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
prime time tonight. oh, that was the good thing i ve ever heard in my life. let s go. democratin. let s shoot a video in then senate. and they were rising inside t-mobile arena to pay their respects, trump jumped out to the largestto pay t lead the republican has had in 20 years. america s race to the bottom. plus oc. i feel going out my finger, just getting the heart senate building has produced some of washington s biggest fireworks. from condoleezza rice testifying biggest in front of e 911 commission or james comey lying through his teetht th about the russia hoax. to brad kavanaugh s testy confirmation hoax, hearing righo room 216. yes, we drank beer. my friends and i, the boys and girls. yes, we drank beer. i liked beer and. still like beer. we drank beer. but last week broke the mold. a sex tape. hing not that there s anything wrong with that. with tha, actually, in this cas, there is. the tape was sose graphic. kind of made us miss the blue dress. a youn drg m
Thanks for watching. And to keep the conversation going, like us at facebook. Com politics nation and follow us on twitter at politics nation. Ill see you back here next sunday. Now to my colleague kasie hunt. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live every sunday from washington from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Tonight, brandnew nbc polling just out about the president and his handling of all things russia in light of the historic summit. And senator Richard Blumenthal joins us as Paul Manaforts trial gets ready to start and Michael Cohen drops his first mix tape. Plus this time last sunday we were talking to bill broader about the summit with putin. Hes going to join us live tonight after the russian president name chikd him on the
world stage. And later states of play. Democrats are serious about taking back the senate. Heidi high camp will have to hold on to north dakota. We have new reporting on why it could be tariffs, not russia, that make the difference there. But first
Meddled in the 2016 election. they do not agree with the assessment of the intelligence community. for republicans to say we don t believe the cia, fbi and nsa, we are siding with the president on this is fairly remarkable. i think the one thing that is the divergence, the prospect of tariffs. you see signs republican voters are still not comfortable with that and the republican party is still not comfortable with that. if the tariffs start hitting the president, it s not going to be russia, it s going to be the economy. i would say that s very true. when you look at tracking, russia doesn t register on the radar for what people care about. it is literally not even close to the top 15 issue. julie, this is the strategy the trump campaign has been running as well, to cast doubt on whether this meddling ever happened. absolutely. we re used to seeing republicans go to war with democrats but not their own justice and intelligence community. what you re talking about, the polling, re
Jab at california governor, taken him with a decades-old nickname, moon beam which was meant to the 1970s to cast jerry brown as a liberal on things like the environment and space exploration. this time it s in the context of immigration. governor jerry moonbeam brown pardon five criminal illegal aliens whose crime include kidnapping a robbery, that the beating wife and threatening a crime with intent to terrorize, dealing drugs. is this really what the great people of california want? this question from the president up the ante between the trump administration and the golden state for not enforcing federal immigration laws in century city s. molly: what about the problem today with amazon? the president thinks amazon is endangering mom-and-pop