as the conflict nears the one-year mark, the russian president this morning is, again, falsely accusing the west of starting a war and claims russia wants to solve the conflict peacefully. meanwhile president joe biden is in poland as wool speak following his historic trip to ukraine s capitol. we ll have new details about the surprise visit including why the president chose kyiv. meanwhile the maga members of congress stay on brand criticizing the president for visiting the war torn country. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, february 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. this morning president joe biden is in warsaw, poland, where he ll visit president aduda ahead of remarks. it ll begin at 7:20 eastern followed by a meeting leading to biden s speech marking one-year of war in ukraine. he is set to return home following that meeting. today s events come after president biden delivered a message to his russian counte
- this is all about a policy, which if i had them, the police department would be even angrier at me, even though i m white. - can this former prosecutor be the one to come in and help bring new york into the right direction? - giuliani was blasted for being insensitive to minorities concerns. - rudy giuliani is and was a thug. - i did not expect the shocking de-evolution of rudy giuliani. - the city is knocked to its knees. he was pitch-perfect. - yes, he stood up. yes, he did what a mayor should do, but that did not change who he was. - i saw god out on the block today he was darker than the preachers say with a teardrop tattooed on his face and dirt in his fingers i heard angels when he laughed the way that people do when they have known true pain for his sins i don t know who s to blame what choice was he givin ? in this world that we re livin when i see you i see love i see america when i see you i see love i see america [sombe
justice for tyre. the family of tyre nichols on the eve of his funeral. it comes as there are more accusations against the police unit that beat him to death. meanwhile at the white house today president joe biden will meet with kevin mccarthy for the first time since he became speaker as to try to find a compromise on the debt ceiling. and the most talked about freshman member of congress says he can t get a fair shake not because of the many lies but because of the media s coverage of him. we ll have the latest in the george santos saga just ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, february 1st. february already. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin in memphis where tyre nichols will be laid to rest later today. vice president kamala harris and other white house officials will attend his funeral. nichols mother and stepfather invited the vice president after speaking with her on the phone yesterday mornin
today s republican party exists in is that there s a so-called deep state and that is out to persecute the ex-president, his allies and other conservatives. now having managed to become house speaker by the skin of his teeth, kevin mccarthy is enacting an agenda based entirely off of that warped and delusional world view. one of his first acts, removing congressman adam schiff and eric swalwell from the house intelligence committee. mccarthy denied it had anything to do with the fact that they are critics of a disgraced twice impeached ex-president and his allies. the cardinal sin appears to be i led the impeachment of his master in mar-a-lago, for withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid in ukraine, a nation that was then at war with russia, in order to extort that country and to help donald trump s re-election campaign. you are seeing the fulfillment of kevin mccarthy s corrupt bargain, with marjorie taylor greene, somebody who declared on january 5,
you. and the letter that was sent to the ap board says, listen, we dismiss this as presented. in the future, if the college board would like to work with us on something that would meet our criteria, we d be happy to consider it again. from what i was told anderson and bakari, this was declined because it sought to teach critical race theory which are violative of the april 2022 law governor san tis signed, this antiwoke act. the syllabus is pretty dense, and i m telling you what the reason was. the state of florida, governor desantis said they believe in education, not indoctrination. bakari, what do you make of that? it s ridiculous. i have a great deal of respect for david urban. we just got done celebrating martin luther king s birthday and you have individuals who say these famous quotes by king but they don t even know who he was because we don t teach the history correctly. people whitewash his legacy. they don t talk about the fact he was a revolutionary, that he wa