morning. morning joe starts right now. it s the top of the hour. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 2nd. happy new year, everybody. israel s ground offensive in gaza is entering a new phase. the israeli military has plans to pull back some troops and shift to more localized operations. we re going to go through that development and the escalating tensions in the red sea. plus, a damning, new report on the intelligence failures by the israeli military. new york times investigation found there was no battle plan for a massive hamas invasion that they were warned about. also ahead, a look at the long to-do list for congress in 2024 with several crucial items that were simply not addressed late last year. plus, the supreme court has a tight timeline to rule on what would be one of the most consequential cases involving the presidency. we ll get expert, legal analysis on the issue of removing donald trump from the ballot in two states. are there going
msnbc headquarters in new york city. we got a lot to get to this hour. first a community in mourning as michigan state university remembers three killed during a mass shooting monday. students still trying to process the violence. all of us are numb to the whole situation. we have lived this our entire lives. i m still processing it. i honestly don t know if i can ever take a step foot into na union anymore. you see it on the news, but you never think it s going to be your school. and in fact, it is their school. we re learning more about the victims now as well, 20-year-old brian fraser was the president of his fraternity, 19-year-old ariel anderson, an aspiring surgeon, and 20-year-old alexandria verner, an all state athlete studying biology. police are still investigating the motive. we are learning more about the suspected gunman, ahead, the details about his criminal background and the chilling details that his father is now sharing. also this morning, fear a
steve bannon to testify publicly on the eve of his federal criminal contempt trial for refusing to honor the committee s subpoenas. among those scheduled tomorrow, a former spokesman for the oath keepers which played a central role in the coordination and execution of the capitol insurrection. just moments ago, president biden was joined by gun safety advocates at a white house event celebrating bipartisan legislation signed last month. while the administration is struggling with the grim reality, on the cover of today s new york times about how many in the president s own party as well as independents are souring on him. and hundreds of firefighters in california are in a desperate battle to protect 3,000-year-old historic sequoia trees from the wildfires. we begin with the january 6th insurrection. joining me now ali vitali, jeremy peters. and tim miller, author of why we did it. ali, take us through what we can expect this week from the hearings and how they might
the next ten years but some economists say the total will be much higher. welcome to fox news live i m mike emanuel. analysis from the university of pennsylvania found it could rise to more than a trillion dollars over the next decade while many wonder who is footing the bill. lucas tomlinson live from the white house with the latest. good afternoon, lucas. lucas: good afternoon, mike, $1 trillion is roughly the gdp of mexico. now many republicans in the sunday talk shows pushed back on the president s plan, of course, saying it s probably against the law. new hampshire governor telling cnn, quote, it s inherently unfair and fairly illegal and, quote, adds hundreds of billions of dollars of time where we are trying to bring inflation under control. something the plan in effort by president biden to buy votes ahead of the midterm elections in 2020, about 60% of 18 to 29-year-olds voted for biden but last month the number of young voters supporting biden had dropped to just 38%
And doing work on the houses and the shop was full. So far, they are saying that four were killed and a couple of dozen wounded and so, i think for people here, its just another blow. The firefighters who went into the building have been incredibly busy this week because theres been other attacks on the central part of the city not long after the shop. President zelensky has said repeatedly that all of this proves the point that he keeps on Making Witches they need more effective air defences and for those, he is looking to his allies in europe and particularly, in the united states. Is caught this madness, the scene you described, exemplifies a typical weekend. Civilian existence, a diy store is civilian infrastructure and that should be protection under International Humanitarian law, have we heard anything from russia . Not that im aware of. Over the last weeks and months, ukrainians hit their side as well and they say they have lost civilians to attacks launched from Inside Ukraine