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destroyed locations as well as military equipment at the hands of ukraine or the west. good morning. welcome to morning joe. the united states accuses russia of planning to film a fake attack video and use it as justification for invading ukraine. we ll discuss whether russia really thinks that would work. that as russian president putin meets this morning with the leader of china, reaffirming their alliance. speaker nancy pelosi has a warning to u.s. athletes in beijing competing in the winter olympics. your free speech doesn t travel with you to china. we ll play for you what she said. also this morning, new signs of ex-president trump s hold over the republican party. today the rnc will vote on censuring two of the most vocal critics of the former president, liz cheney and adam kinzinger. we will read for you their preemptive ponces. we will get to that and much more on this friday, february 4th. along with willie and me we have the host of way too early jona ....
possible tornados. the latest on the dangerous winter storm impacting nearly half the country right now. welcome to the lead. i m jack tapper. we start with our national lead. president biden announcing his new plans to combat gun violence and declaring, quote, the answer is not to defund the police, unquote, after an alarming rise in homicides and gun crimes in many of america s biggest cities. the president bringing together federal, state and local officials in new york city to detail new steps his administration wants to take, including a new initiative on so-called ghost guns, do-it-yourself firearms of a sort. mr. biden calling for enhanced tools, training and funding for law enforcement officers and for tens of millions of dollars for community policing programs. last year ten major u.s. cities recorded more homicides than in any previous year on record, from portland to philadelphia. and biden s trip comes in the wake of two new york city police officers bei ....
i m harris faulkner. you are in the faulkner focus . jen psaki appeared to brush off concerns about the surge in crime as the violence is hitting just up the road from the white house. yesterday d.c. s georgetown neighborhood became the site of a deadly shooting and a high-stakes manhunt. jen psaki was saying this. we all agree or should agree that violent crime is a serious murder. there hasn t been new f.b.i. nationwide data released to date. our view is instead of turning it into a political football we need to be focused from the beginning of the president s of all of his time in office on reducing crime and putting our communities safe. harris: republicans telling democrat leadership time s up. it is no laughing matter when people get pushed into an incoming train in the subway and they end up losing their life as a result. we know what the policies are and what the consequences are. but we don t have the will of many of these elected officials to do somet ....
hello. goldberg shocking moments and comments came as the view hosts were discussing a tennessee school board s decision to remove a novel about the holocaust from its curriculum. was this a racist move? that was the question, that was the topic. well, no, according to whoopi golberg. and then, oh, the cringe-worthy explanation why? let s be truthful about it, the holocaust isn t about race, it is about man s inhumanity to man. harris: here is where it gets cringy. her hosts were calling her out. the comments caused international uproar outside the studio, where they live. whoopi golberg tried to clean stuff up on the late show with stephen colbert. watch. i feel being black, when we talk about race, it is a different thing to me. i said i felt the holocaust wasn t about race. this wasn t based on the skin. you couldn t tell who was jewish, they had to delve deeply to figure it out. if the clan is coming down the street and i m standing with a jewish friend and ne ....
trace: that is a snub. come on. those are the years he became the goat, didn t have a word for them, maybe he will later on in the day, sandra. sandra: can t wait to dig into that in just a bit. meanwhile, fox news alerting off the top of the hour here. america s crime crisis, the paternal order of police slamming the white house and press secretary jen psaki. nation s largest police union saying the increase in violent crime is no laughing matter. hello, and welcome everyone, i m sandra smith in new york. great to be with you trace. trace: trace gallagher in for john roberts. critics accuse her of laughing off the crime crisis. union chief says it s nice she feels safe in the white house but not everybody is feeling safe. at least 16 cities set records for homicides in 2021 and dozens of police officers have been shot so far this year. we have team cox coverage. charlie hurt with his reaction in moments. sandra: sad state of affairs when you point to the number ....