Does donald trump have that kind of money sitting around . Of course he has money. Hes a billionaire. We know that. Well, it turns out he actually doesnt have that money sitting around. Donald trumps attorneys are now saying he cannot secure the roughly half A Billion Dollar bond for his Civil Fraud Judgment. That means the former president could be days away from having some of his assets seized by new yorks attorney general. That comes as the trump appointed judge in the classified documents case issues a controversial ruling that once again seems to benefit the former president. Well get expert legal analysis on both of those developments straight ahead. Plus, well go through what President Biden and israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed yesterday in the first phone call between the two leaders in more than a month. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, march 19th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this mornin
Trump will surrender at and atlanta, georgia, jail. Why the fbi is now investigating the threats for the grand jurors who voted for his fourth indictment. We have breaking down all of the latest legal development. Classroom culture war. A new school year means new confusion for teachers over what they can and cannot teach. States like florida restricting lessons on race and sexuality. I will talk to a teacher who was so fed up, she quit. The grim reality of the postroe world. A 13yearold rape survivor forced to give birth after her state effectively outlawed abortion. The heartbreaking story that has galvanized the reproductive rights movement. All of that and more is coming up. We start this hour with new details on Donald Trumps fourth indictment. Nbc news has learned that Law Enforcement officials are now expecting the former president to surrender to a Fulton County jail no earlier than thursday of next week. Fulton county d. A. Fani willis as given trump, along with his 18 codefen
Virginia is gaining national attention. The states Largest School district says it will defy Governor Youngkin guidance on bathrooms and pronouns for transgender students. School district did a legal review and determined Fairfax County Public School policy are consistent with antidiscrimination law as defined by new model policy. Governor youngkin is firing back saying the School District is pushing false notion it knows what is better than a child than the parent and the school board should follow the law. Not the only state rights are under attack. In new jersey, we are awaiting a ruling where the office sued School District to neatotify parents if a child as young as five want to gender raymond, i want to play the liberal ideology for which all policies spring. Watch it, they tell you what they want to do. Im not going to let parents come into school and take books out and make their own decision. Vetoed it. You vetoed it. Stop the bill, parents shouldnt tell schools what to teach.
We began the southwest where people are frantically preparing for Hurricane Hilary. Latest update from the National Hurricane center, hillary has been downgraded to category two storm. Its making its way north alongside mexico spa coastline. Heavy rain is expected to impact california in arizona starting sunday. The National Weather service is calling the storm rare and dangerous. And here is why. Parts of the California Desert are forecasted to get three years worth of rain in just 48 hours. Lets get an update from Priscilla Thompson in palm springs, california. Priscilla, how are people where you are preparing right now . Yeah, alicia menendez, folks here are frantically filling those sandbags, hoping to protect their homes and businesses as that rainfall is expected to move in here in the coming hours, really. And this operation has been going since about 6 am local time. Thats 9 am eastern time. And its expected to continue for about the next four hours. You can see there are folks
Rahm emanuel about whats the u. S. Trying to accomplish. We begin this morning with the Devastating Hawaiin Wildfire S that ravaged maui. Police have identified three more victims. Nbcs tom llamas spoke with the family a 79yearold who was identified yesterday. Reporter remembering the man who for decades was the rhythm of lahaina. Music was the love of his life. Buddy jantoc spent life as a musician, touring country before settling down in his forever home of lahaina. Theyre sharing memories like this of uncle buddy playing weekend gigs at lahainas cannery mall. He was always smiling, always laughing. This as nbc news has reviewed a lawsuit accusing Hawaiian Electric of years of inaction and negligence, arguing it should have been planning to shut down Power Systems before the damaging winds hit. The Hawaiian Electric company declined to comment on the pending lawsuit. Nbcs Steve Patterson joins us this morning from maui. What more do we know about that suit and the investigation into