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speed bump. on the republican side, new skepticism over next weeks default deadline. and a day of raw grief and remembrance in uvalde, texas, where almost one year to the moment a gunman walked into robb elementary school and killed 19 students and two teachers, forever changing the community and the nation. well hear from one mother who lost her daughter, lexi, and is now demanding change. >> im hoping that seeing her face, hearing her story encourages other moms and dads to join us i...

provide information present information into a courtroom without that being disclosed, but the bar for that is typically very high but again an espionage cases. that is certainly a concern that the government has. if they can plead, get a plea from this person. they dont have to worry about additional information. additional seat. critz making them out into the public light. so the fact the last thing ill say is that was also a concern here because when you have a suspect who was facin...

good morning and welcome back to "morning joe" on this friday, december 30th, new years eve eve. it is 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. as you wake up out west. lets dive right in to a newly released batch of deposition transcripts from witnesses who spoke to the house select committee including members of former president donald trumps inner circle including former white house communications director alissa farah griffin. she spoke to the panel on april 15th describing her tenur...

Well be the case that that unit is working issues such as ukraine, for example, so we have to have access to some of that information, but they dont necessarily have to have access to things that are going on in other places, and its a really tough call. because once your senior leadership in any unit, including a wing like the 102nd to be aware of things to be aware of what you know, some leaders, like the chairman of the joint chiefs are thinking about, but you also dont want to that informati...

Thats why she wound up dying. lovely, kind, considerate, warm. you know, its terrible to think of -- that her last moments she was really a fine person. >> you hadnt known what happened to her until fairly recently, obviously, when the names were released and when you found out from friends and family? >> it was a terrible saturday. i knew people back there in law enforcement enough to know that the scene had to be frozen. you couldnt move anybody because its a crime scene for about 12 hours. so...

In fact, a lot of those guys know where the skeletons are buried. i dont like having a goldman banker running the treasury department, because i think thats much too deep a connection to the banking sector. and as you teed this segment up, you really nailed the point, which is what we have to be asking, not is this good for markets and wall street, but is this good for main street and there the divisions remain very stark. >> richard? >> i think the people from goldman sachs who he has named and...

Analyst, and ron reagan is an author and msnbc political analyst. michael, is he your front-runner if, in fact, he gets into it? >> i believe he is. very much like hillary for the democrats would be an automatic front-runner. i think jeb has a great deal of gravitas in the republican party. i know that there were a lot of folks pining for him to enter the race in 2012 and obviously 2008 as well. so i think hes right, i think hes taken his time. hes measured himself on these things, and i think h...

Very much like hillary for the democrats would be an automatic front-runner. i think jeb has a great deal of gravitas in the republican party. i know that there were a lot of folks pining for him to enter the race in 2012 and obviously 2008 as well. so i think hes right, i think hes taken his time. hes measured himself on these things, and i think hes now beginning to put out there what you noted in setting this segment up, the conversation with donors as well as with activists around the countr...

Things and i think hes now gik to put out there that you noted in setting this segment up, the conversation with donors as well as with activists around the country. i think he needs to be a little bit careful in how he does that obviously. hes already kind of got a little left foot/right foot problem on immigration which he needs to correct i think fairly quickly before it snowballs, but its jeb, and i think he brings a lot of juice to the table. >> jeb bushs position on one of the most content...

Olympic committee. >> lets revisit the greatest hits of the olympic committee. >> you have to save that money for bribing delegates and the judges. >> absolutely. >> steroids. >> it is worth noting in may 2010 the usoc signed a $24 million sponsorship deal with bmw, gm was a sponsor of the 2008 games. in september 2011 the usoc extended the sponsorship with bp through the 2016 games despite the fact that bp had its hand on the spigot of the worst environmental disaster in u.s. history. >> how ab...