Good morning, welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, march 13th. We have so much more to get to with that hearing yesterday on capitol hill. Democrats pressed the former Special Counsel on his language about President Bidens memory while republicans wanted to know why the president wasnt charged. Meanwhile, also on capitol hill, today the who house is expected to vote on a bill that could lead to a ban on one of the most popular apps in america. Well explain that legislation. Well also get analysis on the alarming comments from russian president Vladimir Putin this morning about the threat to use nuclear weapons. Hes saying that if russias sovereignty or independence is threatened, he will use nukes. Good morning, everybody. Along with willie and me, we have the host of wasteway, bureau chief at politico jonathan louisiana mere. Msnbc contributor Mike Barnacle and jonathan martin. Great group this morning. Also has President Biden announced a new Weapons Package for ukraine. According
we began this morning with an update on that traumatic incident with the chinese spy balloon 60,000 feet in the air. eight days after it was first spotted in u.s. airspace, and have 22 raptor shot down the balloon with a single missile yesterday off the carolina coast. the search for degree is now underway. it my touch off a war of words between the u.s. and china. heightening tensions in an already data diplomatic relationship. china expressed its, quote, strong dissatisfaction. they have insisted that the device was a civilian weather balloon. a u.s. senior administration official said in response that they were confident the balloon was, quote, seeking to monitor sensitive military spots. we shift the focus now tuesday state of the union. president biden s first before the new republican house majority. security is being ramped up with plans to install fencing around the u.s. capitol ahead of the primetime address. we don t know too many specifics about what the president
Monday morning here is only a calairova. Hello, look in the issue in industry and education, tourism and science in belarus, the first belarusianuzbek womens business starts. Forum i wish bidens physical condition under the scrutiny of congress in the board of representatives is preparing for the impeachment proceedings against the president. Now officially zelensky dismissed the minister of defense of ukraine, an open conversation on the most pressing issues of the information agenda in all regions of the country Republican Action belarus 1 1, and the dialogue begins in molodechno the holiday of the word of literature and our unity , the capital of the day of belarusian writing, the town passed the baton to ivatsevich of the brest region , the holiday has been writing history since 1994. It all started in polotsk, the cradle of belarusian statehood and culture, it is symbolic that the thirtieth forum was held on vitebsk land, which gave the world francis, skarina and euphrosyne stripe
Ukraine, Disaster Relief, and money to secure the southern border. Kevin mccarthy and his Republican Congress have not been on board with this request but yesterday we saw Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell, a Top Republican in the senate, back this, and this is backed by Senate Democrats so we have a unified senate in favor of this request and in favor of not shutting down the government at the end of september, a different story. Host first of all, ukraine spending, why is it part of the package . Guest the white house wants to give more assistance to ukraine in the spending battle. There have been restraints on how much you can raise money in defense spending so another avenue, more aid to ukraine military, economic, a supplemental request and that is one way democrats and the white house and Many Senate Republicans and more mainstream republicans want to do this but it is crucial in the house to get action with the Freedom Caucus type republicans who say we should not be sendin
President and trails everything single one of them between 3 and 10 points, stu. Shes not looking like a savior. We shouldnt be surprised when our government tells us things that are not accurate that they try to hide documents. That shouldnt surprise us. Judge granting a verdict and effectively throwing the case out. Donald trump is talking to the average american thats been forgotten for so long and going to order them. Stuart the thunderstorm has passed and a drop of rain on want lens of new york city. 11 00 eastern, thursday, may 23rd. To the markets, please. The dow is down 275 points. Very few winners amongst the dow 30. Mostly theyre losers. Boeing, who else is down . Boeing, travelers, mcdonalds, theyre all down quite sharply. Show me big tech. We have nvidia at the top of the list doing extremely well. Its up 90, 9. 5 after a stellar Earnings Report late yesterday and microsoft at 431 up a fraction, 58cents and alphabet, apple, amazon on the downside. The 10year treasury yield