relief. listen, it s only about a third of what the president wants, right, but straight ahead we have new details on what exactly republicans are offering. just in in the last hour and why democrats say it s not going to cut it. we will get the inside perspective on what president biden might do next from one of his top economic advisers at the white house, joining us live. all of it as the hill gets ready for something else, that second impeachment trial and the last minute legal team former president trump has now assembled just days before arguments start. coming up, what i m hearing from sources about why other attorneys set to defend donald trump parted ways with him instead, in part over his insistence they push his false election fraud claims. and that nbc news exclusive with andrea mitchell, the first sit-down with secretary of state antony blinken who says that january 6th attack complicates our mission on the world stage. the attack on our own democracy creates a
of the chief proponent of the big lie on election fraud. house leader kev be mccarthy is going to, we understand, basically genuflect to the former president. also awarding a lawmaker who expressed support for executing democrats. marjorie taylor green, also on video here, harassing parkland survivor david hogg. alisyn spoke to hogg moments ago. there s no amount of money you could pay us to do this work. that s not why we do it. none of us want to be doing this, but we have to because sk corrupt elected officials are in congress and prefer to protect guns than children. we re going to speak with adam kinzinger in moments about green s moments. joining us now is senior intelligence adviser philip mudd and elizabeth newman, former assistant secretary of homeland security and the director of the republican accountability project. great to talk to both of you this morning. elizabeth, i want to start with you because of this dhs bulletin that s come out. let me read it fo
evidence. announcer: this is new day, with alisyn camerota and john berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. a battle for the soul of the republican party is playing out on capitol hill this morning. last night, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell condemned congresswoman marjorie taylor greene s lies and conspiracy theories as, quote, a cancer on the republican party, though he never actually used her name. mcconnell said he had enough of what he calls looney lies. so, what will leader kevin mccarthy do now? meanwhile, on monday we saw this a cordial bipartisan meeting at the white house. don t adjust your sets. this really happened. president biden and a group of ten republican senators compared their plans for economic relief. huge gaps remain between mr. biden s $1.9 trillion package and the republican s $600 billion counteroffer. we have new details about what happens next in those negotiations eve
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
we should note the number of hospitalizations are not rising at the same rate to date. the cdc lowering its estimate of the variant from 70 to 59%. that drop suggests while the new variant is on the rise, it was not infecting people at the same rate the agency had initially projected. pediatric hospitalizations are near their september peak. nationwide, hospitalizations of children with the virus have jumped on average nearly 50% in just one week. parents are understandable concerned as vaccination rates, particularly among the pediatric population, continue to lag, leaving many children vulnerable to infection. president biden now says the vaccine requirements for domestic travel could be imposed if his medical team recommend it. but dr. fauci said don t expect one for now. health officials are advising we should be bracing for case numbers to skyrocket in the new year. now to laeyla santiago in miami. we know sometimes the waits have been hours long. leyla. reporter: ye