were given the opportunity to be part of the league of nations. what did we do united states, we came home. we went we followed that isolationist instinct that s part of our politics, of our politics, part of our dna. how did that worked out? we cracked the global economy, great depression, a line to fascism in world war ii, that s the line long answer, apologies, you need to listen, put truth in front of
has been duly elected. all that s left is for his future colleagues to box him out and investigate him themselves and wait for the error to be corrected by the voters in two years time. very briefly on this, i mean, first of all a further trump fiction of the party. i have to go back embellishing my resumé now, i mean, he will bell sling, eddie is a professor at princeton so he will know that embellishing so he says. trends to involve taking something that s, you know, a fact and making buffing it up a little bit, making it seem bigger than it is. he said he worked for goldman sachs. he now says, okay, that was a poor choice of words what i meant was i worked for a company called link bridge that did business with goldman sachs. now, that basically means that everybody who has ever worked at a starbucks can say that they worked for goldman sachs because, you know, every starbucks has had a goldman sachs banker walk through and buy a cup of coffee.