if you ve ever been to london or if you re like me and you basically spend every waking hour you re not working, eating, sleeping or fishing watching british crime dramas set in london, which is what i do now because i m a middle-aged childless lesbian anyway, whether you ve been to london or spent a lot of time in london in your mind, you might have noticed these blue plaques on the london landscape. the british government puts up these blue disks, these blue plaques on historic sites of all kind not just in london. and some of these historic plaques are exactly what you d think, exactly what you d imagine. winston churchill 1874-1965, prime minister, lived and died here. or this one. lived here as a law student. francis bacon, participator, lived and worked here 1961-1992. lady diana spencer, princess diana, lived here. some are exactly what you would imagine. some are harder to guess at. this is one featured in the the new york times not long ago that commemorates the
supreme court. we re going to go through the arguments on both sides of the case. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, february 28th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. many of the republican party s biggest names will not be attending the annual conservative political action conference in maryland this week just outside washington, d.c. potential 2024 candidates will not be at the annual gathering. rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniels, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and house speaker kevin mccarthy are also sitting out this year. this year s conference comes as cpac s chair faces a lawsuit that alleges he fondled a male aide to then senate candidate herschel walker back in october. his lawyer says he denies those allegations. none of the politicians that have said they are not attending have cited the allegations as the reason for their absence. however, several republicans who spoke to nbc news anonymously have said the al
now, people are using the clock to speed up other things. look at this interview from the president. is your age into your own calculation as to whether to run again? first of all, look, first of all, to look, they the no but yes. there you go. it worked. jimmy fallon having some fun with baseball s new rule. we have a lot to get to this morning. a major conservative conference is going to be missing some star power. we ll go through the big names in the gop who are skipping cpac. we ll tell you which event many of them are attending instead. meanwhile, ron desantis takes control of a key figure in his so-called war on woke. we ll explain what is happening in florida. and we ll have the latest bombshells to come out of court documents in a lawsuit against fox news, including rupert murdoch s testimony on false claims about election fraud. also ahead, we will be joined by education secretary miguel cardona, as president joe biden s plan to cancel student
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
eventually, to win the crown, you have to fight. who is going to be willing to do that? desantis has, so far to me, not been this great candidate everyone thinks he is going to be. he is unwilling to go in there and say no and start throwing punches. to win the republican nomination, especially with this base, you ve got to do this. skipping cpac, doing this other stuff shows how worried about about donald trump. trump made clear at cpac that he is not going anywhere. he addressed head on the idea he could be indicted on any number of investigations. he said if that were to be the case, he d still see this through. he believes, and some else in the party believe, were he indicted, it could help him with the base. he could paint it as a deep state conspiracy. look, they re trying to bring me down. we ll hear from desantis today, delivering his state of the state speech. he ll say what worked for florida will work for the nation. it s one of his major themes, so a soft launch if you wi