would you sign a federal abortion ban into law. what i would do is negotiate so that people are happy. after a town hall peddling election lies, promising to pardon january 6 rioters and refusing to pick sides in the war on ukraine, his 2024 rivals remain largely silent. can you say if you want ukraine or russia to win this war? i want everybody to stop dying. as the field of challengers grows, can any of his rivals take him on without alienating his supporters. i ll talk to former republican congressman will hurd of texas who s considering his own bid for president in 2024. plus, moral compass. after a jury found trump liable for sexual abuse, his opponents mostly silent. i don t think it s where the american people are focused. does character matter anymore for republican primary voters? i ll ask russell moore, the editor in chief of christianity today. and border crisis. i want to be very clear. our borders are not open. as the biden administratio
inaccurate or deliberately falsified, an arrest has been made 21-year-old jack teixeira, a member of international guard from massachusetts, how does a 21-year-old guardsman gain access? mike turner represents the great state of ohio, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, he is joining us now, chairman thank you for being here. how consequential to your national security is this breach in your judgment? it is. impacts our relationship with our allies, and our national security. the real issue is that it can put real people s lives at risk, the dime documents and information released is enough to try to change the outcomes, luckily they are static. we have an ability to change direction. but this compromised what ukraine is trying to achieve in a in rebutting the russian aggression. trey: i m sure you are wondering, how a 21-year-old international guardsman gains access. i assume he had lawful access. it would be a different analysis, i guess if he did not have.
president biden is ready to deal with the fall out. president biden: no, we made it clear to china what we re going to do and they understand our position, they will not back off, we did the right thing. this is reality. ashley: the airship flew over several military bases, weighed nearly 2000 pounds and was 200 feet high. mike pompeo now criticizing the biden administration for allowing something so dangerous to stay in our skies for a week. the chinese may have been able to blow this thing up themselves. imagine if you knew that and the chinese could decide where to drop this thing, they didn t understand risk. brooke: the white house is defending their claim previous airships flew over the united states during the trump administration. how is it possible this administration discovered three previous baknow balloons, but trump officials didn t know it was happening? we have talked about this before, about how the when it when the prc government balloons tran
issues tonight, the first developments in the long running criminal investigation into his son. cnn has exclusive reporting that hunter biden s attorneys who you can see here met with justice officials today. prosecutors are still weighing to bring several tax charges and a false statement charges against the president s son. then there is the other big issue hovering over joe biden. that s his age. he will be 86 at the end of his term. we ll tell you what he s saying about that today that s different from what she s saying before. plus, the case about richard blossom. this man has been given three last meals before being granted reprieves. now he s scheduled to be executed again. will the supreme court step in? and sales of budlight dropped considerably since kid rock and others went ballistic on the beer, literally. we ll talk about the effort to expand their customer base backfired in a big way. but we start at the white house where tonight they are rolling out the red car
that massive spy balloon. we ll walk through what happened and take a look at the growing fallout. we re also following the devastating aftermath of a powerful earthquake that left hundreds of people dead in turkey and syria. this morning, rescue crews are searching through rubble for any survivors. and back in washington, there is a major gop donor looking to, quote, turn the page on the past several years in an apparent rebuke of former president trump. we ll explain that development. plus four more years! four more years! four more years! president biden got a surge of support at the democratic national committee s annual winter meeting in philadelphia on friday. as democrats approve a new primary calendar, reshaping the way the party picks its presidential nominees. we ll speak to the chairman of the dnc just ahead. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, february 6th. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at po