work together, but over the past two years we proved the cynics and nay sayers wrong. president biden and i don t have a lot in common. time and again democrats and republicans came again. he s the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can t even tell you what a woman is. we have to be the nation we always been at our best, optimistic, hopeful, forward-looking. we are under attack in a left-wing culture war we didn t start and never wanted to fight. we have to see each other not as enemies but as fellow americans. after years of democrat attacks on law enforcement and calls to defund the police, violent criminals roam free while law-abiding families live in fear. i ve never been more optimistic about our future, about the future of america. just remember who we are. and the radical left s america, washington taxes you and lights your hard. erped money under fire. very different tones last night between president biden, mostly optimistic
meanwhile, the trump desantis rivalry is heating up. we ll show you how the florida governor responded to the covid criticism. we ll look at the rnc s 2024 playbook as party leaders want to double down on an issue that lost them the elections in the midterms. running straight into loserville. and today, president joe biden and speaker kevin mccarthy sit down at the white house in hopes of ending the standoff over the debt ceiling. plus reverend al sharpton joins us live from memphis ahead of his eulogy today for tyre nichols. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s wednesday, february 1st. along with joe, good to have you back. good to be back. willie and me. we have jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news katty kay is with us. and member of the new york times editorial board mara gay. so we start with today s high stakes meeting between president joe biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. their focus, ending the standoff over the debt ce
touch. you were right. that was kind of a buzz kill. politico sam stein, thank you for the great polling information. we will speak to you again soon. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning. stick around for morning joe, which starts right now. a senator who has never run anything at all, but his mouth. the senator obviously resorting to lying, cheating and trying to steal. senator, how gullible to you really think florida voters are? repeating yourself again. we ve seen this show before. socialist, socialist, crazy, marxist, silly when one would you prefer? on your list for talking points. look, the senator can play national security expert all he wants. i know he needs that for his next presidential run. yeah. i mean i don t know what you mean playing national security, vice chairman of the intelligence committee and previous chairman. it s actually my job. some of the highlights from last night s fiery
debate and others. plus, concern for house democrats in several races. they should have, they believe, locked up by now, including the seat of their campaign chief. we ll have that new reporting. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, october 26th. along with joe and me, former aide to the george w. bush white house and state department s elise jordan. host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico and author best seller the big lie jonathan lemire and eddie glaude jr., a professor and punch bowl news jake sherman, msnbc political contributor. mika is under the weather this morning and hope to see her tomorrow. joe, we ll start it in pennsylvania just your first impressions what you saw there from john fetterman and dr. oz. first of all, mika under the weather, actually means she s going to probably only run seven miles this morning instead of nine. so her devgs of under the weather is a little bit different than ours. you know, it s v
keep coming. willie? yeah. start in florida, though, this hour, mika. millions of residents are bracing for hurricane ian as that powerful storm barrels towards the state getting stronger by the hour. just this morning it became a category 4 hurricane expected to make landfall in the southwest coast of florida as early as this afternoon. the center of the storm forecast to move over the central past of the state with winds reaching more than 130 miles per hour. the national hurricane center also warning of dangerous storm surge and flooding with up to 18 inches of rain expected in some areas. more than 2.5 million people under evacuation orders along parts of coastal florida. the powerful storm passed the florida keys last night causing a couple of tornadoes and some damage there. officials say there also is significant flooding across that area. yesterday the hurricane battered western cuba knocking outing the island s electrical grid, causing a nation-wide blackout. offic