Officials have imposed sanctions on the two top editors of the russian state funded Broadcaster Rt accusing them of interfering with her than Thes President ial election. Eric garland said the goal was to secure moscows preferred outcome in the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. These websites were designed to appear to american readers as if they were major us news sites, like the Washington Post or fox news, but in fact, they were fake sites. They were filled with russian Government Propaganda that had been created by the kremlin to reduce international support for ukraine, bolster pro russian policies and interests, and influence voters in the united states and in other countries. Internal documents of the kremlin described the content as, quote, Bogus Stories Disguised as newsworthy events, close quote. This malign Influence Campaign has been referred to as doppelganger. The russian Public Relations companies drove viewers to these websites by deploying influencers and pa
now? so let s be real clear about one thing, there is no actual crisis here. this is entirely a crisis of their making if it occurs. president joe biden continues to call out house republicans over the debt ceiling, delivering, what sure sounded like a 2024 stump speech. meanwhile on capitol hill republican senators air their grievances with the attorney general. and also ahead, a major move on the price of insulin that will bring much needed relief for millions of americans. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, march 2nd. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin on capitol hill where attorney general merrick garland faced a barrage of attacks from republican lawmakers yesterday during a senate judiciary committee hearing. as is customary for an attorney general to do, garland appeared before the new congress to answer questions about a wide range of topics. but the a.g. spent a large portion of the four-hour hearing de
shocking, powerful and deeply personal. meghan and harry reveal their struggles and sadness with the royal life. also on breakfast, it s back to school for millions of children in england. ten years of hurt is overfor rangers. they win the scottish premiership with hundreds of fans celebrating outside ibrox despite covid safety warnings. good morning. today we have some rain across the northern half of the country which will ease through the day, drierand country which will ease through the day, drier and brighter country which will ease through the day, drierand brighter in country which will ease through the day, drier and brighter in the south, but from mid week, it looks like the weather is going to turn a mile. more details later in the programme. the structure it will turn milder. it s monday march 8th. our top story. the duke and duchess of sussex have accused the royal family of failing to protect them, even when meghan was suffering from suicidal thoughts and harry w
this is an ad that s going to run for two weeks and hit battleground states sbnded to target women in those states. it fwoez to show that the campaign is going to double down on abortion rights going into the election. seeing it as a way forward and trying to, as they say, stay above the fray and focus on the issues. thank you. turning to the scorching heat gripping parts of the country. 90 million people across more than 15 states are waking up under some kind of heat alert this morning. triple-digit heat and 90s are expected in the south today and tomorrow. look at all of the red. but a bit of a cooldown could be on the way. meteorologist allison chinchar is with us. when can we see cooler temperatures? that s the question many people want to know. it s coming for most folks in the south. yo just have to get through the weekend. so we have a lot of these excessive heat alerts across
through the rest of the day today. this is going to be one of those days you want to pay attention to having ability to get those warnings and watches because we could see strong tornados developing in parts of the south today and tomorrow and could be the potential to see ef2 or higher. stay tuned on that. also see that threat last tomorrow into the southeast, heavy rain working through basically from the midwest down to parts of texas. we ll continue to see strong winds associated with this system, and we have snow and ice going to be something to be watching as we get into tomorrow in places like the northeast where we ll see the highest amounts of snow totals and places like the midwest where we ll see a couple of inches in places like detroit. we ll check back with that tomorrow. still ahead here on way too early, president biden rallies house democrats at their annual retreat. we got a look at what could be his 2024 campaign pitch. we ll be right back with that. . we ll be