was part of some operation orchestrated by fbi agents is ludicrous. your job is to review what they do. your job is to protect the american people from a tyrannical fbi storming the home of a american family. i could not agree more with your description of the fbi being tyrannical. you preside over the fbi that has the lowest level of trust in the fbi s history. people trusted the fbi more when j. ed gar hoover was running the place. respectfully, congressman, in your home state of florida the number of people applying to come work for us is up over 100%. the american people fully understand there is a two tiered justice system that has been weaponized to persecute people based on their political beliefs and that you have personally worked to weaponize the fbi against conservatives. i would disagree with your characterization of the fbi and certainly your description. the idea i m biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me given my own personal backgro
what the audience at cpac is hearing. plus we have a stunningly quick verdict in the alex murdaugh murder trial. we ll get expert analysis on this case in just a moment. and also ahead secretary of state antony blinken meet briefly with his russian counterpart for the first time since the start of the ukraine war. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, march 3rd. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin in south carolina where a jury has found disbarred lawyer alex murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son. the state versus richard alexander murdaugh defendant, indictment for murder fc code 16-3 verdict guilty. the jury of seven men and five women deliberated for less than three hours before unanimously finding the 54-year-old guilty. murdaugh was also convicted of two counts of weapons possession. the defense and prosecution addressed reporters outside the courtroom. we re very disappointed with the verdict.
statements that drew the ire of trump and basically put you on a retaliation list. can you talk what it was like to be targeted by the president of the united states? well, since that time i have been the target of many of trump army in terms of their animosity, their hatred, and even their death threats. it s clear donald trump will go to every extent possible to use every opportunity he has to be able to carry out these vendettas against those who believe have harmed him such as peter struck, lisa page, and others. therefore i shudder to think if donald trump were to get back into office, what he would do with those institutions of governments, those powerful organizations and the laws of this country which he has so manipulated and distorted in order to advance his own personal agenda. so when i think about, you know, what donald trump hawse done to
of mi-6. you can listen to putin. there is no desire on the part of the russian president for peace. as long as that is the case, you re not going to see i think the united states basically saying it s time to cut a deal and regardless. if anything we re seeing an escalation and increase in security assistance and bullishness on the part of the united states of what ukraine can achieve on the battlefield. terrific analysis and a really nice letter. senior correspondent for yahoo news. still ahead we re going to switch news and move to business. the markets are up following a slight rally yesterday. we ll look into what hawse wall street optimistic when we come right back. l street optimistic when we come right back
people a fair chance to seek protection as our laws require. and instead we re seeing an expansion of the program and this disingenuous lie over and over again the administration s hands were tied, they have no other option to comply with this court order. when the judge left it open to the possibility of rule making, they could have done other things, they could have fought harder. but instead they re using it as political leverage to say oh, we had to do it because of the court order when that s not true and not accurate, and there hawse not been enough push back there. instead we re expanding the program and putting haitians in it as well. katelyn, what legal or legislative options are available for the biden administration to officially end this program? well, so here s the problem that the biden administration faces is that i think that, you know, the last administration president trump really underscored this misnomer, this idea that a lot of people seem to have that the pres