don t want to be herbert hoover. oh, okay. donald trump hopes millions of americans lose their money from their 401(k)s and retirement savings within the next 12 months so he doesn t look bad. [ laughter ] we have a lot to get to this morning, including a key hearing today for trump s claim of presidential immunity in the federal election interference case. we re going to have expert legal analysis on that in just a moment. plus, the very latest on two major developments in the middle east. israel says it has killed a hezbollah commander in southern lebanon. it comes as the israeli military says it is shifting to a more targeted campaign inside gaza. retired four star navy admiral james stavridis will join us with more insight on both of those stories. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 9th. with us, we have former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan. pulitzer prize winning columnist at the washington
defense lloyd austin after austin failed to tell the president that he was in the hospital in intensive care and temporarily off his job. days after the revelation we still don t know why secretary austin was hospitalized in the first place. leaving this hour, president biden goes to south carolina bringing his campaign back to the state that he hopes can save him again and he went to emanuel church in south carolina, that was the site of the 2015 shooting fueled by white supremacy. his speech interrupted by protesters calling for a ceasefire in gaza. ceasefire now! you hear the crowd afterwards, folks tried to drown out the protesters by chanting four more years. there was nothing subtle about the contents of president biden s speech in an attempt to tie the ideology behind those racist murders in mother emanuel church in 2015 to donald trump and the maga movement. a mob attacked black officers, black veterans. maga republicans led by a defeated president is trying to
okay, guys, could see about, i don t see a lot more of, you thank you much. in the meantime, in our next hour, how a neighbor is coming to russia s rescue as the world tightens sanctions. what are the, dopamine we see world headquarters here in new york, welcome everyone to alex witt reports, we begin the hour with a new reaction from russia. two new g7 sanctions and president biden s plan to send f-16 fighter jets to ukraine. president zelenskyy flew to japan today, meeting with world leaders in the city. where the u.s. dropped two atomic bombs in 1945 to end world war ii. russia s foreign minister said today, sanctions from the g7 appear to be aimed at the double containment of russia and china. the plan to send american fighter jets to ukraine now raising questions about the risk of potential escalation of the wars. here s what former national security adviser told us last hour. clearly, the uss believes that there is an escalation risk in providing f-16s. off they would
i want you to have great lives in general, and you just have to stay healthy because we re bringing you back. we re going to bring you back. republican front-runner donald trump vows to put qanon extremist election denier and convicted felon mike flynn back in a position of power, if trump is again elected president. also tonight, growing republican support for individuallyism as they rush to the defense of the man who choked jordan neely to death. and at long last, we finally have our hands on the much heralded durham report. and he found about as much as geraldo rivera did in al capone s vault. and we begin tonight with the parable of the good samaritan. luke, chapter 10, versus 25 through 37, reads as follows. on one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test jesus, teacher, he asked, what must i do to inherit internal law, what is written in the law? jesus replied, how do you read it? he answered, love the lord, your god, with all your heart and with all our s
prosecutors are warning that if jack teixeira is set free he could keep spilling national secrets all over the internet. now it s up to a judge to decide whether to keep the 21-year-old behind bars. but we begin here in new york city where earlier today a funeral was held for jordan neely who died after a fellow new yorker placed him in a chokehold on a local subway. neely s death fueling familiar, albeit passionate debates, over several of the country s intractable channels, mental illness, homelessness, and vigilante justice. and today even as family and friends grieved a devastating personal loss, those loved ones were also mourning a young man just 30 years old who had looked for help but never got exactly what he needed. reverend al sharpton delivering the eulogy today said that has to change. we keep criminalizing people with mental illness. people keep criminalizing people that need help. they don t need abuse. they need help. jordan i didn t know your jordan. i