and new overnight, it appears writers on the picket lines are about to get some reinforcements as failed negotiations set the stage for another strike in the entertainment industry. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, january 13th. i m ali vitali in washington along with jonathan lemire who has another location change, this time in helsinki, finland, where he s still covering the president s trip overseas. lemere, i hope you re drinking coffee and all this travel doesn t have you too jet lagged. but once again set the scene where you are this morning on this next leg of the president s trip. reporter: well, it s not way too early here. it s actually noon. a pretty easy time to do this show, ali. yes, today is the final day of the president s trip to europe, and we re going to get into it. yesterday in many ways was the center piece. he met with president zelenskyy who had been so upset ukraine was not going to be given an immediate entry into nato.
republicans are growing louder they don t want it to be a blank check. i think there was an element he was surround by people with the message he was sharing, but if this was a united states crowd i think it would be a very different reaction. ali, back to you. guys, thank you so much. that was staff writer for the washington post meryl cornfield. fbi director christopher wray faced sharp criticism from republican lawmakers during a hearing omp of the house judiciary committee. wray fielded roughly five hours of questions from lawmakers including some of the same members of congress recently called for his impeachment. despite his being appointed by donald trump and being a registered republican voter, gop lawmakers have baselessly accused wray of using the fbi to target those with conservative beliefs including the former president himself. there is a two-tiered justice system weaponized to persecute people based on their political beliefs and that you have personally worked