of morality. televangelist pat robertson, famous for blaming gay people for 9/11, and black people for hurricanes, is dead. but his legacy of shattering the lines between church and state lives on in the quixotic presidential candidacy of mike pence. also tonight, i want to tell you about an under the radar supreme court case that could affect where special counsel jack smith brings criminal charges. as we await the possible indictment of donald trump. and surprise, chief justice john roberts and justice brett kavanaugh come to the defense of voting rights in an important victory for voters in alabama. so what happens now for all the other efforts to redraw maps to marginalize voters of color? but we begin tonight with the supreme court. there was a surprising decision today reaffirming the landmark voting rights act, and we re going to get to that a bit later. but i want to start with a lesser known case that is still awaiting a ruling by the highest court in the lan
welcome to this special edition of hannity . i m pete hegseth in for sean. and we begin with breaking news just moments ago, maine s secretary of state. her name is shannon bellows. all you have to do is remember that for 15 minutes. that s how long her fame is going to last. she just unilaterally she just unilaterally presidential primary ballotllot in pending appeal. why did she do that? sh the way he inflamed his supporters back january of 2021. well, here she is palling joe around with joe biden a few months ago. but i m sure, political bias had nothing to do with her decision. st s it just so happens that she was, one of the three biden electors in the state of maine in 2020. she s not a lawyer. never graduated from law school. but right after her announcement, she rushed straight on to msnbc just a few minutes ago to brag about her election meddling. trump now has five daysp to challenge this bizarre decisionhas fi maine s superiorz court. the trump campaign sa
room one day before a doj official came for the classified documents. the worker was reportedly helping trump val l.a. matt nauda move the boxes but didn t know what was inside of them. nbc has yet to confirm that account. it comes on the heels of a similar the washington post report which says workers allegedly carried out a, quote, dress rehearsal for moving sensitive papers his office received a may 2022 subpoena. and more shocking details from that report reveal trump showed those classified documents to other people. quote, prosecutors have gathered evidence that trump at times kept classified documents in his office in a place where they were visible and sometimes showed them to others. trump has insisted he s done no wrong. i have every right to under the presidential records act. you have the presidential records act. i was there and i took what i took and it gets declassified. i took the documents i m allowed to. but reports indicate special counsel jack smith
southern border after the lifting of title 42. we will have the very latest from the border as the biden administration defends its actions. we have been planning for this moment, for the end of title 42, for more than a year and a half. not only have we ve been planning, we haven t executing those plans. surging resources, personnel, greater facilities capacity, and so much more. a crucial few days ahead of president biden hints that we may be close to a debt ceiling breakthrough that could over a government shutdown. a moment of remembrance this hour. it will be one year since the buffalo super mining shooting. we will have that live. we are watching a crucial election overseas as turkish president arrow on may be on the verge of a historic loss. plus, donald trump may have opened the door for a whole new level of legal trouble. we ll be looking at that a had. we begin with 1000 border with the number of migrants taken into custody by border patrol continues to drop as
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