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right now on msnbc, speeding towards south carolina. just four days until the all important primary. donald trump looks to lock in the nomination, but a cash flush president biden is standing in his way for the general election. growing questions in russia as the wife of russian opposition leader alexei navalny vows to find out, quote, how exactly he was killed. and later on, more extreme weather for a state already under water, floods, mudslides, tornado warnings for california. we're going to have a live update on that coming up. hey, everybody. good to see you this morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. with four days until the republican primary, the final two candidates, both campaigning in the palmetto state today. donald trump is gearing up for a town hall this afternoon. nikki haley is set to deliver a,

quote, state of the race speech to address the big questions surrounding her campaign. why is she still in the race. here is a preview from yesterday. >> i am in this fight. i will take the bruises. i will take the cuts. this is going to be messy. on sunday, i'm headed to michigan. and then we're going to super tuesday states. and we're going to keep on going. >> and then, by the way, on the democrats side, the biden camp announcing a major new fund-raising haul, $42 million in just january. want to bring in nbc news correspondent garrett haake, campaign manager for the 2012 re-election campaign and white house deputy chief of staff john mussina. four days away from the south carolina primary, how is this thing shaping up? >> the haley campaign is taking on a sprint through the finish

line mentality here. she has the speech at noon today on the state of the race. the state which is right now she's losing quite badly in south carolina, according to all the recent polls there that have her down by about a two to one margin. another rally there tonight and will continue with an aggressive schedule for the weekend. donald trump arrives in the state this afternoon for a fund-raiser and then he'll tape a town hall that will air on fox news. he has a much lighter footprint in the palmetto state as of now. with just a smattering of events between now and saturday, but he also boasts the endorsement of both of the state's sitting senators, the governor and he's got a network of surrogates who with do a lot of that work on the ground for him. the two have been trading shots over recent days over russia and navalny, that's a major talking point on the haley campaign and trump and his campaign are trying to look past haley, suggesting that this race is already over and that his focus is on joe biden. >> let's talk about this

polling. usa today putting this poll out, trump has a 28-point lead. i believe it was 35 points yesterday. now we're looking at 28 points. so maybe she's making some gains. but it is major. and it is the question of what is the ultimate objective here for nikki haley? why is she staying in? she's got a lot of money. >> that's the thing. the reason most campaigns end and jim knows this well, they don't have enough money to continue. and nikki haley is getting enough funding to -- >> ron desantis was an example of that. >> even chris christie got out because he didn't have the money and a lot of chris christie's money has gone to nikki haley, the billionaire class if you will, into the super pac. what it comes down to is there is a lot of people -- or a few select people who want to see nikki haley going out with this message because they do have problems with donald trump and they will make sure that she will have enough money to make

it through. the question is can she make it through march 19th because that's when the delegates should be wrapped up by then and what does she do then? >> do you think she's sticking around for a contested convention, possibly, if something happens with donald trump? >> that's probably why she's doing it. now, i'm not sure, i believe they changed some of the convention rules. i read this morning, so i'm not sure how easy that would be. but i think it is also a matter of does donald trump fall apart with the trials? we have seen him in court, but we haven't seen him going to court and being, you know, at trial, for felony charges. >> it was in this primary race in which biden pulled through in 2020. it changed the game for him. what is the biden campaign going to be looking at with this primary? >> they're looking at enthusiasm, how are the volunteers, testing their systems, doing a whole bunch of things to be ready for the general election. the general election seems a

long time from now. we're 252 days away here. you start to ramp up and you use these opportunities to susan's point, super tuesday is coming up, they'll use all of them to continue to build this campaign they think they need to turn out the voters in november. >> i want to shift gears here and talk about michigan. garrett, that's where you come back into the conversation. the michigan primary next tuesday, talk us through that. >> i was in michigan yesterday. foreign affairs is playing a larger than expected role with the nato question, a big factor on the republican side, nikki haley trying to make that an issue, on the democratic side, pushback among the state's sizable arab-american community about how the biden administration has sided with israel and stayed supportive of israel as israel conducted its war against hamas, in gaza. there is significant pushback there, this effort as you say, including the congresswoman

