those comments were delivered to a new house select committee on china. we have a lot to get to this morning from the panel s prime time hearing. meanwhile, a trip to china by a putin ally is increasing concerns that beijing will ramp up support for russian forces. back here at home, president joe biden s student loan forgiveness plan went before the supreme court yesterday with the conservative majority expressing some skepticism about wiping away debt for some borrowers. also ahead, reaction to an historic defeat in chicago. for the first time in four decades, the city s mayor has lost a reelection bid. we ll get to that. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, march 1st. joe has the morning off, but along with willie and me, we have, of course, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, and the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass is
with us, three republicans and one democrat, tom, ridge mark schweikert, bell the democrat, tom corbin, live written a letter to the candidates, for governor, josh shapiro and doug mastriano, saying this. as the commonwealth s four living former governors, we share much in common as regards our beloved pennsylvania. the go on to say more about, that and then they say we are asking you, as the leaders of the pennsylvania republican and democratic parties, to pledge to honor the process, respect the law, who provided peoples will, and support a peaceful transfer of power. in doing so you will demonstrate to all pennsylvania candidates, who will be looking to for leadership, the love of commonwealth and country, must come above all. they say they re asking them to, it s astonishing that there s a letter saying this, but they re asking these two candidates to accept the results, of the november 8th election. to accept the results, and also ensure a peaceful transition of powe
key debates going on in pennsylvania for the senate race, in colorado for the senate race and in michigan, the battle for who will stay in power or be the next governor and in new york, a race that shouldn t even be a race in this overwhelmingly blue state where the empire state contestants right now will have their one and only debate tonight. what a night. what a day. what a next two weeks. welcome. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. a very political world where front and center is the rush to close the deal. typically this favors the party that is out of power. growing signs that it might really favor the party out of power. way too early to say. two weeks can produce a lot of difference results. let s go to harrisburg pennsylvania. bryan llenas has more from pennsylvania. bryan? neil, good afternoon. for one night only, a political debate in pennsylvania. fetterman and oz debating in person for one hour. no tv audience. it will be live no audience, live audience.
stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, dueling takes on democracy. as the current president calls on americans to defend their freedoms, the former president promises his own form of justice for those found guilty of threatening free and fair elections. that, while joe biden warns of maga forces determined to take this country backwards, some in the gop seem to be walking back their extremist positions. plus, one-on-one with maryland s democratic nominee for governor, westmore. and battling inequality, and what he calls the threats he faces in november. as 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, president biden issued a stark warning about what he sees as the clear and present danger to american democracy. as i stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault. we do ourselves no faber to pretend other ways. the president also we see no time to call out his predecessor. too much of what s happened
incentivize the most committed and competent workers by making sure you can index it to inflation so it adds a measure of predictability for our businesses i didn t come from a political family or frame. i was a small business owner before i ran for office. i was a military officer and i ran one of the largest poverty fighting organizations in the country, and as a former small business owner the thing we are looking for most is predictability, and raising the wages, this is good for workers and it s good for businesses and in maryland we are going to get this done. governor, you just pointed out why so many in the democratic party are looking to you, and your military background and business background and working with a non-profit and working with the poor as well, and you are writing about patriotism and it s been co-opted by the right in american politics in recent years, and i don t know if you