battle ahead could take many more months. plus, just hours from now secretary of state antony blinken and homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas are set to meet with mexican president just as thousands of central american migrants make their way to the united states southern border. we ll break down what this means and the key issues up for discussion. and also ahead the detroit pistons made nba history but for all the wrong reasons. the record they just broke that has everyone talking. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, december 27th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we get right to the news and the israeli military has expanded its ground offensive into urban refugee camps in central gaza. the idf is also focusing on southern gaza s largest city as part of its stated mission to destroy hamas. officials say progress has been made in the north and that troops will continue to, quote, preserve and intensify t
political one, that it s compelled by the extraordinary unusual legal circumstances which come with donald trump s candidacy following an insurrection. former u.s. attorney joyce vance weighing in on the decision by maine s secretary of state to remove donald trump from the 2024 republican presidential primary ballot. we re going to go through that decision and what could come next. plus the latest from gaza as israeli forces strike refugee camps where it s believed hamas terrorists are hiding. it comes as the biden administration is putting more pressure on israel to protect civilians. also ahead republican presidential candidate nikki haley trying to clarify her response to the question about the cause of the civil war. we re going to show you what she said. hey, everybody. good morning to you and welcome to way too early on this friday, december 29th. i m yasmin vuceivian in for jonathan lemire. maine is now the second state to remove former president trump off the
home to us. prosecutors speak out in an in-depth television interview. you put so much of your life into it that it stays with you. laci s husband, finally hear the story he told. his rarely seen police interrogation. you have no idea of where laci is? no, i do not. we couldn t find anything wrong with the guy. he was that charming. and surprising details from the other woman who helped to uncover the truth. it still affects me emotionally. did scott peterson kill his wife? i do not believe he did. who else could have done it? i am glad you asked that question. once upon a time in a small california city lived a sweet pregnant woman with a radiant smile and outside family hardly anyone knew her name. my daughter s been missing since this morning. she is eight months pregnant. she would never know how famous the name of hers would become. would never know that a curious, sympathetic puzzled nation had cast an eye her way. laci peterson. she was 27
right. with us we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire, professor at princeton university, eddy jr., former white house director of communications to president obama, jen palmary, co-host of showtime s the circus and member of the new york times editorial board mara gay. joe will join us in just a bit. willie, we have a lot to get to. i know we re not starting with this, but rudy giuliani was sued. did you hear about that? i did. there s some explosive and wild details that are coming out of that lawsuit that i think we re going to be talking about in just a few minute. do want to ask you first, though, jonathan lemire about this latest debt ceiling meeting at the white house the big four getting together, some glimmers of optimism. i guess we re grading on a curve here, though, based on there being no optimism out of the meeting a week ago. that june 1st date that secretary janet yellen has been warning about for several weeks is inching closer. what came o
but the squads of racialf arsonists said his life on firel after nearly died.y now, alvin bragg s office is after the two other bravehero men who jumped in to help mr. penni subdue the crazed lunatic. razenow we witness the samen perverse insanity in the openen border crisis caused by joe biden. the mediaa loves the fraudulent asylum seekers flooding our country, routinely amplifying their wants, wants, their needs, their concerns and taking everything they say about their cases. ey say a c just it s gospel. got to believe it. so ranchers in texas, property consrs tired of the trash and all the resources this is consuming. well, they re just heartlessy re nativists. so villainize americans who sayc diffore migrantsan became more difficult, though, this week when minorities in cities like new york and chicago, they began protesting as well. these families and in some cases their adult males. nodon t feel safe having adult males with no health screenings ,no criminal b