Im going to allow an opportunity for every Single Member of the house to vote their conscience and will on this. Im willing to take personal risk for that because we have to do the right thing and history will judge us. I do not spend time Walking Around thinking about the motion to vacate. I have a job to do here and im going to do the job. Regardless of personal consequences, thats what were supposed to do. Speaker mike johnson pushing forward with a series of aid bills despite push back in his party. The question is how much will he need to lean on democrats to get that funding passed . Plus the senate dismisses articles of impeachment against Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. And what to expect today when Jury Selection picks up again in former President Trumps hush money trial. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, april 18th. Im ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. And we begin this morning on capitol hill where House Speaker mike johnson is digg
bothers him he s sat in court all day, it s not a great looking courthouse and he can t be on his phone, right? we know that normally he sends about half of his truth social posts on his phone. the others he dictates. i mean he can t do that right now as he s in court, so-so he s got and the gag order doesn t help. and the gag order doesn t he seems very cog niz want of that. he s even said it s unfair i have to sit here and watch people on tv talk about me. but he knows he can hit repost, he can hit retweet, the equivalent on truth social, which is retweeting a documentary, a 30-minute documentary that was made about the four prosecutors, you know, criticizing that. i mean it s the same talking points but now you ve got people like laura loomer, even elon musk to his 180 million followers on x doing that. trump loves that. it s really this shadow messaging at work that s going on that he s really savoring it.
just since friday, in the past week 392 tweets. well, he can do a lot at once, but he s the president of the united states, right? this is not just me, for example political journalist, i m at my kids basketball game, looking at my phone, i hit retweet, he s the president. so theoretically, there s a lot of big important things he should be doing. fox news, should president trump be impeached or removed from house. yes 50, no 46. it s basically the same as it was in late october. impeached and removed from office. not just impeached, i think we are now getting to the point where the republican is hearing more about this. removed from office is something
believe was the white house initially, who put it out. and then she owned and it retweet it. and it is also, it went viral pointing her finger at the president of the policy last month just to name a few. you write that she s been underestimated and people are getting a good look at her leadership. i think that s right. this is the same mom that disciplined us in the household. what she calls the weaver of the house. where she takes all the different strands of the diverse house democratic caucus and some republican strands, too, and weaves together policies for the good of the american people. she is very strong in who she is and last election cycle, when there were 137,000 negative ads about her, including some by democrats, she would just turn and say, just win, baby.
lot of tweets donald trump have sent out those are offensive and you can t retweet or like or respond in any way that is a form of banning. reporter: absolutely. this is limiting the free speech world leaders have and those who follow those world leaders, twitter has the right to do so but i would ask why do we not then see some progress of leaders out there who violate the policy, why is the president being called out by senator harris and not other people like julian castro, in reference to docsing individuals information and putting private information out there? this is where the hypocrisy comes in. twitter, they have this global entity that will be determining what is allowed and what is not. i don t trust twitter to have a right judgment. heather: we appreciate it, have a good day.