nation once again. we re not a free nation right now. we don t have free press. we don t have free anything. just a small sample of donald trump s dark speech at cpac. we ll have more of the former president s maga messaging in just a moment. meanwhile it sure sounds like his former secretary of state is also running for president. mike pompeo is making the rounds, criticizing trump s fiscal record while in the white house. and also ahead, we ll have a look at president joe biden s visit to selma, alabama, to mark the anniversary of bloody sunday. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, march 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this week just outside washington, dc, where former president donald trump returned to the stage at cpac over the weekend. for nearly two hours saturday evening trump addressed a smaller than usual crowd at the conservative conference in national harbor, maryland. there the 2024 pre
american mainstream. i m talking about main street americans in their millions. they come in all sizes, shapes and colors. blue collar workers, blacks, hispanics, shoe keepers, scholars, service people, housewives and professional men and women, they re the backbone of america. we can t move america without moving their hearts and minds, as well. they want all electric stoves all over the country. but we don t have the electric power for that. we want electric stoves, but we also want gas stoves. it s april fools . why do they want that? cpac then and now. the conservative conference has shifted in recent years to grievance politics. those two speeches 41 years apart. now, led by former president donald trump who delivered a dark speech, telling a sparse crowd at cpac, quote, i am your retribution. we ll have more of his remarks and what they mean for the 2024 presidential race just ahead. plus, we ll get a live report from springfield, ohio, where another norfolk south
americans. it s false. unemployment was booming. job growth is booming. the inflation is giving people weird feelings about settledness on the economy. we re seeing growing credit card balances surpassing $1 trillion. the real danger economically is if you re not paying your balance every week, the increasing interest rates will come down like a hammer. approaching 20% on some credit card balances. that s creating a little further economic uncertainty in the months ahead. nicholas johnston, good stuff as always. thank you for joining us. thank you. thanks to you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. we must reach out and appeal to the patriotic and fundamental ideals of average americans who do not consider themselves movement people but will respond to the same american ideals as we do. i m not talk about some vague notion of an abstract amophous