soon. putin s speech comes with new reporting this morning on china s growing concerns about russia s weakened status on the world stage. meanwhile, we will hear from president joe biden later this morning as he is in poland now to meet with allies following that historic trip to ukraine. also ahead, the maga members of congress staying on brand, criticizing the president for visiting ukraine. we ll go through some of their comments. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, february 21st. with me here in new york, way too early host and the white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. at the table with joe in washington, pulitzer prize-winning columnist at the washington post, eugene robinson. former white house press secretary now msnbc host jen psaki. editor for the washington post, david ignatius. also with us, founder of the bulwark, charlie sykes. joe, incredible, staggering, historic scenes yesterday of president biden walking th
to canceled and delayed flights, a look at the chaos for holiday travelers across the country. we ve got a lot of news to get to this morning, but we ll start with the january 6th investigation and the possibility that former president trump could be referred to the justice department for criminal prosecution. here s an interview with vice chair of the committee, congresswoman liz cheney. so the committee will or will not make a criminal referral? we ll make a decision as a committee about it. there is possible there will be a criminal referral. yes. which would be effectively the committee saying he should be prosecuted, and this is the evidence we ve the justice department doesn t have to wait for the committee to make a criminal referral. there could be more than one criminal referral. i have greater concern about what it would mean if people weren t held accountable for what s happened here. i think it s a much graver constitutional threat if a president c
down the rhetoric, despite a wave of violent threats against law enforcement. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 15th. a lot has happened since we got off the air friday, so since we finished coverage friday, we learned the search warrant for mar-a-lago revealed former president trump is being investigated for possible violations of the espionage act, tied to the mishandling of national defense information or classified material. now, according to the fbi, 11 sets of classified records were seized from trump s home, including some marked as top secret, meant only to be available in special government facilities. two other laws were also cited as a basis for the warrant pertaining to removing, destroying, or concealing records and obstruction of justice. according to the search warrant for mar-a-lago, agents were allowed to search trump s office, all storage rooms, and all other rooms available to trump, his staff, or anywhere documents could be
forthcoming with investigators, or both. sources telling the times, investigators still are seeking more surveillance footage from mar-a-lago, a sign officials are looking into how the classified material was handle while improperly stored at the former president s estate. according to the times, the fbi declined to comment. president trump s spokesman did not immediately respond. joining us now, justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official, chuck rosenberg. good morning to you both. ken, i ll start with you. nbc news is working to confirm all of this, a blockbuster story dropped last night by the new york times . the top line, the 300 documents. 300 of them taken by donald trump, according to the times reporting out of the justice department, is a pretty staggering number when you consider all the excuses donald trump has made. well, he just slipped some things into his briefcase, or they were planted by the f
that. the new piece is a year of putin s wartime lies. in the the new yorker right no. david remnick, thank you. the president s trip to kyiv is the ultimate humiliation for vladimir putin and for donald trump. the daily beast s david rothkov joins us to explain that. we ll look at where the fighting stands when clint watts joins us from the big board on the state of this russian invasion. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. car insurance. so you only pay for what you need! whoo! we gotta go again. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.