Islamaphobia. To all of you hurting, i want you to know i see you, you belong, and i want to say this to you, youre all american. Youre all american. You are all americans. That is part of President Bidens address to the nation from the Oval Office Last night. The president also called on all americans as well as congress to continue to support ukraine and israel in the vastly different wars each is fighting. Meanwhile, theres somehow even more republican led chaos on capitol hill. A third vote is now scheduled this morning on jim jordans bid to lead the lower chamber, and this comes as the temporary speaker is now threatening to resign. Well go through all of that just ahead, and were going to get expert legal analysis on the surprise guilty plea for one of the many defendants in the Georgia Election interference case. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, october 20th. Its friday. We made it. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us, and well begin
are getting some travel underway. that s in addition to 1.9 million on the road, making travel plans over last year. that s a little over 4%. a lot of contributing factors here. the strong economy, consumer spending. that means more money in americans pockets and money to go on adventures. we re taking trains, planes and automobiles. let s look at the sky. talking about air travel. 3.96 million people traveling that s 3% more than last year. worth noting the majority of people will be traveling by car. 41.4 million out there braving the roads. that means gassing up. the price at the pump lower than this time last year. unleaded gasoline hovering around $2.70 per gallon. still some staying at home and celebrating at home. every year they go up at this
character matters, fitness to serve matters. one of the questions, some of the questions that are so concerning in this poll, he comes out as the american people think he is more corrupt than most politicians, less intelligent than most politicians, less honest than most politicians. you are not comparing him to a bunch of choir boys but to politicians. the approval rate of congress is 11%. you cannot get a lower bar than getting compared to other politicians politicians politicians. i m really out of time here. in the 19 months since president trump took off the economy added 3.58 million jobs. that is a monthly average of 188,600. in the last 19 months the economy added 3.96 million jobs as compared to 3.58, a monthly
that is a monthly average of 188,600. in the last 19 months the economy added 3.96 million jobs as compared to 3.58, a monthly average of 2,800. that s why i say that about the economy. give credit where credit is due. it is reaching down to blue collar workers. the economy is on track to do what it has been doing for the last nine years. i was simply comparing this time heading into the mid term versus obama heading into the 2010 mid term. unemployment in september of 2010 was above nine percent. the president could be doing better if they could find a way to connect what is happening on the economy to his job approval. they better find it with 60 days to go otherwise republicans are in for a rough election night. we ll be right back.