hovering over montana. there is a mystery out there. i m bill hemmer. i love your red. you got to pin on. dana: way to represent. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. the communist eye in the sky. the ball on does not pose a threat moving well above air traffic commercial air traffic. officials are advising the president not to shoot it down over concerns that falling debris from this balloon could hurt people on the ground. bill: the balloon entered u.s. airspace a couple of days ago and flew east into montana. not clear what it was doing there. the state is home to 1 of 3 u.s. air force bases with intercontinental ballistic missiles. dana: discovery days before blinken is set to visit beijing. china said it is looking into the balloon but general jack keane says he is not buying that. what we do know is they ve done this before. we know it s a spy balloon. it is going to depart at some time. we don t want this to happen again. shoot it down on the way home
is searching president biden s delaware beach house according to three sources familiar with the situation. nbc s mike memoli is following this for us. mike, good morning. what do we know? well, jose, obviously we ve been following this situation for multiple months now as president biden s first his personal attorneys and then fbi investigators have discovered classified documents at various locations tied to the president. but this is significant because this is the third search now that we re aware of that the fbi itself has conducted. the first was in mid-november. we confirm that one just yesterday. it was at the penn biden center, the office president biden used when he was out of office. then of course on january 20th, a more than 12-hour search of the president s personal home in wilmington, delaware, which we learned about just the following days, and now nbc news is confirming that this search is underway actually as we speak, jose, fbi agents were seen arriving a
line before he came here to the new york city area to potentially target officers on years eve. cory, as you can imagine, this place was bustling, it was packed. tens of thousands of people here at the times square area. there were certainly a lot of chaos shortly after this knife attack. officials are saying they were able to secure the area quickly. and then they carried out this press conference earlier this morning with an update. take a listen. one officer, any year veteran, suffered a laceration to the head. the second officer who graduated police academy on friday was also struck in the head. resulting in a skull fletcher and large lacerations. one of the officers fired their service weapon. striking the subject of these shoulder. the three officers removed to bellevue hospital rivalry for to report that they are in stable condition. cory, we are still waiting for an update on those officers. but they are expected to survive. officials are saying that there is no l
money payments to stormy daniels. remember that? now, that could come back to haunt him. his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen, says trump can t hide from the paper trail. calling the new grand jury convened by the manhattan d.a. his biggest legal threat yet. and there are many. meanwhile, the former president is suing journalist bob woodward for $50 million. we ll explain what that is all about. plus, more fallout and firings in the aftermath of tyre nichols death. we ll go live to memphis for the latest in that case. for the second time in three years, lawmakers on capitol hill are talking about police reform following a high-profile murder case involving officers. we ll look at whether these discussions have a real chance at being successful. and president joe biden announces a major policy shift on covid in response to strong opposition from house republicans. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 31st. joe will be back tomorrow.
day, another allegation of lying has been levelled against george santos and every new week, if not every new day, kevin mccarthy has been asked what are you going to do about george santos? did you meet with santos today? i did. what was that about? if every single new person brought into congress was elected by their constituent, what their constituents had done was lend their voice to the american public so those members can all serve on committee. are you standing by him? if you resign, that could cost you a seat. no. you know why i m standing by him? because his constituents voted for him. yeah, we will be done with all committees. i never know about his resume or not, but i always have a few questions. who has more power? joe biden or george santos? that s just some of the times he s been asked about it. now it appears that mccarthy might have done something about george santos after a closed door meeting with the speaker yesterday, today, george santo