garland appointed a special prosecutor to look into it. well, today we got the results of the investigation in a report. the special counsel will not seek criminal charges against president biden. so if you re in a fantasy league for presidential indictments, it s still, trump, 91. every other president ever, 0. you got that? clean that up. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, february 9th. good to have joe, willie and me here together. along with us, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. nbc news national affairs analyst john heilemann. former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor chuck rosenberg. and nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian is with us this morning. we have a lot going on. we ll start with the special counsel investigating president biden for his handling of classified documents will not bring charges against the president. that s the conclusion. he wrote in the report, wrot
the senate? no, we made very clear what the requirements of the house were. that is to solve the problem at the border. is donald trump calling the shots here, mr. speaker? of course not. he s not calling the shots. i am calling the shots for the house. that s our responsibility. of course not. but trump did tell them to do nothing about the border this year because republicans can t afford to give it up as an election issue. also tonight, how trump managed to delay, delay, delay his criminal trials. something no regular citizen would be able to do. plus, as trump openly roots for a crash, joe biden presides over what even trump advisers admit is a whopper of an economy. but we begin tonight with an emergency. a crisis, a catastrophe, at least that s what republican lawmakers have spent the last few month calling the situation at the southern border. one thing is absolutely clear. america is at a breaking point with record levels of illegal immigration. it is an u
russian mercenary leader yevgeny prigozhin cause of his rebellion after 24 hours of mayhem. roadblocks to stop his wagner forces are filled in as the crisis is a diffused. after a direct threat to his leadership, the questions over vladimir putin s future. forces in ukraine assess how the turmoil will affect the progress of the war. also this morning, the public tolls they can now call 999 after a technical default. labor calls for mandatory help for homeowners struggling to meet rising mortgage payments. good morning, the rebellion by the russian mercenary leader yevgeny prigozhin appears to be over. the russian president, vladimir putin called it a knife in the back of our people, and said his forces were but a deal has now been negotiated by belarus and the kremlin, so that the rebel leader will be allowed to leave the country, and his fighters will not be prosecuted. our moscow correspondent diane mcenany reports. yevgeny prigozhin, cheered by supporters after bringin
welcome to our viewer in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. and we begin with donald trump s arrest and arraignment in the classified documents case. the washington post reports that trump rejected efforts by one of his lawyers to cut a deal with the justice department to return the documents and avoid indictment. post says chris kise wanted to negotiate with the doj back in the fall after the fbi found more than 100 class filed documents at mar-a-lago. but cnn spoke to sources close to trump s legal team and they cast doubt on whether that was a real opportunity to settle. and merrick garland is depending the special counsel behind the trump indictment, jack smith. paula reid has more. reporter: speaking for the first time since former president trump was indicted mr. smith is a veteran career prosecutor. reporter: attorney general merrick garland standing by special counsel jack smith who was prosecuting former president trump and ad
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