Good morning, welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, march 13th. We have so much more to get to with that hearing yesterday on capitol hill. Democrats pressed the former Special Counsel on his language about President Bidens memory while republicans wanted to know why the president wasnt charged. Meanwhile, also on capitol hill, today the who house is expected to vote on a bill that could lead to a ban on one of the most popular apps in america. Well explain that legislation. Well also get analysis on the alarming comments from russian president Vladimir Putin this morning about the threat to use nuclear weapons. Hes saying that if russias sovereignty or independence is threatened, he will use nukes. Good morning, everybody. Along with willie and me, we have the host of wasteway, bureau chief at politico jonathan louisiana mere. Msnbc contributor Mike Barnacle and jonathan martin. Great group this morning. Also has President Biden announced a new Weapons Package for ukraine. According
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Against trump, it left over whether there is a broader c culpability to enable his efforts. it s a great point. it was clearly, we know from our reporting, there was some disagreement about whether to do this. it was clearly a khreub choice to focus on trump and make it a point to lay the blame squarely at his feet. you write in your piece, quote, it would be naive to assume that the committee has extinguished or fully mapped a threat that has spread far beyond trump. so how much influence could that threat have on the 2024 election? and describe exactly what that threat is. right. the committee is right when it says flatly this would not have happened without donald trump. but that doesn t mean that he could have done this alone. he was only able to do it in part because so many others were able to go along with it, whether the fake electors in the
That that precipitated a lot of lack of planning as to the next step because iran was going to respond and it would escalate. but this is kinetic accident. we had a u.n. national security council meeting. this could escalate. no doubt about it. we didn t need to be here. i think if the president had stayed in the nuclear deal, he would have been in a better place today. if indeed we can assign c culpability for these attacks, the united states needs to decide how to respond. the president and his team should provide an immediate classified briefing to members of congress to share what intelligence we have, what facts we have. we know what s happened in the past when we ve gone to war under suspicious circumstances. i certainly with all due respect
Over the weekend that they were prepared to release oil from that sterategic oil reserve if needed. we have not yet heard from the president about this notion of c culpability. i did speak earlier today with a senior administration official who said that it is very difficult to see how these attacks could have come from anywhere other than iran or iraq. that, of course, follows secretary pompeo s statement just yesterday that iran is responsible for these attacks and saying there s no evidence that these attacks came from yemen. as far as this question of iran versus iraq, either way officials do believe it was carried out by either iran or its proxies in the region. they are starting to provide some satellite imagery they say bolsters their claim of