to celebrate july 4th in several key battleground states. we ll show you how the presidential contenders marked the holiday. plus a federal judge orders the biden administration to stop talking with social media companies. what it means for the effort to tamp down misinformation about covid and so much more. and later which of these things is not like the other? looks like the gop needs to brush up on its social studies. how its twitter page mixed up the american flag. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, july 5th. i m jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. we certainly hope you had a happy and safe july 4th. the white house celebrated america s independence yesterday with a barbecue, a concert, and of course plenty of fireworks. we re turning from a weekend at camp david, president joe biden addressed military members in the crowd who he called the protectors of democracy. you are the backbone, the reality of why we are
killed and others were injured in a drone strike near the border of syria. we ll go through the details of the attack and show you how the president is responding. plus, donald trump is now on the hook for a massive payout to e. jean carroll after a jury awarded the writer $83 million in defamation damages. we ll get expert legal analysis on that as well as the looming case that can further impact trump s bank account. and a stunning second half comeback sends the san francisco 49ers to the super bowl, setting up a rematch of the 2020 big game with the kansas city chiefs. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, january 29th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we ve got a lot to get to. we ll begin this morning with developing news out of the middle east and the deaths of three u.s. servicemembers in nort jordan. it happened yesterday at a logistics support base near jordan s border with syria. a drone packed with e
Repercussions as 2024 candidates and the white house respond to the recent Major Supreme Court decisions. We are moving forward with another pathway to debt relief. Reporter President Biden racing to find new ways to erase student loan debt, a decision that candidate donald trump praised in South Carolina saturday. They ruled against it, 100 against it, amazing. Reporter another controversial decision is stoking divisions over gay rights, the high court found that a colorado christian web designer has a free speech right to refuse to create gay wedding web sites. Its a real victory for religious liberty. Reporter it comes as trumps main rival, Florida Governor ron desantis is under fire for his campaigns new video posted On The Last Day of pride month. Attacking trump for his past support of the lgbtq community. The video then features a sequence showing desantis hard line drag shows, transgender policy, interspersed with images of shirtless men and photos of brad pitt in the movie tro
lives of your children are damaged and destroyed. mr. zuckerberg, you and the companies before us i know you don t mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. you have a product you have a product that s killing people. i just want to get this stuff done. it s been 28 years, what, since the internet. we haven t passed any of these bills because everyone is double-talk, double-talk. it s time to actually pass them. that s just a small sample of a contentious senate hearing yesterday with social media ceos. we have much more to show you including the moment that mark zuckerberg apologized to the parents there in the chamber. also on capitol hill, a couple of republican senators involved in the border bill negotiations are calling on members of their own party to stand up to donald trump. and meanwhile, a top advisor in trump s campaign makes a shameless pitch to wealthy donors. we ll tell you what that is just ahead. good morning and welcome to way too earl
this morning. in just under an hour, court authorities will attempt to arraign donald trump s personal valet walt nauta for a third time. he is trump s co-defendant in the classified documents case. . and we re learning never before seen details of what led to the fbi s mar-a-lago search in the first place. look at how much is still redacted, but we ll break down what we are learning in just a moment. plus, the hottest day ever again. for the third day in a row, the earth recorded temperatures never seen before. we re pushing our ecosystems and our climate into a different place than it s been for the entirety of human civilization. we begin with that rare news conference from the president of belarus and the question, where in the world is wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin? last week the president of belarus said prigozhin, who you see there, had fled his country after the attempted armed rebellion in russia. after that rare press conference, alexander lukashenko said p