morning joe, it s monday. did you have a good monday? i will tell you about it in just a moment. joe has a lot of cats. he s a cat man. we were not big cat people. we had dogs. mika is a cat woman and apparently everybody in our family has - cats. everybody decided to get cats and everybody decides to leave town. and drop their cats off. i am herding cats. what do i do? usually sit down and watch my soccer and smoke cigarettes, drink my pbr. here i am herding cats all weekend. you are really good with the food for some and you keep it from the others that they don t get stomach problem, you are caring for all your cats. okay. it was quite a fixture to come home to. put them on leashes. with us, we have the host of msnbc, reverend al sharpton. very disturbed, i am thinking you are a dog guy reverend al, i am not a cat guy. if they were thrust upon me on this marriage. i am neither a dog guy or cat guy if i can help it. i have been caught once or twi
now? so let s be real clear about one thing, there is no actual crisis here. this is entirely a crisis of their making if it occurs. president joe biden continues to call out house republicans over the debt ceiling, delivering, what sure sounded like a 2024 stump speech. meanwhile on capitol hill republican senators air their grievances with the attorney general. and also ahead, a major move on the price of insulin that will bring much needed relief for millions of americans. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, march 2nd. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin on capitol hill where attorney general merrick garland faced a barrage of attacks from republican lawmakers yesterday during a senate judiciary committee hearing. as is customary for an attorney general to do, garland appeared before the new congress to answer questions about a wide range of topics. but the a.g. spent a large portion of the four-hour hearing de
Mar-a-lago was needed. and the senator is not wrong that the open investigations are shadows everything in d.c. right now with donald trump and declared presidential candidate. we obviously don t know the doj s time line. we don t know if indictments will come or not, but what s your perception there as to how heavy that just hangs over not just d.c. or the republican field in 24? absolutely. we saw this in term of what senator cruz was trying to say, which is this was basically his case, that he felt the doj was trying to pity biden and get a trump and kind of do an eye for an eye there. this is clearly one of the biggest issues for the 2024 field, one of the weaknesses when you look at some of the challengers to the former president say he can t be leading these investigations when he might be potentially indict. so i think this is going to be something we re going to see continue to play out. obviously the attorney general said that, you know, there is a
Well and obviously keeps us involved in europe and decreases our military readiness. china probably doesn t want to blatantly violate the sanctions, but they ve already been providing various through third parties and i would think down the road if necessary china will sell all sorts of military equipment to other countries such as belarus and then those will get to russia. or they ll do it through the uae or do it through pakistan. my sense is one way or another china is going to find a way to support russia economically and militarily so it doesn t lose. richard, tomorrow president biden is hosting the chancellor of germany at the white house, and it comes at an interesting moment in this conflict where the president has to do a lot of allied maintenance, if you will. he met with the bucharest nine last week and they of course were gung ho and want to see
For it. a vial of lilly s most common prescribed insulin currently has a list price of roughly $275 a vial, that price is a $1,000% increase from when the product hit the market in 1996. the company plans to reduce the price per vial to $66, which means the medicine will still cost more than three times it did in 1996. research estimates it only costs less than $7 to produce a vial of insulin. now its announcement to cap the out-of-pocket insulin costs comes as a big win for the biden administration. the president has made it a point to rein in the cost. however, through last year s inflation reduction act congress and the white house were able to cap the cost of insulin for seniors with medicare coverage to $35 a month, that in turn