headline number 2, this takes to assisted suicide, lot of cash. millions. the yes-side, $4.8 million they raised almost all from a group called compassion and choices action network. the no-side is raising a little bit, over a million. there is a proposal to triple the cigarette tax. who would oppose that? one company, one tobacco company. ultria, or phillip morris, $5 million to minimum wage, out of state money is the big story there, perhaps not a surprise, this is a national fight that has turned local. but a lot of the money on both sides of the campaign coming from out of colorado. brandon rittiman, he knows politics and knows money in politics, thank you, sir. thanks. is the a-line working today? rtd s train to the plane. nope. train had a signaling issue this morning and caused delays for 2 riders to plan an extra 10-15 minutes on their trip. joining the a-line train on the struggle bus this week is frontier airline, tonight frontier is shutting down
fight against change. brought back in the 21st century to battle anything marked obama. anything that says this man was elected president of the united states. now in this third battle of bull run, the rebel cry in stars and bars are rejoining the cause. they speak of secession and nullification and all the old language leading up to the war between the united states. they cheer openly at ripping apart the political party. this time it s the republicans, to free them from total war. alongside the battlefield where the women and children once watched we saw the limbaughs and ericksons that turned out to cheerlead. like the women who got their name back in the earlier time from general hooker. yes, there s money in war. even this phony war of filibusters and jibes at part police. david corn for mother jones and sam stein with huffington post. i kept thinking and watching, gentlemen, i don t know whether just the name or the brand is the right way to do it. the obama brand. th
this was a phony. this was a 400-pound guy in new jersey. this had the russians didn t do it. well, it s now thoofb the russians were trying to interfere in our election. he actually by the end had to back up. well, it appears the stress might be getting to him. that was the tweet storm. welcome to morning joe. we re live in washington on this monday, february 19th. with us we have david ignatius. matt miller. carol lee. and jon meacham who is criminal chully obligated to work on president s day and wear his rugged boots. jon meacham, they re duck boots. they re not rugged boots. he doesn t really need to wear them. it s a fashion statement i like to say. exactly. it is. it is. so, jon meacham, my favorite president s day story is bill clinton gathering foreign contributors in the white house and announcing to them, this is the day in america that we call president s day. i thought that was sort of a laugh because, of course, he s getting money from people tha
suit. he was shackled around the waist and wrists. his ankles were also shackled. perhaps the most telling bit of body language, he made eye contact with no one. keep in mind he has been in solitary confinement. the sheriff said he also has been on suicide watch. this was a dispute over medical records, whether or not to release them. it s not clear when we ll see him in court again. a big debate continues over the role of the fbi in this case. they received a call to their tip line january 5th which named cruz as a potential skaolt shooter. they apparently ignored that tip. now rick scott said he wants all the information surrounding that tip and why it was not followed up and released to the public. dana? dana: what are we learning about the day of the shooting? we found out something that was surprising. reporter: it was surprising that while inside the school, the shooter, suspected shooter texted a friend. this was the friend whose family he was living with. his moth
viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m george howell. and i m rosemary church. this is cnn newsroom. and we start with anger turning into action in the u.s. state of florida. a deadly school shooting killed 17 people there last wednesday. well, now many of the survivors say they will march on washington to demand tougher gun laws. they re calling it the march for our lives and want students to descend on the capitol on march 24th. survivors and reporters held this rally saturday to condemn lawmakers beholden to the gun industry. in the meantime, the u.s. president has been in the u.s. state of florida. he took time there to meet with a couple of survivors of the shooting. the white house says the president plans to discuss campus safety with students and teachers this week, but that may be overshadowed by a tweet that he made about the shooting on saturday. a tweet linking the shooting to the russia investigation. it has sparked outrage. our bor