Following the Money Raising lots questions, David Cay Johnston is joining me to talk about Donald Trumps bond problem. As i bid you all a good day from the tom brokaw news center, welcome to alex witt reports. President biden is hosting st. Patricks day events today. His campaign announcing raising 53 million in february, and reporting 155 million in cash on hand. New reaction today to donald trump ramping up dark rhetoric at a rally for a Republican Senate candidate in ohio yesterday. More on that in a moment for you, and new reaction from republicans on the hill to trumps rhetoric, casting january 6th defendants as hostages and patriots. As you know, he did not call for the storming of the capitol. You we are a nation of laws, and those folks were convicted, and pled guilty. If you plead guilty, obviously you are not a patriot. You are someone who committed a criminal act. We have Breaking News on the israelhamas war as leaders negotiate directly for the First Time Since the start of
Possible tornado forming in central new york. This hour, the cleanup and where a threat of Severe Weather still lingers this week. Also ahead, the indictment of donald trump, the judge ordering a new hearing as lawyers spar over evidence in the Election Interference Case. When we can see them back in court. And later, the high stakes special election today that could determine the fate of Abortion Rights in ohio. What Ohio Republicans are trying to do in a rare august vote. Good morning. It is great to have you with us. It is 10 00 eastern. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin with some breaking news. Deadly weather causing chaos, pouring rain, high winds, even tornadoes batter, the midatlantic and southeast, canceling thousands of flights and leaving close to a Million People without electricity. Check out this scary scene that played out in maryland. People were trapped in their cars after intense wind took down an entire line of power poles. Nbcs kathy park is tracking i
defending mr. biden s controversial decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. the hard but necessary choice amounted to this. if we didn t do it, if we don t do it, then they will run out of ammunition. if they run outof ammunition, they will be defenseless. every ally said they understand why we re doing this, when we re doing it. my conversation this morning with nato s secretary-general, one day after he successfully worked with turkey and sweden s leader to alleviate concerns and pave the way for sweden to join nato. sweden will become a member of the alliance. that s good for sweden. it s good for turkey. it s good for whole of nato. with both in the alliance, the whole task of protecting the baltic area becomes so much easier for this alliance. this is important for the whole nato, but in particular this region. good day. i m andrea mitchell in lithuania. we begin with the scene moments ago. president zelenskyy at a concert here at nato just hours after he
taking trump down. today, he gets it. so will his campaign be more focused on the presidency or the former president. and the destruction of a major dam in southern ukraine floods the front lines. releasing millions of gallons of water and turning entire towns into lakes. as bad as it is, the worst may be yet to come. we ll have a live report from ukraine in just a minute. but we start with an intriging mystery surrounding the investigation into donald trump and his handling of classified documents. we re now learning that a second grand jury has been hard at work down in florida in addition to the one in d.c. according to the new york times, they already heard from one witness, with at least one more slated for later this week. but we don t know who the witnesses are, who the target might be or why that second grand jury was empanelled. and we ll still learning new details about the high stakes, highly unusual meeting between special counsel jack smith and trump s three
officers that made sure no more people were seriously injured than what happened. a judge s ruling that could cripple abortion access across the country goes into effect in just four days can the biden administration stop it or simply ignore it? one of those tennessee democrats stripped of office by his colleagues may have his job back by the end of the day, the other by the end of the week but the political fallout for both parties and the state they represent could last much longer but we start with louisville police say they believe it was a current or former employee who was responsible for this morning s shooting at the old national bank. the 146th mass shooting in the country this year. that shooter is now dead along with four others this morning, we saw more proof that it s becoming nearly impossible to find someone not impacted by this kind of gun violence the governor himself, andy beshear making an emotional revelation in a news conference just a few hours ago.