good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, june 21st, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we are now hours away from the fourth public hearing by the january 6th committee. this afternoon, we will hear much more about this infamous phone call. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. so what are we going to do here, folks? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. that was former president trump calling georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger days before the insurrection, pressuring him to find the votes needed to win georgia. 11,780. raffensperger is one of three republicans testifying today. the other two are raffensperger s top deputy, gabe sterling and arizona house speaker rusty bowers who says trump and rudy giuliani called him after the election asking for help to overturn president biden s victory in his state. we re also goi
City this morning good morning for audience worldwide. This is bloomberg surveillance headed towards three weeks of gains in the s p 500 before we get to the weekend already looking forward to next week. Look at the lineup absolutely stacked, full of Economic Data. Wednesday cpi retail sales thursday jobless claims you got some retail earnings in the mix we will hear from home depot and walmart by the end of next week we should have a decent read on the American Consumer . It feels like every piece of data is choose your own adventure. You decide what comes in and what you think about this economy. Its been contradictions, ism goes into contraction. Earnings overall is great and gdp now tracker for percent. Make sense of that. Jonathan you all remember last tuesday fed might have to talk about raising Interest Rates in the wednesday meeting and then all of a sudden the cooler payrolls read whipsawed narrative from one side to the other. More fed speak later. Fed speak just repeat the s
We do leave the last few minutes of this, take you live now to the u. S. Capitol. Good afternoon, everyone. As you know, we had a lunch with the president. He did q a with our members for about an hour. Underscored the importance of accomplishing for the American People the First Comprehensive tax reform in 31 years which we fully intend to accomplish in the next few days. The Budget Committee will be meeting at 2 30 to take a step that is required to move the process forward, and were optimistic that step will be taken. Im going to have to run down to the white house for a meeting that i gather senator schumer and leader pelosi are not coming to, so i will not be here very long. But in order to allow for a couple of questions, ill be happy to throw it open just for a minute, and then im going to call on senator hatch if hes here right behind you. Yeah. Nancy . Leader mcconnell, how do you address all of the concerns that some of these gop holdouts have simultaneously without making th
Or will republicans stand by him for the sake of passing their agenda. Were one on one with moores chief political strategist. On capitol hill, lawmakers taking action. We need to draw a line in the sand. Say none of it is okay. None of it is acceptable. Now, three days. Three resignations. Is this just the beginning . And can this mow many tum translate into lasting change . Plus, violence after trumps decision on jerusalem. President trump fulfilling a Campaign Promise and upsending decades of u. S. Foreign policy. So, how does this move help trump achieve what hes called, the ultimate deal. Peace between israelis and palestinians. From the white house to your house, we take on the moments that mattered this week. From abc news, its this week. Here now, coanchor martha raddatz. Good morning. After nearly two me too tidal wave, Time Magazine named the silence breakers those voices that launched a meemt its persons of the the year. This week, the consequences came to capitol hill. Now
Misconduct accusations. We need to draw a line in the sand. Say none of it is okay. None of it is acceptable. Now, three days. Three resignations. Is this just the beginning . And can this momentum translate into lasting change . Plus, violence after trumps decision on jerusalem. President trump fulfilling a Campaign Promise and upending decades of u. S. Foreign policy. So, how does this move help trump achieve what hes called, the ultimate deal . Peace between israelis and palestinians. From the white house to your house, we take on the moments that mattered this week. From abc news, its this week. Here now, coanchor martha raddatz. Good morning. After nearly two months of the me too tidal wave, Time Magazine named the silence breakers those voices that launched a movement its persons of the year. This week, the consequences came to capitol hill. Now facing its own moment of reckoning. Congressman john conyers, representative trent franks, and senator al franken all announcing their r