rashida tlaib, trying to get democrats to vote uncommitted as a protest vote against the biden administration and their handling of this war. i have no idea how large that number will be when michigan votes, but the proponents of that effort and a similar effort in michigan and some other states to push back against president biden is gaining some steam and the proponents hope to send a message here that the unflagging public support of israel is costing president biden among progressive voters, arab-american voters, who make up a significant population in michigan, a state where joe biden can afford no margin of error in the fall. >> i'm heading to michigan later tomorrow afternoon to do a story just about this. i think it is fascinating. i wonder if the biden campaign has tuned in to being worried about michigan. hillary clinton lost michigan and a lot of people said it was because of lack of outreach to

the arab-american community. 200,000 arab-american voters in michigan, 146 of them turning out to vote. so they turn out, and every single arab-american i've been speaking to in that community, in that area, are on the fence and/or not voting for joe biden. should they be worried and what can they do? >> well, you're exactly right. your job as a campaign is to worry about these things and spend time. they're spending real time and researchers on the ground in michigan listening, hearing those things. the largest media buy in the history dechlt icthe democratic. they're starting to communicate with them. they can take nothing for granted and they're not. the campaign really understands this, i had conversations with senior officials, they understand this is a challenge. on the other hand, as you know, michigan has moved very much to the democrats, they have their first majority in the house and senate in 40 years, wildly popular governor, so we have real ability on the ground to

push in november. but they can't take anything for granted and they're not going to. >> talking about the good news for biden. this massive haul. >> lots of money. >> folks like you like lots of money. >> a lot of money, yeah, absolutely. >> $42 million alone in january. what does that tell them? >> $130 million sitting in the bank, right? they're ready for the general election. they're ready to begin to define donald trump. >> a war chest. >> a war chest that is unprecedented in the democratic party. exact same time where donald trump is spending over half his money every month on legal bills. so just an amazing contrast. the rnc is basically broke. the contrast with democrats have and what the republicans have is amazing this far and this close to an election. >> should we know who the major donors are for biden right now? >> way more small donations, average contribution under $40, it is funded by people like my

mom who gives $10 every time she gets mad at donald trump. >> that's a lot of money. >> right. >> there you go. >> can we talk about the state of the union next month? a lot of folks talked about how this is kind of biden's ability, biden's moment to kind of reset things in a way, right as folks have some concerns about biden's re-election campaign. how do you see the state of the union next month? >> well, so far, every time joe biden has had to deliver on a speech, that people were looking at, whether previous state of the unions or his speech earlier in philadelphia, earlier this year, he delivers. like, he's a game day player, it seems like, so, we'll see. it is a more complex speech. there is a lot more there. but he definitely had a lot of maneuvering done in his last one as far as jumping on the republicans. we'll see. i think he'll do well. >> despite some of the concerns

that folks have about the economy, we know, despite the fact the economy is doing quite well, folks have concerns day to day when going to the grocery store, folks have concerns about biden's policy when it comes to israel, his continued policy when it comes to israel as garrett mentioned out of michigan. they have concerns about his age, with this re-election as well. how can he address those things, how integral is it for his campaign for him to address these things in the state of the union? >> well, the most important thing he needs to do is two things. one, lay out a very clear vision about where he's going to take the country. and, two, be shown to be on it, be shown to be the president that we voted for. >> how do you do that? >> you do it by having people see you and talks directly to voters. you only get two freebies in american politics, the state of the union and the convention speech. so to susan's smart point, this is it, this is a big moment for him to say, hey, i'm doing this job, i can do this job for four more years and here's whing to .

last year is when he wanted the republicans on social security, that was the viral moment. he's got to start setting up those fights for the general election. >> is it time to go after donald trump and his legal troubles? the president stayed away from that because of the politization of his legal troubles. he doesn't want to seem as if he's behind it or the ag is behind it as donald trump continues to say, right? is it time he goes after him and his legal troubles, considering we're about to enter the criminal case on march 25th, he owes over $400 million to new york state, does he go after him? >> that time will come. right now, like, we have a saying in politics, don't send someone a life preserver when they're drowning. let the courts handle it, let people go after it. when voters start to pay attention, that's when you do this. the campaign will do that but not now. >> the super pac is more likely do it than the actual campaign. >> that's exactly right. >> when do they walk out his

