and mayor pete gets a new best friend. raymond arroyo that has all on friday s follies. don t miss that. president biden signing an executive order to create a commission on reforming the supreme court. we all know what that is code for. it s called court packing, adding justice that has democrats like. how many? who knows? let s find out. it s an idea the old joe biden as a senator and chairman of the judiciary committee bitterly opposed. remember this? president roosevelt clearly had the right to send the united states congress to pack the court but it was a bone-head idea. it was a terrible, terrible mistake to make and it s put in question for an entire decade the independence of the most significant body in this country, the supreme court of the united states of america. man, he really was sharp back in 1983, his young days. but that was before joe became a captive vessel for the radical left. now, biden s the bonehead. he s the bonehead. he s attempting to giv
mayor pete gets a new best friend. president biden creating a commission, we know what that is like. it is called court packing, adding justices, how many? who knows? an idea the old joe biden as a senator and chairman. president roosevelt had the right to send to the congress a proposal to pack the court but it was a boneheaded idea. it was a terrible terrible mistake to make and put in question for an entire decade the independence of the most significant body in this country, the supreme court of the united states. he was sharp in 1983 in his young days but that was before joe became a captive vessel of the radical left. now he is attempting to give democrats cover to pack the court with far left judges who will legislate your rights away from the bench. the white house is trying to obfuscate what this new commission is really all about. the panels being asked to take a number of steps, looking at the court s role in the constitutional system, the length of service a
riots or were preplanned by a small group of criminals who deserve punish finance to the fullest extent of the law. attorneys say flat out he did not incite the resurrection, using figurative speech. call it protected political speech and something politicians in their view would give to a rally of supporters firing up the crowd. not saying, saying to the former president, then president, was not intentionally them to come to the capitol, storm the capitol and lead a scene of deadly violence we saw on january 6th. this foreshadows the argument that will happen later this week. tomorrow will be the debate over the constitutionality of the proceedings. the trump team saying it s not constitutional. democrats saying it absolutely is and a vote to determine whether it should go forward. we expect there to be 51 votes allowing it to proceed. see how many republicans break ranks. more than five at the moment. then the substance and facts. what happened. donald trump s actions
emboldened by this month s attack on the u.s. capitol. and there s other breaking news on the coronavirus pandemic. the u.s. death toll has now passed 427,000, with more than 25 1/2 million confirmed cases in the united states. the urgency of the crisis underscored during the first formal briefing from president biden s new covid task force. top officials vowed to speed up vaccine distribution and pledged, i m quoting now, everything is on the table to tackle the growing national emergency. let s start with cnn s brian todd who s following these truly alarming developments. brian, first of all, tell us about this new warning from the department of homeland security. right, wolf. some disturbing new information tonight from homeland security officials who say the threat from violent extremist groups did not tamp down at all after the inauguration. an ominous warning from the department of homeland security in the wake of the assault on the capitol. a threat bulletin today sa
can all move on now. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 25th. with us we have the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico , jonathan lemire. and president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass is with all of us this morning. i m in warsaw, poland, again this morning where there continues to be grave concern over what russia will do with its troops on the ukraine border. the pentagon says it has put thousands of u.s. troops on high alert as fears increase that russia may invade ukraine again. nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell, has the details. reporter: with fears rising that russia could invade ukraine, president biden centering a major show of force near russia, putting up to 8,500 u.s. troops on heightened alert, mostly as part of a nato force. military action could come at any time. reporter: the president at camp david this weekend, reviewing pentagon proposals to move