Migrants as political pawns. abbott responded in a statement calling the lawsuit baseless. the move comes just a week after adams announced an executive order restrigting how charter buses can drop off migrants in the city, which then prompted bus companies to begin dropping off the migrants at a transit hub just over the river in new jersey instead. joining us now white house reporter for politico. jennifer, great to see you this morning, my friend. thanks for being here. you ve got some really good new reporting about this border situation. so it is one at the white house perceives as a political vulnerability for a president now in an election year. but they re trying to as put in the headline there, flip the script. tell us what you mean. how do they plan to do that? this has always been an issue republicans have been better on. the polls show republicans don t trust president biden on handling the border. what the white house is doing is
This report came from china, whose government allegedly paid more tha $5.5 million to rent out trump-owned properties during that time. the government of saudi arabia, where you ll recall trump took his first foreign trip as president, also paid his businesses more than $600,000. the information stems from documents obtained by trump s former accounting firm back in 2019. but once republicans regained the house majority in 2022, they ended the democrats investigation, which is why the report only covers the first two years of the trump presidency. coming up on morning joe we ll speak with two of the democrats who authored that report, california s robert garcia and maryland s jamie raskin. and should not be lost of course as the house gop tries to deal into biden family businesses and their dealings, whether they ve profited from the presidency. we now have evidence that we know trump and his family did. still ahead here on way too
Emeritus of the council on foreign relations, our friend. richard, good to see you this morning. from the early hours of this war, the biden administration has been deeply fearful of a widening conflict. it feels like that may be happening. even if these events aren t necessarily all linked the ivns in iraq, iran, the red sea, how concerned are you things are about to spiral out of control? and what can the biden administration do including blinken s visit to try to quell tensions? can that even be done? people ought to be worried about the war widening. the war we have is bad enough but there s any number of fault lines. you mentioned a few. there i think the united states can dampen things now, and they ve been doing it from the beginning. israel reportedly wanted to go into lebanon a few months ago. the united states discouraged it. the problem in israel is that tens of thousands of people have been forced out of their homes. and the question is what happens to them. will they eve
Minister netanyahu personally. do we think that this is these tension points are only going to grow as this next phase continues and as there s the possibility that this war could explode further? where i think the tension will probably go down, jonathan, in the way israel is conducting the war. that removes some friction there. where i think the friction is likely to grow in addition to the potential war widening and we don t even mention things like the iranian nuclear program which is getting more and more advanced. where i think the tension is likely to grow is on political differences. the united states obviously one day wants to see two states, a palestinian state living side by side next to israel in peace. this israeli government has zero interest in that kind of palestinian entity coming into existence, so it s clear to me that there will be all sorts of diplomatic friction. president biden s been holding back. he s been offering friendly
President biden will mark the anniversary of the january 6th capitol attack with a campaign speech near valley forge, pennsylvania, today. biden is expected to focus on the importance of american democracy in the 2024 election, emphasizing the danger another trump presidency would mean to the american institutions. the speech was moved up a day because of that impending winter storm we just told you about. so it ll be on the 5th rather than the 6th. biden is going to draw some parallels to george washington, evoking the site of valley forge and how washington not only defended the idea of american democracy there but also how not once but twice willingly gave up power, resigning from his position as head of the continental army and again step down from two terms as the first president setting a precedent that s held for centuries. and going to compare that to trump who fought to overturn an election and ed hang onto power after 2020. expect this to a be a theme we hear a lot from biden