just revealed to give the military the order to shoot down that balloon three days ago. lucas tomlinson live at the white house, lucas. that afternoon guys u.s. air force f-22 that locked from langley air force base in virginia fired a single sidewinder missile to destroy the spy blimp six off the coast of south carolina took late at 3:30 9:00 p.m. in the afternoon. the debris field is stretching . the u.s. navy is sending a salvage crew. president biden spoke moments ago. on wednesday when i was briefed on the bloom i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. they decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground, they decided the best time to do that is when it got over water. within the 12-mile limit. the success took it down i want to complement our aviators who did it. we ll have more to report in this little later thank you. hugs your sake the recommendation from your national security? once i told them to shoot down progress on wedn
trolls, republicans need to stop being so of noxious. and you write about the reasons republicans fared so poorly in the 2022 midterms be on the economy. abortion in the attacks on democracy. could there be more? all of these factors clearly played a role, but don t underweight the impact of formative obnoxious in this that now pervades republican messaging. conservatives have built career paths for young people that start on extremist message boards and lead to jobs and republican campaigns, and then jobs with state and federal offices, then jobs in the conservative media. this pattern of behavior bids fair to repeat itself in 2024. as i write these words, at the beginning of 2023, the conservative world s most excited not by the prospect of big, legislative action from a republican house majority, and not by trump s declared candidacy for president in 2024, or by desantis is yet under crowd won, but by the chance to repeat is 2020 attacks on the personal misconduct of presi
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
or by desantis is yet under crowd won, but by the chance to repeat is 2020 attacks on the personal misconduct of president biden s son hunter. whatever the origin of the hunter biden materials, the authenticity of at least some of which has been confirmed by reputable media outlets, there is no dispute about their impact on the 2020 election. they flopped, and he brings out such a good point, this is what you talk about, the performative part of this. they become obnoxious cartoon characters of themselves, not in sync with where the american people stand, not just democrats, but republican women and men who did not like seeing row overturned. and you can look at those issues, but you bring up such a great point. that the gesturing, the performative art of it, of being obnoxious all the time, i remember when i was campaigning, talking about, these are the things i m going to do when you