greetings everyone. you are watching symone. this week marks one year since russia launched its brutal assault on ukraine. no end in sight. we are digging into the future of america s support of ukraine. biden prepares to travel to the region and now u.s. officials say china might be considering lethal support of russia s war effort. nikki haley has joined the former president trump and the republican primary for president in 2024. it is shaping up to be crowded, where her former boss is the man who beat. does nikki haley have a chance? we are asking one of her former staffers. plus, in our living black history series, my conversation with brian stevenson, a true champion for justice. he has helped free more than 130 wrongly convicted people from death row and he has not done yet. i am symone sanders johnson and i have something to say. nearly one year ago vladimir putin was saying if russia were to invade ukraine, his troops would take kyiv in 48 hours. of course, putin di
our country. when i look to the future, i see america strong once more. and the america i see, the permanent politician will finally retire. and mandatory mental competency test for politicians over 75 years old. good morning, happy saturday morning. good morning micah, happy saturday. i love saturdays, you bring me my coffee. i do, and we re probably watching this right now while you re drinking coffee that i get for you. it s delicious. she literally pushes me out a bed at 5:30 okay, okay, that s a little much. people don t want that mental image. okay. it s her saturday morning routine. and your saturday morning routine of course is watching morning joe weekend. it s saturday february 18th, former south carolina governor nikki haley officially kicked off her candidacy this week at an event in charleston on wednesday. in his speech she said, there should be mental competency test for politicians older than 75. micah, that was kind of a dig at president biden
on nearly $400,000 missing from his campaign filings. he says he doesn t know anything about it, and despite lying about everything from his family to where he went to college, he says he s, quote, operated honestly. and the extraordinary pressures of public life taking a toll on government officials around the world like never before. what s behind it and what can be done about it? but we start in east palestine, ohio, where even as the governor holds another briefing, residents remain skeptical and scared, having trouble believing their town is safe even after federal and state officials have come there to tell them otherwise. they say the evidence that something is wrong has been in front of them since the day that train packed with toxic chemicals derailed two weeks ago, from the noxious smell to the growing number of people getting sick. don t say you re safe, you re fine, raise your babies here even though they re getting sick and having nosebleeds, god nose what we
either. it s happened once previously, and several times under the man that he replaced, former president trump. more on that in a moment. in this hour, federal crews are briefing for the seven mile radius where it fell, after being shot down by an f 22 fighter jet. the big question now, we are does this ordeal take the already strained relationship between the united states and china? beijing says they are reserving the right to respond. receiving an onslaught of monday morning quarterbacking by the gop. republicans quick to attack the president. taking down over the atlantic, it s really attacking the quarterback after the game is over. this mission should never been allowed, how late into january did they know that this high altitude balloon was not where it was headed. why didn t they take action at the time, and why did they not wait until wednesday or thursday to talk about this? are they equally upset by donald trump? of course not. despite bringing similar by
we ll have much more on the suspected spy balloon in a moment, but first this breaking news just coming in. the man who led pakistan at the start of america s declared war on terror and the conflict in neighboring afghanistan has died. he died after a prolonged illness according to a statement from pakistan s military. he was in dubai where he lived for several years in self-imposed exile. musharraf was 79 years old. you re now about to see and hear i think we re going to you re now about to see and hear the dramatic moment a u.s. sidewinder missile took out the suspected chinese spy balloon that caused such havoc last week. here it is. it happened saturday off the coast of south carolina near myrtle beach. the balloon was so high up at nearly 12 miles or 20 kilometers that it took a few seconds for the shock wave to reach the ground. china issued a stern protest afterward accusing the u.s. of overreacting. beijing insists it was a civilian research balloon that blew of