Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe.

It's only Wednesday, but it feels like we've got a full month of news to pour over this morning.

There are big stories, many on the legal front, a gunmaker held to account for the mass

shooting at Sandy Hook, what the multimillion dollar settlement might mean for other victims of gun violence.

In another shooting incident, Alec Baldwin is now being sued over what happened on the set of rust where Helena Hutchins was killed.

Sarah Palin loses her court battle with the New York Times as Prince Andrew

settles a sexual abuse lawsuit against him. There are still many questions about just what

happened to Bob Sagitt, what his family is now saying about the investigation into his death.

San Francisco just recalled three members of the city's school board

as that city, along with the rest of the country, deals with the impact of the pandemic. We'll get

into the politics of that. And new details this morning about the drug test that almost disqualified

the Russian teenager who is on track

for another gold medal at the Olympics. A lot to cover this morning with us for all of it.

We have former a to the George Tubby Bush White House and State Department's, Elise Jordan,

with us, the host of way too early and White House Bureau Chief at Politico, Jonathan

Lemire, and MSNBC legal analyst Charles Coleman, along with Willie, Joe, and me. And of course,

Willie, you've got the top story this morning. Yeah, it's an incredibly busy morning. And we'll start

with President Joe Biden, promising to give diplomacy every chance, in his words,

to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine again.

But he's warning skepticism about Moscow's intentions and an invasion remains distinctly possible, he says.

In a speech yesterday, Biden also said, it is too early to assess Moscow's claim that it is pulling troops from Ukraine's border.

The U.S. has not verified that.

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