get this, 240 of those were minors. some as young as 12 years old. researchers highlighted improvements two took their own life and eleven considered suicide. this was a tax payer funded study. it was widely embraced this improved their mental health. republicans in the house and senate express grave concerns and demand answers writing this in a letter to the nih. rather than shutting the research down. researchers published saying the study was a success. the law makers are also questioning the so called success. the experiment had no control group. why wouldn t it have that? that s par for the course for an experiment. law makers say four of researchers involved were out outspoken advocates. north carolina senator is accusing nih for acting on political motivations. the attacks payer expense. 240 of them were minors at young as 12 years old. we think this is absolutely tragic. first of all taxpayer expense. second at the expense of minors. researchers are justifying ane
so the lesson is, is that people respond to leadership. people were were moving to florida because we were going a different way during covid just as your governor did, standing up for kids, being in school, protecting people s freedoms and jobs. but you know what? we had a lot of folks in places like miami who had been democrats and had voted for democrats, and they voted not only for me, but now they re registering as republicans. so don t buy this idea that we can t expand our base of support. of course you can do that. yo you can t win big with just republicans, and we proved that. but here s the thing, we didn t do it by rim thing our sails, we didn t contort ourselves to be anything that we re not. we led boldly. we led conservatively, and we delivered results, and people responded. so that is a lesson from iowa with what governor reynolds has done and florida with what we ve been able another. and at the end of the day, governing is not about entertaining. governing is
failed within three days of each other. that led credit for moody s to downgrade its outlook for the entire u.s. banking sector. and those worries skyrocketed today because of troubles facing the global investment company credit suisse. the saudi bank failed to rule out giving funding to the already embattled company that combined with the recent u.s. issue sent stocks falling. i want to bring in business reporter rahel solomon, rahel, walk us through what happened today. well, jake, basically the mood for investors, as investors search for the next sign of weakness. to be clear, i think the nasdaq actually closed slightly higher which is interesting. but this is really just a confidence issue at this point. you can see that reflected very clearly in some of the bank stocks. i want to point your attention to some of the regional stocks, jake, you and i have talked about already. first republic bank off 21%, pac-west off 5% on top of the losses. it s been a rough go for some
presidential trapper. available at walgreens. some republicans are jumping on the discovery of classified documents at president biden s private office, equating it to former president trump s large stash of government material stored at mar-a-lago. apples to oranges, really. we re going to go through the differences and play for you president biden s first comments on the matter. house republicans creating a special committee for gop grievances and what they call the weaponization of government. what could possibly go wrong for republicans there? yeah. meanwhile, a republican lawmakers calling out her own party for being tone death on the re-elections. plus a significant development. dozens of soldiers coming to the u.s. for weapons training. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, january 11th. go to have you with us. we have san sfrin politico and host of way too early white house bureau chief at politico jonathan lemire. by the way, shoc
public outreach to state officials to try to get them to overturn their election results. the gop electors are on the governor s certificate. i m not going to get into a political debate. reporter: the investigation also discovered a nearly 23-minute phone call between someone at the white house and john eastman on the same day the conservative attorney wrote a now infamous memo laying out how pence could block the certification of the electoral college vote. state election officials ignored or violated state law in order to put vice president biden over the finish line. we know there was fraud. reporter: the call came after eastman emailed a trump assistant that he wanted to talk to trump to update him on our overall strategic thinking. trump latched onto this theory and used it to press his reluctant vice president in the days leading up to january 6th. mike pence is going to have to come through for us. reporter: the committee is also calling for lawyers