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
plus this vote the yeas are 214 and the nays are 216. the resolution is not adopted. a major and humiliating setback for house republicans as they failed to impeach homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. how the drama unfolded on the house floor and the surprise move by democrats in the vote s final minute. and also ahead we ll show you the pretty embarrassing election results out of nevada. who republican voters picked over nikki haley in the state s primary race even though donald trump s name wasn t even on the ballot. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, february 7th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us, and it is an extraordinarily busy news day, and we ll begin here. a federal appeals court has rejected donald trump s claim he is immune from prosecution in his election interference case. the three-judge panel in the d.c. circuit court of appeals ruled unanimously yesterday that there was no basis for tru
co president of brady, an organization focused on preventing gun violence. chris brown, good to see you. when congress comes back this week, what do you want to see happen? the senate take up s 42. the companion measure that would actually close the loophole that we have right now that allows private sales of guns to happen with no background check at all. we ve learned in the odessa shooting that that s how the shooter apparently got his gun even though he was a prohibited purchaser. one in five guns sold today is sold with no background check at all. the senate can fix that by passing s42 and having americans sign it. 97% of americans support this measure so we want that to move forward. we also want extreme risk laws to be promoted in the states and
like nato, the eu, the wto, ors that we spilled a lot of blood for. and our partners, some of whom are mortal enemies at one time, are now some of our best friends, in germany and japan. and i just i guess that s what s so troubling. i get it that people on the outside want to take down this order, but i can t understand why the president would want to undermine it from within. in regards to the russian investigation, you introduced legislation on a friday that s written to protect special counsel mueller from being fired. it mirrors the bill introduced by the senate. why did you think it necessary to take that step and how much support do you actually have from fellow republicans on this? well, starting to get some republican cosponsors for the bill. it s a companion measure by the unintroduced by the senate, by senators tillis coombs, graham, and booker. it s the same bill. it s important, we re helping the president here by telling him not to fire mueller. we re helping him
why did you think it necessary to take that step and how much support do you actually have from fellow republicans on this? well, starting to get some republican cosponsors for the bill. it s a companion measure by the unintroduced by the senate, by senators tillis coombs, graham, and booker. it s the same bill. it s important, we re helping the president here by telling him not to fire mueller. we re helping him preventing him from hopefully taking a self-destructive act. and it would be terrible for the republican party and our chances in the midterm elections. the most important reason why we should do this is it s good for the country to pass legislation like this. this car is literally my baby.