a shot of a predawn los angeles. welcome to the fourth hour of morning joe. it is 6:00 a.m. out there on the west coast, 9:00 a.m. here in the east. i m jonathan lemire alongside the bbc s katty kay. we re happy to report that msnbc contributor mike barnicle is joining us for the hour. we re in for joe, mika, and willie. catty, a lot of headlines to get to in this hour. the biggest one got mike off the ice rink earlier. landed a couple triple axels and came upstairs and i m sort of disappointed he s changed out of his outfit, but there we go. and took the gold medal off. right. let s get to the headlines, mike, beyond yours. the latest from buffalo where the national guard is going door to door checking on residents who lost power during the deadly blizzard. we ll have the latest as officials face scrutiny over that. and southwest airlines cancels more flights as it struggles to recover from the winter storm. the unions are speaking out about how the disaster
instructed you could do something and you relied on that. essentially the ruling says donald trump never explicitly said that to defendants, never said that storming the capitol is now legal, we won t prosecute. if he said something like that, it would be a different case. but he wasn t that over the top with his language. but, you know, the judge also doesn t sort of let i think trump off the hook with responsibility for what he did say and sort of indicates that, you know, there s a suggestion in trump s speech despite his language that he wants them to do more than just go over and, you know, hold up a sign outside the barriers that had been set up around the capitol because that certainly i think what a lot of people have read into that, right. fight like hell doesn t sound like go there and hold your signs outside the barriers and if we don t stop the steal, quote, unquote, we ll pack up and go home.