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soon. putin's speech comes with new reporting this morning on china's growing concerns about russia's weakened status on the world stage. meanwhile, we will hear from president joe biden later this morning as he is in poland now to meet with allies following that historic trip to ukraine. also ahead, the maga members of congress staying on brand, criticizing the president for visiting ukraine. we'll go through some of their comments. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is tuesday, february 21st. with me here in new york, "way too early" host and the white house bureau...

friends. i know everybody has been hearing from loved ones. just shock. i got a note this morning from a friend in mississippi. his pastor wrote the congregation yesterday and said, "as i write these words, the sun is rising on may 25th, 2022. another day of mourning in america after another mass shooting at another elementary school. as we pray yet again for those whose lives have been torn us under by a troubled soul wielding a deadly weapon, it seems important and necessary to me to say as a christian pastor that we try to find reasonable ways to reduce gun violence, and that is n...

Know -- people on the right want this to be about samuel adams and flint lockes and all that. that's a useful and entirely irrelevant past. but, really, this is about the mid 1960s forward. again, i'll just say, nobody is talking about taking everything away. what we're talking about is taking military weapons out of civilian hands. >> yeah. by the way, this doesn't go back to the -- just like abortion. people don't like to talk about this. evangelicals. the baptist church, southern baptists were pro-choice until about 1979/1980. suddenly, jerry falwell said, hey, we can use this issue to get ...

That may be my party. that may be the party that i joined when ronald reagan inspired me in 1979/1980. >> it makes it a real conversation. >> it does. >> i find it exciting as well. having said that -- >> by the way, did you see some of the people on the sunday shows on left,salivating. >> it's a great campaign because people salivating. some of them are making fools of themselves. they're overreaching, trying to demonize this guy. but it's a great race because look at me, excited as a small government conservative, while progressives that believe in big government, are saying that this is the...

New york times" former publisher mostly for employees last friday. and it's a wonderful set of tributes inside and remembrances from the whole staff to a really, really great publisher and a great man. >> you worked under him? willie, your dad worked under him. >> yeah, he did. he hired my dad in 1979/1980. >> he's obviously most famous for the pentagon papers and for standing up for what was right in that case, but there are so many other cases where he defended journalism, defended his reporters, put the money behind his reporters to produce these kinds of newspapers and really will go down ...