states its money back, fighting donald trump for $10 billion in federal funding from a failed high-speed rail project to reclaim that money. state officials say taking the money back would be disastrous. last one the white house announced it would ask for every legal option to get $2.5 billion back. jillian: christians around the world celebrate ash wednesday, one of the holiest days of the year. it marks the beginning of lent, 6 weeks period of fasting and repentance leading up to easter. rob: millions receive traditional ashes on their 4 heads today. pope francis is preparing for mass at the basilica at 10:30 eastern time. jillian: it is 9 minutes after the hour. committal or just incredibly stupid? alexandria ocasio cortez accused of moving $1 million in donations. did they know what they were doing? ned ryan knows how campaign works and is here to break down the allegations.
president trump. i haven t seen any evidence of president trump committing any crime. when that report comes out that s gonna i think clear him. the faster and we are on the record better and more that s available, the better for president trump and the country so we can move on. laura: the former fbi director andy mccabe is hawking a book and he seems to be contradicting himself between interviews rosenstein was actually openly talking about whether there was a majority of the cabinet who would vote to remove the president that s correct. counting votes. or possible votes. and did he present that idea to other cabinet officials? he had to count heads today s see, do i have the votes to remove the president? not that i m aware of. laura: it s a little fuzzy there for him. counting votes? not counting votes? well first of all it shows how over their heads these people were. laura: that s a very benign way of looking at it, over his
state board of elections will expire tomorrow at noon, which may leave a 34-day hiatus while we try to resolve everything. which then in plain english means what? a month goes by and then eventually it s most likely the house democrats in washington will have the final say? well, there will be 34 days without potentially without a state board of elections, thus the january 11th hearing might not happen. it might leave the house to conduct its own investigation next week and not seat anyone. but there s a lot of research going on about other laws that might let the governor appoint the board under like an 1869 statute that deals with situations where there s offices and no provision for their appointment. so people are busy scratching their heads today, but everything was from this court order 15 minutes after adjournment of the legislature for the year, took everyone by
eventually it s most likely the house democrats in washington will have the final say? well, there will be 34 days without potentially without a state board of elections, thus the january 11th hearing might not happen. it might leave the house to conduct its own investigation next week and not seat anyone. but there s a lot of research going on about other laws that might let the governor appoint the board under like an 1869 statute that deals with situations where there s offices and no provision for their appointment. so people are busy scratching their heads today, but everything was from this court order 15 minutes after adjournment of the legislature for the year, took everyone by total surprise. i think our viewers are pretty familiar with some of the, some of the battles that have been waged in other states where there have been these so-called power grabs. wisconsin, et cetera. is this, in your view, the
the confirmation. hagel was a borderline disaster on style for his confirmation hearing and he certainly struggled on substance. and that s where we are. and by the way, if hagel does get through, he s going to go in as a very, very weak secretary of defense, that has to be wearing on the mind of the folks that sit in the west wing. jack reed is the president on line one. anyway, president obama s outside game is clear. he s on the road, pushing a raft of politically popular initiatives, daring republicans to essentially fall into a political trap of opposing them. but does the president have an inside game with a legislative strategy to actually get any of these things done? the president heads today to an atlanta area preschool and recreation center and he ll push a plan for high-quality preschool for every child. a plan he rolled out on tuesday night. in states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children, like georgia or oklahoma, studies show students