We need to go big. And if we waste some money now, we waste some money. Absolutely we have too many people hurting and the economy is going to sputter and weve got to get ourselves out of this mess. And this is the way we need to go right now. Let me tell you something, that man has a future in Northwest Florida politics. I like him. Or West Virginia. Mika, thats interesting. Thats from the republican governor of a state that donald trump got 69 in. Jim justice, governor of West Virginia, urging congress to go big on covid19 relief. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, february 2nd. We have columnist and Associate Editor for the Washington Post, david ignatius. Back with us, capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt. And it seems more and more likely that democrats will push through the Biden Administrations nearly 2 trillion Economic Relief package with or without republicans. The president met with a group of Senate Republicans for about two hou
this points to even more evidence of possible obstruction by trump. former white house attorney ty could be is my guest. plus, putin tonight caught in a lie. russians denying a ship was tacked. new video shows a ukrainian grown droen slamming into that ship. in fact, robert kennedy jr. pulling 20% in the new cnn poll. so who are his supporters? and should biden really be worried? let s go out front. the washington post with significant new reporting this hour. two of trump s mar-a-lago employees moved boxes of documents at the residence, trump s residence, just one day, one day before the fbi and a prosecutor visited his home to retrieve classified documents. so just let me give you a sense of the time line. this is in june of 2022. it was after a subpoena had been issued. it was the day before the fbi was scheduled to come get documents. sources familiar with the matter telling the washington post that investigators believe that timing is suspicious and a sign of pos
it appears from that distance that ukraine likely used the longer range storm shadow missiles they just got from the united kingdom. this comes as we have new video in tonight. this is that ukrainian drone hitting a prized russian reconnaissance shipp. russia claims the ship was not hit in the attack. they say it wasn t hit at all. look at the video. you can see that is untrue. the video is taken by the drone as it zeros in and then you see the strike the extent of the damage we don t know. of course, we know that this strike like many others is woo y. putin is not meeting goals in russia. translator: if it continues like this the country will be fraught with problems because people will start to ask why. of course, the fear, why? the russian people may find out how poorly this war is going for putin not just the family of the
of that day. a spokesman denied to politico that pitman lied to congress, but it s a very startling accusation. there s 16 pages this letter goes on. what else did this whistleblower say in those pages? it zeros in on another very specific theme. it s this allegation that one the fighting broke out, neither pitman nor gallagher took significant action. the whistleblower claims to have been in the skcommand center, a during the person was in there, they say what i observed is them mostly sitting there looking blankly at tv screens showing realtime footage of the officers and officials fighting for the congress. a law enforcement source defended the two officials said they were focused on protecting lawmakers, and reiterating the fact that not one member of congress was heard. the u.s. capitol police executive team, which includes assistant chief pitman, and
welcome back. it s way too early. the market rose 238 points, ending for a fourth straight day. the bounceback made investors hopeful after concerns over rising covid-19 cases and the more infectious delta variant we ve been talking about. the ten-month treasury yield had fall on the a five-month low earlier in the week. now to immigration, president biden on friday issued a memorandum. the secretary of state anthony blinken to spend up to $100 million to address refugee and migration needs. it zeros in on at riske persons.