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Practice. Joining us with the latest, monica alba. What more do we know about the president s exams today . Reporter today is what is known as partial physical because that is there are usually a couple components that go into it. And the president had what is more locally referred to as a complete physical in 2021 where he even had a colonoscopy, he had to hand over his duties for the momentto the vice president. We dont expect that today. He is at walter reed undergoing labs and some tests and we expect the white house and the president s personal physician will be able to put out a summary of how that went later today. This is really something where they continue to assess certain things that the president is constantly dealing with, certain medications that he is taking. Certain effects of a Stiffened Gate from a foot injury hes had in the past. Well be being look at all of that. And in his 2021 physical, he also had biopsy of a small lesion that could have potentially been skin cancer. So they will look to see to see if there is anything else they need to examine. But this is something the president and the white house have pledged transparency on. They have said they want him to be doing this about every year or so. But it comes of course as many voters have expressed concern about the president s physical fitness, perhaps his mental acuity to serve as he is running for reelection. So getting the answers to a lot of that will help paint a better picture at how the oldest president ever to serve at 81 is doing. Again, it is the annual physical exam. Annual means every year. So this is not unexpected. It quantity on his calendar, but that is not unusual either. Exactly. This is the kind of thing that they had been looking to do around this time of the year. It was about a year ago where he did another partial physical and they did do those similar test and procedures. They had always said that the president intended do this, to complete the physical especially before novembers election. And so this is something where well have a lot more detail in the coming hours. Monica, thank you so very much. And were also following two big stories unfolding on capitol hill. Right now President Bidens son hunter is Behind Closed Doors before the House Oversight judiciary committees answering question. This is part of the House Republican Impeachment Inquiry into whether the president benefited from his familys Business Practices. This is after House Republicans threatened to hold him in contempt of congress. The younger biden told the committee i did not involve my father in my business, not while i was a practicing lawyer, not in my investments or transactions domestic or international, not as a board member, not as an artist. Never. This as lawmakers scramble to avoid a partial Government Shutdown at the end of this week. Funding expires friday night. Funding for the rest of the government expires a week later. With us now to talk more about this, Garrett Haake and ryan nobles. What are the republicans going to hear from the president s son today . Probably not what they are looking for. They are attempting to find a very specific link between Hunter Bidens Business Dealings and the president of the United States, particularly interactions that would have led to joe biden using his Public Office in some way to benefit his sons Business Dealings. This is something hunter biden has been specifically clear about that at no point was his father ever involved in his business work. House republicans are skeptical of those claims. One of the reasons that they have brought in a number of Hunter Bidens Business Associates to press him on this exact question. And that is why they have also subpoenaed bank records and a lot of other information to try to prove that point. But they have fallen short of finding that direct evidence. And i pressed the chairman of the Oversight Committee james comer on that as to what it will take to get to that point where they could move to articles of impeachment. Listen to how he responded. You dont understand what weve said over and over and every on. Joe biden took 200,000 directly from he was a private citizen at the time that 200,000 check went through, was he not . The 40,000 the 200,000 check which youve cited twice. So it is okay do you have a problem that joe biden has lied about it, do you have a problem that america reporter so what you see on display there is part of the problem republicans have. They have a lot of smoke, throwing a lot of accusations out about Hunter Bidens Business Practices and Business Practices of joe bidens brother james, but yet to directly link that to the president and then an official act as a result of that connection. And that is part of the reason why were increasingly starting to see more moderate republicans in particular raising questions and being to a certain degree skeptical of the Impeachment Inquiry which will make it that much more difficult for them to get the 218 votes necessary on the house floor should they choose to take this step. And just this morning we got a trial date for Alexander Smirnov charged with lying about the bidens receiving bribes in a Ukrainian Energy company in 2015. What do we know about that . Reporter we know prosecutors are moving very quickly as it relates to this trial. They are planning an april trial date, that is just about two months since they arrested alex an lex ander Alexander Smirnov. And it is the tip sheet smirnoff oig was the source of that accused joe biden of being part of a Bribery Scheme that House Republicans have based a lot of their Impeachment Inquiry on. In many ways the foundation of the accusations they are making against biden. They repeatedly said over and over again that the tip sheets unto itself was enough to draw up articles of impeachment. Now that tip sheet proven to at least be suspicious and not very trust were any. One of the reasons that federal prosecutors didnt act on it beyond the initial tip. Now were seeing issues with the informant himself which will play out in a court of law in a couple months. And garrett, President Biden met with top congressional leaders at the white house yesterday to talk about the Government Funding and a bill to provide billions to ukraine and israel and taiwan. Were talking friday night is a pretty solid deadline. How are things standing at this hour . No deadline is really all that solid up here. It is entirely possible the dead line could shift. But lawmakers left that meeting at the white house yesterday largely singing from the same him natural saying they had made progress on the goefsh negotiations to keep the government open. Natural saying progress on the goefsh negotiations to keep the government open. Just a matter of getting the homework done before the deadline. Chuck schumer was on the floor continuing the optimistic tone. Take a listen to what he said just a few minutes ago. Im hopeful the four leaders can reach this agreement very soon so with we cannot only avoid a shutdown on friday, but get closer for finishing the appropriations process all together. 