good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, june 21st, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we are now hours away from the fourth public hearing by the january 6th committee. this afternoon, we will hear much more about this infamous phone call. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. so what are we going to do here, folks? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. that was former president trump calling georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger days before the insurrection, pressuring him to find the votes needed to win georgia. 11,780. raffensperger is one of three republicans testifying today. the other two are raffensperger s top deputy, gabe sterling and arizona house speaker rusty bowers who says trump and rudy giuliani called him after the election asking for help to overturn president biden s victory in his state. we re also goi
sense what kind of relief it could provide? and is there any climate change provisions being discussed? this is the big jump ball. and joe manchin, if he wants energy provision, wants some for conventional energy, west virginia, a coal state, and so this is one of the sort of things that is up in the air, and yes, that is one of the things that joe biden is talking about there being in. there he has been hinting at this, john, sort of pulling back the curt an bit and saying he thinks they now have the votes. it is tough to transition, remember, to reduce the deficit, which they want to happen so they can say it is fighting inflation, among other things, he needs to raise revenue and the other senator, kyrsten sinema of arizona, has been sort of a thorn in the side of the biden administration, has been cooler to some of the revenue proposals. so man chip on the one side on energy, getting his bite, and one thing, and then paying for it all, cutting that deaf sit on the other side, the