What action will be taken to help cities stop the bloodshed. And crime was top of mind for New York City voters who cast their ballots for the mayor. When all said and done, will a former Police Officer come out on top . Its Way Too Early for this. Good morning. And welcome to Way Too Early, the show that shuts down all the fire alarms, i think were good this morning. Unlike yesterday. I am kasie hunt, this wednesday, june 23rd. Well start with the news. Democrats say they will keep fighting after Senate Republicans on a sweeping new Voting Rights action in laws in red states. Democratic governor joe manchin voted to debate, after receiving assurances that his compromise would be considered. At the end, the vote was split 50 50, short of the 60 votes needed to overcome the republican filibuster. Heres what will we heard on the senate floor yesterday. Theres no widespread effort to stop voters from casting a ballot. And theres no design to hand states constitutional authorities over to
Suicide. And the investor immortalizing The Big Short for predicting the Housing Bubble would burst is back at it again. Why hes betting 1. 6 billion that the stock market will crash. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin in hawaii with the growing questions about the role downed power lines may have played in those deadly wildfires. Nbcs dana griffin is live from maui. Some hawaiian residents are suing the Utility Company as videos emerge of what happened to the power lines during the high winds. Dana, what can you tell us . Reporter well, chris, i can tell you, we have seen a lot of videos on social media, one in particular that purports to show downed power lines and smoke, and that could have been the reignition of that fire after it was contained. Nbc news has not independently verified those videos yet. Were hearing reports from several people including one guy who says that fire started behind his home, and now there are concerns that that
Welcome to prime time weekend, and i am alex wagner. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. The banks and Financial Institutions that lent donald trump hundreds of millions of dollars to help build and expand the trump brand . They cannot be happy right now. Will any of them really want to loan donald trump any more money . Could they start demanding he pay back the money he owes them presently . Well, there is actually a historical precedent for all of this. Back in the early 1990s, trumps Business Empire was on the brink of insolvency. He had stretched himself thin, with casinos in Atlantic City and a fancy yacht, and for whatever reason, his own airline company. Trump had borrowed a ton of money from the banks to pay for all of this. And these businesses were not doing well, so the banks got together and decided it was time to rein in Donald Trumps finances. Trump had long cast himself as a winner. Now he was looking like a loser. As quickly as the banks loved him, thats as quick
and the latino vote is an important voting bloc not just an but several other key swing states that are highly competitive in this election cycle. different latino communities in different states or motivated by different things. we can t expect a motive at the same way. but what we do know is that whoever wins the white house in november, that decision could be made by the way people vote in neighborhoods like this one. alex? 100%. thank you for pointing all that out for us. david noriega, appreciate all the. new day with new information from a special counsel. this time is jack smith. his new warning and moments, plus what it was like to be inside the courtroom for thursday s supreme court arguments. and when is an insurrection just a riot? the former spokesperson for the january 6th committee gives me her take. me her take. to all of you, from msnbc headquarters in new york, welcome to alex witt reports. breaking news from the mar-a- lago classified documents case. s
being old. do that on television, ok? i said to see you do it on television. i don t want to dislike you. i can t help it. sandra: begin with the media writing off ron desantis s bid for the governor even before he joins the primary field. i m sandra smith in new york. a lot of puns off the top alert there, but we do have a hot show coming up. john: yes, no question about that. all right. let s get cooking here. john roberts in washington. this is america reports. after months of speculation, and several visits to early primary states, ron desantis will make it official not with the usual campaign kick-off rally but in a live audio only interview with the ceo of twitter, elon musk. sandra: we are just hours away from that. marc thiessen standing by whether desantis s entry will shake up the race and peter doocy with the naacp growing war with desantis. how will desantis s rollout play out tonight? what are we and anticipating? from hot and humid miami, a bit of a