haley and desantis did go after each other with haley presenting herself as the candidate of the future. we need a leader that is not looking at four years and eight years. we need a president that is looking at 20 and 30 years. good news, the frontrunner is looking at 30 years. 20 with good behavior. [ applause ] ah-ha. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, january 12th. willie, so much to talk about today. let s see, front page of the papers, daily news, we will not be speaking. not sure where morning joe paper of record is today. i guess because ms. bumiller is here, out of respect, they gave us the new york times. new york times, of course, talking about the missile strike against the houthis. washington post, also, we have the strike as the lead. on the other side, trump s trial. wall street journal, inflation ticking up. yeah, willie, nothing in there also about all the coaches that just sort of yesterday was the harvest, my
Because it is confined. confined to the conservative news media space. when it starts breaking through to the wider public and americans start listening, the biden campaign believes his numbers will go down, and that s to their advantage. coming up, we ll get a live report from israel on two major stories out of the middle east this morning. the united states and allied strikes on houthi rebels, as we mentioned, as well as israel defending its war against hamas in an international court. plus, an update from iowa, now three days away from the caucuses where it appears the race for second place is getting a little closer. we ll discuss the significance of that ahead on morning joe. when moderate to severe ulcerative colitis takes you off course. put it in check with rinvoq, a once-daily pill. when i wanted to see results fast, rinvoq delivered rapid symptom relief
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Said yesterday. it doesn t necessarily mean it s going to change policy because i don t think it is. i think it s of the moment. i think dylan is entirely right. go ahead, dylan. i would say to alisyn s point, whether we re trying to divine what he s saying, whether we re talking about that he tweets, at the end of the day there s a certain amount of real estate in the news media space, a great deal of it is being devoted to donald trump and his tweets, and the question is, is it a distraction? how much of what donald trump does is effectively trying to manipulate the media. i don t necessarily mean that in a negative way, just in a strategic way, trying to manipulate the media so he can take up a great deal of the oxygen with certain issues distracting from other issues. when he does that, you can call him out on it, dylan. i m using this example, not just because it s recent, but because it s relevant. he put julian assange up as a counterbalance to u.s. intelligence. i don t c