But if previous cases are anything to go by, Donald Trumps third indictment is only likely to boost his popularity with Republican Voters. The charges he faces, though, are serious. The 45 Page Indictment accuses the former president of knowingly spreading false claims about Election Fraud to trick and persuade states into helping him overturn the election results. The police are now running back into the capitol building. Hes not been charged with inciting the violent scenes of january 6th, but prosecutors have drawn a link. The attack on our Nations Capital onjanuary 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. Its described in the indictment. It was fuelled by lies. Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the us government, the nations process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. Donald trump responded by posting a Campaign Statement on his social media network, truth social, like
also a resident and dear chiefs fan, former missouri senator was at the event and got herself a selfie with the president. so, congrats to clare and all the chiefs kingdom for the super bowl victory. and on that victorious note, i wish you a good night. to all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with. me i will see you at the end of tomorrow. thank you for joining. us so we spent 21 years of spying against the united states. he did it for money and who knows what else. but they did pay, him they paid him in cash. i also paid him in diamonds. which is a nice spy movie touch. but he s putting as the race for 21 years. and then, for the next 21 years after that, he resulted in federal prison. so 21 years as a spy against america, and then 21 years and counting in prison because of its. before he died today. in prison, at the age of 79. it was stopped the presses huge national news, when they first caught in 2009. from nbc news
trump with quite the opening statement on the chinese communist party and president xi jinping. we have a lot to unpack from last night s hearing held by the new house committee on china. plus a new nonpartisan report is detailing more of the failures that led to the january 6th capitol attack. and also ahead, we ll break down what happened at the supreme court as justices heard arguments on president joe biden s student loan forgiveness plan. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, march 1st. march already. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. amid rising tensions between the two countries the new house select committee on the strew edgic competition between the united states and the chinese communist party held its first hearing last night. in prime time a bipartisan group of lawmakers set the stage for what republican chairman mike gallagher called an existential struggle over the future of america. we may call this a strategi
what was going on, what the response was going to be. and, look, china s one of our biggest adversaries, so to see this, you know, when people look up in the sky and i was driving around earlier, people were pulled over on the side of the road, they were pulling out their camera phones. a lot of intrigue about this. you know, this is an interesting, you know, interesting time, but a lot of people have questions about this. and for me, i m incredibly concerned about where, you know, where this was headed and why it took so long to address. mike: a sense of relief as a south carolina congressman that this has been successfully shot down, apparently over the atlantic ocean? i think so, and i m super proud of the men and women at south carolina s shaw air force base for doing so. i think that shows our resolve and that we re able to take any task. it was really interesting to the watch this spy balloon go over my house and to see fighter planes really circling this balloon as i
about the size and shape of the two high altitude objects the military shut down over alaska on friday and cannot yesterday. hello eric. eric: hello thank you all for joining us i m eric shawn for another high-altitude objects down by military aircraft this follows reef closing of and they close airspace over parts of montana for a few hours last night. they sent fighter jets of to take a look at radar anomaly but they found nothing. this comes after the u.s. military down to the chinese spy balloon off the coast of south carolina last weekend. coming up former acting dhs secretary chad wolf is with us the house intelligence committee. both standing by to fill us in and we have live fox team news coverage. brian is in recovery efforts off the east coast there but let s go to lucas tomlinson alive at the very latest at the white house if we have the latest on what is now another apparent shootdown over lake huron. but since right moms go senior u.s. official confirmed to fox n