president biden s decision to over military strikes near the syria border. they target facilities used by iranian backed militia groups to launch attacks over u.s. personnel. hello, i am john roberts in washington and this is america reports. i am shannon bream and for sandra smith, at least one facility was destroyed. house speaker nancy pelosi calling it a targeted response to a specific threat, but others on capitol hill are worried this action is starting to become a pattern. john: this comes amid heightened tensions as the white house strongly considers rejoining the 2015 nuclear deal. fox team coverage, general jack keane will join us with analysis. speed to national correspondent jonathan griffin who is live at the pentagon. the most surprising reaction has been the rare criticism from the iraqi government condemning the u.s. air strike which were carried out overnight. one of the three sites targeted by the warplanes was inside on the border with syria. the ta
we just kind of started there was something big going on there. i had no idea what we were getting into. it makes me think of indiana jones. one wrong turn can be your last. this really can t be happening. we didn t realize that there would be a predator. they say if you re feeling down it s time to saddle up. with a little love, trust, and respect these majestic creatures can emerge as loyal and gentle companions. for both horse and rider there s nothing like it. she transformed into this awesome horse handler. and she knew what she was doing and what she was talking about. if only romantic relationships were that simple. this is the story of a young woman so gentle, so vulnerable she may have understood what makes horses tick. but humans? a different beast indeed. this doesn t happen to people we know. it just doesn t. it was crushing. i cried. i cried for days. i still cry when i think about it. i m not sure what type of person it takes to do that.
to this day, i don t know. okay. the doctors are now speaking out. last week we heard dr. anthony fauci talk about how liberated he feels working with the biden administration. and now dr. deborah birx is also explaining how difficult things were working under donald trump. good morning and welcome to morning joe . it is monday, january 25th. we have whose reporter for associated press, jonathan lemire, washington post david ignatius is with us this morning, founder and director of the group defending democracy together and editor-at-large at the bulwark, bill crystal is with us. and new york times reporter and msnbc national security analyst, michael schmidt. joe and willie have the morning off, which means we won t be spending the first 10 minutes of the show talking about the nfl playoffs. we ll get to tom brady and how great he is in just a moment. first, house speaker nancy pelosi said the article of impeachment accusing former president donald trump of inciting
many of the founding fathers fought against creating the vice presidency in the first place, and since then, party bosses have regarded it as a political graveyard. the system has produced some worthy vice presidents, but at best, it s a compromise, and at worst, it s a game of roulette with the nation s destiny. ben franklin, when the constitution was written, said we should refer to the vice president and his superfluous excellen excellency. i always think of john nance garner and his quote that it wasn t worth a bucket of warm spit, and that s cleaning up what he said. if you ask the american people what does the vice president do, i think you d probably get a shrug of the shoulders. you might even be asked who is the vice president? let s do it. i think when we were formed as a nation and the constitution was shaped, not an awful lot of thought was given to the vice presidency. the office as a general proposition, if you look back over the last 200 and s