Good morning, it is saturday, march 9th. Im jose diazbalart in this morning. Welcome to msnbcs Special Coverage Of Decision 2024. Super tuesday was four days ago and The General Election is in full swing. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, joe biden and donald trump will face off again in november. Both are making a second bid for the term in the white house. President biden was endorsed this morning boy the three largest Political Action committees representing asian americans, black and latino communities. Trump is also trying to consolidate his support within his party. This week, he received endorsements from key republican holdouts including Mitch Mcconnell who threw his support behind the former president just moments after nikki haley dropped out on wednesday. President biden made pointed remarks about trump during his state of the Union Address on thursday night and he continued his criticism in a Campaign Stop in pennsylvania last night. Folks, our freedoms really are on th
surveillance act. allow the former president blamed for enabling democrats supposed spying on his 2016 campaign. as you know, ray outlasted the trump administration and remains in this position as fbi director to this day. he remains under intense scrutiny not just by the former president but also by trump s powerful republican allies in congress. even the florida governor ron desantis to trump s main rival for the 2024 republican nomination has vowed to fire wray on day one if you were to become president. trump s expectation of loyalty from others within the federal government continue toward his tenure, and continues to cause problems for him to this day. according to the new york times, special counsel jack smith s other trump investigation, the one involving january six in the efforts to overturn the election is reviewing the events surrounding the event of crabs. he released a statement that the 2020 elections were, quote, the most secure in american history, which
of the witnesses in the house investigation into the january 6th attack. plus, republican congresswoman liz cheney of the committee defending her work there during last night s republican primary debate in wyoming, as she fights to keep her seat in congress. and the latest in the debate over abortion rights. president biden says the senate should make an exception and suspend the filibuster and its rules to allow new protections to make it through congress. but does he have the votes to pull that off? we ll discuss it. and a brutal six months for financial markets, as wall street closes out one of its worst periods in a half century. brian sullivan joins us in a moment to look ahead to the next six months. with us this morning, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news katty kay. and pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. let s start with the questions of whether donald trump may be trying to influence wi
the most secure in american history, which was an assertion that was in direct opposition to trump s unfounded assertion that the election was stolen from him. but despite all of, that trump is unchanged. he has not been humbled by the handful of ongoing criminal investigations targeting him, instead, as he embarks on another run for the white house and remains the front runner for the republican at nomination, he is emboldened to get back into office and purge the federal government of the people who are investigating him. according to new reporting by austin soup saying in rolling stone this week, trump and his team have been working to identify the fbi agents and other justice department personnel who have been involved in those investigations with the intention of dismissing them should trump win the presidency again. and among the list of people that trump would fire at the outset of a possible second term is christopher wray, the man that trump himself tapped to become the fbi di