Japanese planes attacked our United States Pacific Fleet anchored here. More than 3,000 American

lives were lost, and America's military power in the Pacific will destroy. Good morning and

welcome to Morning Joe on this Tuesday, December 7th, a date which will live in infamy. The attack on Pearl Harbor happened 80 years ago today,

and this morning, we will have a report from Hawaii. Also ahead, a crucial virtual meeting is set

today between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin as tensions continue to

escalate over Ukraine.

There is new reporting that Donald Trump's bout with COVID was worse than the White

House acknowledged at the time.

So every day, this story just keeps getting worse as the president was walking around

with a dangerous virus that was easily spreadable

amongst his colleagues, the people who worked for him, the people he met with, the Gold Star parents.

He was just breathing a deadly virus all over them.

Plus, one of Trump's most devout allies in the House of Representatives is leaving Congress.

And why is he leaving Congress? To run Trump's media company, his social media, a company that's

already under investigation by the SEC. It seems kind of like a good fit there. That seems like a good fit. And the U.S.

announces a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. We started talking about

this yesterday. We're going to continue the conversations and what the consequences here are.

We're going to get a live report from Beijing on that. But we begin this morning

with some new developments in the investigation of the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Mark Short,

who is chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence, is cooperating with the Select

Committee investigating the Capitol insurrection. Two sources tell NBC news.

CNN first reported that Short was subpoenaed, and the panel is assessing what information he might

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