Stephanie ruhle. That does it for us this morning, as alex says. Stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage now. Sorry, stephanie. Hi, there, im stephanie ruhle, live at Msnbc Headquarters in new york city. It is thursday, may 20th and theres a lot going on this morning. Today hopes for a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6th insurrection appear to be fading, despite some surprising support In The House from republicans. Mitch mcconnell now telling republicans in the senate to vote it down when it gets to them next week. In israel, prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shrugging of President Bidens calls to dial back his Military Operation in gaza and ignoring international calls for a ceasefire. Remember, we thought it might end today. And weve got Breaking News on former President Trump. A day after we learned the Trump Organization is now the subject of a Criminal Investigation in new york, The New York Times reporting that trumps longtime Cfo Alan Weitzeilburg is too. In othe
Okay. Speaker nancy pelosi with some of her patented shade as she forgets the name of the senator shes criticizing. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is friday, february 26th. Its friday along with joe, willie and me, we have nbc news and msnbc National Fairs analyst and host and Executive Producer of show times the circus and host of Hell And High Water podcast. And jake sherman, msnbc political contributor. So, willie, a lot going on on this friday morning with more threats that were hearing toward the u. S. Capitol, as if we havent learned our lesson. And republicans still thinking these are something that can be worked out. Active threats in the days and weeks ahead yes. We cannot let the miami vice theme song pass. Coming off the don johnson remark. Crockett, tubbs and the rest of them. It was very nice. We love the pop culture references early in the morning, mika. Don johnson, ron johnson. Dont exactly go together too much. I wonder if ron even understood shade was bei
Katty kay is with us this morning. Joe, you got the end of this block to talk about the red sox. Oh. You got up way too late last night so we are starting on time this morning. There were a number of developments since we left you on friday with the investigation into the january 6th attack of the capitol. The Biden White House rejected a request by former President Trump to use Executive Privilege to withhold documents under federal law the current president has the power to wave Executive Privilege claims by past president s. In a letter to the National Archives obtained by nbc news, White House Council writes, President Biden has determined that an assertion of Executive Privilege is not in the best interests of the United States. And therefore its not justified to as to any of the documents, the white house now is authorizing the National Archives to turnover an initial batch of documents covering trumps actions On January 6th including his rally at the ellipse. Mr. Trump issued a
themselves saying this race is over. [ screaming ] i have news for all of them, new hampshire is first in the nation. it is not the last in the nation. [ cheering ] his race is far from over. there are dozens of states left to go. nikki haley vowing to stay in the race, despite a double digit loss to donald trump in new hampshire, after winning the iowa caucuses last week, trump beat haley by just over 11 points in the granite state. president biden, meanwhile, is hitting the campaign trail after cruising to victory in new hampshire without even being on the ballot. play for you portions of his passionate speech focused on the contrasts between himself and the republican frontrunner. it comes as new general election polling out of pennsylvania shows the incumbent president leading trump in the key battleground state. there s the trend going on in pennsylvania, not just with joe biden over the last two polls, willie, we ve also seen it with fetterman, his numbers going