Was sitting right next to you rev, down there in selma alabama, for the big commemoration of Bloody Sunday. Thank you very much. Thank you, and hug kareem. Kareem has been a long, active person in our community, i love her to death, she is great. She heard every word you said. All right, rev have a good rest of the night. All right. Of the night. All right. The state of our union. President biden delivers his high stakes address before congress and the nation, and White House Press secretary Karine Jeanpierre joins me live onset, with a preview of what he will say, and why this speech is so critical right now. High stakes diplomacy, Vice President harris makes a passionate call for an immediate sixweek seeks fire in gaza, as diplomatic efforts intensify in the middle east, and washington. Super tuesday showdown, donald trump and nikki haley prepared to face off in 16 states, including colorado, which could see a Supreme Court ruling tomorrow on its efforts to keep trump off the primary
yesterday s hearings. expert legal analysis straight ahead on all of that. meanwhile the former president is floating another birther conspiracy. we ll tell you who he is targeting this time and on capitol hill, how republicans will hold two hearings today focused on hunter biden and homeland security secretary mayorkas. we ll have reporting on that. plus, the new developments out of the middle east following secretary of state blinken s meeting yesterday in israel, the two sides appear to be at odds over plans for a post-war gaza. and days after a mid-air explosion on a boeing max 9 jet, the ceo is acknowledging the company s mistakes. we ll have the latest on that investigation and the very latest on secretary of defense austin and what is going on with his health. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s a very busy wednesday, january 10th. joe? yeah, it s very busy, as far as boeing goes, not a great stretch that if your plane blow aparts in mid-air you take respo
u.s. secretary of state is not a ceo, but what can we expect? our top diplomate, says he s not a politician, but the first visit by a u.s. secretary of state to beijing in five years, neil, and he spoke yesterday before taking that flight. sustained competition, with diplomacy and that s what the world expects of both the united states and china. now, neil, as you mentioned it s sort of like a take two of sorts, this trip. as blinken canceled his trip before that u.s. air force fighter jet shot down the massive 4,000 pound chinese spy balloon that flew across the united states and also, what other people call provocations. a chinese fighter jet across the nose of a u.s. air force surveillance plane in the south china sea used to spy on china. the fighter jet caused massive turbulence inside that air force rc-135. and also on the high seas, a china warship recently cut in front of an american guided missile destroyer in international waters, yes, not far from mainland ch
weaponizing its attack line on donald trump, but he appeared to have given them plenty of ammunition. let s get the latest from rich edson in washington. rich? good afternoon, neil. much of the respect presidential field has criticized the department of justice over this. they re also taking issue with the former president s alleged behavior. his campaign says it raised roughly $2 million last night at a fund raiser in bedminster, new jersey just hours after the former president appeared at his arraignment in a courthouse in miami. as his federal indictment dominates the gop race for president. i don t think that most republicans support the conduct that is detailed in that indictment. it s reckless, it s harmful to the american national security and it doesn t show the judgment that you need to be an effective president during difficult times. former vice president mike pence told the wall street journal, these are very serious allegations and i can t defend what is
organizations experienced in dealing with exactly this kind of material. the timeline here, the waste removal was paused over the weekend following complaints from texas and michigan officials who said they didn t know the waste would come to their jurisdictions. why didn t they know what was coming their way? i don t know all the details of the environmental cleanup process. what i know is that there are ways that are set up for states to communicate with each other about this. and there is often a private sector role as contractors who have that extremely rigorous epa certifica certif certify step up to do that challenging work. this is both in responding to disasters like this and in routine operations. it happens a lot, which is why it is regulated so tightly, so carefully and closely. and epa has taken over the process originally led by norfolk southern to make sure that it s going to be handled well. of course, every situation, politics playing a role in this. som