Retired Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt looks at the military tactics used by the Ukrainian troops and explains how their army is able to hold up against Russian attacks.

Homeland Security Committee member, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., joins Morning Joe to discuss supplying weapons to the Ukrainian forces and U.S. measures to help deter Russia that don't include a no-fly zone.

Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., why he isn't advocating a no-fly zone in Ukraine, his thoughts on how the White House has handled the Russian invasion and why he says if 'it shoots' the U.S. should ship it to Ukrainian forces.

Ali Velshi reports an update to the story of an 11-year-old boy named Hassan who drew worldwide attention when he traveled alone over 600 miles to escape the Russian assault on his home in southern Ukraine, fleeing to Slovakia where he has now been reunited with his siblings and mother and grandmother.

More than 7,000 Russian troops have been killed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to conservative U.S. estimates reported on in the NYT. Senior writer Eric Schmitt joins Morning Joe to discuss.

Source: theguardian.com

Weeks after the 2020 election, at least one Trump White House aide was named as secretly producing a report that alleged Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden because of Dominion Voting Systems – research that formed the basis of the former president’s wider efforts to overturn the election.

The Dominion report, subtitled “OVERVIEW 12/2/20 – History, Executives, Vote Manipulation Ability and Design, Foreign Ties”, was initially prepared so that it could be sent to legislatures in states where the Trump White House was trying to have Biden’s win reversed.

But top Trump officials would also use the research that stemmed from the White House aide-produced report to weigh other options to return Trump to the presidency, including having the former president sign off on executive orders to authorize sweeping emergency powers.

The previously unreported involvement of the Trump White House aide in the preparation of the Dominion report raises the extraordinary situation of at least one administration official being among the original sources of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/16/trump-white-house-aide-secret-author-dominion-report

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As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its fourth week, Russian forces continued to attack the city of Mariupol, targeting a theater where civilians were taking shelter.



Theater in Mariupol where hundreds were taking refuge has been bombed, according to city council

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As the 35-hour curfew in Kyiv expires, a new Russian strike hits a Mariupol theater believed to be sheltering women and children. It comes as Ukraine’s military starts launching counteroffensives against Russian forces. Meantime, President Biden pledges $800 million in new military aid to Ukraine after President Zelenskyy’s emotional plea to U.S. Congress.