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
gop. will they fight off maga challengers? if the i don t know in office is to stay in office you should find another job. inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome inside politics supd. i i m manu raju in for abby phillips. joe manchin is supporting the plan to fight the climate crisis and fight prescription drug costs. it was a deal 18 months in the working. the work of the government can be slow and sometimes infuriating. then the hard work of hours and days and months from people who refused to give up pays off. history is made. lives are changed. with this legislation, we are facing up to some of the biggest problems and we are taking a giant step forward as a nation. but as democrats were celebrating new data shows the american economy shrank for a second straight quarter. two negative quarters of gdp growth is not the technical definition of a recession. you do not see the major contraction or layoffs that have be
the price like you promised or will joe biden get on his knees and beg and plead and hem and haw for oil that he is unwilling to drill for in america. the answer is likely obvious. we will have more on this with former secretary of state mike pompeo. along with the look into saudi arabia s attempt to cleanse their toxic image, multi-billion-dollar golf tournament featuring record setting payouts to major american golfers. and newly unearthed audio that s been extracted from a laptop from hell shows hunter biden bragging about the influence he has over his father. we have that tape straight ahead. also we are monitoring primary results in four states, south carolina, north dakota, nevada, maine along with a runoff in texas. we ll keep you posted on the numbers as they come intimate and thankfully the midterms are only five months away and we have a chance to stop the devastated policies of joe biden. with democrats running the entire show and the washington swamp, this country
And we had standards of what he would accept and not. And that process intensified. We had very intense negotiations in doha. And were grateful to qatar and oman for helping in this. And when the arrangement came together on terms that we could accept, the president made the difficult but right decision to move ahead. One of the we had an activist on earlier in the show who expressed concern that this only incentivizes Hostage Taking by governments such as irans. There is no question that President Biden with a statement just three days ago on the anniversary of the death of mahsa amini about the support for the rafrn why not people. And at the height of the protests last year, about one this three were using anticensorship stools stools United States. And we see an opportunity to bring home five american citizens and as you said, in the case of simak namazi, he was in prison for five years. Sharghi the same amount of time. And iran really gain no benefit. There are no funds. Iranian h
Not a real democrat. he almost is there in the end. absolutely. fickle. he is reactive to the latest information. hard to pin down. he gets it at the end of the day. not the personal interests. that s who he is. there would not be a. translator: 2 trillion economic package at the beginning of the congress if not for joe manchin. we have a conversation in which he is talking to james carville in 2021 and he says people don t understand. i m a real damn democrat. this weight is on him. he won t change. that s this talk about changing parties is just talk. he would be a republican venture. in the democratic party he is the 50th vote. five sunday shows. he is the only one to be