frontrunners for the 2024 republican nomination, even though only one of them is officially in the race. ahead, a veteran gop strategist explains why desantis is stealing some of trump s thunder. meanwhile, election deniers are celebrating after three states pulled out of a program to protect voter rolls with two more states considering joining them. we ll explain this latest development. plus, we ll go through the changes norfolk southern is making following the derailment of two of its trains in ohio. and we ll ask transportation secretary pete buttigieg about the federal response to the disaster and how to prevent another one from happening when he joins us later this morning. and good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, march 7th. we are live in abu dhabi, the crossroads of the world. it truly is, with our 30/50 summit, forbes and know your value has come together to create an incredible, cross-cultural, multi-generational summit that, really, t
it is preliminary to becoming a presidential candidate. i mean, willie, i mean, talk about defining i won t say deviancy. by to say, oh, at least he started to talk about the issues. i mean, he s basically declaring war on anybody who didn t vote for him. he is still lying about losing the election. you now have members of congress who are going out talking about liberating those poor, poor victims, in their minds, of people who actually stormed the capitol on january 6th. so now, they re calling them political prisoners. this is a really screwed up, twisted reality, and to try to gloss over it, which some establishment republicans tried to do, and go, well, you know, at least he s starting to talk about the issues, to say that s unfortunate, well, that s a bit