And good morning and welcome to Morning, Joe. It is Thursday, January 19th. This morning we are learning more troubling details about the man accused of hiring gunmen to attack Democrats in New Mexico.

We'll have those new developments and how Trump's big lie continues to spawn violence across the country.

Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, the stalemate over the debt ceiling continues as the country

hits its borrowing limit.

We'll have the latest on efforts by the White House to find some sort of compromise.

Plus, the George Santos saga takes another really

strange turn. Now there are questions about where his mother was on 9-11. Also ahead, we are

hours away from a decision on criminal charges in the deadly shooting on the set of rust. Remember that?

We'll get you caught up on the case that could come to a major development this morning. And we'll dig into new reporting on an

aggressive new proposal from the Biden administration as it pertains to the war in Ukraine.

Joe has the morning off, but Willie and I are here in New York, and we have with us

the former aide to the George W. Bush White House and State Department's Elise Jordan. She's an MSNBC

political analyst, former White House Communications Director under President Obama, Jennifer Palmieri,

Jen's the co-host of Showtimes, The Circus, and the host of way too early, White House Beer Chief at Politico, Jonathan Lamier.

And with us today, we're going to put them to work.

MSNBC legal analyst Danny Savalos.

Good to have you all with us this morning.

We are learning new details, several new details this morning, about the failed Republican candidate for the New Mexico

State House, who was arrested after allegedly orchestrating a series of shootings at the

homes of Democratic officials. Solomon Peña, a staunch supporter of former President Donald

Trump and backer of false claims of election fraud was denied bail

yesterday during his first court hearing in Albuquerque on charges he masterminded four shootings

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