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
midnight. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 30th. new year s eve on this final morning, joe, of the year. and this morning, there is more heat on new york congressman-elect george santos, who also now is under federal investigation after it was revealed that he lied about his resume while campaigning for congress. we ll have new reporting on what these charges could be. plus, newly released transcripts from the january 6th committee, showing the struggle within the trump white house to keep bad information, conspiracy theories, away from the president and the failure to do that in many cases. we ll take a closer look at former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, in his failed role as presidential gatekeeper. plus, after thousands of canceled flights and a reputation now in tarts, southwest airline says it finally expects to resume normal operations today. we ll tell you what the company is saying it plans to do to somehow make things right.
uphill battle for president biden heading into 2024. the president facing negative approval ratings and widespread concerns about his age. and ading to headaches to the white house, the special counsel investigating the president s son hunter biden plans to seek an indictment against him on gun charges by the end ofrt month. donald trump also facing continued legal challenge this is morning. one of his aids is flipping on him. an i.t. worker threatened with prosecution in the classified documents case is now cooperating with prosecutors. new this morning, double manhunts in washington, d.c. and how that pennsylvania fugitive broke out of prison. and new overnight, the boss postponing his september concerts as he deals with peptic ulcer disease. cnn this morning starts right now. this just in. we have brand new polling this morning and the numbers are rough for president biden. it could spell trouble for democrats and the president s hopes for reelection in 2024. sti
Congress just constitutionally, but he can be expelled, by a vote of two third of the members and he can certainly be investigated for all of these lies. but, he kind of fits right in. i mean, a lot of republican party politics these days is not about policy, they didn t even have a platform for the 2020 presidential election. the platform was just well, whatever donald trump wants. and no set of policies or anything. a lot of it is about performtive outrage, it s about being provocative. it s about sending out outrageous tweets like marjorie taylor greene does and raising a lot of money off the back of that because she owns the libs. you raise a lot of money and accumulate a lot of power it s