Great in my book who are you . No power . No problem. Introducing stormready wifi. Now you can stay reliably connected through Power Outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery backup to keep you online. Only from xfinity. Home of the xfinity 10g network. Right now on ana cabrera reports, a contentious faceoff on capitol hill, House Republicans holding the first hearing of their Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden, with the country just days away from a Government Shutdown. Plus the split screen moment the president will provide later this afternoon. And seven candidates take the stage for the second president ial debate. Does it do anything to change the race without donald trump there . And later, a suspect now arrested in the murder of the baltimore tech ceo. What more we could learn at a News Conference coming up next hour. Hello, and thank you for being here. Its 10 00 eastern. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin on capitol hill where just a
Indictment of Robert Menendez monday night only three United States senators took the position that Senator Menendez should resign and let the democratic governor of new jersey appoint his replacement. The next day more senators called on Senator Menendez to resign, and tonight the total stands at 30 who have called on their colleague to resign. And of course not one republican senator wants menendez to resign because republicans know the longer Robert Menendez tarnishes the position of senior senator from new jersey, it will be that much easier for republicans to win that new Jersey Senate seat in next years election. It should have never have come to this. After Robert Menendez got a hung jury in his First Federal corruption trial, which means that some of the jurors voted guilty and some of the jurors voted not guilty. The Senate Ethics committee completed its own investigation of Robert Menendez in which the committee in a unanimous bipartisan finding said Robert Menendez broke fed
Jansing reports. Lets get right to it. At this hour, did they plan for that to happen . Stunned reactions on capitol hill, when a key witness called by republicans says the Current Evidence doesnt support impeaching the president. The mattress defense, bob menendez faces his colleagues for the First Time Since allegations of bribes and gold bars. Can he convince any of them that he doesnt need to resign . Trumping the debate, the republican front runner skips the stage and says he could cross names off his vip list. And the candidates spend more time fighting each other than fighting to bridge the gap with donald trump. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin with ken dilanian at the surprise testimony today at the Biden Impeachment Inquiry. What happened . Reporter well, chris, the republican star witness, Constitutional Law Professor jonathan turley, a frequent guest on fox news perhaps didnt deliver the kind of testimony that the republicans wer
Now in America Today in 2024 women have fewer rights than their mothers and their grandmothers had because of donald trump. Trump bragged how proud he was to get rid of roe v. Wade. He took credit for it. He said there has to be punishment for women exercising reproductive freedom. That was President Biden calling out Donald Trump On Reproductive Rights in his home state. Well have much more from the president s speech straight ahead. Meanwhile, the former president spent his day in a new york courtroom. Well get expert legal analysis on yesterdays testimony in the Hush Money Trial and the gag order against trump. And well bring you reaction from lawmakers on capitol hill after the Senate Passed a package of foreign aid bills. All right, all right, good morning and welcome to Way Too Early. On this wednesday, april 24th. I am sam stein in for jonathan lemire. Testimony in Donald Trumps Hush Money Criminal Trial is scheduled to resume tomorrow after several Key Developments in court yes
People over the years. Im not the only one. And wasnt very good in a lot of ways in terms of his representation. And also the things he got in trouble for were things that had nothing to do with me. He got in trouble, he went to jail. This had nothing to do with me. When are they going to look at all the lies in the last trial. He got caught lying to them in the last trial. He got caught lying, pure lying. And when are they going to look at that . Donald trump may have violated the gag order in his Hush Money Trial by ranting about Michael Cohen yesterday who is expected to testify at some point. Well get expert legal analysis on that and yesterdays Opening Statements. Plus, well go through the newly unsealed transcripts in the classified documents case, which show a former white house staffer tried to warn the former president about the legal issues he could face. And well have the latest from capitol hill on foreign aid funding passed by the house as well as threats to Mike Johnsons