the star-spangled banner] the star-spangled banner] that a live performance of your national anthem by cory pasitoro. that is an honor, national accordion awareness month. rachel: i love it. we are going to will: an entire month, the accordion. rachel: we will do a little bit of that. pete: underused. how many accordion players are there out there? rachel: they are at paul, festivals. will: there are a lot of them. rachel: they even do a all, mass. all the music paul, style. pete: do they really? rachel: it is definitely polish approved. will: it is not vatican. these days they are taking a few corollaries. rachel: good to see you, good morning. thousands of christians and pro-life family groups are gathered last night to protest pride night at dodgers stadium. pete: as follows weeks of controversy over anti-catholic drag group and the teams back and forth whether to include them. will: actually has the details. reporter: 2000 protesters blocked the gates of dodge
now? so let s be real clear about one thing, there is no actual crisis here. this is entirely a crisis of their making if it occurs. president joe biden continues to call out house republicans over the debt ceiling, delivering, what sure sounded like a 2024 stump speech. meanwhile on capitol hill republican senators air their grievances with the attorney general. and also ahead, a major move on the price of insulin that will bring much needed relief for millions of americans. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, march 2nd. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin on capitol hill where attorney general merrick garland faced a barrage of attacks from republican lawmakers yesterday during a senate judiciary committee hearing. as is customary for an attorney general to do, garland appeared before the new congress to answer questions about a wide range of topics. but the a.g. spent a large portion of the four-hour hearing de
trump with quite the opening statement on the chinese communist party and president xi jinping. we have a lot to unpack from last night s hearing held by the new house committee on china. plus a new nonpartisan report is detailing more of the failures that led to the january 6th capitol attack. and also ahead, we ll break down what happened at the supreme court as justices heard arguments on president joe biden s student loan forgiveness plan. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, march 1st. march already. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. amid rising tensions between the two countries the new house select committee on the strew edgic competition between the united states and the chinese communist party held its first hearing last night. in prime time a bipartisan group of lawmakers set the stage for what republican chairman mike gallagher called an existential struggle over the future of america. we may call this a strategi
and i say, to all those who have perpetrated these crimes, and to their superiors, who are complicit in these crimes, you will be held to account. now, all of this ahead of president biden s trip to poland on monday to mark one year since president putin began his assault on ukraine. which has become the biggest conflict in europe since world war ii. there is no end in sight. it was nearly one year ago that russia used belarus territory to send troops into ukraine. remember those images, right? just yesterday, putin hosted the president of belarus for talks on expanding military and economic cooperation between the two nations. meanwhile, back in munich, ukrainian president zelenskyy thanked western allies for their support in a virtual address, stressing that more military aid is needed, and fast. i wanted to hear from the world, ukraine, we will be with you. unfortunately, i heard that only after russia struck our land. that is why we need to hurry up. we need the speed
the british prime minister travels to northern ireland amid speculation about a post brexit trade deal. if there is this possibility of a deal being agreed early next week, the prime minister is here and is going to want to try to smooth the way with the political parties. a year after retiring, the family of hollywood actor, bruce willis say his health s deteriorated he s now suffering from a type of dementia. and stars gather for a fashionable farewell, at a memorial service for dame vivienne westwood who died at the age of 81. two leaders on opposing sides of the war in ukraine have spoken to the bbc in the run up to the one year anniversary of russia s invasion. ukraine s president zelensky tells us he won t concede territory to russia in any future peace deal to end the war. he insists doing so would leave ukraine weaker as a state, and give vladimir putin cause to want to keep coming back . meanwhile, one of the russian leader s staunchest allies, alexander lukas