The bishop of brooklyn praised the ruling saying, im gratified be the decision by the United States Supreme Court who have recognized the clear First Amendment violation and urgent need for relief. Im proud to be leading the Diocese Of Brooklyn and fighting for our sacred and constitutional right to worship. Lets go to the Justice Department. David is live with more. Happy thanksgiving. This ruling came down before midnight and the implications will last for decades long after covid19s in the history books. Its a win for religious freedom and amy barrett, a month already feeling her fate on a career that could span for decades. She was the key swing vote here, a 5vote in favor of the conservatives. John roberts known to be a devout catholic sided with the liberal wing of the court on this decision. The majority, the conservatives decided that this was something that needed to be done so this is how they ruled. Andrew cuomo announced various restrictions on gatherings as a way to hold t
We have our next speaker, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the u. S. , ambassador oksana markarova. Thank you very much. Thanks so much. Good morning to everyone. Thank you for having me here, and to lie for your excellent work. During this very difficult 610 days, almost 611, ukraine has been through the full phase of or in ukraine, they were that started the war that started and quickly turned into a conflict, a war. We have lost 14,000 people actually before the fullfledged war started. Still, it was very contained, contained in eastern ukraine, in crimea, and this experience for the past 610 days is, frankly, something we have never had before when we read about it during the world war ii. During this 600 days just going through the list with our people back home and the defense ministry, we have seen we have already lost during this war 70 journalistic voices. 70, 70. That is an unbelievable loss of not only talent but something that should not even happen during the wars. The rules th
we ll hear from both sides of the legal debate. he s the failed republican candidate accused of orchestrating the shootings at the homes of democrats, now investigators are looking into whether solomon pena s campaign was funded by fentanyl. also, this a massive loss for music. david crosby dying at 81. we ll speak live with one of his best friends. cnn this morning starts right now. to all of those stories in just a moment, but first we need to talk about ukraine s president, volodymyr zelenskyy, making a desperate plea for more weapons before it is too late. there are signs that russia is regrouping and preparing to launch a major offensive. and cnn has learned cia director bill burns personally flew to kyiv for a secret meeting with zelenskyy to brief him on vladimir putin s plans. this morning, the defense secretary, lloyd austin, is at ram stein air base in germany to huddle with western allies. president zelenskyy spoke virtually at the meeting. the war st
not. my focus is to get justice for halyna hutchins and let everyone know just because you re an a-list actor, you re not going to be above the law. that is the special prosecutor in the rust shooting case speaking with nbc news after announcing alec baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of cinematographer halyna hutchins. we ll have much more on this case and this surprising decision in just a moment. president biden s new comments about the investigation into the classified documents found at his home and personal office. we ll play for you that new information, that sound from him. also ahead, we ll explain why his administration is optimistic about the incendiary conservatives who are now serving on the house oversight committee. plus a live report from ukraine as dozens of allies are meeting to determine what military aid is needed to fend off russian forces. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, january
for a democratic president. oh, i see. i know what you mean. and we ll have the latest developments from eastern europe as allies are at odds in sending tanks to ukraine. germany was going to block the tanks, now they re talking about letting poland send tanks. it looks like the tanks are going to be going to ukraine. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s monday, january 23rd. with us the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, and msnbc contributor, mike barnicle. mike is here for the morning, that s if he doesn t, you know. the irish good-bye with the jacket on the back of the chair. we ll see you in a few minutes. we re going to get to all of these stories. we have an awful lot to talk about. ambassador bill taylor is going to be talking about ukraine. let s talk first, though, about nfl playoffs. first, jonathan lemire, i ll go to you. there are two quarterbacks that did very well. patrick mahomes gutted it