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devastated by last weekend s tornadoes. the president is meeting with local officials on the ground and expected to tour a neighborhood in hard hit mayfield just a short time from now. welcome. i am sandra smith and trace great to with you. i am trace gallagher in for john roberts. clean up efforts under way across several states. as families are putting their lives back on track. kentucky s donation fund collected $10 million for more than 6,000 people 66,000 people. state officials are asking people to donate toys for kids who are homeless just weeks before christmas. sandra: so sad. alexis is on the ground in mayfield at a church helping collect donations. god bless them. so much help is needed and so many kids 2 weeks before christmas are left with nothing. they don t even know where they will go later this afternoon or get their next meal. what the church is doing is so important in mayfield, kentucky. we are inside in this warehouse inside a church. mayfield ....
heating oil down and unemployment. those are things americans really care about that affect them at this moment and for this holiday season it appears they re going in the right direction, michael. i don t want to sort of talk against my own a block because i focused heavily on the situation with russia and ukraine and i think that s really it is important. i m going to talk about it, yes. to your point what really matters most at christmas is your son going to get the gi joe with the grip. this is not the 1960s or 70s where we had that or the bionic man. this is ps 5 territory, michael. have a good show. thank you. this is don lemon tonight. breaking news because the house passed a bill to increase the debt limit. instead of 60 votes, that means ten republicans would have to get on board. congress has until next wednesday to address the debt limit as joe biden taking on vladimir putin as we talked about, thousands of russian troops on the boarder with ....
note that vladimir putin s intentions are unclear, perhaps putin will not carry out the war plan, nevertheless, a meeting is schedule between putin and president biden tuesday, a russian invasion of ukraine would ignite a major security crisis for europe and create more instability in what is already an increasingly unstable world. president biden said that u.s. has a quote iron clad commitment to ukraine sovereignty. what does that mean? president biden to to issue more sanctions against russia to deter putin but if russia goes ahead. the u.s. will have to do a lot more. john ratcliffe is joining us now, director, if we have an iron clad commitment to sovereignty of ukraine, why would putin be testing us like this. i think he is planning and preparing. you identified this threat is very real. that is not a matter of opinion, it is based on specific intelligence you talked about and based on history. last time putin amassed troops near the ukraine border, he invade. ....
the first female governor of georgia, the first black woman ever elected governor of a u.s. state. stacey abrams will be joining us here live for an exclusive interview tonight. i m really looking for to that conversation. if you have been watching the news unfold over the course of the day today, it has been a little bit like watching a snowball running downhill getting bigger and bigger. when we went to bed last night, there was one known case of the omicron covid variant in the united states. a person in california who had recently traveled to south africa. south africa s where that variant is thought to have originated, or at least where was first detected. public health experts and officials like doctor anthony fauci have spoken with chris hayes tonight on msnbc. they have been warning us that as soon as the omicron variant was anywhere, it was likely going to be everywhere very quickly. we shouldn t expect to be able to keep this new variance out. well, sure enoug ....
know about the evolving threat. plus, what those covid concerns mean for the economy. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s monday, november 29th, i hope you had a good thanksgiving week. it s the 29th, what am i saying? happy monday everyone. as we look at country around the world scrambling to contain a new strain of a new strain of covid-19. omicron has spread to african countries and a number of nations. the variant reached north america with two cases appearing in ontario. president biden is expected to give the nation an update on his administrations response. members of tl white house covid-19 response team briefed the president yesterday and warned it could take two weeks before there is definitive information on the characteristics of the new variant. it exploded in the sense when you look at south africa, you were having a low level infection and all of a sudden there is a big spike. when the south africans looked at it oh my goodness, this is a ....