good morning everyone. welcome, caitlyn is off. anger fear and frustration at last night s cnn town hall. a railroad ceo coming face-to-face with residents after a toxic train wreck released a toxic chemicals in their town. and a tv journalist shot and killed at a murder scene when learn about the shooting spree that left three day including a child. and the grand jury investigating donald trump is going deeper into his circle. but we begin with the train disaster in east palestine, ohio. and pete buttigieg is going to the scene. just hours from now federal investigators are expected to release their preliminary report as to why the train derailed and burst into an inferno. cnn analysts the video of the train leading up to the wreck. sparks flying from the wheels indicate they may have been overheating and the train slowed down dramatically but kept going for 20 miles before going off the rails. it raises the question, did the engineer realize something was wrong? and in
goods but they couldn t off load them. there was no place to do it. the containers sat there. thanks to the biden administration s vaccine mandates, there weren t enough truckers to pick up the cargo and take it anywhere. so all of that combined to create the worst shipping bottle neck in memory and lasted for months. the price of transporting goods rose by 600%. so if you re wondering why inflation started to go up, that s a big part of the reason. none of this happened by accident. the bottle neck was a manmade disaster. it could have been, should have been fixed by the people in charge of transportation. they re called the department of transportation. but for much of the time, this disaster was unfolding, joe biden s secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg from south bend, indiana, was disengaged. he wasn t on the job. he was at home. i was on paid paternity leave posing for selfies for social media. buttigieg didn t seem embarrassed at all by this. this is work, h
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invaded another country since world war ii nothing like that has happened. things have changed radically and we have to milwaukee sure we change them back. president joe biden once again promising to protect eastern europe against russian aggression. it comes as vladimir putin pulls out of a nuclear arms treaty. plus the forewoman for the georgia grand jury on election interference has been getting a lot of face time this week, and her media tour may add some complications to the investigation itself. and also ahead tim scott s not so subtle stop in iowa, and when the south carolina senator might make a decision on a presidential campaign. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, february 23rd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president joe biden is back at the white house this morning following a historic and successful trip to eastern europe. yesterday the president met with the leaders from the eastern flank of nato, a gro
rogue, we ll explain how it may complicate things for the d.a. what a nightmare. come on. literally. wow. president joe biden is back at the white house this morning following his momentous, three-day trip to eastern europe. before he left, the president took time once again to reassure allies that america will not tolerate russian aggression into nato territory. we ll also play for you president biden s comments on vladimir putin s decision to pull out of a nuclear arms treaty with the u.s., and we ll show you how former president trump turned his trip to east palestine, ohio, into a branding operative. well he didn t throw paper towels, did he? not paper towels. he brought trump-branded water bottles. did he throw it? i don t know. pallets of trump-branded water. it s just tap water, guys. so fascinating week. i ve got to say, historic. people are going to remember, an american president going into a war zone, risking his life to show support for t