Good morning, welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, march 13th. We have so much more to get to with that hearing yesterday on capitol hill. Democrats pressed the former Special Counsel on his language about President Bidens memory while republicans wanted to know why the president wasnt charged. Meanwhile, also on capitol hill, today the who house is expected to vote on a bill that could lead to a ban on one of the most popular apps in america. Well explain that legislation. Well also get analysis on the alarming comments from russian president Vladimir Putin this morning about the threat to use nuclear weapons. Hes saying that if russias sovereignty or independence is threatened, he will use nukes. Good morning, everybody. Along with willie and me, we have the host of wasteway, bureau chief at politico jonathan louisiana mere. Msnbc contributor Mike Barnacle and jonathan martin. Great group this morning. Also has President Biden announced a new Weapons Package for ukraine. According
i think it would only be fair to understand that if it takes 60 votes in the senate, there s probably blame on both sides. let s talk about this in three weeks, when i think you guys pass something that keeps the government open i m getting you guys don t have you don t want to you go through another government shutdown. a bunch of senators want to make it impossible to shut down the e government, senator warren has a bill never to cancel a paycheck again for a non-political appointee. will you support something like that i will go further you want to know how you will never have a shutdown again? let s not pay the members of congress and senate. that s the mark warner bill and the white house, right and all political staff. that s the bill that s the amendment i would offer. this only harms others think about this the president offered four different reasonable offers. speaker pelosi, then leader, has the record for the longest speech top the floor more than eight hours. a
that fake dossier shouldn t go forward. he knew that in fact that he had it go forward, he of course also knew that his wife was actively involved in it, and as an attorney, there are things you disclose or recuse yourself. he did neither so the questions will be about the things he clearly knew and did wrong. remember that this is us saying there s a problem with ohr. he s been demoted from being the highest-ranking non-political appointee, highest-ranking non- political if you will. he s been demoted twice and he s been demoted for cause and one of the causes is the clear distortion of the fisa warrant that led to this entire investigation that now turns out to be false in so many ways. maria: that s right and you know , last week we had on your colleague congressman john ratcliffe who also sits on the house judiciary committee with