and welcome to morning joe: weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. let s begin this morning with a new report from house democrats that alleges the first two years of donald trump s presidency. his family business received seven point $8 million from foreign governments. democrats on the republican-led house oversight committee yesterday released the findings of an investigation that began back in 2016 into violations of the constitution s foreign cause. the report finds from 2017, to 2019 alone, trump s businesses received at least seven point $8 million from 24 in governments. most of that money? according to the report came from china! whose government allegedly paid more than five and a half million dollars to rent out trump s own properties during that time. the government of saudi arabia where, trump visited on his first foreign trip as president paid his business is more than $600,000. the. information stems from documents obtained from the trump s fo
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
and they see the nonsense that goes on in washington. the inability to get stuff done. and a lot of these people say i see what democracy has done to me, but i m not seeing what democracy is doing for me. i don t think any longer we can assume that somehow people appreciate or value democracy. and now on top of it they don t have the educational background, they don t teach that in most of our schools. they don t have a lot of history. and they don t have increasingly cool information and literacy. they don t know how to distinguish between facts and other sources of information. they do not know where to go or safeguarding the information. also the information hygiene and the multiple sources and so forth? so for all these reasons democracy is extraordinarily vulnerable in this country not to mention much of the world. well there are different areas in our society that blame looking at the media landscape. you can look at networks that
they don t know how to establish between facts and other sorts of information. they don t know where to go for safeguarding information, almost what is good information hygiene, how to multiple source it and so forth. for all these reasons, democracy is extraordinarily vulnerable in this country, not to mention much of the world. while there are different areas in our society to blame, you could look at the media landscape, at networks that continue to promote lies even though they ve been, you know, paid $787 million to stop doing it. at the same time, let s look at the white house and how this white house is managing wars on several fronts, racking up more accomplishments than you could say in the history of the modern presidency, and, yet, this reality and this sort of losing the young people and this sense of who to believe is still happening. what should the administration
Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, believes that Russian secret services are making active attempts to create a new agent network in Ukraine with the help of various fake experts.