i m michael steele. chris hayes will be back here tomorrow night. but tonight i m your host. normally i m on the other side of the desk as a guest, because you know i ran the republican party and all that and a little bit of political expertise. so tonight i ve got a message for anyone looking that s at this current republican party. if you are waiting for it to get better, it s not going to happen. republican national committees trying to rein in donald trump and missing the point completely. our chair rural knee macdonnell wants press presidential hopefuls to take a loyalty pledge intern for a spot on the 2024 debate stage. now the policies aimed at making sure that donald trump doesn t tank the parties chances by running as a third party spoiler for the loses the primary. but getting donald trump to sign a loyalty pledges a fools errand. donald trump isn t loyal to anyone but himself. this is a man who turned his back on his own office, that led to a deadly insurrection ag
basically spend every waking hour you re not working, eating, sleeping, or fishing watching british crime dramas set in london, which is what i do now because i m a middle aged childless lesbian. anyway. whether you ve been to london or just spent a lot of time in london in your mind you might have noticed these blue plaques on the london landscape. the british government puts up these blue disks, these blue plaques on historic sites of all kinds not just in london but particularly in london. there are also some in other parts of the country of course. some of these historic plaques are exactly what you would think. exactly what you would imagine, right? winston churchill 1874-1965 prime minister lived and died here. this one mahatma gandhi 1869-1948 lived here as a law student. francis bacon, painter lived and worked here 1961-1992. lady diana spencer, princess diana, lived here. some are exactly what you would imagine if you know anything about british history. some are a l
chris hayes was backer tomorrow night. tonight, i m your host. normally i m on the other side of the desk as a guest, because you know i ran the republican party and all that and a little bit of political expertise. so tonight i ve got a message for anyone looking that s at this current republican party. if you are waiting for it to get better, it s not going to happen. republican national committees trying to rein in donald trump and missing the point completely. rnc chair ronna mcdaniel wants presidential hopefuls to take a loyalty pledge intern for a spot on the 2024 debate stage. now the policies aimed at making sure that donald trump doesn t tank the parties chances by running as a third party spoiler for the loses the primary. but getting donald trump to sign a loyalty pledges a fools errand. donald trump isn t loyal to anyone but himself. this is a man who turned his back on his own office, that led to a deadly insurrection against his own government. and trump has bee
we are coming on the air with breaking news on today s top story. for the first time, we will see secretary of state tony blinken on camera. you re looking at it live on the left side of your screen there. potentially reacting to that suspected chinese spy balloon, flying over u.s. airspace. also this hour, you ve got president biden in philadelphia after a better than expected jobs report. we re juggling all of it live here in the next 60 minutes on msnbc. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to bring in one of our chief white house correspondents, foreign correspondent janis mackey frayer is live in beijing, and gary locke, former u.s. ambassador to china. let s take a beat. lay out what we know so far about this chinese apparent supply balloon mystery situation. we are about to hear from the secretary of state for the first time on camera since he postponed his trip to beijing earlier today. the pentagon says they are still tracking this balloon. they also say it is no
i m okay with it. sorry see you in a week. good morning. you re going caitlin s gone back monday . welcome to cnn this morning. we re glad you re with us on this friday. caitlin is off. let s get started with five things to know for this friday, march 24th overnight, significant breaking news the us launching strikes in syria. after an american contractor was killed in a drone attack. there are five other u. s. service members wounded. the pentagon suspects it wasn t iranian affiliated drone. developing news soon a top attorney, though for donald trump said testified today before the grand jury in the classified documents investigation. the new york times reports that evan corcoran is not intending to plead the fifth utah banning kids under 18 from using social media unless they get their parents permission. it is the first state to enact this type of law today, the united states and canada announcing a deal to turn away asylum seekers at their border, president biden set to