those comments were delivered to a new house select committee on china. we have a lot to get to this morning from the panel s prime time hearing. meanwhile, a trip to china by a putin ally is increasing concerns that beijing will ramp up support for russian forces. back here at home, president joe biden s student loan forgiveness plan went before the supreme court yesterday with the conservative majority expressing some skepticism about wiping away debt for some borrowers. also ahead, reaction to an historic defeat in chicago. for the first time in four decades, the city s mayor has lost a reelection bid. we ll get to that. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, march 1st. joe has the morning off, but along with willie and me, we have, of course, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, and the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass is
will speak about it at the democratic retreat, and in the sense it gets to the democratic party s appeal to reach out to working-class white voters, and also to all voters in your state, how are you going to talk about that if you are going to talk about it this weekend and why is that important to you? it s i am going to speak about it. when people look at not just that we won in the state of maryland and now serving as the only african american governor in the country and only the third elected in this country s history, but it s how we won. we were able to win with democrats and with independents and a large chunk of republicans as well, and it s because we went everywhere and spoke about the idea of patriotism. we were going to areas where there was not a lot of democrats in the area, and i would say, yeah, but there s a lot of marylanders. i refuse to let any party bass
that the richest in this country should pay more taxes and so on. and, in fact, a recent monmouth university poll found 61% had some level of support for this bill. why couldn t they get senator joe manchin to a yes? he saw those numbers too, i suppose. yeah. traditionally one of the things centrists tend to do is they look at what s actually popular as opposed to ideological wishlist items that maybe have a minority of support in america, and they try to bring folks together. and i think the white house has been negotiating in good faith with manchin. and i think manchin you want to take at his word that he had been working with the president. but pulled the plug the week before christmas when so many of these items are not only popular but things that manchin has supported in the past, things that would benefit his own constituents in west virginia, things that would help the democratic party reach out to working-class voters who have suffered from the economic divide. the child ta
experience, hope work with republicans and wouldn t start immediate beatdown. already saying that about hillary clinton. already wanting her to be prosecuted and she lost. graciousness sounds nice, what donald trump has modeled. you ve seen me model myself. i m saying you re being gracious but not seen that behavior from donald trump and part of what we re asking for and it s reasonable to ask for. what charles said is brilliant. it s on him to make the overtures for unity. started that last night. number two. if this election had gone the other way like hillary won the popular vote by the way america. but having a conversation where you said hillary didn t do enough to reach out to working-class white voters in the rust belt and said this thing, that would be perfectly justified and not beating down hillary but talking about what she has to do for president to