In georgia today. More on that in a moment. But tonight, there is a new report about arguably the person closest to donald trump and the months following the 2020 election, leading up to january 6th. His last chief of staff, mark meadows. Abc news is now reporting that Special Counsel jack smith has granted mark meadows immunity for his under oath testimony. Sources familiar with that matter tell abc news that mark meadows has spoken to jack smiths team three times this year, including to the federal grand jury. Abc news reports, quote, meadows informed smiths team that he repeatedly told trump in the weeks after the 2020 president ial election that the allegations of significant voter fraud commit to them were baseless. Meadows also told the federal investigators trump was being, quote, dishonest with the public when he first claimed to have won the election only hours after polls closed on november 3rd, 2020, before a final result for. And obviously he didnt, when a source quoted mea
Do you support additional aid to you asked your question. Go away. Were not doing policy tonight. Any other questions . House republicans keeping it classy on capitol hill after they selected yet another nominee for speaker. Well explain how the new guy, mike johnson, won the nomination. Also it appears Donald Trumps former Chief Of Staff has flipped on him. Well go through new reporting on a possible Immunity Deal from mark meadows. Plus the latest from The Middle East where israel continues to launch air strikes from gaza after rejecting a ceasefire call from the United Nations. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this wednesday, october 25th. Im jonathan lemire. And thanks for starting your day with us. We have a busy morning ahead, and lets begin here. Donald trumps final white house Chief Of Staff, mark meadows, has reportedly been granted immunity in the federal election interference case against the former president. Sources familiar with the matter are telling abc news
Speaker all the way back to boehner. Is that about him or the exhaustion . Thats something well learn about tonight, but the Nomination Speech Backing him and the way the democrats responded tore into the politics that hangs all over there. The federal government has been illegally weaponized again we the people. House republicans have put their names behind someone called the most important architect of the Electoral College objections. Mike johnson has received 220 votes. I want to thank Leader Jeffries. I do look forward to working with you on behalf of the american people. Thats some of how it played out today. If youre looking at your screen going, who is mike johnson . Well, youre probably like a lot of americans. Thats not a criticism of him. It might have been an attribute, but he is little known. He is a more Junior Member than you usually see take on such a big position in government, and certainly in house leadership, where people like scalise were trying to come up through
So hes been representing the louisiana Congressional District now since 2016. Hes in the leadership, but hes not too high in the leadership. So hes the vice chair of the House Republican conference. Heres the other big thing. He served on trumps first Senate Impeachment trial defense team. Hes a defender of donald trump, and we can see that in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, so what we see is that johnson, in fact, had drafted the house gop legal brief supporting the texas suit. And he objected to Certifying The 2020 Election Results. Now perhaps theres some interesting sort of back and forth. Perhaps some republicans want to forget about it. Lets look back and compare it to now. We have a solemn responsibility today, we must vote to sustain objections to states of electors smutted by states that we genuinely believe clearly violated the constitution and the president ial election of 2020. This is the threshold before us, and its an issue before us for the state of arizona.
Now. Good morning, glad you are with us. Were following three big stories breaking overnight. There is a new designee to be house speaker. Overnight republicans nominated louisiana congressman mike johnson. This morning many more are sounding much more optimistic than they have in the past three weeks ahead of the expected vote at noon. And israel says no to a ceasefire. Were learning new information about how the u. S. Is urging caution looking at Lessons Learned from iraq. And also mark meadows reportedly strike as deal with federal prosecutors. Abc news reporting that he is offering up testimony about the former president s efforts to overturn the 2020 election in exchange for immunity. We start with a new name could soon hang over the house speakers office. Kevin mccarthys name just taken down last night according to our hill team. And were now talking about louisiana congressman mike johnson who the House Republicans have chosen as their fourth speaker desk tdesignee. Democracy is