Everybody wanted for over 50 years and we got it done. Thats donald trump once again taking credit for the end of roe v. Wade. The former president made several false claims about the issue during both of his Campaign Rallies yesterday. Well have more on that in just a moment. Also ahead well go through the chaos overnight on the campus of ucla after a group of counterprotesters attacked a propalestinian encampment. And meanwhile Secretary Of State Antony Blinken is pressing hamas to accept a Gaza Ceasefire deal. Well bring you the latest on those negotiations. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, may 2nd. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the unrest on the campus of ucla there in Southern California. Police officers are on campus at this moment and have ordered the crowd of over 1,000 people to disperse. But a large group still remains protesting the war in gaza. As of now there have not been any arrests.
there has been some movement. vivek ramaswamy has moved up a little bit. chris christie has moved up in new hampshire. they smell above in the water. i expect a lot of them will go after desantis. jen, you are familiar with the way that party infrastructure works. i am so struck by the fact you ve already rnc chair ronna mcdaniel s practically begging donald trump to come to the debate, after putting in place what is a really wonky set of criteria that these candidates need to the fact that you have multiple candidates saying, i ve cleared that hurdle, i can be on the debate stage, and the rnc is like, well, we are not so sure, we haven t figure that out yet. what does it say, not just about the party, but about the institutions? the infrastructure of the party itself that you have them, a few days out from the debate, begging him to be onstage. that it is trump s party. all of these candidates, you know, about four of the candidates running for president now in the republican
when we were talking before the gate of what is the purpose of the debate, you go to when you should be aggressive. you should be have your facts. you should be able to address people s feelings, all that stuff. the desantis memo came out last week where his advisers in the pack is saying, give a positive vision, hammer ramaswamy, come up with silly nicknames, fake vivek, everyone s thinking along the same lines but they don t know what to do about donald trump as we ve been discussing this hour. what s interesting is people s chances can be decided in these. things i think sometimes we think that debates, they don t matter, or we think neither of those are true. it can play a real role in the presidential candidate. i saw this example that say the debates matter, talk to michael bloomberg. who turned up in las vegas, february 2020, was standing next to elizabeth warren. we have a clip, she did this. i d like to talk about who were running against. billionaire who calls women f
most of them, donald trump gets more than 60% support. and 70% of the republicans i think say they trust him over their own friends and family. that s not because they think he is george washington university,. they know he is a liar. it is to do more with the fact that this is about power, right? this is about the followers and the cult leader. some of them do believe him. this is why he started so early with the loyalty oath. i have a line in my book, strongmen, which trump is in it, so is mussolini, they believe him because they believe in him. what trump has managed to do is create this alternate reality and to set himself up as the
because their basic politics agrees with trump s in terms of trying to deal with the country the way it used to be and many of the movements that pushed it in many different ways. but as we said tonight, unfortunately we input laws and legislations that would cement the way we had moved the country. and then when they could stack the supreme court, they were able to just flip affirmative action, flip women s right to choose. and trump was doing this and playing saint. the man went into the white house and hung in the oval office a picture of andrew jackson. no one saw this man was the biggest slave owner, racist in american history. why would donald trump put that picture up? he is telling you this is what i m about. no one objected to that. i think going to the debates i thought i d be president, i went to the debates to go against andrew jackson, stand up for jesse jackson kind of politics. i think that is what we are not debating in this country. we are dealing, we are letting the