of the fraud he perpetuated. regardless of what this report says, is your plan to serve and stay in congress and not resign? like i said before i m staying in office for sure. that last voice you heard was republican congressman george santos of new york before the release of a damning ethics report. we ll go through that and what could come next for the embattled lawmaker. plus, we ll bring you the latest out of the middle east. israel says it has more evidence that hamas was operating out of a hospital in gaza. it comes as the idf recovered the body of a hostage near that facility. and also ahead we ll recap another busy day of diplomacy on the west coast for president biden where he met with the leaders of south korea and japan. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, november 17th. it s friday. we made it. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with some good news. the federal government will stay open at lea
willing to cede the future of electric vehicles to china. he said if americans made electric vehicles it would drive down wage said and spell the end of american auto. well, like almost everything else he s said, he s wrong. you have proved him wrong. that s president joe biden stepping up his attacks on donald trump while meeting yesterday with united auto workers. we ll have more of biden s comments and his criticism of his predecessor straight ahead. meanwhile, donald trump is essentially confirming reports that he plans to get revenge on his critics if he wins a second term. we ll play for you that disturbing new interview. and plus, a major development out of the middle east. israel is agreeing to daily humanitarian pauses in gaza. we ll get insight on how that could work and the overall impact on the war with hamas. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this friday, november 10th. we made it to friday, everyone. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting
steve, there is nothing better than seeing you on election night. give us an update. yes. a lot still going on. and let s start in mississippi. and the governor s race in mississippi. 2 now two-thirds of the vote in. republican incumbent tate reeves leading brandon presley by 11 points. two key points i think as you look at these numbers. number one is we ve been waiting all night for the largest county in the state that s hines county where the state capitol of jackson is, it s a core overwhelming democratic county. they just started reporting the polls. we re open later there because there were issues of ballot viability. it s 86 to basically 13 for presley. this is a big vote producing county. that s certainly an opportunity for presley to gain and for reeves to fall. in the rest of the state we ve been looking to see if there s a pattern because reeves won this race in 2019 by 5 points. we ve kind of been using that as a bench mark as results come in. is presley running
well, look, the issue around the voting as a convingted felon, that s a complete hypothetical, right? it s a complete hypothetical. my point there is this. if you think that these court cases are going to come to some sort of firm resolution before the election and the result of any of these are going to impact the vote, everyone always says that but it never does, right? the voters are not looking at those issues. they re not looking at january 6th. that is not what the voters are galvanizing behind. they know bidennomics whatever that is and inflation, these things have crushed middle american families, and that s what these families have to be talking about. i get it s fodder and all that, but my point there is more don t worry about long-term hypotheticals that you think may or may not affect the race. you ve got to win the votes here. if you want trump out, if you want it defeat trump, it happens in iowa and new hampshire. that s really where it happens, and that s why we don t
much even her opponents will say she s running a near perfect campaign so far. this was her first biggest mistake and her opponents were able to seize on this and say, look, haley is not ready for prime time. in new hampshire, a northern state, this is an issue really the wrong comment in the wrong audience and it s blown up nationally. great insight from politics editor for bloomberg. laura, thank you for coming in. we ll talk to you again soon. up next here on way too early, how will inflation and bidennomics play out on them campaign trail this year especially among anxious democrats? we ll dive into that with our friend. and then coming up on morning joe, we ll take a look at the new york times investigation that found the israeli military disorganized, it was forced to rely on social media to choose its targets. how events unfolded on 7th of october and how they fended off invaders.