To mount juliet, tennessee. Christy walked in for a get together and got the surprise of her life. Not a dry eye in that house. Thanks for joining us. Busy day. Im dana perino. Heres shep. Shepard a live look, the Eisenhower Executive Office building next to the west wing where were about to hear live from the president in the wake of an extraordinary morning. The pressure on President Trump accelerating and in moments hes scheduled to speak. Two big issues, first, the president s decision to withdraw troops from syria. Widely criticized by members of his own party, his own advisers and generals and cabinet. Our own reporting that he stopped listening to top leadership, didnt inform our allies or the pentagon. Hes getting praise from putin and condemnation from conservatives. At the same time, in the face of pressure to build that wall, the newly announced president ial decision not to sign the
shortterm budget deal that easily passed the u. S. Senate. His base was rebelling. The Freed
justice system, is it equipped to handle a divest like donald trump who has a massive platform and as we all know a history of spoking violence? certainly hope so, but it s never face add threat like this. it has never face add challenge like this. again, we use the word unprecedented too much but this is unprecedenteded to have a former president of the united states being locust of all of this. we know how he s going to behave. in many ways feels he is baiting the judges. baiting prosecutors. upping the ante on all this. we are tested pt a massive stress test for the political system and the judicial system and to your point. what a moment we are in now. i was listening to frank thinking how many years after 9/11 the major threat to the country was international terrorism. islamic extremist terrorism. now the greatest threat with
more now from assistant u.s. attorney eli honing. i want to start with one major part of the disney lawsuit, the free speech lawsuit. the constitutional rights part. disney says that desantis is doing a reptribution. how important are desantis words? it s the crux of the whole thing. they are saying we are picked out and punished by official state action because of our pole speech, and ordinarily, if you are the plaintiff, in disney s shows, you have to connect the dots and make an organizement, read between the lines. here, forget about it. desantis has come out and called them woke disney, and said i m doing it to punish them for spoking out against the law. when they have a woke agenda, they become politically and not economic actors.
get it before it s gone on the subway app! given we don t have a consensus, it would be foolish for me to get out ahead of speculation on hypothetical situations to come. we just aren t there yet. national security council spokesperson john kirby asking a question about a possible response to china if u.s. intelligence were to determine beijing has been lying about the origins of covid. meanwhile, china will be the focus of the first primetime hearing for house republicans. spoking of foreign policy, our next guest says former president jimmy carter handled it well while he was in office. welcome back to morning joe. it is tuesday, february 28th. jonathan lemire is still with us. joining the conversation, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle is with us, and
have this treatment program, which they re spending taxpayer monday on. you have the teams that are supposed to do outreach. they helped 1 person out of 1,000. it s a waste. i used to live in san francisco. you know this. i m so happy. i loved that city. it s so beautiful. you go now and it s destroyed. your tax base flees when things like this happen. so you want to blow taxpayer money on these failed programs, get more addicts, deaths from overdose and then your it s a destruction. that s why the homelessness problem is through the roof. hard drugs are obtainable easily. my friend was at the super bowl. she got stoned because some guy behind her was spoking pot. kalyeigh: that s not good. good for you for having drug-free friends. coming up, elon musk pulse a meeting with twitter staffers and makes it clear free speech