American leadership is what holds the world together. American alliances will

keep us America safe. American values are what make us a part of the nation's

want to work with. To put all that at risk if we walk away from Ukraine we turn

our backs on Israel. It's just not worth it. Part of President Biden's

address last night urging Americans and Congress to continue to support Ukraine

and Israel in the vastly different wars each is fighting. We'll go live to

Israel for the latest and the expected ground invasion of Gaza. Meanwhile

Republicans are somehow creating even more chaos on Capitol Hill with another

speaker's vote scheduled for this morning. It comes as the temporary speaker

is getting fed up and is now threatening to resign. Plus we'll get expert legal

analysis on the surprise guilty plea from one of the many defendants in the

Georgia election interference case. That's a big one. Good morning and welcome

to Morning Joe. It's Friday, October 20th. I'd love to get both you and Willie's

reaction to the President's speech last night. I thought it was really

effective sort of part teacher, part influencer and trying to spread the word of

democracy. Well, I mean part comforter. I mean, there's no doubt, Willie,

that last night's speech, you never know what to expect to the president's

speech. And you think sometimes there are going to be some platitudes here,

some platitudes there talking any president. Last night's was a significant

speech. This was a speech that was delivered on the heels of China and

Russia's leaders getting together. Russia's foreign minister and Kim Jong-un

getting together. Iran and Hamas coming together. We heard the term back in 2003

...