city chiefs, winning the franchise s second super bowl title and the 7th of brady s legendary career. good morning and welcome to morning joe . sit monday, february 8th. with us we have white house reporter for the associated press , jonathan lemire, host of msnbc politics nation and president of the national action network, reverend al sharpton joins us this morning. we also have co founder of punch bowl news anna palmer with us, and senior columnist for the daily beast , matt lewis joins us. i m just going to get my purse out and start cleaning it. because i know you re going to talk brady. jonathan lemire, you grew up with this guy in new england. it s kind of cool. . even you couldn t have imagined how he could have won last night s game on what was widely believed to be the best team in professional football. yeah, joe. tom brady the greatest of all time. tampa s defense dominated patrick mahomes, who is a wonderful player. i know there was some calls, officia
we need to go big. and if we waste some money now, we waste some money. absolutely we have too many people hurting and the economy is going to sputter and we ve got to get ourselves out of this mess. and this is the way we need to go right now. let me tell you something, that man has a future in northwest florida politics. i like him. or west virginia. mika, that s interesting. that s from the republican governor of a state that donald trump got 69% in. jim justice, governor of west virginia, urging congress to go big on covid-19 relief. good morning. welcome to morning joe . it is tuesday, february 2nd. we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post , david ignatius. back with us, capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early , kasie hunt. and it seems more and more likely that democrats will push through the biden administration s nearly $2 trillion economic relief package with or without republicans. the president met with a group of senat
way too early on this martin luther king s day. morning joe starts now. we got some difficult days here, it does not matter to me now because i have been through the mountain tops. i don t mind like anybody i would like to live a long life, longevity has its place. i am not concerned about that now. i want to do god s will and he allowed me to go up to the mountain and i have looked over and i have seen the promise land. i mean i would get there with you. i want you to know the night that we ever, the people will get the the promise land so i am happy and i am not worried about anything. i am not feeling anything, my life have seen the glory of the coming of the law. what an extraordinary extraordinary speech of martin luther king jr. i have been to the mountain top speech, april 1968. it was delivered the day before he was assassinated. i remember seeing that very long time ago in church, not knowing the background of it. the fact is king didn t want to deliver that
joe. with us, we have our katty kay and host of msnbc s politics nation and president, the national network, reverend sharpton and host of way too early, jonathan lemire. katty, how was your christmas? i didn t cry anywhere silently in any corner. it was great, my son had covid. we had a craft, we put bubble wrap between the front and backseat of the car. that was my idea of trying to create sort of a secure environment. he came home and he was in his room but at least he was in the house with us. that s great. yeah. you got to make do. we do what we can. fantastic. we do what we can said every parent ever born. reverend al, what about you? how was your christmas? great, we did what we did every year, we fed hundreds of hungry and homeless people and a lot of elderly just don t have anyone to eat christmas with. mayor-elect adams and lieutenant governor joined me several hours to give dishes. we could not let them to sit in the headquarters to eat but we g
i had a dream that i would be here receiving something from the president but i thought it would be the front door s key. bob dole receiving the presidential medal of freedom from the man he lost the election to a couple of months earlier. we are going to remember the life of the american hero and republican statesman. first, the greatest of bob dole in stark contrast. over the weekend we got a sampling from some of the far-right s finest, first on the big lie from donald trump who once tweeted that on saturday, he admitted he lost the 2020 election or he called himself stupid releasing a statement anybody does not think there wasn t massive election fraud in the 2020 presidential election is either very stupid or very corrupt. on covid, it s marjorie taylor greene tweeted a thread comparing the virus to cancer. more than 600,000 people in the u.s. die from cancer. the country has never once shutdown. not a single school has closed. every year, people of all ages and r