Stunned the entire room. Welcome to the lead. I m kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. And we begin this hour in louisiana where president biden is expected to speak any moment after touring communities ravaged by hurricane ida and meeting with state and local leaders. Those hardest hit towns including laplace where many neighborhoods are still swamped with water. More than 800,000 hopes and businesses across the state still have no power five days after the storm. As victims deal with their destroyed homes, temperatures continue to swelter. Right now in baton rouge, for example, the heat index is 105 degrees. We re covering the aftermath of ida all over the country. Miguel marquez in new jersey, ed lavandera in louisiana, and arlette saenz is live at the white house. Arlette, i want to start with you. What has been president biden s message while he s been on the ground today for several hours? reporter: president biden has had a message of support, both when it comes to the federal re
leave peace talks between the taliban and the afghan government. plus, the police officer who shot and killed daunte wright arrested and charged with manslaughter. the question is what will we learn when she makes her first court appearance this afternoon. and reports the biden administration is set to announce new sanctions on russia for a series of offenses against the u.s. the question is will the sanctions be something the putin regime can actually feel. it s way too early for this. good morning, and welcome to way too early, the show that thanks american veterans for their service today, i am kasie hunt on this thursday, april 15th. we ll start with the news. after 20 years of u.s. military involvement in afghanistan president joe biden announced yesterday that it s, quote, time for american troops to come home. as politico notes, the military spent more than a decades urging three different american presidents to stay in afghanistan. with president joe biden
from that moment. that s what bothers me every day. that s dr. deborah birx, the former white house covid response coordinator under president trump saying most of the 551,000 u.s. coronavirus deaths could have been prevented. imagine that. and we re at the point where we have been so shocked by what we ve seen over the past four years, by what we saw with the capitol riots, we ve been so shocked by the botching, the mismanagement, and the lies during the trump administration during this pandemic, america has lost 551,000 people and dr. birx herself, who was inside, a scientist saying, all of those fatalities, much of them, many of them, could have been prevented. social distancing guidelines, a race to a vaccine, masking managing this pandemic actually, even though it would have taken a lot of sacrifice on the part of the american people, actually was easy to lead through. you had to work to be as bad as the last president and to allow so many people to die. well, yeah,
i am horrified that she is on the education committee when she made fun of a student, who was in the midst of a shooting at the florida high school. congressman debbie dingell joining us just within the last hour saying that as growing calls for the removal of republican congresswoman, marjorie taylor greene, over incendiary rhetoric and behavior. her party is silent. she is defiant. also, new reaction from democrat congresswoman cori bush, on why she is moving her office away from greene. and the mask altercation in the capitol building that led to that decision. body-camera footage showing how a rioter died in a pro-trump stampede mob as it surged against police. new images of the suspect who planted two pipe bombs near the capitol. what we re learning here about the timeline, and why the suspect s distinctive footwear is of particular interest. as we said, good morning, everybody. it is saturday, january 30th. i m kendis gibson. and i m lindsey reiser. good mor
joining us to start this off, monica alba, across the street from the white house, and nbc news correspondent garrett haake on capitol hill. let s begin with you. amid the new controversies and calls for resignations swirling around marjorie taylor greene, we ve just learned that missouri congresswoman corey bush moved her office after she said greene berated her and her staff in a hallway. how long can leaders ignore these issues being brought up by marjorie taylor greem? yeah. a pretty disturbing report there. marjorie taylor greene has responded with a video that she claims is of the incident. a selfie style video in which she can be heard yelling back and forthwith someone who we don t see on camera. so it s not entirely clear what s going on here. the lack of response from republican leadership is the thing to watch. the resolutions about censure or expulsion. other things that have been raised in discussions of miss greene are not going to go anywhere unless republica