indictment, attorney general merrick garland is voicing support for special counsel jack smith. we ll show you his new remarks. plus new polling shows that trump s support among republicans is standing strong despite his mounting legal troubles. we ll break down those new numbers. and the judge handling trump s classified documents case, aileen canon, is coming under new scrutiny for having very little trial experience. that new reporting and so much more is straight ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 15th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. for the first time since donald trump s federal indictment, we re now hearing from attorney general merrick garland. speaking to reporters yesterday, garland declined to answer questions about the case, but he defended special counsel jack smith, the man that he appointed to lead the investigation into the former president. so as you know i can t talk about particulars o
a slow start on second base. he s being waved in. here he comes. does it, and the mets walk it off. you just saw it brandon nimo s rbi double walked the new york mets off with a 4-3 win and a subway series split against the cross town yankee. nimo made up for his base running blunder early in the game which truthfully is just a series of flubs by the mets last night including a pair of errors in the field that scored two for the yankees and they didn t get a hit as well as getting called for the second violation of the year s new shift restriction and they allowed a yankee runner to steal home. there it is. stole home in the seventh and scored the go ahead home. reliever drew smith accepted a ten-game suspension handed down by the league one day after he
sentence. the defense is asking for probation or a lesser sentence. house republicans threatening to hold their observe hearing on the origins of the covid pandemic as calls for one have fallen on deaf ears for over a year. we have had over 600,000 deaths nearly 4 million worldwide and yet speaker pelosi still refuses to hold a hearing into the origin of this virus. jillian: republicans set to hold expert forum on tuesday quote led by science the covid-19 origin story. speaker pelosi s office says the intelligence is being reviewed by the house intel committee and the biden administration. cleveland indians outfelder eddy getting caught in embarrassing base running blunder against the minnesota twins after successfully stealing second base, he lost track of the ball and was tagged out. what the heck? but he redeems himself by batting two runs or hitting two runs in the eighth inning to