committee, defending his justice depend and to the probes, and allegations that he s weaponized the doj. paula reid is in washington. how has the hearing gone so far? he clearly wants to highlight the work of the rank-and-file employees who are not working on the special investigation, but as well at another high-profile investigation into hunter biden. the attorney general was grilled about why a special counsel is not overseeing the huchblter binden investigation. let s listen to how he explained that. i promised to leave the matter of hunter biden in the hands of a u.s. attorney for the district of delaware, who was appointed in the previous administration. so any information like that should have gone should or should have gone to that u.s. attorney s office and the fbi squad working with him. i have pledged not to interfere with in a investigation, and i have carried through on my pledge. there you hear him defending the trump-appointed u.s. attorney who stayed o
congress. merrick garland answered questions about everything from gun violence to tech giants to child labor and much more. he gave an early sign that he would not go into detail about some of the justice department s most politically fraught investigations. that includes the classified dork found at the home of current and former president it requires as much as possible we speak to our work and our filings in court so we do not jeopardize the viability of our investigations and the civil liberties of our citizens. as expected, the attorney general received his toughest questions from republicans. texas senator ted cruz slammed garland for failing to arrest any protester opposed to the overturning of roe v. wade who demonstrated outside the homes of some supreme court justices. in my judgment, the department of justice has been politicized to the greatest extent i ve ever seen. i vigorously disagree. i believe the men and women of the department pursue their wor
those comments were delivered to a new house select committee on china. we have a lot to get to this morning from the panel s prime time hearing. meanwhile, a trip to china by a putin ally is increasing concerns that beijing will ramp up support for russian forces. back here at home, president joe biden s student loan forgiveness plan went before the supreme court yesterday with the conservative majority expressing some skepticism about wiping away debt for some borrowers. also ahead, reaction to an historic defeat in chicago. for the first time in four decades, the city s mayor has lost a reelection bid. we ll get to that. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, march 1st. joe has the morning off, but along with willie and me, we have, of course, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, and the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass is
staying one step ahead for over a decade, if he was taking that much dope. i would submit to you. just one other lie that i would submit to you is a lie that he s trying to get you to believe to feel sympathetic for him as if the dope was the cause of the money and the cause of his issues when the reality is it wasn t. this had been going on for a long time and the finances prove differently. but what else about this? you ve seen the interviews, and we re going to play some clips of these interviews. i m not going to play them all for you again. you ve watched, but if you have any question, go back and watch them. he talks about being paranoid. watch those interviews when he s with dave owen. he doesn t look like he s withdrawing from any drugs. his responses are appropriate. he s not displaying any paranoia. he s smooth. he s focused on the events. he s focused on trying to get information about the case from law enforcement officers, which is interesting in its own right. w
to religious bias. frantic search for survivors, the latest on a fiery and fatal train crash that left at least 36 people dead and 66 hospitalized in greece. an inside look at intelligence on the mysterious so called havana syndrome, and what caused it. but first, that new video just in of the murdaugh murder crime scene and the same scene the jurors toured this morning, and closing arguments are set to resume just about 20 minutes from now. our nbc news reporters are here following all the latest developments, and we begin with what has truly been a fascinating day at the murdaugh murder trial. ellison barber is outside the courthouse for us. i know you ve had a little bit of a chance to sift through some of the footage of the crime scene. what does it tell you? what might the jurors have learned from being there? reporter: they were able to see and we see in moments of this video the pool reporter when the press was able to see what the jury saw outside pointing out e