fallout. plus. thousands of demonstrators flooding the streets of tel aviv, protestering netanyahu s w government. we re live in jerusalem. and we are not out here for wages. we are out here because we want patient safety. the covid pandemic left unsafe working conditions for thousands of nurses striking across new york. we ll explore the larger nationwide epidemic of nursing shortages. political problems are rapidly mounting at the biden white house. the president s personal attorney says an fbi search of biden s private home in delaware has turned up even more classified materials. his republican critics in congress are already sharpening their knives. the president and first lady weren t home at the time. the materials taken by the fbi add to a growing list of classified documents recently recovered from places connected to the president. a special counsel is investigating the biden documents. meanwhile, the justice department has signaled it s unlikely to cooperat
as vladimir putin announced a major escalation in the war in ukraine. this all happening overnight calling up reservists and threatening a possible nuclear response as he suffers major setbacks on the battlefield, and in the geopolitical landscape. plus, the latest in the trump documents case as it goes before the special master, the former president s attorneys refuse to back up their claim that trump declassified the documents before taking them to his club in florida. we ll have the reaction from the judge and it is quite telling. also, the attorney general of new york is set to make a major aa nounsa-of- announce. we ll discuss what that announcement might be. and new developments in the story of the migrants flown to martha s vineyard with some sent to the massachusetts island now filing a class action lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis. we ll have all of the details on that. with us, host of way too early, jonathan lemire. and former aide of the geo
ow. in a moment we ll be joined by two former obama campaign insiders with the scoop on what s really going down with obama himself hitting the campaign trail. here are the numbers. 14 million people have already turned out to cast early ballots. that outpaces the same turnout in 2018 by over-1 million votes. it s easy to forget because a lot happened become you 2018 was the first election after trump became president that was a huge, huge resistance mobilization, but we are above that. meanwhile, voters today also very concern about rising prices and inflation. the economy did grow last quarter, ending what was a nix month documented slump. is that what people are feeling? not yet. meanwhile, the candidates are out trying to make their closing arguments. by january i m going to be feeling even better. [ cheers and applause ] but he will still be a fraud. i just want to save as many live as possible. i think that s the goal of a pro life policy. you re saying you don t
investigating handling of those classified documents. michael cloud, who sits on one of those committees will join us in a moment but first, lucas tomlinson lived at the white house. the white house says those five additional classified documents discovered president biden s lincoln home were discovered thursday night but all day friday here at the white house there s no mention, recall president biden saying his lawyers were done looking for them. they finished the review last night, they discovered a small number of documents of classified mark youmans in storage areas and file cabinets in my home, my personal every. the white house says the first time classified documents were founded in his home was december 20 but biden made no mention when he spoke in mexico city earlier this week. he only referenced documents on november second in washington. all week biden s press secretary refused to rule out additional classified material found, the white house still won t say
circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. this appointment underscores for the public the department s commitment to both independence and accountability and particularly sensitive matters. and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. let s bring in wall street journal columnist dan henninger and kim strassel do you think merrick garland had a choice here or was he boxed in and really had to appoint a special council or is he just trying to build in some political insulation here for the hard choices that may come? well i would say all of the above, paul. [laughter] for sure. i mean, really consider that one week ago today, we were all sitting here discussing that fiasco of kevin mccarthy house speakership roll forward nearly one week we have a spectacle of a special council appointed to investigate the sitting president of the united states after one has already been appointed a special council to inv