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we appreciate it. stick around. well talk to you again in a few minutes on "morning joe." thanks to all of you for getting up "way too early" with us on this monday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. to do something with 50 votes is rough. to do small things with 50 votes is rough. to pass such a major piece of legislation with only 50 votes, republican minority, a caucus running from bernie sanders to joe manchin, wow. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer after the senate...

especially now that the estimated cost of taxpayers is half a trillion dollars over the next ten years. an op-ed in "the washington post" pauls their plant -- calls their plans aggressive, and -- no concerns about taking money from plumbers and giving it -- writing that low-wage workers will pick up the tabs to cancel the educational debt. how is the president responding to these questions? lets take a look. >> and about -- how others dont have to? we see this all the time. i want to f...

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Saying the new position would pay for itself, municipal officials on Tuesday approved a job for a grant writer for the town. Connecticut municipalities such as Stamford, Stratford, Bristol, Norwalk, Westport, Berlin and Fairfield already have grant writers on staff, according to New Canaan Human Resources Director Cheryl Pickering Jones.  “We had received information for […]

Carried interest provision. its a hell of a provision. >> the annual political conference is attended by conservative activists and elected officials from across the u.s. and beyond. joe, i just have no words. i have no words. ted cruzs language in the age of mass shootings. >> i have a few words. >> take it away. >> i have a few words for what we just heard. it is a fat, bloated, 1977 era style elvis routine. playing hits from the past, halfhearted, half-assed, and the audience is just there go...

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Missile. why is north korea ramping up its missile testing right now, and how is its neighbor to the south responding? >> well, we are just days away from the beijing olympics. so its not just south korea but also china that has to be watching this very closely. this is now, and we can say this, the busiest january on record for north korean missile launches. and this missile launch is the largest in terms of altitude that we have seen since 2017, pam. this was an intermediate range ballistic mi...

Millions of others persecuted and murdered by the nazis during world war ii. for the record, it is profoundly disrespectful to the memories of survivors and the suffering of those who were killed to equate the holocaust to anything. but that does not stop mostly republican lawmakers and public figures from trying to compare what is going on right now to this horrible time in human history. last weekend robert f. kennedy jr. suggested anne frank, the famous teenager who hid from the nazis in an a...

Doesnt matter. why he does matter his speeches are live on news max and other channel and reach millions of people. last week -- two weekends ago when they aired one of these rallies highest rated program on cable that day, on cable news. there is an audience for this, not as big as it used to be but there is a base that wants to hear this from trump that wants to be animated and that may listen to him that says if im wronged protest for me. in trump speak that means if they find me guilty or if...

Havent seen any progress. the latest message from the foreign minister of russia, sergei lavrov, was that while the primary concerns are non-starters the second order issues might be addressed and the talks will continue. and it is understandable that the united states might be cautious and warning ukraine to be on the highest possible alert because it will be ukraine who will be responding on the ground if anything -- if the invasion happens. >> right. you have these world leaders scrambling fo...