Even if you put in your checkbook or I put it, I'll use me as an example, I put in my checkbook, I bought a car and I wrote, I purchased a horse.

That's, that's inaccurate.

That's a lie, maybe.

But there's no crime there because this filing was not for the purpose of influencing an election.

There wasn't something being hidden.

There was no obligation to disclose this to an election campaign committee at all.

The lawyer representing Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels Hush Money case,

presenting a defense for why the former president did not break campaign finance laws with that payment.

We're going to have much more from this heated interview straight ahead.

Meanwhile, Ron DeSantis is facing criticism from some members of his own party

after he called Russia's invasion of Ukraine a territorial dispute.

And that comes as Russia makes an aggressive move with a U.S. drone over the Black Sea.

We'll break down what happened and the possible fallout.

Good morning and welcome to way too early on this Wednesday, March 15th.

Theides of March, beware.

I'm John Thelamier.

Thanks for starting your day with us.

And we'll begin this morning on Capitol Hill, where Republican senators are pushing back against one of the leading voices in their own party for controversial comments he made about the war in Ukraine.

Yesterday, a handful of GOP lawmakers broke with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who on Monday

dismissed Russia's invasion as a, quote, territorial dispute

and said that defending Ukraine was not a vital interest of the United States.

It's not a territorial dispute in the sense that any more than it would be a territorial dispute

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