police officers accused in the death of tyre nichols appear in court for the first time. how the nichols family is reacting after today s developments, and the vice president doubling down on america s support for ukraine, what future aid could look like with a divided congress. as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. greatings i m simone sanders standing in for stephanie ruhle. donald trump and the tv network that s been loyal to him for years are both facing escalating legal troubles, stemming from false claims about her so-called stolen 2020 election. a damning legal filing has revealed that on air personalities at fox news publicly promoted those claims, while ridiculing them behind the scenes. this was all released as part of a 1. 6 billion dollar defamation suit against fox news by dominion voting systems. here is part of one text message from november 19th 2020 between tucker carlson and laura ingraham, all about trump campaign loyal lawyer, sydney powell.
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
endorsement to speaker johnson standing beside him and saying i side with the speaker, so the big question now is, a, will marjorie bring the motion, and will democrats back it? i think that s likely a possibility if we get to the situation. we ve spoken to a number of democrats in recent weeks who said if we put ukraine on the floor and it s palatable for us, we will pass it. this package like you mention is the senate bill. so i think if we came to a motion to vacate, democrats would save him. that s an untenable position. you don t want to be a republican speaker there at the behest of democrats although as i ve talk today some republicans yesterday they say isn t the house supposed to be reflective of the country, and isn t the country wanting more bipartisanship? i guess in theory. we ll see if they vote that way. but i appreciate you being here this early to break it all down and explaining the rule and giving the house procedure the
55 million are under flood alerts. climate envoy john kerry is traveling to china today. china is on track to become the world s worst all-time polluter, in part because the united nations allows china to maintain higher emissions, because they categorize them as a developing nation. the house of representatives voted 415-0 to reverse that in march. isn t the house right? isn t it time for the u.n. to stop allowing china to categorize itself as a developing nation when it comes to climate change. actually, the paris climate agreement, which is agreed back in 2015, in which we have rejoined in the biden administration actually lays out that every country, including china, has a responsibility to reduce emissions and the world, i do believe should step up and encourage, indeed, pressure china to take far more dramatic action to reduce emissions. they should not able to hide behind any kind of claim that they re a developing nation, to step up to their responsibility.
how this happened, which unit did it with what means and as we do that we will work to hold them responsible. more than 800 million americans are under heat warnings and president biden is traveling to china and china is on track to become the world s all-time polluter in part because the united nations allows china to maintain higher emissions because they categorize them as a developing nation. the house of representatives voted 415-0 to reverse that in march. isn t the house right? isn t it time for the u.n. to stop allows china to categorize itself as a developing nation when it comes to climate change? well, actually, jake, the paris climate agreement which was agreed back in 2015 in which we have rejoined in the biden administration actually lays out that every country including china has a responsibility to the reduce emissions and the world, i do believe, should step