best surrogate, your former boss? >> and my former boss' wife, she's the most popular political figure in america. they're already doing stuff, already raising money, the president appeared a couple of biden events, will continue to do that and you'll see that slow ramp up as well. >> can you give us a tidbit of a behind the scenes. if they're having continued conversations, consultations about this campaign and how he deals with some of the uphill battles he has, both biden and obama? >> yeah, so i introduced president obama at an obama rally a couple of months ago. everyone was backstage and obama grabbed me and all he wanted to do was talk about the biden re-elect. he understands the very clear importance to this. and so he'll do what he has to do, but he has do it the right way and the biden campaign is just getting up to speed, they'll decide where they want him and when they want him. and that will ramp up. but those conversations are both happening at the campaign level and it has been reported he went into the white house, he had lunch with biden, spent some

time saying how can i be helpful, and that is really an important thing to do, just person to person. there aren't very many people who understand how hard what joe biden is trying to do and barack obama is one of those people. >> barack obama likes doing it. >> he does. and he loves joe biden. so those two things are -- this is important to him personally. >> joe, susan, thank you. garrett haake, thank you for doing that one day trip back and forth to michigan gannetand get back on tv with us. a los angeles woman detained in russia. the allegations being levied against her. the growing outcry over alexei navalny's death with new accusations against the russian government. has wikileaks founder julian assange finally exhausted all his legal options to avoid extradition to the u.s.? later on, the lingering threat of mudslides after a winter weather bombardment out west. we're back in 60 seconds. t west we're back in 60 seconds ering from pain caused by migraine, nurtec odt may help.

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all right, we're tracking some breaking news out of russia where authorities are saying they have detained a woman who is a los angeles resident and dual russian-american citizen on suspicion of treason. we don't know this woman's name. according, though, to the russian federal security service she is accused of raising funds to support ukraine's war effort. meanwhile, you have suspicions swirling around the death of aleei navalny. richard engel has more on this. >> reporter: accusations are growing this morning about the death in prison last week of russian opposition leader alexei navalny. president biden said president putin is responsible for navalny's death, and says the u.s. may impose more penalties on russia. >> we're considering additional sanctions, yes. >> reporter: this morning, navalny's mother urging president putin to release her son's body for burial.

navalny's widow, yulia, adding we will find out exactly how this crime was carried out. navalny's allies working to uncover more and are already releasing their own narrative about russia's actions. a human rights group says russian intelligence officers visited the prison two days before navalny's death to disconnect cameras and listening devices. and that a medical examiner was instructed to list bruises on his body as coming after death. the russian opposition newspaper reports that prisoners were locked in their cells the night before navalny died, followed by a surprise inspection the next morning. nbc news cannot confirm the allegations, which were attributed to anonymous sources. across the border, ukraine's president zelenskyy visited the front line, and urgently called for more weapons to stop russia's advance in eastern ukraine. much of the east now looks right

out of world war ii, with ukrainian villages smashed by russian artillery, and largely abandoned except for military ve vehicles and troops. at one of the only schools we found still operating, 10-year-old dara told us she is hearing more explosions now than before. >> the russians getting closer? >> translator: when i go outside, i hear the explosions are getting closer so it means they're coming closer and closer, she says. >> richard engel is joining us now. we're going to talk more about alexei navalny and his death and the investigation into that in the next hour. but i want to talk right now about how we're approaching the two-year anniversary of the war in ukraine, i believe this weekend, and what the battlefield is looking like right now, how ukrainians are feeling. >> reporter: well, ukrainians feel that they have no choice but to continue this fight. they don't want to be doing this war.

they feel that this was imposed on them, that ukraine, that is what happened, ukraine was invaded without provocation because vladimir putin decided and continues to push this line that the ukrainian government is run by a nazi cabal, which it is not. so, people in this country feel this war was imposed upon them, and if they give up now, they lose everything. and vladimir putin made it clear that he believes ukraine doesn't exist, shouldn't exist, that ukrainians are really just russians who have been duped into believing that there is something called ukraine and that there is a concept of this national identity, which vladimir putin believes is an outside fictitious construct, a nazi construct. so, the ukrainians believe if they don't fight, they're going to be wiped out. their country will be erased.

