that case in just a moment. also on capitol hill republicans and democrats are sticking to their demands on the debt ceiling despite a fast approaching deadline. we ll look at the fall back options being discussed at the white house. and the latest from donald trump s civil rape trial as jurors yesterday watched more of the former president s video deposition. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, may 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we ll begin with the scramble to avoid a first ever government default. with the clock ticking both republicans and democrats are still refusing to budge when it comes to debt ceiling negotiations. according to new reporting in the wall street journal the white house is weighing potential fall back options. people familiar with the matter tell the newspaper administration officials and lawmakers are considering alternatives like a short-term increase in the borrowing limit that would buy them time to f
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
too early on this wednesday, january 11. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president biden says he is cooperating fully with a review into how classified documents from the obama administration ended up in an office he used after his time he spent as vice president. he commented for the first time. people know i take classified documents, classified information, seriously. i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any government records taken there to that office. but i don t know what is in the documents. my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they were. and we re cooperating fully with the review which i hope will be finished soon and there will be more detail at that time. two sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news that president biden s personal lawyers discovered fewer than a dozen classified documents at the penn biden center, a think tank in washington, d.c., that discovery made back on n
paid to those materials when you are in office and after you leave office, and clearly that did not take place in this case. but the unequal treatment before the law was deeply troubling to me early this week. well, well, well. that was mike pence two weeks ago talking about president biden s classified documents. but now it s pence s lawyers who are explaining how classified material ended up at the former vice president s home. also ahead, kevin mccarthy makes food on his promises for committee assignments, procking high-profile democrats from one and adding fringe members of the gop to others. plus, the pentagon now appears to be ready to send tanks to ukraine after all. we ll explain why the move is as much about putting pressure on allies as it is about arming the ukrainians. good morning. welcome to way too early on this wednesday, january 25th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we have a packed show and we begin in washington where c
anybody out here. so the sooner we all come together, just keep a calm head, i know you guys are getting excited. i don t think if you watch me that i get excited do i want to go through all this, no. but i think at the end of the day it s better to go through this now so we could be successful for this term. if you fail three times, how do you possibly pull this off? you get to 218. this morning, a speakership stalemate. the house adjourned last night without a speaker after kevin mccarthy failed to win enough support in three rounds of voting. we ll walk through what happened and how today is shaping up. plus, republican congressman-elect george santos had an awkward first day in washington. he kicked things off with another statement about something that didn t actually happen. we ll tell you what it was. also this morning, the family of damar hamlin says he s still fighting after his scary collapse monday night. we ll have the latest on his condition straight