50,000 people, the nation is larger. About 200,000 people of. There i know that still smarter for a country, but its a country. Its from New Zealand its got independence in 1962, United Nations 1976. Then, this weekend, they had something really naughty, and potentially exits existential challenging happen to them. For most of the time, they have been an independent country. For nearly 40 years of the 60 years theyve been a country. Samoa has been run by the same ruling party. In fact, the same guy, the same individual man, the Prime Minister from that party, has been in power for as the Prime Minister for the last 22 years. But, he lost the last election this year, in april, samoa had an election it was really close and hardfought. In the end, the pry the Prime Minister, his power has been parties been running in power for 40 years. In a parliamentary system, the Opposition Power since they have a majority, they get to form the new government. That Parties Leader gets to be the new Pr
Christina . John, a fun annual Community Bike Ride this morning turned into chaos after a man plowed into the cyclist. Possibly 10 victims. Including six people hospitalized in critical condition. Graphic shots horrific aftermath after the incident. It happened before 7 30 this morning solo, a town 180 miles northeast of phoenix. Its unclear if all of the victims were cyclists. About 250 people from volunteers to the cyclists were at the Bikes Race when this happened. The suspect driving this truck when he blued straight into the crowd and then led officers on a 3mile chase. Officers say they tried to stop him and he was shot by authorities outside of a nearby hardware store. The suspect is hospitalized in critical but stable condition. Details on the 35yearold Suspect and the circumstances regarding the shooting have not been released but what is clear is the Heart Break and the sadness of this close Knit Community as victims of this Tragedy Fight for their lives. There is a huge outp
Shootings . Access to weapons . Your kids start getting killed. White peoples kids start getting killed. Smoking that which is legal in your state. The cop kills him. Why did you run . He had a baseball game. A white kid. That big house over there. Those start piling up. What is going on with these police . Oh maybe we should not have police . That kind of mania, that kind of madness, that will be you. That will be the majority because its your people. Greg he does an amazing white person voice. [laughing]. Greg it sounded like he was not the privileged wealthy brother of a governor. He cares more about his black victims than his lilywhite audience. He mox them. Mocks them. His solution to Police Brutality, more Police Brutality. He suggest white kids need to be killed by cops maybe he will cover it. Right now he would ignore that because it doesnt fit the narrative that Police Brutality is racist. Just a few short months ago i am so tired of playing this clip but we have to. He mocked
Hours in the Oval Office Last night. The gop plan proposing 1 3 of the 1. 9 trillion democrats are looking for. It was a very Good Exchange of views. I wouldnt say we came together on a package tonight. No one expected that in a twohour meeting, but what we did agree to do is to follow up and talk further. The devil of course is in the details. Theres plenty of kidisagreemen in the dollars in the plan. Its unclear how much republicans are willing to go up and biden willing to go down but a Top White House aide suggests not much. Everything here is to help people stop suffering from the pandemic. This will lift 4 million kids out of poverty this year. We are more than willing to keep engaging, but at the end of the day what the president and Vice President wont do is compromise their values or let the American People down. Democratic leaders in the house and senate have taken the first steps towards reconciliation, a Budget Maneuver that would allow the Biden Relief Act to pass with a s
We need to go big. And if we waste some money now, we waste some money. Absolutely we have too many people hurting and the economy is going to sputter and weve got to get ourselves out of this mess. And this is the way we need to go right now. Let me tell you something, that man has a future in Northwest Florida politics. I like him. Or West Virginia. Mika, thats interesting. Thats from the republican governor of a state that donald trump got 69 in. Jim justice, governor of West Virginia, urging congress to go big on covid19 relief. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, february 2nd. We have columnist and Associate Editor for the Washington Post, david ignatius. Back with us, capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt. And it seems more and more likely that democrats will push through the Biden Administrations nearly 2 trillion Economic Relief package with or without republicans. The president met with a group of Senate Republicans for about two hou