also, as a former biden campaign surrogate, kevin walling is here and you just pump some news that you re gonna do that job again. it s a big day for the president. you re gonna take out your surrogate button? not today. tomorrow, maybe. we will try to keep you challenged. let s begin with this president bided making a long-awaited announcement he will run for reelection in 2024. it comes as a president is facing very disappointing polling appeared potentially damaging investigations and mounting questions about his age. he is the oldest man to ever run for the white house in our nation. the president kicked off his campaign on video today. confirm vice president kamala harris will return as his running mate. without a thing? was that a mystery? the news comes exactly 4 years to the day after joe biden announced his candidacy for the 2020 election. this time he says he is running with the new promise. to finish the job. around the country extremists are lining up to
those comments were delivered to a new house select committee on china. we have a lot to get to this morning from the panel s prime time hearing. meanwhile, a trip to china by a putin ally is increasing concerns that beijing will ramp up support for russian forces. back here at home, president joe biden s student loan forgiveness plan went before the supreme court yesterday with the conservative majority expressing some skepticism about wiping away debt for some borrowers. also ahead, reaction to an historic defeat in chicago. for the first time in four decades, the city s mayor has lost a reelection bid. we ll get to that. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, march 1st. joe has the morning off, but along with willie and me, we have, of course, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, and the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass is
because of the pandemic, when factories shutdown in asia they had no idea they were supplying essential materials to us, shutdown around the world. these small computer chips, the size of your finger tip, they affect nearly everything in our lives. our cell phones. automobiles, refrigerators, weapons systems, everything. america invented these chips we made them smaller, faster and more powerful. but over time we went from producing 40% of the world s chips down to just 10% of them despite leading the world in research and design. you saw what happened during the pandemic when the global economy came to a halt overseas factories that made the chips shutdown driving up the costs for everyone around the world, particularly american families every new car built needs as many as 3,000 of these chips during the pandemic, that s the reason car prices skyrocketed. and in some cases new car production shutdown because the chips were in short supply but now the private sector at home
begging you to touch and go will: good morning and welcome to fox & friends. good morning and welcome to fox & friends live from the daytona international speedway in daytona beach, florida, for the daytona 500 today, 2:30 eastern time on fox. we re right here, yards away from the track. rachel: we re in the danger zone. [laughter] will: well, if yesterday was any indicator, the cars going around the track today will be the second faster thing you will see or hear, the second loudest thing you will hear. if the thunderbirds buzz us like they did yesterday [laughter] we ll all be ducking. rachel: it is lower than you think. pete: and i think we have eventually later on in the program, we re going to the play the clip of how we all reacted when the thunderbirds came over, because it was, like my wife was over there going, have you never heard that? it was out of nowhere, we dove. rachel: you and congressman waltz said the same thing which was when the bad guy
ukraine. it is 5 pm. it s been nearly one year since russia s unprovoked invasion of this country. i was in ukraine last spring, in lviv, in the west of the country. i am back now to see what s changed, what s stayed the same, and what is next for this war and for this country, and for the global fight for democracy. the ukrainians what the rest of the world to know it s a critical part of this fight. one thing that remains the same as russia continues to rain terror from the skies in the form of missiles, rockets, airstrikes, and drones, both near the battlefield in the east and in places far from the front. in places like lviv, and right here in the capital, kyiv. it is something that is very evident. the air raid sirens have become a part of everyday life here. there have been multiple air raid sirens each day, and while most ukrainians have come to live with them, they hear, they acknowledge, them and they largely continue on with their day. for my team and me on the grou