Sir, uh Jake Sherman, Jake Sherman, it is a busy day there on your beat on Capitol Hill. I mean, it's healthc care, it's it's boat strikes, it's the Epstein matter, the list goes on and on, including and just give us your thoughts as to where things stand today. A speaker who actually had to take the question yesterday, have you lost control of the house. >> He has lost control of the house.There's no question about that. I mean, we can't there's nothing there's no way to think he hasn't lost control of the ...

former Treasury official. Morning Joe economic analyst Steve Ratner. Steve, good morning.We've got your charts in just a moment, but first you were watching the speech last night along with us and you had a couple of more fact checks. Yeah, look, I think you guys did a great job on the factchecking things like his inability to do percentages no matter how many times we point out to him you can't have 500% declines, but whatever. But yeah, a couple other things.First on the deficit, he said that Congress had ...

This is what the Biden administration allowed to happen. Do you remember when Joe Biden under the Biden administration compared to the Biden last year under Biden 30 to 100% under Biden the worst thing that the Biden administration did so the New York Times even before the speech last night uh had written an article about how absolutely obsessed Donald Trump is with Joe Biden and they they wrote that they they actually counted during the first 50 days, Donald Trump said Joe Biden's name an average of 6.32% ...

Back to the news now. Former special counsel Jack Smith has told a congressional committee his team found proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in quote a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election. That's according to parts of his opening statement obtained by NBC News. Smith testified for eight hours before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday during a closed door deposition. What's more, Smith said his team turned up quote powerful evidence that showed Trump wi ...

Yeah, I mean members are skipping town after today's session and they'll be home through the holidays and you can bet they'll be hearing from their voters as you say. I mean the polls, the American people are very clear. They tell us in poll after poll after poll and interview after interview after interview that they are not feeling what Donald Trump is describing in this country just full stop that things are too expensive that inflation is bad that groceries are cost too much when you go through the the ...

Let's get into some of the speech last night. It took place in the diplomatic room and then we'll talk through some of the claims he made afterward. >> 11 months ago, I inherited a mess and I'm fixing it. When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years and some would say in the history of our country, which caused prices to be higher than ever before, making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans. Our border was open and because of this our country was being invaded by an army of 2 ...

This is what the Biden administration allowed to happen. Do you remember when Joe Biden under the Biden administration compared to the Biden last year under Biden 30 to 100% under Biden the worst thing that the Biden administration did. >> Come on, sing it, Willie. You were always >> Come on, sing it.Oh, I love Willie. >> Oh, yeah. Joe Biden >> very much.Living rentree >> in Donald Trump's mind. Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. And it is a good morning anytime you can start with Willie.>> Willie Nel ...

House lawmakers have passed a GOPled health care bill that doesn't include an extension for expiring Obamacare subsidies. The legislation has little chance of passing in the Senate and doesn't address the expiring tax credits, as we said, that could lead to skyrocketing health care costs for millions of Americans. The exclusion of those tax credits actually sparked a revolt amongst some House Republicans yesterday.Four Republican lawmakers sided with Democrats, signing a discharge petition that would eventu ...

Because President Trump's last night addressed the country to highlight what his administration has achieved in his eyes since he took office. His speech though was very partisan, almost campaign rallyike, blaming Democrats and former President Joe Biden for several issues the Trump administration is currently facing and doing so while making many misleading or false claims. >> 11 months ago, I inherited a mess and I'm fixing it.When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years. And some would say in ...

The last with Lawrence Fonnell starts right now. Hey Lawrence. >> Hey Jen.Uh we have uh Democratic leader of the House of Representatives Hakeim Jeff here uh for our version of the Democratic response tonight. >> Perfect. I can't wait to hear what he has to say about that fast talking live speech.It was >> well that's a that's a pretty good description of it. We're going to get right to it. Thanks Jen.>> Sounds good. >> Thank you. Thank you.>> Well, at the end of a day that began with David Remnik asking th ...