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
windchills of 32 below in minneapolis, just 10 degrees at houston, texas. this denver it went from 42 to 5 in an hour. the latest on the massive storm, the cold and how it s making a mess of people s holiday plans. it was really chaos. it was back is and forth and one minute there s a flight at 6:45 and then a minute it s gone. and finally ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is back in kyiv following his trip to washington. he left with a promise of billions more in aid, but with republicans taking control of the house in just a couple weeks, that maybe a lot tougher to get going forward. i want to begin with this treacherous winter storm causing disruption across the country. this is in iowa. wow. it s not just there. in erie county, new york, it s so dangerous they just issued a driving ban. i want to bring in shaq brewster. katie beck from reagan national. and also with us is meteorologist bill karins. shaq, let me just get started with you. it feels like you re in
Lost. And there was that rose garden moment after the Supreme Court decision. And he said to you, i dont want people to know i lost, right . He said that to mark meadows. I was standing catty corner to mark meadows. We were leaving the residence. We were at a christmas reception. The president was going back to the residence from the oval office. I was with mark steps behind mark. And this was a conversation between the president and mark meadows. That was part of our interview with former white house aide Cassidy Hutchinson almost exactly a month ago. Now her former boss mark meadows may have flipped on the former president. Meanwhile, another attorney from Donald Trumps elite Strike Force Legal team takes a plea deal in the Georgia Election interference case. We have a lot to cover this morning on the legal cases tied to donald trump. Plus, well go through the on going republicanled chaos on capitol hill. Still no speaker . Mike johnson of louisiana is now the partys fourth nominee f
Election. and the committee only issued criminal referrals for trump and attorney john eastman despite the conclusion that put many other players who were involved in the effort. last hour i asked adam schiff if he s concerned that he s letting those people off the hook. to, i don t think so. we did uf others in addition to the president that we believe violated federal laws. but we also made it very clear this our criminal referrals that this was not an exhaustive list. either the individuals committed crimes or of the crimes themselves that were committed. let me bring in julie circumstancen and nicholas woo. we talk about the others. they are named as cocon sere torts in the full-time report. and yet the criminal referrals were only issued for the former
They say that it has not been prioritized enough, and they are looking closely to tuesday to see what the president says on the filibuster and they ve told me that anything less than a full throwing his full support behind reworking the filibuster, they say, would be viewed as a disappointment. but, cory, what matters perhaps more than what the president is going to say on tuesday are the conversations that he s having back here in washington with lawmakers, because as we ve seen with build back better, it only takes that one senate democrat to completely derail the president s agenda. i think that s what s on people s minds here, is no matter what the president says, if he cannot get any obstacles to ending the filibuster out of the way, it won t matter. julie, let s bring you in here. it s been a very busy month. in congress, they re trying to deal with the debt limit. they ve got infrastructure, build back better that lauren just mentioned. it seems like democrats are ready to p