Threeminute video and an invitation to el paso later this month for a campaign kickoff. Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, march 13th. Im alongside katty kay, White House Reporter jonathan lemire, staff rattner and Kimberly Atkins. Weve got a lot to cover this morning, including beto orourkes president ial bid. Well talk to the author of the vanity fair profile that just dropped ahead of todays announcement. Plus Paul Manaforts legal trouble went from bad to worse. New york wants a crack at him in a criminal case that the president cannot pardon away. Also ahead, well talk about the College Cheating scandal and the staggering 750 families who may have been involved. Plus Matt Whitaker has left the department of justice but some things he said to Congress Last month just arent going away. It surrounds his comments with President Trump about Michael Cohen. But we begin with former congressman beto orourke this morning officially joining the fe field of 2020 Democratic Candidates. Hi
Reduce our trade deficit substantially, promote fairness and reciprocity and unlock opportunities for growth. In the United States these deals are a game changer for our farmers and our ranchers. We love our farmers and our ranchers. We have been working hard on this. Providing them with significantly enhanced access with a critical foreign market. In a moment ill be honoring a lot of the folks in the room that are here with us from farm country. Ranch country. And were going to be witnessing a historic signing by ambassador lightheiser, ambassador from japan. Neil were going to continue monitoring the president s remarks on signing a deal with japan. This does not need congressional approval. If he touches on other developments, whats going on in syria and the troop commitments, well let you know as well as the appearance of other whistle blowers who could be coming forward. Up close and personal as we lead is the president s taxes for years. It has been democrats holy grail. As a can
For the entire hour tonight and every night this week hoping that by sheer volume and repetition we can give it the illusion of relevance. Hope you find it edifying. Just kidding. Thats jeff zuckers channel. On this show we are opting for actual news, things that matter. So we are beginning tonight with the brutal war that is currently raging out of control just over the border of our two most populist states. For years the American News media for purely ideological reasons have all but ignored the explosion of horrifying brutality in mexico. Its getting harder to do. Just yesterday mexican drug cartels murdered at least nine americans, that would include six children in an am burst right on the highway about 75 miles from arizona. Among the casualties was amonthold shot in the chest and 4yearold shot in the back. Lit the car on fire before leaving the scene. Mark daniels is the sheriff in that town. Thanks for coming on. What can you tell us about this . Well, good evening, tucker. In
Hoping by shear volume and repetition we can give it the allusion of relevance. Hope you find it edifying. Just kidding. Thats jeff zookers channel. On this show we are opting for actual news, things that matter. So we are beginning tonight with the brutal war that is currently raging out of control just over the border of our two most populist states. For years the American News media for purely ideological reasons have all but ignored the explosion of horrifying horg brutality in mexico. Its getting harder to do. Just yesterday mexican drug cartels murdered at least nine americans, that would include six children in an am burst right on the highway about 75 miles from arizona. Among the casualties was a nine molamonthold shot in the chest and 4yearold shot in the back. Lit the car on fire before leaving the scene. The sheriff that borders mexico. Thanks for coming on. What can you tell us about this . Well, good evening, tucker. And over the last 36 hours we have had 11 People Killed
Closeddoor interviews. Test money from two witnesses. From a u. S. Investor to ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and former Senior Advisor to secretary of state michael pompeo, michael mckinlay. According to the documents, mckinley told lawmakers he resigned partly because of his concerns for his of the administrations efforts to procure negative political information. Question i think youve also said part of the reason why you decided to resign was that you couldnt be blind to what was happening and what was happening was efforts to use the state department to dig up dirt on a political opponent. Is that fair . Mckinley responds thats fair. If i can underscore and 37 years in the Foreign Service in different parts of the globe and working on many controversial issues, working ten years in washington, ive never seen that. President trump however it has repeatedly said hes done nothing wrong. We have Fox Team Coverage from capitol hill. Kristin fisher on the witnesses who did not show up today