intensifies his nuclear rhetoric amid a faltering military campaign in ukraine. the biden administration says it has told russia privately exactly what the consequences would be for using a nuclear weapon. we ll have the very latest on that. plus, a head turning new revelation concerning the attack on the capitol. what a former adviser to the january 6th committee says about a phone call between the trump white house and a rioter while the attack was underway. also this morning, tropical storm ian has just strengthened into a category 1 hurricane as it continues its track toward cuba and florida. we re watching that. and it is just six weeks until voters decide the balance of power in congress. we ll tell you where things stand this morning and what s in play. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s monday, september 26th. we begin with the new polling from the new york times that shows 54% believe donald trump threatened american democracy when he left office. 51
obviously, in the coup attempt and the insurrection. importing that i clarify that call was allegedly made by a committee investigator. all those details also worth knowing that we don t know many more details including who placed that call, what it was about, word fits in the entire january 6th committee investigation. you today, the biden ministration is going public with a stark warning to russian president vladimir putin over his most recent suggestion that he could potentially deploy nuclear weapons in ukraine. the white house is saying loudly and clearly today that the consequences for any such action by russia will be a catastrophic. we have communicated directly, privately to the russians at very high levels. there could be if they use nuclear weapons in ukraine. we have been clear with them and emphatic with them that the united states will respond decisively. they well understand what they would face if they went down that dark road. two new and notable po
That does it for the weekend. The sunday morning, can we say happy mothers day . Happy mothers day. I have the other version. You have the other version . I didnt know there were multiples. Happy mothers day to the mommies. To the step mommies to the grand mommies, to the mommy figures. We will see you next saturday. Follow the show on social media. And make sure that you days we got to talk about giving dads the big piece of chicken on fathers day and i think the mommies, they need the big bad backs. Make sure you bring the nice flowers and big backpacks for mothers day. Ive got my flowers and big backpacks. Thats how we are going to do it. Ali is going, what is in the bag . Im sitting here going, i hope someone tidied up will i was at work. My poor mom will be surprised when she gets the big bag that says. What is this about . Anybody over there on your end, want to know how that suit worked out . Two of you are looking at me like, you took the jacket off. I did take the jacket off.
Create fear and bullying and then they alone are the ones that can fix it. And so, if you dont have knowledge, fear becomes much more inviting. And what we are trying to do is create knowledge. We dont want our kids, we dont want to determine what our kids think, but we really want our kids to know how to think. And so, for mike pompeo to say that, it means that the code is, i dont want kids to have knowledge. And this is what, part of why they banned books and as they try to stop the teaching of honest history, that is what School Teachers do in k12. And what i love about my union is we are one of the largest nurse unions, nurses are giving out books. We are the largest higher ed, our faculties are giving up books. Public employees are giving out books. This has become union work, to actually make sure that we give knowledge and the joy of reading. I like you said, if you dont have knowledge, fear is more inviting. My friend, randi weingarten, president of the American Federation of t
the white house was humiliated that it s justice department was exposed for bringing such a preposterous deal in front of the judge in public with reporters there. in the white house can no longer claim that hunter biden is a private citizen. we aren t going to talk about him. what kind a private citizen who gets an armed eight car motorcade to court? today was the day that the hunter biden scandal became the joe biden scandal. democrats are now forced to reckon with this. and so far they are in a state of denial. why do you think democrats seem to not care when there s a democrat in the white house about possible corruption in the oval office. the corruption that we are seeing is a republic down the corruption of the republican party. why don t republicans don t make democrats care about what this is coming out? why would we want to impeach him when there is no wrongdoing? today s plea bargain implosion was more evidence of a cover up. and everybody who has been dissipated i