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
to the breaking news tonight. now, former president donald j. trump has been indicted by a criminal court in new york city . he will be arraigned ink that wl manhattan at some point next week. we are told will likelyke new be tuesday. fake news. cncnn is reporting that he coull face over 30 charges. in a statement, trump is saying, quote, political persecution and election interference at the highesution ant level in hit from the time i camehe down the golden escalator trump tower, and even before i wasfore sworn in as your president of pt the u.s., the radical left t democrats, the enemy of the hard working men and women of this country. they have been engaged in a a witch to destroy the makey th america great again movement. now, you remember it just like i do. russia, russia, russiae , the muehler hoke s, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, impeachment, hoke s one impeachment hoke s to the illegal and unconstitutional mar-a-lago rage. and now this. he s right after years ofn partis
Because that came from a supreme court decision. they had already decided on that. that there is a crime fraud exception to attorney/client privilege. why would they revisit what they already said is precedent? i think that there will be new challenges thousas now with team, not at the grand jury stage, but now at the trial stage. and there is also going to be separate to what you are interlocker to appeals, that could delay this as well, other issues will come up where they say we can t proceed until a h higher court renders a decision on whatever legal motion is being made. so a lot of steps that can take place. not maybe the supreme court, but other higher courts to make those decisions. and we ve all been closely watching the other primary competitors the former president is facing. mike pence, former vice president, i think was at the wall street journal doing editorial board meeting while this was all happening to some
The motion, then trump files an interlocker to appeal to a higher court to get the case out knocked out. and it should be . all right.you greg jarrett and alan dershowitz, thank you both for being here.e] we appreciate you joining us now with reaction. viols the executive vice president of the trump organization. eric trump is with us . eric . by the way, i know he has has a sore throat, but he still stil sounds great. first, i m sorry for what yourog and your family are all going is through. i m sure this is painful. g your i want to read a little something from that your father put out. he put ir t ouput out on sociale said his statement thisd is political persecution and election interference at the highes elect level in history. from the time i came down thata golden escalator at trump tower, even before i was sworn in as your president , the radical left democrats, dem the enemy of hardworking men and women in this country, have been engaged in a witch t hunt to destroy the makero
Called a quality interlocker by president putin. clearly macron thinks there s a way he can make some progress with the russians in terms of cooperating on european security and agreements there. president putin said that there was positive progress made for future talks. you do have the u.s. at one end of the spectrum, russia at the other end. very close to the u.s. side but not completely in lock step in the way that nato has tried to make them appear. this flurry of diplomatic activity will continue. these leaders going to moscow and that is significant. thanks very much.