fight for the speakers dpafbl house speaker kevin mccarthy put that hard fought victory to work and announced a piece of legislation that is at the heart of the republican platform. standing in front of the portrait of george washington the speaker described rights. so many parents were attacked, call terrorists because they simply wanted to go to a school board meeting to be heard on what s going on. one thing going on in this country is education is a great equalizer and we want parents to be empowered, and that s what we re doing today, that you have a say in your kids education, not government, and not telling you what to do. the irony here is almost too obvious to explain. here s a bill introduced by the speaker of the house changing the way parents children are taught in school. mccarthy is literally the government telling them what to do, and he s not alone. in the past several months there s been a wave of republican led bills attacking schools and attacking educa
what the audience at cpac is hearing. plus we have a stunningly quick verdict in the alex murdaugh murder trial. we ll get expert analysis on this case in just a moment. and also ahead secretary of state antony blinken meet briefly with his russian counterpart for the first time since the start of the ukraine war. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, march 3rd. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin in south carolina where a jury has found disbarred lawyer alex murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son. the state versus richard alexander murdaugh defendant, indictment for murder fc code 16-3 verdict guilty. the jury of seven men and five women deliberated for less than three hours before unanimously finding the 54-year-old guilty. murdaugh was also convicted of two counts of weapons possession. the defense and prosecution addressed reporters outside the courtroom. we re very disappointed with the verdict.
new picture of the embattled republican congressman performing as a drag queen in brazil, pictures santos denies are of him. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, president biden makes a promise, a promise to ukraine to give whatever it needs. all the help they need. it comes as the u.s. today targets the private russian military force the wagner group, designating it a transnational criminal organization. the wagner group is what is leading putin s war right now. right now making the only known progress on the battlefield for putin. that means the man running russia s most powerful private army is making a name for himself. here is yevgeny progozhin, publically declaring his men are the ones that captured a key city outside of bakhmut. translator: we can safely say that the settlement of one of the most important suburbs of bakhmut has been completely taken under the control of wagner pmc units, exclusively by wagner pmc units. klishchi
biden s mishandling of classified documents. that was the message in a letter sent to house judiciary chairman jim jordan. the committee responded by accusing the doj of being, quote, scared to cooperate with the probe into how sensitive paperwork ended up in the president s home in delaware. in democrats are urging the president to be open about what happened. i want to see complete transparency on how this is handled and brought to the american people. i m convince thursday is no intent by the president to do something that was wrong. reporter: do you think this hurts him political? are you concerned at all? this is a matter that needs to get the president needs to get behind. he has to get all the information out. he has to square it away, make it clear that there was no intent here, that it was kept in a place that did not compromise the national security of america and that there are steps in place today to make sure this does not happen in the future. the whit
cooperating. for those of you keeping score at home this is now a congressional probe that santos faces in addition to local investigations from district attorneys in two new york counties, the new york state attorney s general office, the justice department, law enforcement in brazil, and again now the ethics committee in a house where he is part of the majority. that is probably not the list of accomplishments santos constituents were betting on from their freshman representatives, but it is nonetheless an impressive feat for someone who s only been in congress for two months. that does it for us tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. way too early with jonathan lemire is coming up next. we don t teach reading or writing or arithmetic anymore. you know, half the kids in this country when they graduate, think about this, half the kids in this country when they graduate can t read their diploma. that s just a small sample of