and gentlemen. dt s always pretty har to believe when you see it.nce the whole scene is so awful, so degrading to our once country. bu it cannot end soon enough. fastt the woman was we will confess at times, prettyate amusing. at one point, the eminent tv ti doctor , dr. jill , who really ought to have her own showjill on bravo, dispensing sassy and empowering medical advice, walked over to kamala harris husband, doug and half and kissed him deep square in the mouth without a mask,ithout something that never, ever happens at his house. ab what was that about? there was an unmistakable 1970s suburban connecticut tea party vibe to it. kind of a john cheever story, old school stuff, except they let bystander s film the whole thing. so clearly these people are exhibitionists to not tea. t going on behind biden the scenes in the bush loministration, a lot of which a we don t want to know more about. but where do these people findty the time for hig fh jinks? dr. jill , for
several of them are calling out fox news for down-playing the violence of that dark day. we ll have those comments in just a moment. plus, the latest on the kidnapping in mexico that ended with two americans dead and two others in the hospital. and also we could be closer to finding out who sabotaged a russian pipeline last year. that new reporting is straight ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, march 8th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning with a growing number of republican senators blasting fox news and prime time host tucker carlson for showing select footage from the january 6th insurrection on his prime time show. that footage provided by house speaker kevin mccarthy. the fox news try today portray the deadly riot as peaceful, calling the insurrectionists sight seers and that lawmakers who suggest otherwise had lied to the american public. even alleging some capitol police officer
imploded just as president trump s poll numbers continuet f to rise. now wero havundse a lot of groud to cover. sohere let s get right to it. here is part one of my interview with the former president . mr. president , great you r you. ak you very much. thank you for doing this. y ouas reported. as you know, you re facing a lot legal challenges. in your opinion, does thisu h helpur you or hurt you in terms of your chances to win in twenty , twenty four ?ws well, if you med listen to thei newsth media, it helps because they re all saying it s a scam. even even people that don t like me are saying this is a terrible thing to do fortr our country. y. i don t know whether it helps or hurts. i can tell youinopin, inio my oc it s a new wayti of cheating i on elections. it s called election interference. nterference. hewhat they re doing is ifbo they can t win at the ballot box because i m leading everybody by a lot in the polls for every republican , frankly, and ever
the collision was not intentional and that the russian pilots, they were justeurs.an pilots, they were ma and incompetent. amateurs, make no mistakke ne, t was no accident. and i can guarantee you that vladimir putin personally signed off on this military aggression. now, here s our very owngenn jennifer griffin with senator mike rounds. take a look. t i just like to geto what hap your reaction to what happened today in the black sea.d . sec i mean, let s just be honeston about this for a second.omin the report coming out of our government is that this was an unperfects act in environmentally unsound. i m sorry, folks. folks. they shot down a unitedrplane. states war plane. ey took they took it out of actr and that s the response wees get back. it. so, yeah, not very happy about it. and the cannote bottom line is . cannot allow that to happen. we can allow that to happen. that s right. we can t allow t this to happen russia and putin s hostility and aggression against our c
the republican frontrunner for poesident arrested by a democratic prosecutor on political grounds. nothing like that has evercal happened. and we wanted to hear fromanence the man who experienced it. the conversationd and a lot of different directions, heavily on foreign policy. an amazing, really an amazing conversation. here s how it began. you mr. president , thank you for having us . thank you. having n thanklast week you re n new york for this arraignment. the world watched it.raig you ve notnment, given an intert since you were there, i think. fifty seven minutes. tell from your perspective what that was like. well, it was a horrible thing i? because i did nothing wrong.e tn absolutely nothing like you look at evene the pundits, the legal analysis, greg jarrett, all os f theslegae reay talented people, they re saying he didn t do anything wrong. soo anythiwrong. that s number i number two , they werenc incredible when i went to theon courthouse, which is also a prison i