Landmark immunity ruling, but will the courts allow the updated charges to stand . Plus a busy day on the trail. Vice president harris and governor walz head to georgia for a Campaign Bus Tour ahead of their first joint interview. The stakes for that sitdown. And later israel launches the largest raids of the occupied west bank in at least 20 years. At least nine People Killed with the operation still ongoing. We are live in the region. It is 10 00 eastern, 7 00 a. M. Pacific, im jose diazbalart in for ana cabrera. We begin this morning with special counsel jack smith attempting to revive the federal Election Interference case against former President Trump, with a new Superseding Indictment. This new indictment includes the same charges as the original, but some of the details of the accusations have been tweaked after the Supreme Courts recent ruling granting president s broad immunity for official acts. Joining us now nbcs vaughn hillyard, also with us msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa
weekend. beaches are packed and grills ready to be fired up. and fox nation host abby hornacek is gearing up for fox news big independence day show, out in west jordan, utah, right now. abby, how s it going? judge, it couldn t be better. kind of like you mentioned, we are here all weekend long, because obviously the fourth of july is meant to celebrate for the whole weekend. it s not just about the day of. it s about all the day beading up to it as well. our time kicked off at the stadium of fire, where patriotism definitely took center stage. tens of thousands of people gathered to celebrate family, faith, freedom, music, and of course fireworks. the night started with a flyover by f-35s as fireworks burst into the air, people cheered, and even told me it was their favorite part of the night. there was a special performance by the legendary people band, which people absolutely loved. for the grand finale of the night, they did light things up with the largest stadium fire
those comments were delivered to a new house select committee on china. we have a lot to get to this morning from the panel s prime time hearing. meanwhile, a trip to china by a putin ally is increasing concerns that beijing will ramp up support for russian forces. back here at home, president joe biden s student loan forgiveness plan went before the supreme court yesterday with the conservative majority expressing some skepticism about wiping away debt for some borrowers. also ahead, reaction to an historic defeat in chicago. for the first time in four decades, the city s mayor has lost a reelection bid. we ll get to that. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, march 1st. joe has the morning off, but along with willie and me, we have, of course, the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, and the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass is
very different timelines when it comes to the appointment of a special counsel when it comes to the handling of classified documents. merrick garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the handling of some classified documents. his appointment follows the development that a second set of classified documents were found, these in a storage space in the garage of president biden s home in wilmington, delaware. the president s lawyer said it was a small number of documents. watch. on january 5th, 2023, mr. laush briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. based on mr. laush s initial investigation, i concluded that under the special counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. as i have said before, i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraord
trip is the situation with saudi arabia, the topic of the conversation is expected to be oil and energy. highest inflation rate since 1951. mark ed ith has more. both leaders expected to cover a lot of ground and expected to sign a joint declaration. the president got a look at the dome defense system yesterday. we expect iran to come up, both leaders believe ieshgsz ran should never be quire a nuclear weapon. every issue matters to our mutual future. we re united in our shared values and our shared vision. tomorrow the president is off to saudi arabia, could be the most controversial stop of his trip. he is not expected to hold a news conference there. he has called the nation a pariah. there is a news conference today two hours from now, different topics will be asked. carley: the trip is focused on foreign policy. i m sure reporters will ask about inflation, the number came out yesterday, worse than expected. it was way worse than expected. prices within the last