early with us on this thursday morning. morning joe starts right now. this isn t a question of vindication. it is not a question, as i stated before, about revenge this is a my position is that, at the end of the day, donald trump needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds if, in fact, that s the way that the facts play out that was donald trump s former fixer after wrapping up his testimony to a manhattan grand jury by the way, former fixer who went to jail, actually got convicted and went to jail for being part of this scheme that donald trump is now being investigated for. michael cohen spent two days on the stand answering questions about the hush money given to stormy daniels, the porn star. now, we re learning that she is talking to prosecutors also ahead, we ll dig into the new reporting out of georgia on another phone call the former president made to an election official there in the aftermath of the 2020 election. it s like the end of the hunt
different counties in the state of florida, educators scared that if they make the wrong move, if they aren t aggressive enough in taking more books off the shelf than not, then they ll lose their job. ridiculous. again, this is not don t give us the false choice of, oh, you re either for third graders reading obscene books or, you know, you re for a book that no this is very simple. provide guidelines give our educators guidance. all right in new york, the buffalo news highlights new research on the covid pandemic and maternal deaths according to government data, more than 1,200 pregnant women died in 2021, an increase from the year before. a separate report found covid was a contributing factor in at least 400 maternal deaths in 2021 experts say the pandemic worsened the u.s. already high
cover his backside. right. he said, we want to provide them with weaponry but not in an escalatory manner. give them some weapons, give them defensive capabilities, but don t give them the stuff that could escalate the conflict. i think he is going to try to wiggle out by saying, i don t want to cut off ukraine. i want to fund them to the point where it s a stalemate i ve got to say, i saw this a good bit when i was in the house. you d have people come out and make these statements, like ron desantis did about maybe involvement somewhere else across the globe, but it is always general enough that when the time came, when push came to shove, they almost always sup pors supported what the president wanted to do even when the president was bill clinton and the speaker was newt gingrich look at desantis statement, kevin mccarthy s statement i d be very surprised if they took the position of trump yeah, whether they were that extreme and say, oh, this war
like as women, we always talk and, like, i used to do this and get uncomfortable and just say more in negotiations, in meetings, stop stop. don t fill the silence. if you make someone uncomfortable, let them be super uncomfortable. how do you deal with men intimidated by your power? say, are you all right? i became an entrepreneur really out of necessity. i was 27 years old, pregnant with my first child. i used a certain laundry detergent marketed for baby clothing, and i had an allergic reaction to it my lungs closing having all of these issues with my health. if you don t have outside accountability from black women, you are not going to be able to do this for the long haul. no one is going to do this perfectly. growing is weird and painful, and what i say to people is stumbling is evidence of momentum stumbling is evidence of
bottom of the black sea, and it would be extremely hard for russia to recuperate anything of value. so i think the biggest issue here is that it shows that mistakes or provocations can happen very easily this is a hot zone, and we are in a situation where wars can be unpredish unprediblt unpredictable you don t know what can lead to an escalation. people are looking at this drone incident, be careful you don t want things to escalate for a reason like this. no. meanwhile, the new york times reports the u.s. is promising to fully and quickly give ukraine the weapons it needs for a spring counteroffensive against russia. speaking at a virtual meeting with some 50 countries, defense secretary lloyd austin pledged to support kyiv in the fight ahead. ukraine has been burning through its arsenal to fend off russia s invasion we hear the same thing coming