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
former president trump s home in florida. we do not know a lot about what will transpire in that hearing, but we do know that trump s team is already taking issue with some of of the judge s directives dlaming they do not want to tip their hand over potential legal defense if the former president might be indicted. more on that and the trump team s latest filing on the court of appeals in just a minute. plus hurricane feast owe na strengthened into a category 3 storm potentially on track to become a category 4. there s the map. you can see turks and caicos getting pounded. it has been crushing the caribbean islands for days leaving catastrophic destruction in its wake. coming up, the potential impact for folks up and down the east coast. finally, my conversation with the deputy secretary of state wendy sherman on the united nations general assembly and president biden s scheduled speech tomorrow. this morning the u.n. chief started things off by telling the assembly that th
t minus 15. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ignition. full power. and liftoff. go crew 5. stage one alpha. copy, one alpha. equal is pitching down range. stage one propulsion is nominal. nominal power and telemetry. stage one throttle down. stage one throttle up. stage one bravo. copy, one bravo. you have seen the space launch. tom costello is is standing by. it looked like it was picture perfect. spacex is pulling it off. this is crew 5 on board. four astronauts, including one russian cosmonaut on their way to the international space station. this is the sixth spacex flight. as we look at all things are perfect. the crew members here are the commander [ no audio ] the first female native american ever to go into space. we have got anna, the first russian to go on an american spacecraft in 20 years and russia s only female cosmonaut. we have the pilot and a japanese astronaut on his way to the station. this is going to be a five-month mission. they are go
constitution. politico reports this on the fallout of the referendum, quote, turnout soared in canas despite advisory and little else to draw democrats to the polls yet in a state where trump beat president joe biden by 15 percentage points in 2020, the amendment was failing badly in a brushback to republican legislators who are preparing to move legislation s stricting abortion, and if the politics of roe proved fruitful for republicans in kansas, it will be even more treacherous for the gop and swing more moderate swaths of the country and here s how abortion rights advocates pulled it off according to the new york times, quote, registered republicans far outnumber democrats in kansas and they made explicit appeals to unaffiliated voters and center right voters. in interviews last week in johnson county, texas, a number of voters said they were registered republicans and opposed the amendment, a dynamic that certainly played out across the state given the margin. the resu
bizarre forgery scheme, to create fake electors for trump, and how the trump campaign and his lawyers knew it was illegal? i said, what would you have me do? he said, just do it, and let the court sort it out. evidence on tape of the former president s direct personal pressure campaign against key, low-level officials in georgia. whatever you can do, francis. and, new testimony about the violence unleashed against the people that the president targeted. some people broke into my daughter and law s home. i said close the door, don t open the door for anyone. all the records, information, were offered online. there is no where i felt safe, nowhere. tonight, a member of the investigation who led today s hearing, congressman adam schiff. plus, michigan secretary of state, jocelyn benson. nicole wallace, joy reid, chris hayes, lawrence o donnell, ari melber, stephanie ruhle, all here for our special primetime recap of today s hearing of the january 6th incident i