well, we served six years together here in the house i know what he believes. i know his principles and i ve seen his record since he went to florida. i d be really excited to have him as president those are a couple of the lawmakers who are already endorsing ron desantis for president in 2024. the florida governor was on capitol hill yesterday trying to win more support for a campaign that he hasn t officially launched, but was desantis outmaneuvered yesterday by his biggest rival? plus, we ll have the latest developments in two high profile shootings. in both cases the victims made the simple mistake of going to the wrong house. and also ahead we ll break down the massive settlement that fox news agreed to pay for airing false claims about election fraud, and we ll explain why the legal issues for the network are far from over. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 19th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll
law career helped me become governor. gave me advice on being a good dad. he s one of the people i talk to most in the world, and very rarely were we talking about my job. he was an incredible friend. we also lost julianna farmer, jim tutt, josh barrack, each amazing people whose families grieve them, whose community will morn and be miss. these are irreplaceable, amazing individuals, that a terrible act of violence tore from all of us. kentucky governor andy beshe making the comments about the mass shooting in louisville, hours before a fifth bank employee died at the hospital. we ll get a live report from louisville for the latest on the surviving victims and the investigation in a moment. plus, one of the two tennessee lawmakers expelled from the house floor for protesting gun violence gets his seat back. we ll have more on that development and what s next for the other lawmakers straight ahead. also this morning, we ll take you through the legal battle over a common
the sound of artillery fire. you can tell every minute that this is a city that is being intensely fought over. we start here in the uk, where the prime minister rishi sunak has set out his priorities for 2023 in his first major speech of the year. let s have a listen to some of what he had to say. first, we will have inflation this year to ease the cost of living and give people financial security. second, we will grow the economy, creating better paid jobs and opportunity right across the country. third, we will make sure our national debt is falling so that we can secure the future of public services. fourth, nhs waiting lists will fall, and people will get the kjaer they need more quickly. fifth, we will pass new laws to stop small boats, sunak making sure that if you come to this country sunak illegally, you are detained and swiftly removed. rishi sunak spent the first few weeks of his premiership last autumn trying to restore stability after the turmoil of liz truss go
an audit exit if this is put in charge of this years climate complement. and a look at what s happening in the front line town of soledar as russia and ukraine fight for control. welcome to the programme. we start with the controversy in washington. the white house has confirmed that a second set of classified documents has been found in the garage of president biden s home in delaware. it s thought the documents are linked to barack obama s time in the white house whenjoe biden was vice president. and in the last half hour, us attorney general merrick garland announced the appointment of special counsel to investigate joe biden s handling of the documents. this appointment underscores for the public the departments commitment to independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters and to making decisions guided only by the facts and the law. here s what the us president told reporters a little earlier. as i said earlier this week, and by the way my corvett
and they were rallying near the base l settlement in the city of ramallah on sunday . there s increased tension this year after al jazeera journalist sharina actually was shot dead by israeli forces. and they have been defiant messages from alice indians that are rally in the gaza strip. they flew balloons, bearing the names of cities, occupied by israel and 948. nearly 800000 palestinians were driven from their homes in the year that israel was founded. warm up would you heard that? we want to say to this occupation that we will not allow any crime against jerusalem and locks or, or against old palestinian people. but in any foolishness committed by the occupational opened the gates of hell were in the resistance were remains of shield answered. the defense, jerusalem, intellectual and demonstrations, were also held in various american cities in solidarity with palestinians. many protest as there also voiced their anger against the killing of sri in uh, broccoli, pansy calha