and susan collins will believe any lie no matter how obvious. i m susan collins. and i ve approved this message. well wow, that s an interesting an interesting commercial. willie, it worked in may, she won by nine. you got to say. it works. are hot dogs not made of the finest ingredients. no. really. okay. this morning, we have more on the fallout from the supreme court. chief justice john roberts confirms the leaked draft opinion that would overturn roe v. wade is in fact authentic, as democrats focus on the potential ruling. republicans zero in on the leak, assuming without evidence that it came from the left. that s really far-fetched. we ll assume why that assumption might be premature. plus, trump-backed j.d. vance wins the republican primary in ohio. how will the guy who will once called himself a never-trumper. also, a guy who stabbed ukraine in the back. a guy who said that we needed to have the federal government seize all of the assets from
there s no way around it, that s just the best one. believe me, i ve tried it every which way, and it really doesn t get better than pete butt. but this would have never happened under my administration. people are saying i made the trains less safe. not true, okay? not true. i did a lot for trains. i made them bigger, faster, less safe perhaps, but yeah, perhaps you did. perhaps. saturday night live s take on donald trump s recent trip to east palestine, ohio. meanwhile, president joe biden says he doesn t have plans to visit the town devastated by the train disaster, and we ll have his comments on why. plus, the first lady seems to have given away the president s plans for 2024. we ll play for you what she said. also ahead, a weekend of deadly russian strikes in ukraine brings more attention to the debate over supplying ukrainian forces with fighter jets. and a new report from the department of energy on the origins of covid. good morning. welcome to morn
morning joe. it is wednesday, march 29th. we have a lot to get to this hour, including a major development in the investigation into former president donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. a federal judge has ordered mike pence to give testimony. meanwhile former trump ally chris christie appears to be willing to play the anti-trump role if he gets into the 2024 race. we ll have more on that new reporting. and we re still on so called indictment watch since the president announced, the former president, that he was going to be arrested. we ll have the latest on the manhattan grand jury s investigation into the hush money payments to a porn star. plus, an update on the continuing protests in israel, and what president biden is saying about meeting with the country s leader, along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, just ran over. how does he do that? and member of
police calling law enforcement s response to the rampage a, quote, abject failure. plus, the latest on the bipartisan effort to pass new gun legislation as the legislative text on a narrow set of provisions is released. there is hope. and we re keeping an eye on the markets as stock futures plummeted overnight after yesterday s rally. this, as president biden prepares to call on congress to approve a three-month gas tax holiday. we have a lot to get to, mika. we talk about the bipartisan gun legislation. we had chris murphy on, a democrat who s been a champion of gun safety reform for quite some time now, certainly since 2014. it s a small step forward, but it is a step forward. the senator corrected me and said, no, actually, this is a significant piece of gun legislation. i think it s something that, again, when we re looking at the federal government, you look at the impact of the january 6th hearings, how effectively they ve been run over the last several weeks and