nation once again. we re not a free nation right now. we don t have free press. we don t have free anything. just a small sample of donald trump s dark speech at cpac. we ll have more of the former president s maga messaging in just a moment. meanwhile it sure sounds like his former secretary of state is also running for president. mike pompeo is making the rounds, criticizing trump s fiscal record while in the white house. and also ahead, we ll have a look at president joe biden s visit to selma, alabama, to mark the anniversary of bloody sunday. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, march 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this week just outside washington, dc, where former president donald trump returned to the stage at cpac over the weekend. for nearly two hours saturday evening trump addressed a smaller than usual crowd at the conservative conference in national harbor, maryland. there the 2024 pre
superstar brittany grine ner russia, what the white house is now saying about a potential prisoner swap with moscow s, spoiler, it s complicated. i will tell you what americans saw today when griner had the first in opinion person visit in months. the one time adviser to former president trump getting immunity from the d.o.j. and why the government is giving kash patel a pass to try to get him to talk to the grand jury in the larlg case. and the huge amount of conservative cash pouring into midterm races that typically fly well under the radar, school boards and how it affects education across the country. i m hallie jackson. we want to bring in kelly o donnell, shaq brewster is in wisconsin, and ellison barber is in georgia, where we expect to see senator raphael warnock out this hour. kelly, i ll start you with. teeing up the speech that we expect to see from the president, if he s on time at some point this hour, talking student debt relief, coming at a time as you kno
happy halloween, i defy anyone to ever surpass my childless old white lesbian costume, i know it s my greatest contribution to our culture. if you ever want to buy one, i recommend anyway, happy halloween. his name is jair bolsonaro. and he just did something nobody has ever done before. jayapal snow is the very far-right president of brazil. in brazil, if you are lucky enough to get elected president and a run for reelection, you win reelection, no brazilian president running for reelection has ever lost. before jair bolsonaro. it was close, but he lost. the first brazilian president to ever lose a bid for reelection. now, i mentioned that he is like trump. one of the ways in which he is like trump s that he has had a hard core base of supporters that thought everything he did was great, and everyone else thought he was a terrible president. in fact, the polls were indicating, clearly for months, and months, and months, that the majority of the population of brazil conside
glad to be here i m griff jenkins and this is america s newsroom. cheney is one of 10 house republicans who voted to impeach the former president and she conceded early last night and gave a concession speech comparing herself to abraham lincoln. rich edson kicks things off with us from the teton village in wyoming. good morning, griff. also in that speech she compares the times and divisions of the united states today to the divisions of the civil war back in the 1860s. congresswoman liz cheney will launch an effort to oppose any donald trump run for president. that s according to a spokesperson telling fox news that information this morning. that effort likely be ultimately be from outside the united states congress. she lost her primary last night. polls were barely closed an hour last evening and cheney called harriman to concede. cheney says two years ago she won her primary with 73% of the vote. that path was clear for reelection if she went along with the stolen 20
but watch and i ll get you there. when you start turning around lawyers with the defendants that are defending the clients. we start to live in a fascist state. that is not much of a defense? ? he served as trump s attorney during the election. do you expect that he s going to vote the fifth amendment? or a sequel to argue attorney-client privilege as so many have done? i think is going to invoke any privilege he can pick up. realistically, has been told he s a target, he should. it ll be foolhardy to go in there and answer questions. i think he will try attorney-client privilege, which is, i think dubious. because it does not apply to conversations that are in furtherance of a crime. i think he will take the fifth he has to. look, it is his right to do so, and is he said there are investigations swirling around. there came this moment late last week where we are so deep in mar-a-lago discussion, which remains important, but at one point on thursday night he said ther