recuse herself from donald trump s classified documents case despite recommendations to do so from two other federal judges. and democrats are targeting a 150-year-old law in their latest effort to protect reproductive rights nationwide. all right, good morning. welcome to way too early on this friday. thank god, friday. june 21st. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. for the first time in months president biden has overtaken donald trump in national polling averages. according to the poll aggregate site, 538, biden took a 0.8% lead in the race yesterday. that is the first time biden has led at least since march, which is as far back as the website s tracker goes. the change comes after a series of recent polls showed biden narrowly ahead of trump though all the results were within the margin of error. there s new audio now of donald trump admitting he lost the 2020 election and then quickly reverting back to the big lie. comes from research from the new book apprenti
the conversation she may have messed. former republican house speaker and board member of the fox corporation, paul ryan, appeared on fox news earlier this week and, drumroll please, criticize donald trump and called him unfit for office. it s going to be a very close race under terrible choices were being presented with and that s what the primary voters selected and never regret the fact that s where we are. a lot of these folks who also shared your same concerns about donald trump that said, we are rallying around donald trump. you said though that would not be the case with you. he said he s a populist and an authoritarian narcissist. character is too important to me and it s a job that requires the kind of character he just doesn t have. that s pretty strong. that s the way i feel. i agree with that. i don t support biting either. i think his policies are terrible. i hate the fact that i have to write in a republican like i did in 2020. voted for him in 2016 hopi
democratic congressman jamie raskin and eric swalwell going after republicans for their efforts to hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt of congress. we ll have more from that partisan vote in the house in just a moment. it comes as donald trump will be on capitol hill today to meet republican lawmakers from both chambers, setting up his first face-to-face meeting with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell in more than three years. and also ahead we ll bring you the latest from the g7 summit in italy where support for ukraine is a top priority for president biden and other world leaders. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 13th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning overseas where president biden is in italy for the first day of the g7 summit. he arrived last night around 11 p.m. local time and will now attend multiple working sessions throughout today. afterwards, he ll meet w
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that he offered on that de and we re going to leave you with that. this morning. mighty god prior to ban this day upset upon a mighty endeavor let s criminal to preserve our republic all religion and our siblings and set free a suffering humanity this morning, we are observing a moment in history at the same time is witnessing and effort to define the future. we are standing by to hear from president biden on the 80th anniversary of d-day, the allied landing of the beaches of normandy, june 6, 1944 but on june 6, 2024, the president will also speak of the alliance fighting russian aggression in ukraine and the threats to democracy around the world. and you can bet for the domestic audience, the president will implicitly overtly described what he feels are the threats to freedom. if donald trump is elected, again, there is a lot of news on the election in front. this morning. a list of potential running mate s for donald trump. they are all given homework assignments, ne