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
this is cnn breaking news. happening right now on capitol hill, you are looking live at senate republicans on track to kill the most conservative border deal to come before them in decades. the $118 billion package would implement strict limits along the southern border, like requiring it to be shut down if crossings reach high levels. it would also raise the standard for asylum seekers and expedite the asylum process. hanging in the balance is also $60 billion in aid to ukraine, another $14 billion in aid to israel both tied to the steel, cnn covering this story from all angles. first, live to capitol hill and our chief congressional correspondent, monty roger. this is doomed to fail. how likely is a standalone aid bill at this point? reporter: there is no question about the fact that senate republicans are about to kill this package. a handful of democrats are expected to vote no as well, but this is really a republican story, because of the fact of the immediate afte
i m just there to support travis. i did it. i said travis for the first time in this entire report. can i say for the record once again i love a nick watts story any night. this was especially fantastic. thank you for joining us. ac 360 starts right now. tonight on 360, the white house clean out from a presidential prez conference intend today rebut allegations of mental decline which some say gave precevidence of it. also tonight breaking news in the mar-a-lago documents case, and new allegations of witness intimidation. and later what new video of the atag on police outside a migrant shelter shows and how it plays into the case against the man charged in it. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with the white house doing damage control on the damage from last night emphasis damage control. and donald trump tentatively for now capitalizing on it. specifically on president biden s response to special council robert herr clearing him of classified docume
politically motivmotivated. the white house slamming the special counsel report that questions biden s memory. will that work? fears in gaza. israel warns the war may escalate again with a new ground incursion. a move that puts res israel at with the u.s. moves could help make him the next chair of the rnc, a special investigation. let s go out front. good evening. i m erica hill in for erin burnett. the biden administration launching a full court press to counter the damning special counsel report about president biden s handling of classified documents. vice president kamala harris calling it politically mot motivated. as a former prosecutor, the comments that were made by that prosecutor, gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate. the way that the president s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated. gratuitous. the spokesman for white house counsel s office echoing the vice president. gratu
hemmer. welcome to the program today. dana: this is america s newsroom, i m dana perino. a liberal commentator who said what a year this day has been. it felt like it. it started yesterday. special counsel robert hur released his report on the president s mishandling of documents. charges weren t warranted but the defense of that decision ignited a firestorm. bill: here is part of what set it off. it reads we have also considered that a trial mr. biden would likely present himself to a jury as he did during our interview of him as a sympathetic, well meaning elderly man with a poor memory. dana: that prompted the president to give rare, last-minute remarks last night where he defended his fitness for office. something the special counsel said in his report is that one of the reasons you were not charged is because in his description you are a well meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. president biden: i m well meaning, an elderly man and i know what the hell i