come home to his wife and zen children. he did not hesitate in his duty, making the ultimate sacrifice in his effort to save lives. that s a definition of an american hero. president biden speaking yesterday about police officer eric talley, who was killed in monday s mass shooting at a grocery store in boulder, colorado. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, march 24th. with us we have white house reporter for the associate press, jonathan lemire. former chairman of the republican national committee now msnbc political analyst michael steele and professor at the university of texas, msnbc contributor, victoria defrancesco soto. we re learning new details this morning about the mass shooting that took place inside a boulder, colorado, grocery store. the suspected gunman has been charged with ten counts of murder. so far investigators have not commented on a possible motive, though law enforcement sources say at this point there is no evidence to sugges
america. all that and what we learned today on hearing on misinformation and the capitol attack. i believe that the former president should be responsible for his words. and if the people who broke the law should be responsible for their actions. all in starts right now. breaking news tonight out of georgia, where republican governor brian kemp just signed into law a sweeping bill restricting voting access. passed earlier this evening by the republican controlled state legislature on a state party line vote, it comes of course after former president trump s false, baseless, non-stop accusations of fraud in last year s election, particularly in georgia, and his systemic attempts to overturn husband loss in georgia. attempts that are being investigated by prosecutors there. the 95-page bill requires photo id to vote by mail. they used to use signature matching, which works fine. a million georgia voters did that last year. there were no problems. it cuts the time to req
also, i will ask the chairman of moderna whether his vaccine keeps people safe against the new variant. then moscow versus the west. after a week of much diplomacy by secretary of state blinken, can a potential russian invasion of ukraine be averted? i will discuss with james starve reedus, nato s former supreme allied commander. and understanding the new round of nuclear talks in vienna. as iran and the u.s. appear miles apart, washington says it s prepared to use other options if the talks fail. what does this mean? i ll talk to former state department official vali nasr. but first here s my take. the saddest thing about the emergence of the omicron variant is the utter unpredictability. for months, maybe longer, health officials have been warning as long as the covid-19 virus can circulate freely and wildly, it would change its form and those mutations could be more difficult to handle than the original variant. in october this year, former british prime minister gor
reliable sources. but first you know the biggest story this weekend is the firing of chris cuomo from this network, cnn. i have been working the phones ever since this was announced yesterday evening. frankly, i have been on the phone until the last five minutes here getting information about what happened, and where cnn goes from here. so i would like to start, now that you know the news about cuomo s firing with a timeline of how it came to this point. why was chris cuomo fired now after cnn management supported him all year long? that s the key question i have been pursuing as a media reporter for the past, you know, 18 hours or so. so here are the answers i have so far. let s take a look at the day-by-day timeline this week to catch you up. on monday the new york attorney general general s office released that document dump. it landed with a thud. there was a lot to read, some of it damning. some of it about chris. now cuomo s view was he never engaged in opposition r
the white house is insisting that the president is cooperating with the doj probe and unclear whether they will do with congressional investigators also taking a look at security breach. lucas tomlinson joins us again from the north lawn of the white house. what are you learning this hour. some republicans are accusing the white house of a cover-up and sitting on classified material ahead of midterm elections and with your interview crawford, here is what he s accusing the president of. not bringing the information forward potentially affects the outcome of the election. we have seen this happen time and time again on different issues. this is one that certainly was rose to the level of being reported and so i think they deliberately quashed that to make sure that it wasn t out in the public s sphere before election day. lucas: two days ago our colleague peter doocy asked what he was thinking keeping classified documents next to stingray and the president fired back that