tour, has been to london, has been to paris, and now he will appeal to eu leaders more widely for more help withjets and long range eu leaders more widely for more help with jets and long range weapons to bolster kyiv s defences against the expected spring offensive. almost a year to the day that russia invaded ukraine. let s listen the welcome given to president zelensky in brussels. applause we are here today on this historic occasion to welcome the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, to the european parliament. this is an extraordinary moment, an extraordinary moment, an extraordinary time. it has been almost one year since the brutal, illegal invasion of sovereign ukraine by russia. in all that time, mr president, your leadership has inspired your people, inspired every corner of the globe. when the world thinks of ukraine, they think of heroes, fighting the odds. of david beating goliath, they think of the icons of snake island, the warriors of mariupol, the libera
you are in the cnn newsroom. i m paula reid in washington. jim acosta is off. a major move today in an attempt to halt a global banking crisis. switzerland s largest banking group ubs just agreed to buy its rival credit suisse in an emergency rescue bid. the purchase is aimed at halting investor panic brought on by two sudden u.s. bank failures this month. the deal comes after shares of the ailing bank lost 25% over the last week. even an emergency loan from the swiss national bank failed to stop the fallout. cnn reporter anna stewart will join us in just a moment, and cnn global economic analyst, rana foroohar joins us now. all right, rana, can you explain to us this deal? yeah, absolutely. so a little bit of con context. credit suisse has been a troubled bank for some time. so this, you know, this is a bank that over the last couple of years has had any number of crises. it s been considered weak in the marketplace. even late last year, it was having its own problems to
newly appointed proprieor of that material as the new speaker of the house. that s despite the fact that he pointedly refused a lawful congressional subpoena from the 1/6 select committee last year. now in defending his decision to share 41,000 hours of previously unreleased footage exclusively with far-right insurrection-friendly personality tucker carlson, mccarthy is showing americans he either does not understand or does not care about the potential risk that decision presents. speaking with the washington post, mccarthy suggests this, that the public fury over the selective release isn t really about egregious security concerns. in fact, it s about jealous, he insisted on the part of the media at the heart of the outrage. hang on. it gets better. today politico is first to report that house republicans, many of whom have framed the 1/6 insurrection as the defendants in those criminal cases as victims of a political attack are now moving to provide those defendants acce
tonight on the reidout we ll be back on monday in the meantime, have the best weekend with the ones that you love we ll see you then yeah, no. you will not be seeing tucker carlson tonight or any other night on fox after years of stoking rage, paranoia, and hatred, tucker is off the air. plus, breaking news tonight, a new timeline on when we can expect a decision from fulton county d.a. fani willis on potential criminal charges against donald trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and we have three very special guests fresh from their white house meeting today with president biden. the tennessee three, justin j. pearson, justin jones, and gloria johnson join me right here in the studio we begin tonight with the abrupt and embarrassing end to tucker carlson s reign as the top rated primetime host in cable news this morning, fox announced that the two had agreed to part ways and thanked him for his service to the network that decision apparently
happy saturday. happy saturday. everybody. welcome to morning joe weekend, it was another busy week. crazy week. well, this week, on monday it felt like it should ve been friday. there was a major shake up. it felt like it should ve been thursday. on fox news, president biden officially launching his reelection campaign. we ll get into all of that, plus some of the week s other top stories, take a look. the new york times has new reporting on fox s firing of tucker carlson. two sources tell the times a day before the start of the dominion defamation trial against the network. the fox sport of directors and top executives learned about private messages sent by carlson that had been redacted in legal filings. according to the sources, the redacted material contained highly offensive and crude remarks that went beyond the inflammatory, often racist comments of his primetime show and anything disclosed in the lead up to the trial. well, go ahead. let s dissect what