also hitting the market, s & p global just dropped the scale that measures environmental, social and governance factors when assessing a company s credit policy. no longer important and we are seeing it ripple across the board. sandra. sandra: all really interesting stuff. thank you so much on all of that for us. as we hit a new hour, president biden is set to deliver remarks shortly on what else his climate agenda and while he s taking a victory lap out west, back home in washington brand-new evidence released in the biden family investigation. trace: we start hour two of america reports . i m trace gallagher in for john roberts, great to be with you. sandra: i m sandra smith, good to have you here, trace. trace: house republicans released bank records that appeared to show millions of dollars were sent to bidens and their business associates from foreign sources. president biden has not spoken to americans about this or congressional testimony from his son s ex-bus
of cash to the biden family and business associates from foreign countries across the globe, including some of our nation s biggest adversaries. trace, thanks for jumping in today. trace: john has the day off. i m trace gallagher. box obtaining the 19-page memo revealing how hunter biden and his associates received millions from russian, ukraine, kazakhstan. sandra: more than $20 million in total foreign funds to the bidens and their associates. oversight committee member byron donalds and marc thiessen will weigh in on all of that. but first, our senior congressional correspondent chad pergram keeping track of all of this live on capitol hill. kick things off for us here. good afternoon, the third dump of bank records, they say it reveal 20 million went from foreign sources to the bidens and biden business associates. democrats say this is some illusion of access, that looks like real access to me, when you have 30 some times hunter biden s business partner showing u
tonight s laid, campaign crunch time. a handful of caucuses and primaries this weekend will be among the lost opportunities to change the presidential picture ahead of super tuesday. former president trump is campaigning in virginia tonight as a divided republican party holds a caucus convention and michigan. caucus is also being held in missouri and idaho. meanwhile, tomorrow s primary and the district of columbia could offer nikki haley one of her a few opportunities to win a contest outright. main while, president biden is preparing for his state of the union address, thursday, we are he ll have an opportunity to speak directly to the american people about his accomplishments, including the recovering economy with stock markets at all-time highs. and possible progress in the middle east. they administration has begun airdrops of humanitarian aid into gaza and stays far discussions are underway. a well received speech could help reverse a different popularity that has the p
interference in georgia as potential indictments loom. this as cnn has exclusive new reporting on the special counsel probe of trump. actors hit the picket lines, striking against the film and tv industry. some of the biggest stars in the business are part of the walkout that s effectively shutting down hollywood. after alluding police for over a decade, a suspect is charged with murder in the serial killings of women on long island. officials revealing dramatic details a short while ago about how he was caught, including burner phones and called to taunt relatives. i m jim acosta and you are in the situation room. this hour, we are following new developments in two investigations of donald trump s efforts to overturn the results of the 2024 presidential election, that includes exclusive new cnn reporting of the probe by special counsel jack smith. let s begin with cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent paula reed. break down this and what it says about the investig
sodas to cereals. we ll go through that debate, joe, you and your diet coke. good morning and welcome to morning joe. well, let me say this, willie. let me say this, okay? yeah, i ve had a few diet coke in my day. five a day. growing up, growing up, i think we all knew three things. number one, of course, willie, we knew you never eat a big dinner before you go swimming, right? just don t do it. sure. number two, never, ever, ever, and mcarthur taught us this, don t get engaged in a ground war in asia. number three, i think we all knew from the first sip of diet coke that we had in 1982, like, we knew it caused cancer. no. you had a sip, you know, this tastes okay, but it is probably going to kill me. let me have another one. seriously, we were sitting around with our pop rocks and everything else, put down our tabs and mr. pibbs, then we pick those up. you drank diet coke, and you knew when you had the first sip, you knew, yeah, this is what killed elvi