I don't want to get specific here, but there was no radio.

There were two individuals clinging to flotsam.

That's what there was.

There wasn't weaponry of any kind.

There wasn't a radio.

There was no means for them to communicate other than the fact that the fire and the smoke

was fairly well visible for a long distance around,

but there was no radio.

The top Democrat on the House Intel Committee, Congressman Jim Hymn, speaking last night on MS now,

providing more insight on what he saw yesterday during a briefing with the Admiral who ordered

that second deadly strike on survivors of the boat attack back in September.

It is very different than what the Trump administration and top Republicans are saying about that strike.

We'll bring you much more from that briefing in just a moment.

Also ahead, we're going to go through the failed attempt by the Justice Department to re-indite

New York Attorney General Letitia James a second time.

Plus, President Trump made a lot of claims about the state of the economy earlier this week

during his cabinet meeting.

Morning Joe economist Steve Ratner will be here with his fact-checking charts to take a look on affordability where it's at. Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It's Friday, everybody. December 5th, are we happy it's Friday? We are happy as Friday. We are happy as Friday. You're going to get some sleep this weekend? Always try. You need some. With us, we have the co-host of our 9 a.m. hour staff writer at the Atlantic, Jonathan Lamere.

President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haas, is with us.

Senior National Security Reporter for MS Now, David Rode, columnist and associate editor at the Washington Post, David Ignatius, and managing

editor at the bulwark. Sam Stein is with us this morning. So let's get right to our top story

where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been raising questions about the Trump administration's

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