transportation secretary pete buttigieg will visit that ohio train derailment site one day after donald trump. the lead starts right now. big names descend on a small town, east palestine, ohio, the scene of that toxic train wreck. norfolk southern vows to help but critics know how much the company is giving victims versus company investors for stock buybacks. plus after the speeches and fanfare, ukraine left with the realities of war. do you have any idea how many bodies you have taken back to their hometowns at this stage? cnn s clarissa ward is on the front lines for us with the somber work of returning bodies of fallen ukrainian soldiers to their families as russia s brutal invasion nears one year. and a coast to coast winter storm. ice and snow and conditions not seen in some spots in 30 years. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and we start in east palestine, ohio, where the fallout from that toxic train wreck starts to get messier by the hour and i don t
we admit we are guilty. of amplifying the voices. insane people like this guy. hello, i m mike lindell. a guy like this is given a platform. we want to make sure. when you re watching fox news. it ll make you dumber. my slippers are back in stock. take us off teltelevision. before we allow these crooks to turn. our country into a. dump, a big, massive dump we ve done our part the context of that is probably the big massive dump what was trump talking about what s that i m curious about. keep it here. probably as close as we ll get to an apology from fox news. in fact, the network put out a defiant statement on another defamation lawsuit it is facing for airing false claims about election fraud we ll have much more on that in a moment plus, the supreme court delays a decision on the abortion pill. we ll take you through what s next in the very consequential case plus, more brazen acts of gun violence in america. this time, in maine
former president trump hello, thank you, it s me, hi, i m the problem. it s me. well, folks, it happened i got indicted or as i spell it, indicated. frankly, it s time i come clean, i broke the law and go quietly to prison. april fool s. saturday night live s cold open and their take on donald trump s legal troubles the former president will be in court tomorrow for a historic arraignment. we ll take you to the time line and also the security concerns outside the manhattan courthouse meanwhile, the indictment has been a big moneymaker for his 2024 campaign, with millions of dollars in donations, and just a matter of days, it comes as a new challenger is getting into the presidential race and calling trump to drop out. good morning, and welcome to morning joe, it is monday, april 3rd. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. congressional investigations reporter for the washington post. jackie alemany atto
somebody in power will say something true and is swiftly punished for it. can t have that. it s infuriating to watch, but it s also if you look at it right, fear him using. these are not sophisticated deceptions for this is not dwight eisenhower planning. this is your five -year-old telling you he never touch the birthday cake. if you re human, you will laugh cake? what cake. it s hilarious, the kid has no idea how he relates ticketless years. with that spirit in mind, we ar going to devote the next hour a a special presentation on lying in american politics for it we will stay are best to stay amused because that s much better than being angry. we re going to start with what could be the funniest lie of th year. vladimir putin blew up natural russia s natural gas line to europe. why would they do that? because he s evil pray t so evi he murdered his own country s economy for the thrill of doing it. that s evil, it takes a bad man to declare war against himself. next he will
about racism in this country and race relations more broadly. after the fatal police beating of tyre nichols, the 29-year-old unarmed black man. there s been conversations about race, about policing, and about power and it s abuse for years. complicate of course by the fact that the five officers charged in his death are also black. that is what many feel so passionate about how we teach about the legacy of race and racism in this country. it is why it is become, frankly, so controversial. especially in places like florida where the republican governor ron desantis has been slamming a new ap african american studies course. tonight, the college board is out with changes to that curriculum, raising questions about why they choose and why they chose to remove certain topics. leyla santiago has the very latest. look at this traffic. for 42 years, he was killed right here. from that moment, it was never the same. the man was arthur mcduffie, a black father beaten to death by