23 our House Republican colleagues of good will want to avert a shutdown, if they want to govern responsibly as they say they do, they must resist the centrifugal pull of the extreme hard right. And agreement on that third of the government that funding would expire friday night does seem close, but it is important to separate out there is still another twothirds of the government it that would have to be funded in following week. And the money in ukraine, israel and taiwan, is it a whole other matter entirely. It has passed the senate and still sitting on Mike Johnsons desk. It is not at all clear if or when he will move on that bill or a bill like it. It is very much in limbo as we speak. And we have the clo being on the bottom right of your screen. Two days, 12 hours and 50 minutes before this partial Government Shutdown kicks in. When i look at the clock, im like this thing is coming quickly. Is there no sense of urgency on capitol hill . Not yet. Ive been through a number of these now and usually you dont see the urgency until about the last 24 hours. Right now the problem is there arent even bills to rush through either chamber. There is still negotiating to be done. I think the most likely scenario were looking at here is Congress Like a bad football deal, like ryans Buffalo Bills punting here unnecessarily, dragging things out giving themselves a little bit more time to finish their work here with this deadline this week unlikely to be satisfactorily cleared. Garrett haake and ryan nobles, i happen to agree, in football we need lionel messi to be stepping into this one and it is not looking like there is any lionel messi on that aspect of football. Thank you so very much, guys. Coming up there will be of course continuing this, but i want to continue this conversation with Robert Garcia who is on the Oversight Committee. Great to see you. I always thank you for your time. What has been happening so far where youve been . Weve been in the deposition now for about an hour. And one thing is crystal clear, there is zero evidence, republicans have zero evidence linking hunter biden to any sort of Business Dealings with the president. This has been the case now where they have been on this kind of political Sham Impeachment now for about a year. Lets remember it is Marjorie Taylor greene that actually started this process. But nothing has been actually developed. Nothing found. And at the end of the day, what were hearing is essentially we have a father who loves his son, a son who loves his father, and his father was never involved in any Business Dealings. So this has been a complete waste of time. It is an affirmation once again that there is zero evidence linking the president to any Business Dealings with hunter biden. And so what is it that we can expect for the remainder of the day there . Were right now trillion there will be a break, there will be a next round another round of questioning for another hour or so where democrats will be able to do some questioning as well. But this will go throughout the entire most of the day today. But so far in this first hour, we have heard absolutely nothing. And quite frankly, it is embarrassing and a joke were wasting so much time. Were on the verge of a Government Shutdown and we have real issues with National Security across the country. This Impeachment Sham is over. There is no evidence. We need to move on. And you mentioned, i mean, look at that clock, two days, 12 hours, 48 minutes. And yet there is not sense of urgency among some on capitol hill. What do you see Going Forward . Is this just like what well be living through Going Forward forever . What is really a complete joke and quite shameful is that there is a good group of us in Congress Sitting here all day in in deposition where we could be out working to get the Budget Challenge solved. There is no plan presented completely. We want to avert a Government Shutdown. This of course as we know impacts millions of people across the country. And mike johnson has absolutely no plan. What they do have a plan for is their obsession with trying to hurt President Biden politically. That is what this is all about. They dont want to solve the border because it they want to hurt President Biden. They want to try to impeach the president and hurt hunter biden because they want to make sure donald trump wins reelection. We know donald trump is calling the shots. He is controlling the speaker. Controlling the caucus. And they wont stand up to Vladimir Putin who we know right now is causing huge damage to Eastern Europe and ukraine. So it is time to get back to work. Robert garcia, thank you very much for being with us. Still ahead, breaking overnight, details on why pope francis was taken to the hospital. Plus breaking in texas, a series of wildfires explodes in the panhandle forcing residents to flee a Nuclear Weapons facility. And when we come back, both President Biden and former President Trump claim big wins in michigans primaries, but there are Warning Signs for both. If he doesnt get it together and change what he is doing, we will not vote for him in november. 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Over the past week the pope has been suffering from a mild flu causing him to cancel some appointments on saturday and monday. And now to the race for the white house and new Warning Signs for both frontrunners, former President Trump and President Biden. They each won their respective primaries in michigan. An effort by state democrats to protest bidens handling of israeli hes war in gaza, garnering over 100,000 votes. Joining us now, political director chuck todd. Great seeing you this morning. So what do you make of lets break them down by parties. The democrats did last night and how the republicans did last night. When you look at the amount of organization and attention that the writein campaign got, i think it was kind of an underwhelming number given that two of President Bidens primary opponents from 2020 endorsed this. It was actually a free vote, right . There was no consequences to the vote. So to me it was as easy to rally folks for a vote like this as you could, and it certainly measured the intense if i of this issue in one congressional district, but i kind of look at the results and it is like look, there is a there are Different Levels of issues you got to deal with on a campaign, there are concerns, there are problems, there are fires. I dont think this is a fire. I think this is a concern. And comparing bidens primary performance to the other previous to me no different. To me it was not i did not make it as noticeably different. To me if this number had been 25 or more, if they were winning delegates in a significant way, then i think look, i do think that the folks that organized this, i think a lot of progressive members of the press and media wanted this to see this succeed, and i think everybody is trying to create a magical bar of success. At the end of the day to me success is are you going to win some delegates and sort of really force the president s hand here. And i dont think this result did that. And meanwhile on the republican side, what did you see with trump there . Well, look, on one hand he is clearly his party is not as united as the democrats. We hand wring a lot about joe bidens issues. But he ebbed up winning a writein in New Hampshire when up against a candidate with millions of dollars and an electorate that didnt like that he moved the primary away from New Hampshire. And he had some michigan situation. Trump doesnt have any of these issues and he is winning by less. He still has a significant chunk of Republican Voters who are comfortable voting against him even though he will be the nominee. They already know he will be the nominee. So i certainly think when you look at the two results, trump has a lot more issues getting his party united than biden does. And nikki haley didnt win