their identity will be erased. so, it is not a matter here of being tired or exhausted. i spoke to two women soldiers today, by the way, ukraine has a lot of women serving on the front line, more than any other country in the world. and they said, yes, we're exhausted, but what else are we supposed to do. are we supposed to give up and accept our annihilation? we have to fight. and we are fighting. but they need more weapons. and we say it every day, i've said it every day i'm in ukraine, and i say it for a reason, they're counting their bullets now, they're counting their artillery shells because they don't have enough to fight back against russian troops and now we're starting to see the impact on the battlefield with ukrainian troops losing territory out here in the east. >> ukraiian aid package being held up in congress. richard engel, thank you, appreciate it. so, back here in the states,

the world attention fixed on new york as the united states this morning is expected to veto a draft resolution at the u.n. security council calling for an immediate cease-fire in gaza. but after the expected veto, the u.s. reportedly plans to introduce a different cease-fire resolution of its own. the back and forth that is happening at this moment in new york city, just down the road, it is coming as warnings against israeling raah are mounting. molly hunter is in jerusalem for us with the very latest. molly. >> reporter: yasmin, good morning. all eyes are on new york this morning where u.n. member states are expected to vote on an resolution calling for a cease-fire. it calls for the unconditional release of hostages and says hamas and israel are ordered to comply by international law.

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within 30 days if we choose to appeal this, which we will, we have to post the bond, which is the full amount and some. and we will be prepared to do that. >> so, that was donald trump's attorney saying they're going to be prepared to post that bond in the massive civil fraud case where the former president is officially on the clock. 30 days to fork over nearly $355 million, plus interest, don't forget that, every day he accrues more consider or secure a bond. as team trump scrambles to come up with the cash, they have about a month to prepare for the first criminal case against him, which would just be the first domino, lots of firsts there, to fall as there are three other criminal cases that are still looming. joining us now is temidayo agungia williams and caroline

polisi. welcome to you both. thank you for joining us on this. appreciate it. he's got to secure an appeal bond. that's not easy. >> it is not easy. it is a whole lot of money here. what is more complicated for the president, former president, he cannot get this money from any bank that is registered or chartered in new york. and every bank is. so he's going to have to look for a financial institution or individual or entity outside of the united states, which makes it more complicated. and especially because he has that former federal judge, barbara jones, looking over the trump organization and keeping an eye on how money is moving and what he's doing, so the magnifying glass is on the former president. it is going to difficult to secure this money. >> he has to use collateral to secure this money as well. >> exactly. he's under oath in a deposition claiming he had about $400 million in liquid assets essentially. but, of course, you know, he's

notoriously opaque with his finances. we have no idea if that's true. and the irony is that this case is about him sort of lying about his finances, but -- >> and the value of his properties. >> exactly. so $400 million, add to that the e. jean carroll verdict, that's $90 million. i think people are going to think twice about securing this bond because absolutely he will need some form of collateral, which, again, catch-22, barbara jones is not going to necessarily sign off on, you know, sort of these cockamamie ideas for where to get the money. it is a problem. >> is there a world in which he cannot secure a bond and can he use an international bank? >> there is no reason why he couldn't use an international bank. there are financial institutions that are legitimate that are not necessarily working in the united states, but there is a world he could not get a bond and would have to put up the cash. so the time pressure truly is on donald trump here to do something to secure his ability

to appeal in the interim. >> i want to talk about the hush money case. march 25th, jury selection is happening, first of four criminal cases in which the former president is going to be facing 34 felony counts, a classy felony, he could see four years in prison if found guilty. alvin bragg, the d.a., is calling this an election interference case. do you think people are dismissing the severity of this case? >> i do think they are, but i think potentially, you know, meritoriously in that i don't think anybody saw this coming, that this was going to be the first case that the former president was going to be criminally charged with. alvin bragg has been trying his best not to frame this as the hush money case. rather to sort of elevate it as an election interference case, but the reason it is an election interference case is because they're using that as a hook to kind of bump up these misdemeanor charges. the second crime, which doesn't actually need to be proven

