clear that donald j. trump is a target of the investigation. we ll have legal analysis what that means for a possible indictment in just a moment. meanwhile trump s former running mate is now his newest challenger in the 2024 presidential race. we ll have more from mike pence s campaign launch. plus that hazardous haze that s been covering the northeast is expected to kick back up today. we ll get the latest time line for when the wildfire smoke from canada could finally clear out. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news has learned that former president donald trump s attorneys have been told that trump is a target of the justice department s investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents after he left the white house. prosecutors told trump s attorneys about their client being a target in that probe during their meeting monday at the doj headqu
countries, too. so it s a bit of a juxtaposition and weighing up of these pros and cons. overall 2.9% is the figure we expect for gdp globally then in 2024 as perhaps some of those inflation increases and interest rate increases perhaps begin to come off a little bit and the global economy begins to spur up again. also the opening of china may then be fully in effect. that may too then things up significantly. that seems to be the story right now. cnbc s arabile gumede live from london, thank you as always. still aheed here on way too early, mike pence has entered the race as president taking shots at his former boss but also didn t rule out supporting trump s campaign. we ll have those comments for you next. trump s campaign we ll have those comments for you next she picks only the perks she wants and saves on every one! all with an incredible new iphone.
panel. bannon is in about as much legal peril as trump these days and multiple investigations into him. let s turn to politics now, someone else from the trump administration, that s with former vice president mike pence. pence yesterday formally launched his bid for the white house. pence made the announcement during a rally outside des moines, iowa, yesterday afternoon which was his 64th birthday. during his speech pence made his most aggressive attack yet against donald trump saying his former boss does not deserve to be back in the white house. january 6th was a tragic day. but thanks to the courage of law enforcement, violence was quelled and we reconvened the congress the very same day to complete the work of the american people under the constitution of the united states. as i ve said many times, on that fateful day president trump s words were reckless.
to speak of. he had been on a tv show and there s was no way to make the case against him i think all of us, myself, marco rubio, ted cruz, all found it difficult to make the case because he could say whatever he wanted to say and there was no proof that he couldn t do it. this is different. today we know he said he would build a wall across the entire mexico. we haven t gotten our first peso. that s at least two gop candidates going right after donald trump. still ahead here on way too early, on update on the deadly mass shooting at a graduation ceremony in virginia. we re learning more about the victims and the suspected shooter. plus, the latest from ukraine where thousands are fleeing rising flood waters and falling bombs. we ll have the latest on the dam break there as well as a check on the smoky skies that are up and down the east coast. we ll be right back with all of that. t. we ll be right back with all of that
they endangered my family and everyone at the capitol. but the american people deserve to know that on that day president trump also demanded that i choose between him and the constitution. now voters will be faced with the same choice. i chose the constitution. i believe that anyone who puts themselves over the constitution should never be president of the united states. and anyone who asks someone else to put them over the constitution should never be president of the united states again. pence also blasted ron desantis without naming him by bringing up the florida governor s comments about the war in ukraine. president trump, he described