space center where an all-european mission to the international space station will be taking off later on this hour featuring an italian astronaut on board. a lot of you are saying you re only saying this because there s an italian astronaut on board. that italian co pilot would be the tenth italian in space. a lot of you have been saying, you re only saying that because he would be the tenth italian in space. you re actually correct. but it is a beautiful day for a space launch on this spacex mission, which would be the third commercial crew flight. there s a way that the italians look at this by talking about a beautiful day for a space launch. [speaking italian]. that means it s a beautiful day for a space launch. we ll take you there in 49 minutes when this gets going. meantime, another big story right now, and it is getting bigger by the second, the border and what to do about. is a deal close? some republicans say for any deal to happen, there better be big improvements
jean carroll rape and defamation cape. the judge denied it and carroll is back on the stand. tacopina is trying to cast doubt on carroll s motivation. you received lots of love from this trial, people planning watch parties of your case, he said. yes, she said. you wanted more publicity when you book came out. yes, she said, my book wasn t selling. you went back to bergdorf goodman, at least 23 times after you say donald trump raped you, he said, you weren t concerned to go back? no, she said. i ve made that clear that bergdorfs is not a place that i m afraid to enter. you posted a facebook poll in 2012 asking would you have sex with trump for $17,000 if you could give the money to charity or close your eyes and he s not allowed to speak. you joked about having sex with trump for money, you said. yes, she said. in your advice column, you told me who said they were assaulted to go to the police, he said, you didn t go to the police, he said. i didn t call the police after do
ramping up. what our team is just hearing from the doj. plus, in memphis, a sixth officer has been put on leave at the horrific beating and death of tyre nichols, what s happening tonight, what s next in that investigation, and the new development this afternoon on the calls for more accountability on the federal level. we ll take you live to memphis and to capitol hill in just a minute. let s start here in washington. i m hallie jackson, with me now is nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell who s with us. ryan noble, nbc news senior political editor mark murray, and julia ainsley is joins us as well. let me start with you, president biden in baltimore, set to take other trips this week, clearly meant to be a run up to the state of the union. he has a lot he wants to sell. he s also got some that s sort of a shadow hanging over him at this point. we mentioned the classified documents investigation. yes, this is the president, at least today, in a very c
is over. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay. now congress i didn t say over. go to the paragraph before. wow. how would you like to be ivanka stage managing that? back in july, the january 6th committee played raw footage of the outtakes of former president trump s taped address the day after the capitol riot when he was choking on every word. this morning, the day before he called them patriots, beautiful, this, that, the other. wow. this morning, the committee s full final report has finally been released. we re going to go through it all. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s friday, december 23rd. everybody s off. i m here. i hope you re not bothered too much by that. we re going to get through it together. we have former aide to george w. bush white house and state department s elise jordan. and the host of msnbc politics nation and president of the national action network, the hardest working m
Charles. Good afternoon to you. Youre exactly right. The Biden Administration is getting incoming from really every side now when it comes to the Border Crisis as the number two democrat in the senate admits today that the Border Crisis is guaranteed to be a political challenge for democrats in 2024. Now arizona senator Kirsten Cinema is among those that are not happy about the border response. The democrat turned independent is currently leading a hearing on the border right now. Just two months after the white house snubbed her state, sending 100 and 34 million to new york. Thats twice as much given to arizona. But the money is not enough for governor, kathy hogle, who is now publicly blaming President Biden for the migrant surge. Meanwhile governor maura healey over in massachusetts, says shes going to deploy the National Guard soon as we see protests now break out across blue states. Today the white house attempted to shift the blame to republicans who refused to vote for a Governm