actually, it is a book keeping case, it is a misrepresentation of assets on the books. and the reason why we're calling it a hush money case is because of the way they documented the hush money, paying hush money is not illegal. catch and kill is not illegal. the reason this is illegal is the way it was documented and alvin bragg is attesting it was for the purposes of keeping it quiet, keeping the affair quiet until after the election and that in and of itself was a campaign contribution above the legal limit. therefore it is an election interference case. >> explain to me like i'm a kindergartner if you will for a moment about how alvin bragg had to make this kind of have a second crime involved as you mentioned. because that is one of the reasons why it is also seen as a federal case, right? >> well, what he's trying to do is make this a felony. so that's really what -- it is -- >> it is untested. >> it is a novel idea because

he's pointing to federal law, but i will say that prosecutors often get creative in going after charges here. lots of things could be untested. the jack smith case in january 6th, charges against the former president for the first time. just because something has not been charged with specific facts does not mean it is valid, does not mean it is going to be unsuccessful, it happens all the time, prosecutors get creative, look at the entire criminal code and see what can i do with this. when you're dealing with very specific facts here, former president's hush money and election, it is all new facts that doesn't happen all the time. so i think we should not kind of brush this to the side as something that is not successful. >> alvin bragg saying allegedly michael cohen paid off karen mcdougal and stormy daniels, donald trump paid back michael cohen for that money and said it was legal expenses, but all of that was to interfere in the election and that is alvin bragg's case. >> yes. they're saying that was a campaign contribution, he didn't

document it correctly on the books. as you noted in the lead-in, potential for four years in jail, even if he gets convicted on these, i don't see him getting jail time, which is why i think trump's team has been, you know, the reporting is that they're sort of happy this is the first criminal trial to get under way. they have the highest percentage chance of probably beating it, and also sort of in the public eye seeing it as maybe not that big of a deal. >> i got one more thing for you. it is from barbara mcquaid in the "new york times," talking about the difficulties that alvin bragg faces going forward and for this judge and for this case in general. first, the reliability of michael cohen. as we read engoron's decision on friday, this is a case in which the jury will have to believe michael cohen, and then also saying, quote, we also have a spectacle that mr. trump created in the new york civil fraud trial and saw him reined in by a federal judge lewis kaplan in the e. jean carroll case which featured a jury watching every

move. how will he be reined in as he's sitting in court, every single day, because he has to? >> yeah, i mean, i think again, having a jury there to assess credibility will be key. michael cohen came off credible to judge engoron. criminal cases are different from civil ones and i think judges have far less of a tolerance for this sort of grandstanding, the boastfulness and will really run a tight ship. >> thank you. coming up next, a witness who was key to the biden probe is due in court today for lying to the fbi. what to expect from that hearing. plus, it may be the end of the road for wikileaks founder julian assange and his battle to avoid extradition to the united states. we'll be right back. oid extradi states we'll be right back. and you realize you're in love... steve? with a laundry detergent. (♪♪) gain flings. seriously good scent.

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mean for the impeachment probe? >> so right now he's being held in protective custody. we learned that from a defense filing yesterday. we learned that he is an american citizen, he has an israeli passport, and he's got a girlfriend who he's been be with for a little bit. that's the argument for him being allowed to be out of custody until this case actually proceeds to trial. but, you negotiation as you mentioned, this is someone who really was at the heart of this impeachment probe from house republicans. they referred to it over and over and over again, there were so many fox news segments saying this was reliable because it came from this fbi source. actually there was a threat to hold the fbi director in contempt over the summer unless he released documents in connection with this. that's because this is really what they were hanging their hat on. they were saying, look, the fbi said this really verifiable source made these incredible allegations against president joe biden including the false allegation he accepted some sort of $5 million bribe. if you ever heard anything about a $5 million bribe out there,

probably from watching fox news, that's where this all originated from. now the government says this was all just nonsense and that this fbi informant made it up and now he's charged for it. it does take a real piece out of this argument that the house republicans are advancing against the president. >> ryan reilly, thank you for being on this for us. appreciate it. this morning, new developments in the international fight against cybercrime. the justice department saying it worked with british intelligence to disrupt the, quote, lockbit ransomware group, which targeted more than 2,000 victims to get more than $120 million in ransom payments. the doj also announcing indictments against two russian nationals for their work in this group. >> lockbit is not the first ransomware variant the justice department and its international partners have dismantled. it will not be the last. >> the doj also announced new decryption developments that may help hacking victims recover stolen data.

