spring day, have the strokes playing, right? you can feel good about getting up and going into work today. look at that shot. all right. thanks for being with us. [ laughter ] that s morning joe for the day. drink that in. willie, mika and i went flying yesterday. yeah? first time without the mask mandate. look at that. look at that. good boy. stop it. you did a good job. we land and mika goes, put on your mask. i ll take a picture and told everybody i made you wear your mask. no, you were wearing the mask. mika wanted to wear the mask the whole time. you can take that down now. thank you, t.j. but, you know, i didn t wear it in the airport or the general areas where it was, like, wide open. the ceilings were, like, 800 feet high. didn t need to. but there s some really good articles yesterday about when is the best time to wear your mask in the airport. you re smirking. i m not leading up to anything. there is no japanese proverb at the end of this. b
does donald trump have that kind of money sitting around? of course he has money. he s a billionaire. we know that. well, it turns out he actually doesn t have that money sitting around. donald trump s attorneys are now saying he cannot secure the roughly half a billion dollar bond for his civil fraud judgment. that means the former president could be days away from having some of his assets seized by new york s attorney general. that comes as the trump appointed judge in the classified documents case issues a controversial ruling that once again seems to benefit the former president. we ll get expert legal analysis on both of those developments straight ahead. plus, we ll go through what president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu discussed yesterday in the first phone call between the two leaders in more than a month. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, march 19th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. an
we begin with vladimir putin delivering a major speech doubling down on the goals of russia s so-called special military operation in ukraine that began a year ago. it is a day after president biden s surprise visit to the ukrainian capital. this teach along with biden s planned address in warsaw setting up an extraordinary split screen moment hours apart, the two leaders laying out their vastly different visions of the conflict. we have coverage from every angle. clare sebastian, let s start with you. on the heels of biden s unexpected historic trip to kyiv, what is vladimir putin saying this morning? well, this was unmistakably a tirade against the west. this was president putin blaming the west for starting the war in ukraine and escalating it, blaming the west for the casualties. he said west started it and russia is using force to try to stop it. and he says russia has been trying to work through this through peaceful means. take a listen. translator: i ve done absol
right now in buffalo a blizzard warning is in effect until tomorrow morning. all the impacts and when we ll see some relief coming up. the january 6 it committee lays blame squarely at the feet of former president trump. what s next in the investigation? ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is back home after a historic visit to washington, and he s warning ukrainians they could see more russian missile strikes over christmas. the next phase of this war and how the just passed u.s. government spending bill could help. plus from heartbreaking tragedies to shocking courtroom revelations, we ve got a look at the top ten crime & justice stories this morning on cnn this morning. yes, it is saturday, december 24th. merry christmas eve. thanks for waking up with us. merry christmas to everyone. sorry, martin. i was going to say merry christmas to everyone. i m sure santa is working very hard to get those presents wrapped, ready to go. it s good to be with you al