manhattan d.a. alvin bragg taking legal action agains republican jim jordan, and president biden s latest comments on his plans for 2024 let s take a look at some of the week s top stories the manhattan district attorne leading the prosecution of donald trump is now suing a to house republican alvin bragg filed the lawsui against judiciary committe chairman jim jordan yesterda in response to what bragg call a brazen and unconstitutiona attack by members of congres on an ongoing criminal prosecution. bragg has come under increased scrutiny to put it mildly by the ohio republican since it became lightly that the former president would be charged i new york city. calling on the game solved t testify before congress, jorda issued a subpoena last week, ordering a former prosecutor i the case to appear before th judiciary committee. in the new lawsuit, the de asked a court to block tha subpoena, arguing that it coul cause irreparable harm to th case if certain secret materia is dis
than that. i as the mayor would b committing a crime if i seek t create order for us in a typ of regulation to reduce th amount of gun violence in ou city that is absurd, that i dangerous, and that is why i a asking my friends in the state legislature to give us local autonomy to make our own decisions about how we can reduce gun violence in our cit of louisville. we understand the conversation in kentucky about guns, or in tennessee, tha we ve been having for the last couple of weeks, and it s much different than it might be u in new york, massachusetts, or something like that, but wha in your mind is reasonable wit this shock and the tragedy o this ongoing deluge of incidents, but what is reasonable to expect in th state of kentucky? what could change in your mind i think there are several things in addition to giving us local autonomy, we can look at som
guardsmen is concerning as well so admiral, was there anything in what we have seen publicly, and we want to be carefu because we don t have all that authenticated, some of it ma have been altered, but is ther anything and there tha surprised you, it s no particular surprising to you i m sure that we are conductin surveillance even on our own allies, but was there anything else in there that raise you eyebrow a bit? i think that the number one thing that really stood out at me, and i ve been tracking thi perhaps more than the averag person, but the rapidity wit which the ukrainians are using of their air defense systems i ve said for a long tim willie that there is really tw wars at play here. the ground war, whethe ukrainians are doing quite wel with our help, and we have a spring offensive coming. there is an air war that hasn really unfolded yet. putin has not really launche his airports against ukraine i big ways, because he s afrai of getting plane shot down
desantis, number two in th presidential primary pushing forward with a more extreme ban. and joe, if ron desanti does one for president, if h does somehow find his way to the nomination, good luc pivoting to the general afte this a six-week abortion ban, which is something like a 15 position nationally, but let s look at the state of florida and how it is changed even since you were in congress there. what do you make of th six-week ban now in your hom state? well it is going to be problem for ron desantis lik you said or any republican tha gets behind this in a genera election we have seen this time and tim again. the republicans know what th politics are for a abortion ba in a general election an republicans apparently don t care it s a florida is one of the states again, we always thin of it as a republican state, and we have always thought o it as a republican state, an then barack obama winds it
executive order aimed at strengthening background checks, nibbling around the edges. that s the republican governor of the state of tennesse saying, we have to do somethin to meghan saver. the people who get them don have the kind of backers tha might cause them to do harm. coming up next, nbc s tremaine leah brings us a story of tw lawmakers who call themselve the bipartisan band of brothers they say that it goes fa beyond politics. that story is just ahead o morning joe. morning joe.