today, in london, a high stakes hearing for wikileaks founder julian assange. it is his last ditch effort to evade extradition to the united states. assange faces 18 u.s. charges for leaking classified documents back in 2010, including military files on iraq and afghanistan wars. for more than a decade, he has avoided facing those charges in the u.s., spending years in a british prison and in self-exile in a foreign embassy. want to bring in josh lederman from london, who has been following this for us. josh, what makes today's hearing so different than assange's many days in court over the last couple of years. >> reporter: because this is julian assange's last hope, yasmin. this is it. if his legal team does not convince a judge just behind me to grant a full appeal, julian assange could find himself on a plane to the u.s. to face trial within just a few weeks. and as you can tell, it is a pretty lively scene outside the

court here with hundreds of pro-assange supporters chanting free julian assange. inside the court, his lawyers have been making arguments that really center on two themes. one, they say, look, he's a journalist, a whistle-blower and these are essentially the u.s. trying to prosecute him for political speech and then his lawyers are also arguing that it would be a human rights violation to send him to the u.s. because he could be a suicide risk. and his wife, stella assange, really referred to his very poor health when she spoke a little while ago. take a listen. >> julian's life is at risk. every day he's in prison, his life is at risk. if he's taken to the united states, he will never be a free man again. he will not survive it. >> reporter: tomorrow the u.s. government will have its chance to present its arguments in court. where the u.s. is expected to say, look, julian assange is

accused of extremely serious crimes, including conspireing to obtain huge troves of very highly classified u.s. documents, and then dumping them online in ways that really they say risked the lives of americans who were named in those documents. but ultimately will be up to the judge to decide whether to grant that full appeal to julian assange, which is his last possibility to avoid extradition back to the u.s. to face those charges. >> josh lederman, thank you. appreciate it. police are saying a suspect has been arrested on murder charges after two people were shot and killed at a dormitory at the university of colorado, colorado springs. 25-year-old nicholas jordan has been charged with two counts of first degree murder. police confirming that jordan is a student at the school, and was the roommate of one of the victims, samuel knopp. jordan is expected in court this afternoon. coming up next, the winter weather out west that brought floods, mudslides and tornado

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california, causing millions of dollars of damage to homes and roads. liz, take us there. >> reporter: it's a drizzle right now and that's nice because it has been raining down on us all day in l.a. just to put it in perspective, california has gotten 70% of the rain since january. i am here in the hollywood hills on the famous mulholland drive right now, and this road is blocked off indefinitely because of a massive mudslide. the road just cratered in. with more rain on the way, officials are worried about not just here but across the state,

mudslides, landslides, spinouts, and we have seen people trying to drive through water and swift water rescue dreams having to come and rescue them. people don't realize how dangerous water can be. also, just a powerful image we saw yesterday north of santa barbara, there's iconic california palm trees that flank the beach, and some of them came crashing down, uprooted and falling down on the beach was of the powerful storms. more rain expected. conditions seem to be easing, but the threat of more mudslides and landslides still a very real possibility in the coming days. >> thank you. appreciate it. this morning, also a potential speed bump in the american automotive industry's

goal of going green and getting electric vehicles on the road. tom, what is changing here? >> the biden administration is talking about leaning towards slowing the rollout of tougher new emission standards, and the reason is this, the auto workers need more time to make the transition over to electric vehicles. from the gas pump to the charging station, america's green shift accelerated to a record 1.2 million new electric vehicle sales last year. the average price, $50,789. the rate of growth is slowing as unsold evs stack up at dealerships. in wisconsin, kunes automotive

has seen a slow down. >> we are bringing back u.s. manufacturing jobs. >> the biden epa is slowing the ramp up to new emission rules, and that means two-thirds of all electric sales -- >> the choices are limited in the mass market when it comes to electric vehicles. >> pressure to slow the pace of a new standards rollout comes from automakers that invested heavily in batteries. the environmental advocates warn slowing the emissions target rollout will have a cost. >> more oil use.

more pollution. more global warming and more kids with asthma. so that's a bad deal. >> the epa's final rule laying out the timeline for achieving tough new emissions standards is not expected to late march or early april. exactly how automakers achieve the new standards through a mix of ev and hybrids and gasoline mixes, coming then. lyndon thomas greenfield saying the cease-fire could set things back. in our next hour, i will talk to mark sanford, who said

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