ourselves because it was almost 250 years before a woman could stand at this desk not just to give a prayer. but to get the gavel. pennsylvania s new house speaker, joanna mcclinton, just one of a rapidly growing number of powerful women in this country, but ironically women now have less bodily ought omthan we had in 50 years. also new developments in jack smith s investigation into why the lawyers who did donald trump s bidding have reason to be very nervous. and if he doesn t win a grammy, it s rigged. tonight, you ll hear donald trump s new song recorded with a choir of prison inmates. no, i m not joking. and we begin tonight with the vital role of women in american history. something especially celebrated during women s history month which started this week. it is pretty remarkable when you think about it, the gains women have made since the 19th amendment was ratified in 1920, when women, but really white women, secured the right to vote. of course, women of col
they criticize me as being ableist. wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic hands down. i am going to be introducing my bill, the protect children s innocence act, that will make it a felony to perform anything to do with gender affirming care on children. we either get this government back on our side or we defund and get rid of, abolish, the fbi, cdc, atf. doj, every last one of them. all right, plus this hour, president biden gets his first democratic challenger of the 2020 presidential race and he has even said he is definitely running it. we are following the backlash from a major decision by walgreens that will keep the abortion pill away from millions of women across this country. and then, next hour a heartwarming story. and april boy who went above and beyond to help out the wager at his favorite restaurant, in an effort that has gone far beyond what either of them imagined. i will speak to kids in martin and devoun take gardiner ahead today, as
fight for the speakers dpafbl house speaker kevin mccarthy put that hard fought victory to work and announced a piece of legislation that is at the heart of the republican platform. standing in front of the portrait of george washington the speaker described rights. so many parents were attacked, call terrorists because they simply wanted to go to a school board meeting to be heard on what s going on. one thing going on in this country is education is a great equalizer and we want parents to be empowered, and that s what we re doing today, that you have a say in your kids education, not government, and not telling you what to do. the irony here is almost too obvious to explain. here s a bill introduced by the speaker of the house changing the way parents children are taught in school. mccarthy is literally the government telling them what to do, and he s not alone. in the past several months there s been a wave of republican led bills attacking schools and attacking educa
what the audience at cpac is hearing. plus we have a stunningly quick verdict in the alex murdaugh murder trial. we ll get expert analysis on this case in just a moment. and also ahead secretary of state antony blinken meet briefly with his russian counterpart for the first time since the start of the ukraine war. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, march 3rd. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin in south carolina where a jury has found disbarred lawyer alex murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son. the state versus richard alexander murdaugh defendant, indictment for murder fc code 16-3 verdict guilty. the jury of seven men and five women deliberated for less than three hours before unanimously finding the 54-year-old guilty. murdaugh was also convicted of two counts of weapons possession. the defense and prosecution addressed reporters outside the courtroom. we re very disappointed with the verdict.
puts slavery into its and its ongoing legacy at the center of america s historic narrative. here s senator tommy tuberville at cpac this week. today they re being indoctrinated in education. all this woke transgender athletes, crt, 1619, we don t teach reading, writing, and arithmetic anymore. you know, half the kids in this country, when they graduate, think about this, half the kids in this country when they graduate can t read their diploma. first of all, that s gnaw true, but joining me now is nikole hannah-jones and creator of the 1619 project, and ja han jones, our very own writer for the reidout blog. someone on twitter tweeted they would pay to see tommy tuberville take the s.a.t. on camera, as would i. the thing he said is the thing