good morning, everyone. erica is here again, looking like a ray of sunshine. let s get started with five things to know. there may be a deal. we re not quite there yet with the final house vote expected to day. the drama now is not between the two parties but instead within the republican party. the finger pointing intensifies as russia blames ukraine for a drone attack on moscow on the heels of a deadly rain in kyiv. president zelenskyy senting a date for the counter offensive. also, republican president hl h presidenttial hopeful ron desantis in iowa. he paints a pretty grim picture of the country. a historic ruling in big pharma. one family is fighting the opioid epidemic in exchange from immunity in future lawsuits. and what this means for the global race to conquer space. cnn this morning starts right now. deal or no deal? there s a deal. do they have a vote is the question. there say huge breakdown in capitol hill for the deal. the house is set to vote o
mode comb of honest, of truth, he doesn t tell you where the money went, the 3.8 million. he doesn t tell you how gloria died, and oh, by the way, everybody is saying let s exhume gloria. reporter: alex murdaugh is serving two life sentences for the murder of his wife and son, and facing a hundred other charges related to financial crimes. his attorneys have said they filed a notice to appeal, and they plan to do so in coming months. back to you. nbc s catie beck with that reporting. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports , let s get right to it. hey, everybody. at this hour, texas governor greg abbott unveil ago new plan to send military muscle to the southern border just days before the title 42 policy is set to expire. what the situation looks like right now on the u.s./mexico border ahead of the expected surge. and the driver behind the fatal crash that killed eight people just outside a migrant shelter in brownsville has been charg
president trump or if this was a democrat it should be equal justice in america. and stop going after people because you have political differences. house speaker kevin mccarthy pushing a popular defense within the gop when it comes to a possible indictment for donald trump. we ll have the latest on the former president s legal troubles in new york in just a moment. plus, chinese president xi jinping is in russia this morning meeting with vladimir putin for the first time since the invasion of ukraine. and also ahead, new investigations into tiktok amid allegations that former employees spied on journalists good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, march 20th i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us we ll begin this morning in new york where amid mounting legal trouble across multiple states, former president donald trump could be criminally charged for the first time, and that could happen as early as this week according
security and medicare and it wasn t a republican, his name was senator joe biden. we have that tape coming up tonight. also marjorie taylor green will join us tonight. she fact checked joe biden in real-time on the house floor forcing him to retract his smea almost immediately. the ladies of the view did not particularly like marjorie taylor green we also have full coverage from today s pivotal hearings on social media bias featuring the far left lunatics who once ruled over twitter, bu we start with this fox news alert. new tape from joe biden in a rare sitdown interview the president all but refused to answer questions about his classified document scandal. he basically pled the fifth. take a look. you said last september, jus possessing classified documents is you said totally irresponsible. what was totally irresponsible that the fact that you had them? they have informed me not to speak of this issue or two anyway try to prejudice the investigation going on. oh, so
working, news 4 s, of just a former trump fixer michael cohen telling msnbc exclusivel just minutes ago that he is no done with the grand jury in th manhattan da s case. he ll be back as a rebutta witness indicating that trum team may have called their own witnesses. we ll have the latest on tha just coming up it comes in the wake of donald trump s prediction he ll b arrested tuesday which is now sparked a defined message on the manhattan d pursuing the case. and an ugly response from th former president as well this, as kevin mccarth threatens to use the force o the republican house majorit against da alvin bragg, th reaction from both sides has been coming fast and furious it s not clear to me what committee speaker may be referring to perhaps the so-calle weaponization committee whic is really more appropriately named the committee to protect insurrectionists just feels like a politically-charged prosecutio here and, for my part, just fee like it s just not what th ame