we ll analyze his budget and then we ll get to work on our budget. but unfortunately with the president being so far delayed, delays others in the process. speaker kevin mccarthy doesn t have a budget proposal ready, and according to him it s president biden s fault. this comes as the president is breaking with tradition and hitting the road to unveil his spending plan. also ahead, the ceo of norfolk southern will be on capitol hill today to testify before a senate panel. we ll have a preview of that hearing. plus we re going to get a live update from ukraine following a string of deadly missile strikes overnight. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, march 9th. thanks for starting your day with us. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell has been hospitalized after falling at a washington, d.c. hotel last night. according fooa spokesperson mcconnell who is 81 years old tripped during a private dinner. he was admitted to the hospital where he s
investigation into the january 6th committee. also ahead, ron desantis tries to debunk what he calls myths about his education policy, but his presentation of the facts seem to fall flat. we ll show you what happened. we ll have legal analysis on the doj s report on the louisville police department. a lot to get to. along with joe, willie and me, we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post, david ignatius. for usa today, susan page. and the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. we have a lot to get to, mika. first, i just love to hear you talk a little bit about what happened last night. yesterday, of course, iconic interviews with really women who made a huge difference over the past 50 years. but that day of iconic interviews turned into an evening of really history-making speeches. i must say, at times, just speeches that took your breath away, made the audience members cry. it was extraordinary.
believe in you. that does it for us tonight, now it is time for the last word with amy mohyeldin sitting in for lawrence o donnell. good evening, amen. good evening, alex. i wonder how long it s gonna be before we see republicans actually want to ban electricity to take us back to the arab candles because you know when it cooking over candles and stone bowls. they re going to keep the gas stoves. they re not gonna let anyone touch the gas. that s right! cooking over gas stoves. as the air. great to see you as always, my friend. enjoy the rest of your evening. have a good weekend. joy th it is now a matter of public record that fox hosts knew they were lying when they repeated donald trump s big lie about the presidential election that he lost in november. look, this program reported last night on the lawsuit from dominion voting system that included text messages that proves that fox primetime hosts and you that trump and his allies were lying about the elec
good evening, everyone. we begin the reid out with breaking news. the newest filing in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from dominion voting systems against fox has just been released. we are still combing through it but the more than 1,000 page filing already provides additional evidence that points to fox s intentional disregard for the truth as it continued to spread donald trump s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen. and from the very top we have fox corporation chairman rupert mourdock admitting that fox hosts actually endorsed it skk, quote, was it wrong for fox hosts to endorse these lies? rub per the mourdock replied, quote, if they knew they were lies, yes. if they knew they were lies. and the filing does show that some of those hosts knew they were lies. in one of tucker carlson s private texts an unknown individual asks him, do you think there s real evidence of significant voter fraud? carlson replies, i don t think there s evidence of voter fra
conspiracies by the ex-president and his allies including in the media. in its $1.6 billion defamation case pierces the hermetically sealed bubble that is fox news. the network that drives the conversation and conduct in the republican party and on the right like none other. it shows that hosts on fox news either peddled the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen from trump or gave the platform for people to spread the big lie that the election was stolen from trump for one reason and one reason only, fear, terror really of losing viewers and tumbling stock prices and viewers migrating to more radical outlets. messages and emails obtained by dominion along with testimony from fox news employees and hosts reveals that it was well known and bantered about inside fox news that the vote fraud conspiracies were as rupert murdoch put it terrible stuff, damaging everybody. and that it was, quote, very hard to credibly claim foul. claim foul, they did and panic over viewers turnin