i would have to do an optimistic story. and then what. thanks, my. friend as always. thanks to you at home for being here this evening. it was four days before the 2016 election, when the wall street journal published this report national enquirer shielded donald trump from playboy model s affair allegation. the journal was the first to report that the national enquirer paid a woman named karen mcdougal $150,000 in august of 2016, and what is known as a catch and kill. basically, the enquirer bought macdougalls story, about a romantic relationship with donald trump in 2006, and then the acquirer killed it. it never went to press. in any other news cycle, this story would ve been a bombshell. in the last week, of a wild campaign, the mcdougal story got very little attention. first of all, the country was still reeling from the release of trump s access hollywood tape, which had happened a month earlier. just days before, fbi director james comey had announced the fbi was
from coast-to-coast our schools are toast. is time once again for. our education system sucks. it s funny, because it spelled incorrectly. have you heard about equitable grading? i haven t because i m not allowed within 100 feet of a school. they still refuse to believe i drive an ice cream truck. but school districts around the country are buying into this even though many teachers aren t , they think it s as shady as a gynecologist who works out of his garage. what is equitable grading really ? the grading scale begins at 50 percent, instead of zero, that means you do deserve a de- commit that extra leg up makes it a b or se. picture joy behar, i m sorry, but she stepping on the scale, right? where zero is actually 150 pounds. voilà, she only weighs 160 instead of 310. that is equity. meanwhile, homework is played down and kids are given multipl chances to complete the same assignment and the same test because if it first you don t succeed, you re probably a dumba dumb
fighting in that country we have the very latest on the deadly conflict and what could be next for thousands of americans who are still over there. plus, we ve got new polling on the 2024 presidential election how voters are feeling about president joe biden s re-election campaign as well as donald trump s mounting legal issues. and also ahead, what we can expect on capitol hill this week as the house is expected to vote on speaker kevin mccarthy s plan to raise the debt ceiling. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, april 24th i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us and we ll begin this morning with the developing news out of northeast africa the united states has evacuated and temporarily closed its embassy in sudan as conflict grows in that country. fighting between warring military factions in the capital has killed hundreds and thousands of citizens are still there. they re still remaining in the country. nbc news
into former president trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. former vice president mike pence appears before a federal grand jury offering what could be critical testimony about trump s role in the january 6th capitol attack. and as pence was testifying the former president took his 2024 campaign to new hampshire. trump ignore his legal troubles and instead focused his attacks on president biden and other potential white house opponents. and also breaking this morning, russia launches new attacks across ukraine hitting a residential building in the central part of the country and killing at least a dozen people. we ll have the very latest on the fighting overseas. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 28th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with big news from here in the nation s capitol. former vice president mike pence has testified before the federal grand jury investigating the january 6th insurr
there were four lives not fatalities, lives, there wer four lives that is one of two new mass shootings overnight happenin right as the nra is ramping up an annual convention featuring donald trump and others vowing to fight any kind of gun reform we re also looking ahead to key wednesday midnight deadlin for a supreme court stay allowing access to a key abortion drug after a texa judge s decision which would ban it everywhere. we do not need judges politicians or governmen telling women about what sor of health care they can have look, what we have in texas is a judge who is not guided by science. but is part of a extreme republican concerted effort to ban abortion nationwide. and we do not need judges, politicians or governmen telling women about what sor of health care they can have all that and a deadly error as police and you must go shoo and kill a man after going t the wrong house. more on that story ahead a well of first happened again in alabama,. four peop