mark: hello america, i am live under merkel even this is life, liberty & levin . senator to tom cotton and brett tolman. but before we get to them, you can see the war in the middle east is widening. is it is widely not because of israel but because of joe biden and anthony blinken. appeasement, equivocation is a provocation for our enemies, not that they need one but you can see how they conduct themselves very differently under the biden regime then they did when donald trump was president. it has consequences for us, men and women in the theater, are being shot at, they are exposed, this administration has gone week need, they will not attack iran directly but has a voices of isolation and islamism in our own country urging them not to. but that puts our troops at great risk. iran is on the precipice of having nuclear weapons, can you imagine what it will do without. iran has essentially conquered lebanon, yemen, iran is conquering iraq, iran owns hamas, lock stock and ba
mark: hello america, i am live under merkel even this is life, liberty & levin . senator t tom cotton and brett tolman. but before we get to them, you can see the war in the middle east is widening. is it is widely not because of israel but because of joe biden and anthony blinken. appeasement, equivocation is a provocation for our enemies, not that they need one but you can see how they conduct themselves very differently under the biden regime then they did when donald trump was president. it has consequences for us, men and women in the theater, are being shot at, they are exposed, this administration has gone week need, they will not attack iran directly but has a voices of isolation and islamism in our own country urging them not to. but that puts our troops at great risk. iran is on the precipice of having nuclear weapons, can you imagine what it will do without. iran has essentially conquered lebanon, yemen, iran is conquering iraq, iran owns hamas, lock stock and bar
that s why they re sending all these democrats in to run. it s crazy. it is not personal for me. i have no you know, people want me to hate trump or love trump. that s not what it is. i just tell it on policy. i m not going to talk about him personally. i don t care about that. i think politics is too personal, and i think that s why people are so frustrated right now. donald trump and nikki haley with different approaches about talking about the other. both are making their pitch to voters in new hampshire, while ron desantis has his sights on haley s home state. we ll have more from the campaign trail straight ahead. plus, the latest on the foreign aid package that republicans have tied to border security. we ll go through yesterday s meeting at the white house between president biden and speaker mike johnson. also ahead, another concerning escalation in the middle east as pakistan launches a retaliatory strike inside iran. good morning. welcome to morning joe.
it s noon eastern, 9:00 a.m. pacific. hunter biden makes a surprise appearance at one of two hearings considering whether to hold him in contempt of congress. we will talk to one of the lawmakers who was in the room when hunter biden walked in. new reporting on former president trump s plans to speak tomorrow at the closing arguments for his $250 million civil fraud trial. andrea mitchell will join us live from tel aviv where she sat down for an interview with secretary of state antony blinken. why he believes hostage negotiations with hamas could soon resume. we begin with breaking news from capitol hill. this morning hunter biden made a surprise appearance at a house oversight hearing on aa resolution to hold him in contempt of congress. republicans slamming hunter biden for showing up. you are the epitome of white privilege, coming into the oversight committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed. what are you afraid of? you have no
the leader of hamas, ismail haniyeh, has arrived in cairo for talks on a fresh ceasefire. israel s president has said his country is now ready for what he calls another humanitarian pause . nearly 20 thousand people are now reported to have been killed in gaza. 1,200 were killed and 240 taken hostage when hamas attacked israel on the 7th of october. the un security council is about to start discussing a new draft of a gaza resolution and a vote could take place any minute now. the white house has just said discussions for a humanitarian pause are quote very serious . it s all about the wording of the text. it s all about the wording. the draft is very long, but the key section talks of extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the gaza strip for a sufficient number of days to enable full, rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access . it remains to be seen if the wording is now acceptable to the united states. in the past half hour, the us secretary of state