no problem coming out and lying the world. we just saw that with this chinese spy balloon. it s the nature of a communist dictatorship to lie to their own people, to lie to the world. that s republican senator dan sullivan of alaska responding to a new report from the energy department on the origins of covid. we ll take you through the latest developments in just a moment. plus, ukraine says it needs more fighter jets as the war entered its second year, but the pentagon and president biden do not appear ready yet to make that commitment. and meanwhile, the first lady seems to give away the president s plans for 2024. we ll show you what she said. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, february 27th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll start with the new report on the positives of co-vichltd according two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, the federal energy department says it has, quote, low confidence th
the dow plunged 500 points. this is unbelievable. ftc going after elon musk for communications with journalists. on the biden administration s effort to censor americans online. a minnesota vikings player being praised for helping rescue a man from a fiery crash wide receiver k.j. osborn. uber driver noticed the crash and they managed to free the driver. got high, high hopes. steve: another one of those beautiful red, white and blue in the district of columbia. it s absolutely clear, about 50-mile visibility. currently they have got 33 degrees in the federal city and they re going for a daytime high of 52. and sunrise for our nation s capital is 6:30. although ainsley people would say people are in the dark there all the time. ainsley: that s exactly right. if you are heading out and you are in washington this morning. bundle up. 33 is pretty cold. steve: it is, indeed. here in new york city we will go down to brian in tampa. ainsley: much warmer. s
inflame and divide. stuff that s gotten press. stuff that s gotten his name out there. just having a great idea and getting a great direction doesn t mean you re going to be successful an influential gop donor told ali vitali. you ve got to bring people together and get them to buy into what s going on. so far it appears to be working. desantis is decidedly trumpian politics have turned a once swing state into a deep red incubator for conservative policy. and it s made him a gop star. back in november, desantis won reelection by a margin of nearly 20%. all while as nbc news points out, imposing restrictions on classroom education and vaccine mandates, that infuriated progressives. the question on everyone s lips is when is he going to announce, and when he does, can someone seen as a more competent donald trump have the same success as the original. the divisive policies worked in florida, yes, but can they work nationally or to butcher the words of shakespeare, would a trump
afternoon, we got a whole bunch of receipts. this is the new document filing. if you follow the news you may have heard it s coming. and today you may have seen reports on it here in today s news coverage. well, we have it. the filing is big, billion dollar plus case against fox news. that s the defamation case against fox by one of the voting machine companies. why is this a stop story in the nation? because as partly expected, there are more new original bombshell revelations i m going to go through with you now before i bring in our experts, including rupert murdoch, admitting things under oath that he doesn t admit when he s not brought into a courtroom looking at a fine. he admits select fox hosts completely endorsed the lie about donald trump and the election. murdoch asked under oath whether some of the hosts endorsed the big lie that the election was stolen that he didn t actually lose, and murdoch replies yes, they endorsed. and that s not all. under oath we find a v
explosive new rigid revelations about what was actually happening behind the scenes at fox while they peddled election lies on air. combing through hundreds of pages of brand-new filings. then i think what happened on january 6th was despicable. this attack on the capitol i don t listen to tucker carlson. i usually don t. condemnation from all sides as fox tries to launder the insurrection. tucker carlson is a propagandist, publicly pretending to be a news man. with the explicit help of republican house leadership. speaker mccarthy knows damn not well what kind of customer mr. carlson is. as abortion bans threatened countless women in texas, one of the five women now suing the state will join me tonight. sounds like a pretty second twisted plot to a dystopian novel, but it s not. it s exactly what happened to me while pregnant in texas. when all in starts now. but good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, and in the wake of tucker carlson s attemp