president joe biden. coming up, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, michael mccaul, is here just back from taiwan on what he learned about taiwan s readiness should china invade and why he is now sanctioned by communist china. then, what does china have on joe biden any any? a new whistleblower emerges on biden family and what the oversight committee says is influence peddling in plain sight. aggressive commentary from a former white house stenographer. joe biden is lying. joe biden is a criminal. that s the bottom line. i don t care if he goes to timbuktu or iowa or anywhere, he s a criminal, and i ve got the evidence if they put me in front of grand jury that s right now seated in wilmington with special prosecutor david weiss, my testimony becomes the evidence that will put him in jail or will lead to the his impeachment. probably lead to his impeachment first. maria: wow. coming up, former housing and urban development head dr. ben carson is here on ame
president joe biden. coming up, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, michael mccaul, is here just back from taiwan on what he learned about taiwan s readiness should china invade and why he is now sanctioned by communist china. then, what does china have on joe biden any any? a new whistleblower emerges on biden family and what the oversight committee says is influence peddling in plain sight. aggressive commentary from a former white house stenographer. joe biden is lying. joe biden is a criminal. that s the bottom line. i don t care if he goes to timbuktu or iowa or anywhere, he s a criminal, and i ve got the evidence if they put me in front of grand jury that s right now seated in wilmington with special prosecutor david weiss, my testimony becomes the evidence that will put him in jail or will lead to the his impeachment. probably lead to his impeachment first. maria: wow. coming up, former housing and urban development head dr. ben carson is here on ame
fired from lebanon. israeli military announced new strikes on both gaza and lebanon days after israeli forces stormed one of islam s holiest sites decided i hear the warm it was very, very scary peacekeeping force in lebanon stressed that neither side wants another war. one week ago. we had members take it upon themselves to rush the well and stop the people s business point. did we encourage violence . and we will never quit? justice thomas s luxury trips with the gop mega donor republika, revealing decades perks the supreme court justice received from texas billionaire harlan crow struck us in this reporting was just the frequency of these trips and just the lavishness. revelations in this report has critics in congress calling to impose serious ethical rules on the highest court in the land. you say better regulation would not have prevented they would have would have. so what s better? very often. when it comes to regulations you have. this is the problem. they try to fix
charges he faces. the new storm threat taking aim at california with an untold number of residents still trapped by record snow. we re tracking it. the crash that killed a norfolk southern conductor, the company s third accident in ohio in just over a month after those two derailments. and the special investigation, the ntsb announced today into the company. my report tonight on how a letter from a prisoner led to a 20-year-plus search for the truth is now the subject of a hit nbc news podcast. and the bluegrass star and the obstacles he overcame to become one of the best fiddlers in the world. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and thank you for joining us. a violent kidnap drama that targeted a traveling group of four americans in matamoros, mexico, is over, sadly with word two of them were killed. the others recovered alive in what may have been a case of mistaken identity in an increasingly lawless area near the texas bord
by catering to the hard right. conduct like theirs is just asking for another january 6th to happen. that s of course chuck schumer, but it s not just democrats who are calling out fox news for trying to down play the violence of january 6th. some republican senators did not hold back their criticism either. we ll have their comments straight ahead. speaker mccarthy making no apologies for his role in all of this. we ll tell you how he is justifying handing over thousands of hours of security video. also ahead, the latest on the kidnapping in mexico that ended with two americans dead and two others in the hospital. plus, federal investigators digging deeper into norfolk southern s safety culture following two train derailments in ohio and a deadly collision yesterday morning in cleveland. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday, march 8th. it is international women s day, and mika is getting ready for her big event in our next hour, including a conversatio