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 all of you watching us here in the united states and all around the world. ahead on cnn newsroom, u.s. military taking down another object flying over american waters just days after the downing of the suspected chinese supply balloon. plus george santos claiming he s ard at work despite controversy swirling around hum. what he is or isn t doing on the job. we re one day away from super bowl lvii. we ll take you live for a preview of the big game. a u.s. fight er jet shot an unidentified object out of the sky friday off the coast of alaska on i d s order. there s significant differences between this object and the chinese supply balloon shot down from the atlantic last saturday. the object friday had no surveillance equipment ask steer itself. it was flying 40,000 feet over alaska s northern coast. it posed a threat to civilian aircraft. the debris field has been mapped and officials hope to learn more from the wreckage, but they aren t sure what it is or who
off? what dollars amount is more important than american lives and values? and the house speaker leaves today for asia. an important trip but her itinerary still unsettled. the big question will she visit taiwan and test what china means by the perish by fire warning? we begin with multiple developments in the january 6th investigations. more missing records. more important cooperation. fierce preparations now for a daunting court battle. the washington post reporting late last night there is yet another batch of missing text messages. sources telling the newspaper texts from donald trump s homeland security chief chad wolf and his deputy kent cuccinelli are reportedly lost to a reset of their government devices both potentially critical witnesses to a number of important trump episodes including a presidential demand to seize voting machines. there is this, too. brand new cnn reporting that justice department prosecutors are now preparing for a courtroom war to compel
says, don t count me out. yes, today is super bowl sunday. 111 million viewers will be glued to the tv tonight. will you? also, 111 million viewers are snacking. can you guess the top three foods that go hand in hand with the fwam? we ll tell you about them. we start with mitt romney. he is waking up a very happy man this morning, you could say. the republican presidential candidate is the winner of the nevada caucuses. it was predicted yesterday. 43% of the vote, he got. romney is leading by 33%. newt gingrich with 25% followed with ron paul with 19%. now, mitt romney is the first one of them to score back to back victories. this is big. he rallied his supporters in vegas last night after the fact. our mission is to increase the freedom and opportunity of the american people and our blueprint is the constitution of the united states. we re going to build an america are hope is a new job with a paycheck. not a word on an old bumper sticker. newt gingrich says he vows he i