Wednesday night. Alex wagner tonight starts right now. Yeah, we do. I dont know whats the problem. 200 representatives voted today keep mccarthy in power. The number of member in his own party that wanted him as Speaker Of The House vastly outnumbered those who didnt. Thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. Today in the Fulton County election interference case Rudy Giulianis lead lawyer asked the judge if he could be removed from that case. Now, that is the second lawyer to leave giulianis georgia team this week alone. Their departure comes on the heels of mr. Giulianis lawyer and long time friend suing him last month for unpaid legal bills. We have known for a while now all is not well in giuliani land. He has huge legal bills. He is reportedly very short on cash. And now to add to those troubles, theres a new story out today that at first feels kind of like its been ripped from the tabloids, but ultimately it could have serious legal consequences for giuliani and his most imp
And it really, again, undermined the conference and the institution. Unfortunately, these eight individuals torpedoed the conference, took out our best player on the field, if you will, and created a constitutional crisis. Thats republican Congressman Mike Whauler of new york state criticizing the members of his own party who voted to remove Kevin Mccarthy as speaker. Well bring you the very latest from capitol hill on the candidates who could replace him. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is trying to reassure allies that the chaos in the house wont affect our nations support for ukraine. Well tell you what the white house is planning. And also ahead yet another tantrum from donald trump outside the courtroom in his Civil Fraud Trial. This one prompts a response from new York Attorney general letitia james. Good morning, and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, october 5th. Im jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the race to become
discuss all this. then we go overseas to egypt s election of muhammad morsi. what can we expect from an islamist president? two of the top egypt experts tell us. next, how do you count and catalog 1.2 billion people? i ll ask the man creating a revolutionary biometric i.d. for every one of india s citizens. also, the housing bubble caused the crash. will the coming housing boom finally power this anemic recovery? first, here s my take. what to do about syria. western military intervention looks fraught with difficulties, but the situation on the ground is a humanitarian nightmare and is producing greater instability by the week. i was recently in turkey and russia, and i ve been persuaded that there might be a path forward. the pressures on bashir al assad s regime are mounting. it is running out of cash, and it now faces a real military threat from turkey. these pressures could be combined with smart diplomacy to push assad out of power. but it would mean trying to w
nothing is for certain. but i do think that it is very good news for rick santorum. any one of the people that either drops out, you know, affirmatively, or basically sends a signal that their campaign is hopeless i think is very good news for rick santorum because this whole race has been sort of the mitt versus the anti-mitt. any of those people that leave from michelle bachmann, or rick perry or even newt gingrich i think they are probably far more likely to coalesce around rick santorum certainly than mitt romney. jon: you wrote an interesting column suggesting that you really can t get more anti-mitt than rick santorum. you really can t. rick santorum has always sort of been this kind of unusual politician. he s kind of prickly, he s not a glad-hander. the truth of the matter is he s a social and fiscal conservative who has done very well in a
good news for rick santorum. any one of the people that either drops out, you know, affirmatively, or basically sends a signal that their campaign is hopeless i think is very good news for rick santorum because this whole race has been sort of the mitt versus the anti-mitt. any of those people that leave from michelle bachmann, or rick perry or even newt gingrich i think they are probably far more likely to coalesce around rick santorum certainly than mitt romney. jon: you wrote an interesting column suggesting that you really can t get more anti-mitt than rick santorum. you really can t. rick santorum has always sort of been this kind of unusual politician. he s kind of prickly, he s not a glad-hander. the truth of the matter is he s a social and fiscal conservative who has done very well in a state, in pennsylvania, which is a state that a democrat must win