and i m bianna golodryga. the fight for every vote under way with just five days until election day. so far more than 30 million voters have already cast their ballots in 46 states with the most seen in texas and florida. that s a pace that looks like if may exceed the historic turnout of 2018. both president biden and former president trump are making those closing arguments for their parties from the campaign trail. trump is planning four rallies in five days starting in iowa today to slam democrats over inflation and crime. president biden head west. soon lands in new mexico. may echo his consistent call to voters to eject election deniers and preserve democracy. our phil mattingly is covering president biden and jeb bellamy in iowa. why is president biden in new mexico? reporter: the two events he s attending. one a speech about student loans pap clear effort. we ve seen the white house pursuing this over the course of the last several weeks directed at trying to
we must vote knowing what at stake and not just the policy of the moment. but institutions that have held us together as we saw a more perfect union are at stake. we must vote knowing who we have been, what we re risk of becoming. president biden laid ous the threats to democracy. ahead of an election that he says will be a defining moment for our country. we ll have much more on his speech straight ahead. meanwhile, there are new details in the plot by donald trump s attorneys to overturn the 2020 election. his lawyers had a specific judge in mind. we ll tell who you that is. and also ahead, the latest from a major meeting in germany. the united states and allies are outlining the next steps in support of ukraine. good morning. welcome to way too early. thank you for starting your day us with. we ll begin with president joe biden s speech on the midterm elections and the future of our nation s democracy. the president delivered the remarks last night from washington s
from the national hurricane center, but first live in tampa, nicole valdez. hey, nicole. ainsley, brian, steve, good morning. florida attorney general saying this is the storm we all have feared. she called the chance of us seeing anywhere from 5 to 15 feet of storm surge, detrimental for the tampa bay area. and unfortunately we are seeing the impacts of hurricane ian across florida. brand-new video from the florida keys, you are already seeing flooding beginning in portions of monroe county. it s part of one of the reasons why we already know hundreds of thousands of people are under mandatory evacuations right now. here is a look at all six counties that those people are living in. really all along florida s gulf coast and we are already hearing reports that the number of counties issuing the mandatory evacuations are expanding. it s why people are boarding up their homes, getting all the resources, going to the grocery stores, packing up their cars, getting ready to driv
governor, as your senator, as your secretary of state, as your attorney general, then democracy as we know it may not survive in arizona. that s not an exaggeration, that is a fact. that was former president obama hitting the campaign trail hard for democrats talking on election deniers in battleground states. that guy is pretty good. he s good at what he does. he s got a future in politics if he decides to go that way. president biden makes the fate of our democracy a key issue just days before voters decide who will control congress and the future path of our country. also ahead, new polling in several crucial races, including pennsylvania where voters are weighing in on the only debate between senate candidate john fetterman and dr. oz. plus, there are new details in the plot by trump s attorneys to overturn the 2020 election. his lawyers had a specific justice in mind, and we ll tell you who that is. and one of former president donald trump s top advisers has
including kevin mccarthy s new problems. by the end of the hour we re going to turn to culture and the artist ransom. i want to begin this hour with you with one of our special reports about law and justice and fairness. it involves a dilemma many warned about, that the end of the trump presidency would not be the end of trump s impact or damage. especially been the ways he tried to corrupt the government and alter the traditions and norms at times have been guardrails for the united states. everything changed for president biden because he s now facing this new special counsel probe from the doj. unlike president obama. because the attorney general appointed a dedicated prosecutor to probe how classified documents ended up in his office and home and not just any prosecutor. we ll come back to that. this week s news is an unusual decision he made two months ago when he appointed a special prosecutor for trump s classified documents. in certain extraordinary cases it is in t