I came to office determined with the duty to care and get us through one of our toughest periods in history. And we have. President joe biden continues to hit the former president on the Campaign Trail as the former president yesterday appeared to float cutting Social Security and medicare. Meanwhile, trump is also now flipflopping on tiktok, the platform he pushed to ban when he was in office. It comes as the house is set to vote tomorrow. Plus, theres more fallout from alabama senator katie britts state of the Union Rebuttal and how her speech highlights republicans fears of losing women voters this election. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, march 12th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. Former President Donald Trump is vowing to release Hundreds Of January 6th defendants currently behind bars if he were to be releected this november. On truth social last night trump explained that one of his first acts as president would be to, quote,
Thank you for getting up Way Too Early on this tuesday morning. Morning joe starts now. Biden is back, baby haters are talking their [ bleep ]. They are too old, too weak, cant make it. He wont be able to stand. I see you, haters. I know who you are. [ laughter ] good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, march 12th. Weve got a lot to get to this morning. Including Donald Trumps latest promise to his supporters who stormed the capitol on january 6th. Ithungarys Prime Minister is revealing how trump would handle the war in ukraine if he wins another term. Plus, well go through Donald Trumps flipflop on tiktok. Follow the money. The platform he used to ban well, he pushed a ban while he was president. It comes as the house is expected to vote tomorrow on a significant bill tied to the apps beijingbased parent company. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early, White House Bureau chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. And pulitzer prizewinning columnist a
a weekend of chaos and drama in russia, what we ve seen is extraordinary, and i think you ve seen cracks emerge that weren t there before. mercenaries declared a mutiny, and then called it off. in under 24 hours. this is something that would have had to have been planned for a significant amount of time to be executed in the manner in which it was. it was a visible rejection of his war policy. by a guy who can his ally. there s a lot we don t know precisely where prigozhin is. he did say that vladimir putin s reasons for invading ukraine were invalid and that s something that s going to struggle to recover from. growing questions about vladimir putin s leadership going forward and whether his iron grip on russia is weakening. this makes him more vulnerable, arguably, than at any time in his two-decade rule. on the streets of a major russian city residents cheered wagner fighters as they withdrew. a calamity for russia averted. but at what cost and will
conservative mps are split over whether to approve a report condemning borisjohnson for misleading parliament over rule breaking in the pandemic. a committee recommended stripping the former prime minister of his parliamentary pass. it s been suggested that many tories may not turn up for the vote on monday. authorities in greece are under increasing pressure to explain how a migrant boat sank off the country s southern coast on tuesday. it s claimed the boat capsized when coastguards attached a rope. nearly 80 people have died and it s reported that up to 750 were on board. the home office has told the government s spending watchdog that plans for the asylum system are in doubt, unless there s urgent action. the national audit office said hundreds more cases needed to be decided every week to clear the backlog by the end of the year. the government says it s working non stop to deal with cases. the ceo of tesco says there are encouraging signs that inflation is starting to e
suella braverman as home secretary, despite having broken the ministerial code last week, and michael gove returns, three months after he was sacked by boris johnson. civilians continue to leave the occupied ukrainian city of kherson, as russia continues to claim that, a so called dirty bomb might be used. after five palestinians are killed during an overnight israeli raid in the west bank, we report from nablus we have a new generation of militants and the israelis using a level of force that is not been seen in the west bank in years. and adidas cuts ties with the rapper ye, and dangerous . hello and welcome. rishi sunak is spending his first night as prime minister in downing street after being officially appointed by king charles on tuesday morning. the 42 year old who s the country s youngest leader in modern times and the only ever prime minister of colour, spent much of the day appointing his government ministers. and he s already held phone calls with world leaders,