we owe them action. we have to do more to stop the gun violence of ripping communities apart and ripping apart the soul of the nation, protect our children so they learn how to read and write instead of duck and cover in a classroom. president joe biden expressing solidarity with the victims of the nashville school shooting as we learn new details about how police were able to stop the shooter within minutes of entering the building. plus a federal judge said former vice president mike pence must testify into the probe into donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and the latest from israel as benjamin netanyahu and president biden trade word amid ongoing protests across that country. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, march 29th. i m jonathan lemire thanks for starting your day with us. we begin with the latest from nashville. we re learning more about the victims, the shooter, and the police response to the tragedy. we ll begin
chaos and dysfunction within the white house during trump s time in office. plus, transportation secretary pete buttigieg is threatening major penalties for southwest airlines amid a massive number of cancellations and delays. we ll have the latest on the seemingly never-ending travel troubles. and president biden signs a massive $1.7 trillion government spending bill into law. capping off a year of big wins for the white house. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, december 30th. the penultimate day of 2022. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day us with. we ll begin with a newly-released batch of deposition transcripts from the january 6th house committee from some key witnesses, including members of former president donald trump s inner circle. and that includes former white house communications director alyssa farah griffin, she spoke to the january 6th house panel back on april 15th, describing her tenure at the white house as quo
yesterday urging congress to act on a legitimate gun policy in the wake of the deadly mass shooting in nashville. is there any sense of any movement at all on capitol hill? absolutely not. there s three quotes we wrote about in axios sneak peek which i think capture the mood on the hill. of course the first is joe biden saying there s nothing he can do but plead with congress, acting powerless in the face of republican opposition on the hill. we spoke to a republican congressman of tennessee of all places, he said criminals are going to be criminals, completely not doing anything on potential gun legislation, and john cornyn a republican in the senate a big voice in moving compromise bills in the past says there s no action, no other step he can make. he can t think of anything that can get agreement. a remarkable sentiment, like a fatalistic view of a possibility for any kind of response for gun crime in the united states. nick, we talked a lot the last couple of days, the nra s
it s an expectation set in 2023. the white house is capping this year by saying, oh, my gosh, look at all of these home runs we ve had in the past year or certainly even the first two years of the administration with these big bills, either bipartisan ones like the infrastructure bill or the chips act or burn pits, all these kind of things, or the ones put through with just democrat votes, which of course no longer will be an option for them. this congress is going to be much more like small bites of the apple type of bills. they think that they are chances to get some things done, smaller things, you heard representative dingel talk about them. but the big bipartisan bills, there s not a lot of hope on that. i suppose there are some exceptions. you hear always talk about something maybe being done on immigration/the border. i haven t heard a lot of people who are putting a lot of eggs in that particular basket so far, but i think they ll focus more on those sort of small bills, try to
don t ever remember who voted for or against a bill in most cases. they tend to want the bill and if the democrats pass the bills the way progressive democrats would like them passed, they would be bigger bills that democrats could sort of boast and run on re-election on where these compromise bills don t tend to have the same impact. you know, there s something i would say in joe biden s dna that makes him believe deeply in the essence of bipartisanship. you know, all throughout his campaign that he believes firmly that once trump would be out of office that he would push for compromise solutions and this came up in his remarks even just this past week. he has spoken about this being a turning point between democracy and authoritarianism. this moment in the united states as kind of a critical moment where either the united states can push forward or be overtaken like countries like china. he sees the idea of bipartisanship as being