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
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alabama grad joe later this morning. mcdavid leads the league with 52 goals so far this season. and lastly major league baseball, a florida feline crashed yesterday s sporting game. play was briefly halted in the seventh inning as that adorable loose cat dashed across the diamond, making a pit stop in the red sox dug out and disappearing among the crowd. there the cat goes. time now for the weather and let s go to meteorologist angie lassman. are you a cat person? listen, i love all animals. let s talk about what i know to be true and that is the rain is going to be impactful for a lot of people in nashville, knoxville this morning and also storms developing as we get
four years. i can see a lot of working class, what we called reagan democrats voting for attitude. and then going home to their spouse and saying how does this affect us? what president trump said, this is a victory for them. the fact is, we look at it like a sporting game. who wins, who loses, who is likely to get killed in the next election. any one of us can go home and get a phone call from an emergency room having a sick relative and then we see where the rubber hits the road. and we don t know how this will affect anybody. we don t know the cost, the impact of it. we re just watching this display hoping this is a step in the right direction. but it is impossible to tell. we re all just rolling the dice
both sides cheering as if this was a sporting game. i hear your stories. these are, realize, we shouldn t be sort this is the one area where we should at least be sitting down and talking more instead of having hat fields and mccoys, the shirts and the skins on this. i spoke at the rose garden this afternoon. and i can tell you the feeling i had was one somewhat like that. for me, i know that there are millions of americans who are scared, and i understand that. they re scared they re going to lose insurance. and i think it s unfortunate. it s not only complicated to discuss, but it s terribly harmful when tens of millions of dollars from special interests are being spent to whip up that fear. both sides both sides do this. and i think as i was watching today and as i ve watched all these seven years ago, as people sort of declare victory and take sides, because these are always