garland appointed a special prosecutor to look into it. well, today we got the results of the investigation in a report. the special counsel will not seek criminal charges against president biden. so if you re in a fantasy league for presidential indictments, it s still, trump, 91. every other president ever, 0. you got that? clean that up. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, february 9th. good to have joe, willie and me here together. along with us, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. nbc news national affairs analyst john heilemann. former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor chuck rosenberg. and nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian is with us this morning. we have a lot going on. we ll start with the special counsel investigating president biden for his handling of classified documents will not bring charges against the president. that s the conclusion. he wrote in the report, wrot
today on inside politics , new and exclusive reporting reveals the special counsel is asking questions about an oval office free for all, and the free yeo who pushed donald t trump. plus, hiring is solid, but new numbers fall short. does it all point to another rate hike from the fed that could crunch your credit? and the freedom caucus purges marjorie taylor greene from its ranks over questions about where her loyalties lie, to the hard right or to the house speaker. i m abbey philip in for dana bash. let s go inside politics . up first, the screaming patch at the center of the special counsel s investigation. exclusive cnn reporting gives new insights into jack smith s months long focus on that december 18th 2020 oval office meeting. the people inside that room and ses brat and legal ideas that then pushed donald trump. and cnn s caitlin pollonz is part a that report. what does this tell us about where jack smith is in the process? this reporting from a keep of us led
on the bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling and cut spending so the nation averts a default next week. president biden and speaker mccarthy are defending the agreement as some of their parties are also railing against it. we ll bring you the results of that vote as soon as it happens. but first, to a cnn exclusive tonight. reporting the federal prosecutors have donald trump on tape in his own words acknowledging that he took a sensitive national security document with him when he left the white house. that is what multiple sources tell cnn. and i ll speak with one of the former president s attorneys in just a moment. but we are told that trump s comments in the 2021 recording suggest that he knew that he kept classified material and wanted to share it, but understood his limitations post presidency. in other words, he knew that this was likely false when he said it. by the way, they become automatically declassified when i took them. and the same goes for this. i
a new cnn exclusive. former at the present time donald trump subpoenaed for records after he was caught on tape, discussing how he held on to a classified document. cnn has learned his attorneys haven t been able to find that key document. critical details in a case that prosecutors could be building against the republican front-runner. mike pence cleared. he will not face charge in his classified documents investigation. we have these stories and more, ahead on cnn news central. we have exclusive new cnn reporting about the special counsel, and that audio reporting of former at the present time donald trump. sources tell cnn that they turned over documents can bed to a classified military documents, one that prosecutors hear mr. trump describing. sources also tell cnn there is a giant unknown. whether the document in question, an iran attack plan, was ever actually returned to the government. paula, lay out the question of what happened here. so, let s go back a few
. hello. thanks for joining me. i m paula reid in for fredicka whitfield. crimes against humanity. vice president kamala harris not pulling any punches as she describes russia s war in ukraine. speaking at the munich security conference, the vice president laying out exactly where the u.s. stands. in the case of russia s actions in ukraine, we have examined the evidence. we know the legal standards, and there is no doubt these are crimes against humanity. the u.s. pledging enduring support for ukraine as the war nears its one-year mark. president biden is expected to visit poland next week, and the u.s. secretary of state also speaking this morning at the munich security conference. cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson is there. nic, we also heard the vice president call out china for its support of russia during this war. what did you make of that moment? reporter: i think it got a lot of resonance in the room. everyone here recognizes that china is the