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
welcome to inside politic ts requests. thank you for sharing your day with us. the hate-based spot, a man charged with scheming to murder jews serving in state government. the attorney general says she is among those targeted. plus president biden rallies democrats on capitol hill this hour. the president warning republicans want devastating spending cuts in exchange for letting the government borrow to pay its bills. the house speaker says that s not true. says it s the president dragging things out instead of negotiating. and surprise meeting. the top american and russian did you want did you want, but it ran barely ten minutes. today proof there s no end in sight. we begin the hour with the arrest of the michigan man and the frightening outburst of hate that led to it. a man now in custody threatened to kill any jews working in michigan state government and vowed to use deadly force against anyone who attempted to stop him. michigan s top law enforcement officer, says
struggling first republic, the hope is that this massive cash infusion will calm markets and stop a panicky selloff. plus trump special koubl takes sweeping steps to get questions answered. subpoenas for workers from trump s communication handlers to the staff member caught on video helping move boxes in ask out of a storage room. and next week china s president makes a state visit to russia. the trip has consequences for ukraine s war of survival, and it happens the day the hague issues an arrest warrant for the russian president. up first, another bank saved from ruin. 11 banks, $30 billion, that s how much money is and how many lenders it took to save first republic from going the way of silicon valley bank. $5 billion from bank of america, wells fargo, jpmorgan and citi, $2.5 million from goldman sachs. this deal from the mega banks included behind the scenes talks between the treasury secretary, the fed chair and the jpmorgan chase chief. the goal, the rescue retur
spring arrived weeks ago. i was just out west. it was like 30 degrees colder. it was the weird est thing. the weather is just all out of whack. it s crazy on the west coast we re seeing these blid saturday, but here on the east coast,s there was an 80-degree day in d.c. in february. that is not a good sign for the future. it really isn t. get your skiing in now before it all goes away. here s what we are watching on cnn this morning. you don t think he needs f-16s now? he doesn t. president biden rules out sending f-16 fighter jets to ukraine. and this morning russia continues to hammer targets there. we re going to take you live. and number two, gripping testimony in alex murdaugh s murder trial. are you a family annihilator? a family anigh lite r later? did i shoot my wife and son, no. we re going to take you to the courtroom as murdaugh takes the stand. why he says he lied to police but had had nothing to do with the their deaths. a hotter than expected
i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. fighter jets have shot down an object in u.s. air space. on friday president biden gave the order to shoot down a high altitude object hovering ten m miles off the coast of alaska. last saturday fighter jets shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon in the atlantic ocean after flying across the entire country. j joining me now to discuss is retired air force lieutenant general, he was the first chief of intelligence, surveillance and he s a fighter pilot with more than 3,000 flying hours. he was the principle attack planner by operation desert storm commander of no-fly operations over iraq in the 90s. these days he s the dean of the mitchell institute for aerospace studies. general, thank you for coming back to the program. so what is norad s responsibility and the framework through which it determines a course of action? well, michael, it s good to see you again 37 it s been quite a week for the commander of north american air defen