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
hi, everyone. it s 4:00 here in new york. for about three minutes, a former president of the united states and current front runner for the republican presidential nomination was on the stand today. in case that seeks to hold him accountable for his words. that extraordinary courthouse moment today came on day four of ft defamation trial. donald trump testified in his defense. his attorney allowed to ask him only one question. do you standby your deposition? he said, 100%. he also added that he considers carroll s allegation false. that was stricken from the record immediately. that single question by his attorney is the result of a lengthy back and forth between the judge and trump s attorneys in which the judge warned trump not to relitigate the first trial in which he was found liable for sexually abusing carroll. there are no do overs. he ruled out the kind of statements trump has made outside of court. carroll s attorneys entered into evidence some of those statements in
machine is loyaling. we got no answers at the white house press briefing does this not under mine the president s claim during the 2020 campaign and by his 2 press secretaries since he never discussed his son s over seas business dealings with them. no and i will not comment further. i will save you no. let me save you some breath if you are going to ask about this i will not address. i know you do. more than i d like to you have i m not going to address this issue from this podium i will not do t. i believe my colleague at the white house council has answered this question already and dealt with this. his made it clear. i don t have anything to share outside what my colleagues have shared i refer you to him and the doj not going to comment from here. texts. what i can tell you i than my colleague has dealt with this. address third degree. at the white house council was the president. gi just steven. upon steven, i just answered the question. i just said this
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arguments in about 80 of those casings touching on every aspect of american life, big or small. and at this very moment, they are waiting to hear if they will pick up one of those big cases, the kind of case that winds up in the had history books. the outcome could determine who is on the ballot for milons of voters as they head to the polls this year. we are talking about a challenge to donald trump s spot on the ballot based on the 14th amendment, which bars insurrectionists from running for office. as we reported on this program yesterday, the ex-president is now asked the supreme cou to keep him on the ballot appealing a ruling from the supreme court that found trump was ineligible because of his role on january 6th. the republican party has also asked the court to take the case. so of the voters who filed the challenge in the first place, everyone agrees the supreme cot has to take action. the washington post reports that attorneys for the colorado voters who challenge