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
homes of top current and former leaders. some blame the official, some blame the entire system. we ll dig into what is broken and how it might be fixed. and our exclusive reporting this hour on congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. could the conservative fire brand find her way on to the presidential ticket? she certainly thinks so. more on that in a moment. but we do start this hour with the major escalation in the support for ukraine and what it could mean for the war with russia. in just the last hour, president biden said the united states will send 31 abrams tanks to the battlefield along with providing supplies and training needed to operate them it s a complex piece of machinery ask it comes a after weeks of debate over whether the tanks would be effective and it s happening this the face of repeated warnings from moscow that the move would be seen as a dangerous provocation. putin expected europe and the united states to weaken our resolve. he want anded our sup
Well speak to karen mcdougles attorney. Puerto rico, all of it, the entire island was without power yesterday. Nearly seven months after hurricane maria. What caused the latest blackout and why it may not be the last. Lets begin with President Trump hosting abe and resolving the crisis was front and center on their agenda. The north korean crisis. In addition to trumps possible upcoming summit with kim jongun. And i hope to have a very successful meeting. If we dont think its going to be successful, mark, we wont have it. We wont have it. If i think that its a meeting that is not going to be fruitful, were not going to go. If the meeting, when im there, is not fruitful, i will respectfully leave the meeting. And well continue what were doing. President trump said on tuesday, five locations currently under consideration for his possible summit with kim and multiple u. S. Officials tell nbc news sweden, singapore are among the frontrunners. A senior u. S. Officials tells nbc news several
How they got these documents. as careful as we are in dealing with these documents that are classified as members of congress, it appears the executive branch is not as careful. they should be. that was senators hawley and dick durbin. i want to bring in garrett haake. elise jordan worked in the white house, the state department and the national security council under president bush. and chuck roseberg, former u.s. attorney and fbi official. both are msnbc contributors. fortunate for us. garrett, wrote about the bigger picture that the entire system of labeling and tracking these classified materials appears to be broken. so how do we explain what has gone wrong and how you get it under control? reporter: with the caveat that we don t know much, if anything, about the level of classification or the content of the specific documents in question, what i can tell you is
and chuck, congressman schiff mentioned the credibility of witnesses as issue for them. do you see them using transcripts and looking at perjury charges? sure. that s always possible. remember, the department of justice asked for these transcript a long time ago, months and months ago. not because they don t have the capacity to talk to the same witnesses and obtain information, but also because they have an absolute obligation to know what s in the transcripts of witnesses that they have subsequently spoken to. if somebody says the light was red one day and the light was green the next, third day says i don t recall seeing the light at all. that s the contradiction. that s a problem. if someone has information that will be exculpatory, the department of justice has a constitutional obligation to turn that over to a defendant before trial. so there s lots of reasons why they want to see these transcripts for the substance of