Think youre going to have another election in this country if you dont have one where we win. Certainly not one thats meaningful. More rhetoric by donald trump over a rally in ohio over the weekend. Well bring his incendiary remarks straight ahead. And it comes as mike pence takes a stand against his former boss. Well show you what pence said about his former president and january 6th. And, meanwhile, President Bidens campaign is reporting one of its strongest fundraising months in almost a year. Well look at whats driving the large hauls of campaign cash. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this monday, march 18th. We hope you had a nice st. Patricks day. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day and week with us. And we begin this morning with a race for the white house where donald trump delivered another divisive speech over the weekend, this time while stumping for an ohio senate candidate. Just outside of dayton, the 2024 republican nominee kicked off the rally on
a tragic irony unfolding in mississippi where just days ago record rains inundated the jackson area yet tonight that city finds itself in desperate need of usable water after failure of the main treatment plant. governor tate reeves declaring a state of emergency, saying the city cannot produce enough water to meet other critical needs and imploring residents to not drink this water tonight officials are struggling to distribute bottled water to the estimated 180,000 people affected as we reported last night, the jackson area has suffered water infrastructure issues for years most recently, boil-water notices have been in effect. the crisis now worsened by the recent floodwaters, and it is raining there again tonight. nbc is in jackson. reporter: tonight, a race to distribute water in jackson, mississippi. cars lined up for miles outside distribution centers full of locals hoping for water who left empty-handed after the supply quickly ran out. the water that they are giv
fbi and accused the gop of condoning political violence here s gabe gutierrez. reporter: today in philadelphia, yet another bullet-riddled car, a father shot dead at a gas station. a 14 and 10-year-old survived little more than 100 miles away, president biden defended his record on crime ahead of this year s midterms. when it comes to public safety in this nation, the answer is not defund the police. it s fund the police reporter: his administration s plan to curb gun violence includes $13 billion over the next 5 years to hire more police officers, $3 billion to help courts clear backlogs, and a 13% increase in the atf s budget for new investigators to help cities trace firearms and analyze ballistics the president also hoping to build on federal gun safety legislation congress passed earlier this summer i m determined to ban assault weapons in this country reporter: he s also
profiting from those kinds of comparisons. cnn investigator found facebook is selling ads to vendors spewing the same trash, such as this one, likening covid vaccine mandates to the holocaust. uncovering the disturbing ways facebook makes at least some of its money and i got to tell you, when i heard a top line of what this story was when it came out i was kind of slack-jawed it was even possible. what did you find here? reporter: it s probably disgusting stuff what facebook and instagram are allowing on their platforms take a look at this ad we came across. one is a graphic of a needle, the vaccine and says it compares it to a holocaust. another ad we saw says make hanging traitors great again so not only seeing antivaccine misinformation here, or antivaccine posts, but also posts condoning political violence. and these aren t just, you know,