Trial. Well have expert legal analysis for you on that in just a moment. Also ahead, the end of an era for Senate Republicans. The partys longest Serving Leader in the Upper Chamber is stepping down at the end of the year. Well take a look at Mitch Mcconnell legacy and who could replace him. And that comes as congressional leaders now have a deal to fund part of the government for a few more weeks, giving lawmakers a little more time to get a lot done. O get a lot done good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, february 29th, a weekday, just what we needed this year to be a little longer. Im jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. And we begin with some massive news that broke late yesterday. The Supreme Court has agreed to consider former President Trumps claim of president ial immunity in his federal election interference case. The conservative courts decision to hear the case will further delay a potential trial. The high court has scheduled argument
Prosecutors confirmed that he is still under federal investigation and this all comes after the two Virus Whistleblowers testified the politics influence the dojs decision, throughout the bided and been dissented investigation welcome the troubled is. There pretty hunter and his former associate kevin archer is expected to set the closeddoor testimony of the House Oversight committee tomorrow, and former director national intelligence, click joins me now i should also a formal acting u. S. Attorney from the great State Of Texas and spray to see you mr. Radcliffe. You bet katie could be with you sweetie was a big week and we saw something very unusual the words of this federal judge take place. The plea deal completely fell apart and we are now in this position where looks like the department of justice, under President Joe Biden colluded essentially with Hunter Bidens attorney, to get him to steal and the judge simply read through it and found some things that she thought were unconsti
i usually like to say to you happy friday. happy friday eve. getting us started. russian missiles are blowing the top off an apartment city liviv. officials call it a heaviest attack yet. that city is near poland. more than 300 miles from the front lines in eastern and southern ukraine. dana: both sounds vowing to respond to this escalating violence as ukraine admits russia has been successful in slowing down its counter offensive. bill: a big story overseas. administration has gone back to china again. janet yellen arrived there a short time ago facing a high-stake test to calm tensions between the world s two largest economies as the u.s. and china have a tech war. mike pompeo on deck on this. first to jeff paul with the latest on ukraine. we re following two big stories involving russia. the first being that attack in ukraine but let s get to the possible new whereabouts of russian mercenary leader. he is in russia. originally set to go to belarus as part of a deal
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to fix the nfl playoffs so the biggest pop star in the world can pop up on the jumbotron in the super bowl to hypnotize her 11-year-old fans into voting for joe biden. that is some whacky stuff. but maga world continues to melt down over taylor swift and travis kelcekelce s relationshi we ll have more on that. this cannot be real. taylor swift, you know, this is what i heard from the bozos back in was it 20 today, of today, oh, we ll stop watching the nfl. i heard that. heard top republican operatives when i say top, top republican operatives say we re running against the nfl. we re running against, you know, colin kaepernick, we re running against black lives matter, we re running against never kneeling for the flag. we re running against all of that. you know, the nfl is left wing. they are this or that, the other about and we re never going to football again. that is what i heard from a lot of people. and republicans hate the nfl now. hates them. it is over. they