comments pointed at florida governor ron desantis? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that s watching one florida man battle another. i m jonathan lemire on this thursday, january 13th. let s start with the news. president biden is keeping the pressure on senate democrats to pass voting rights or change the filibuster. today the president will attend a closed door democratic caucus lunch at the u.s. capitol to push senators into backing the two bills, but despite his vocal support, the president still has an uphill battle to get senators manchin and sinema on board. every democratic senator would need to vote in favor of a change for the filibuster. this comes just one day after majority leader chuck schumer outlined his plan to make sure republicans can t stop him from bringing up voting rights. schumer wrote a memo to colleagues detailing a workaround to get the senate bills to floor for debate even if a final vote re
later, i went back to bucha, and of course, some of the images you re going to see are indeed disturbing. but here s my report. further, andriy halloween of st. andrew s church walks me through gooch s grisly place in history. hundreds were brutally killed here during russia s month-long occupation, including women, children, the elderly. 929 years old. oh, my god, 1923 to 2022 99 years old and a child of two years old or your book which you go that these people died not during the fighting, but during the occupation says father andrii, when the russian world came here. and this is its face these are corpses, these are rape people. this is every apartment and house looted. this is the face of the russian world just this place to trash his father henry became known after the russians were pushed back for revealing the site of a mass grave just here on his church group bounds filled with 160 people he shows me the original posting about it on facebook. march 12, 2022, w
and i thank you. good to be back with you on this second hour of msnbc reports with jose diaz-balart. it is 1:00 eastern, 10:00 a.m. pacific. i m in today for chris jansing. what happens today in a d.c. courthouse could be one of the most important days yet for the former president. donald trump s lawyer facing off against jack smith s special counsel team about the durability of trump s presidential immunity argument. it is now in the hands of three judges, but could this case as trump s lawyer put it open pandora s box? a president has to have immunity. and the other thing is i did nothing wrong. and the two top figures in this case, special counsel jack smith and judge tanya chutkan have now both been victims of swatting. what does that mean for the safety of public officials as we head into a busy 2024? plus, the pentagon s investigation into secretary of to hide his hospitalization from even the white house as more lawmakers on capitol hill call for his resignation.
one pilot s quick decision that may have averted a disaster. just the latest incident in recent weeks, including a near collision in new york. the state of emergency extended in eastern ohio 48 hours after a train derailment and fire. schools closed, thousands told to evacuate or stay indoors. the warning now about dangerous chemicals. an arrest in a horrifying synagogue attack in san francisco. the suspect accused of firing a handgun loaded with blanks. the attack coming just days after a man allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at a new jersey temple, leaving jewish communities on edge. we re tracking a new cross country storm dropping a foot of snow in the west with severe winds and flooding rain heading east this week. rob marciano times it out. our emotional interview with a widow of an american medic killed in ukraine. why she says he dedicated his life to helping others and a russian defector speaks for the first time about the atrocities he witnessed by his own
there was substantial evidence of criminal intent by the president, in his view. we re going to see bob mueller walk out and we re going to be watching for is he alone, is mr. barr behind him or in the room, what are the first words that bob mueller wants to publicly utter? a man who is reticent, sometimes to a fault his supporters say. he clearly has something to say. does he in any way elude to or cite what we know to be major disagreements with mr. barr about what mueller found in his investigation and about evidence about sitting the president. here we have for the first time publicly in more than two years robert mueller. thank you for being here. two years ago the acting attorney general asked me to sv as special counsel. and he created the special
counsel s office. the appointed directed the office to investigate russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. this included investigating any links or coordination between the russian government and individuals asso