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
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The break at this point but he s certainly at the brink. and with that, there are officials warning that putin has to take into account that his would not be an easy invasion; that there would be resistance; that he would be moving tanks in a way russia never has; that he s seen all the warnings, the sanction warnings and others from eu, nato, from the u.s. so, how does putin and his advisors weigh these equities? i think we shouldn t understate this would be the riskiest thing vladimir putin has done in his 22 years in power. there are tremendous risks associated with what he s doing and all sorts of ways this could backfire and potentially undermine him at home. i think he s right in the sense that putin is thinking in grand terms. so, things like sanctions and
What he did in terms of walking away. he won t be praised for giving kim cover about the death of otto warmbier and saying he takes his word for it. to your point, the only person who seemed to think it was possible going ahead under this dynamic was the president. this is why you have national security advisers and professionals and foreign policy professionals and why previous presidents have tended to listen to them instead of going with their own gut. it may end up fine, but it is a waste of time. he literally got nothing. it became clear yesterday he was going to get nothing out of this. they ll put the best spin they can on it. but when the president describes these things in grand terms as possibilities, when they fall apart it is notable. it is interesting, maggie. you raise the point there were critics on both sides of the aisle concerned that the
they re worried about all these things. what they like about donald trump is he s the anti-establishment candidate for now. they have a general mistrust for politicians, they have a general mistrust for the media, and what trump is doing is he s going out and saying your politicians are lying to you, the media is lying to you, here s what i m going to do. he s talking in big, grand terms about how wealthy he is how successful he is. he s promoting himself at every opportunity but he hasn t laid out any speck policyific policy plans. he said he wants to build a wall between the united states and mexico. he hasn t said how he would finance that wall, only that the mexicans would do it. he talked about bringing jobs back to japan and china and mexico places where he s farmed out some of his jobs but he s not saying how he ll bring those jobs back. he s basically talking to a group of people that are angry, but the next step will be to lay out a policy plan talk about