38% in july last year. 49% say they disapprove coinciding with his official campaign announcement that came this week without frills or fanfare. no launch event in wilmington. the new york times says this. president biden formally moved from a campaign in waiting to a campaign of waiting. critics say voters, though, do want a change. listen. this is a guy who has tried to coerce the country on everything from transgender issues to climate issues to the border. and this is a guy who frankly has run a pretty incompetent administration which is why most americans think america is in decline and most americans think that we need a different approach. gillian: rich edson is at 1600 pennsylvania avenue this morning. hi, rich. good morning. republicans jumping into the race. a number of polls show voters are generally uninterested in a 2020 rematch. defendants are defending the president s decision to run again saying he is their best chance to hang onto the white house. p
that was part of a video posted on twitter this morning by ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy marking one year of war inside his country. we ll have much more coverage on this somber anniversary in just a moment. also ahead the latest on the train derailment disaster in ohio as federal investigators appear to have identified a cause for the crash. plus mike pence gives some legitmous criticism of another potential republican presidential candidate. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, february 24th. i m sam stein. i m in for jonathan lemire. we begin in europe where it s been exactly one year since russia launched its unjust war on ukraine. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy recognized the day writing, quote, on february 24th many us made a choice, not fleeing but facing, resisting and fighting and this year we remained invisible invincible, sorry. we know that 2023 will be the year of our victory. here in the united states the biden ad
in the faulkner focus. it will be a kwik trip as you know to new york city from where he is in florida. facing charges related to the stormy daniels hush money case. he is set to be at the courthouse tomorrow in manhattan at 11:00 a.m. his arraignment begins at 2:15 eastern. it may take as few as 15 minutes. after that trump will head back to mar-a-lago and planning a speech tomorrow night. however we re learning the judge could take an extraordinary step of imposing a gag order on the former president and 2024 contender. trump s legal team is considering adding a first amendment attorney to fight that if they try to put a gag order on him. they will be ready to fight that if necessary. many republicans continue to attack the indictment. one democrat who voted to impeach trump has his own concerns. i think people need to ask themselves the fundamental question. if this were anyone but trump would this d.a. even take up this case? it feels obvious to a lot of us that it is
processing another act of political violence in this country. and we still do not know an exact motive. we do not know the power of lies and how they spread in our political discourse. no further than the general sixth attack at the u.s. capitol, that threat to our democracy remains clear and present. joining me now from san francisco for the latest on that attack, nbc news scott cohn. scott, where is the investigation at this hour? and what are you learning about the attacker? reporter: yeah, alicia, this is a widespread investigation. it includes, of course, the san francisco police department and the district attorney. also, the capitol police and the fbi. and a lot of it really focusing on the alleged attacker, david depape, 42 years old, who we know has led an unusual life for certain. and it s culminated in recent months, apparently, with a lot of blog posts and social media posts that are really kind of going through a potpourri of hate, and conspiracy theories and t
president told us of the classified documents and his corvette, man. all locked safely in a garage. special counsel to the president finding additional docs thursday night he went to biden s wilmington home. with the corvette. and said quote because i have security clearance i went to wilmington thursday evening providing the documents the president s personal counsel on wednesday to the justice department while i was transferring it to the d.o.j., officials who accompanied me five additional pages, markings were discovered among the material with it for a total of six pages. don t worry, the president is so very serious about classified documents, the white house making sure that you know that. the press secretary saying at least 28 times between wednesday and friday. watch. he said he takes classified documents and information seriously. he takes classified documents very seriously. he takes materials seriously. he takes classified documents and information very seriously