Mike thank you for joining us. Im mike cihla. Wtoc is hosting a debate for the senatorial race with candidates republican incumbent david perdue and jon ossoff. In addition to wtoc, this debate is also airing in acosta, columbus, albany, thomasville. The candidates are eight feet apart and as you can see, there is a plexiglas divider between them. We are following cdc recommendations. Here are the rules for tonights debate. Candidates will have 1 30 for opening and closing statements, 1 15 to answer a question when it is posed to both. Candidates can request a rebuttal if they are named or attacked by the candidate in their answer. The candidate will have 45 seconds for a rebuttal. We also have directed questions for individual candidates. They will have 1 15 for a response. The other candidate will have 45 seconds for comment if they choose to. Rebuttal rules will go into effect. The candidates tonight are republican incumbent david perdue and democratic challenger jon ossoff. You bot
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 surprisingly strong jobs report crushed economists expectations this morning. U. S. Companies on a hiring tear in september, creating 336,000 new jobs, nearly double what economists were expecting. President biden did hope to take some credit for it, talking up his bidenomics plan to help the economy. Listen to this. Mr. President , can you be specific about what you did to try to reappropriate those border funds, especially when democrats controlled both chambers . I was told that i had no choice. That, you know, Congress Passes legislation to build something, whether its an aircraft carrier, a wall or provide for a tax cut. I cant so thats not the right sound bite. Nevertheless, President Biden did try to take credit for the surprising jobs report. We have cnns matt egan to break it all down for us. Walk you throughs it. Where were the biggest job gains . Reporter boris, these were Blockbuster Numbers and the best part is virtually no one saw it coming, 336,000 jobs added, you know
You have made it clear that if this fails, you will try again. It will not immediately fail, but this will not be the only time. That is all i will say on that. Has the speaker talked to you in anyway . He has talked to me since he appointed me to the National Defense committee, and we talked about our defense priorities. There are a number of republican candidates saying they are keeping an open mind. I hold no malice toward any republicans who do not support the motion to vacate. I believe the basis for the motion to vacate his Kevin Mccarthys repeated breach of the agreement he made in january. Just look at the breach over the last few weeks. He blew past the covid spending top line he agreed to, he put a bill on the floor to fund the government without 72 hours to review it. He said there would never be a bill on the floor of the house that would spend more than 100 million without opportunity for amendment, yet the last resolution, he violated that agreement as well. He also agree
And im going fast the and im totally online. Well, welcome to the program. To cation war planes have struck suspected curtis targets in iraq, in response to a suicide bombing, and the capital anchor. The Defense Ministry says its jets destroyed 20 targets of the p k. K could, is separate his group in northern iraq. And the other p k case that it carried out a suicide bomb attack. Outside the turkish interior ministry, president , ridge of type are the ones that terrorists would never achieve the aims. Cctv. What did choose this was side bumper charging towards the ministry where he blew himself up. A 2nd, decker was killed in a gun battle with blues. A resident dodge up the babylon, condemned the bomb being sold as a result of the timely intervention of our security forces. The action in which to measure is when utilized is the last stand of terrorism to the scoundrels who targeted the peace and security of citizens. Could not achieve the goals, they never will tell them. Oh, so those