president zelenskyy and that country s desperate need for more weapons, while talking tough about another leader, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who s losing support globally over the mounting civilian casualties in gaza. among other things. meanwhile on capitol hill, house republicans are doubling down on partisan politics, with a vote today on an impeachment inquiry into president biden, it comes as the president s son in standoff with house republicans over a public versus a private hearing and we re keeping an eye on wall street ahead of fed s expected decision this afternoon on the future of interest rates. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s wednesday, december 13th. with us we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire. james stavridis. president emeritus on the council of foreign relations, richard haass. we have so much to talk about today. i mean, willie, i xwot the say, we also have a poll by the way, these polls go back and forth. we
the turkmin before the jet was brought down. i think this is one of the central motives for why turkey responded to aggressively. there s another component worth mentioning. yesterday it wasn t just a russian su-24 that got shot down. the search and rescue helicopter that the russians had sent to look for their pilots crash landed and then was sat on a helipad and was blown up with an anti-tank missile. and the rebel group responsible for that is called the first coastal division. guess what, the first coastal division is backed by turkish intelligence and the cia and the anti-tank missail they got came from the united states. so this has become it s beyond just a turkish-russian, you know, sort of skirmish or confrontati confrontation. nato has been drawn into it. julia s quite right. they re throwing cold water on it so it doesn t escalate. behind putin s rhetoric he said turkey is an accomplice of terrorists, this is a stab in the back. he s not just talking about turkey. he s tal