following his first trip to the middle east. we ll go through what if anything was accomplished in his controversial visit with the saudi crown prince. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, july 18th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we begin with the latest fallout from the massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers in uvalde, texas. a damning investigative report released over the weekend said that nearly 400 law enforcement officials responded to the mass shooting but that quote egregiously poor decision making let the shooting continue for more than an hour. that report written by an investigative committee from the texas house of representatives is the first to criticize state and federal law enforcement for their role in the response. it makes the fullest account of what happened during the very worst school shootings in u.s. history. uvalde mayor don mclaughlin said the acting police chief during the shooting was placed on
views as the biden administration working to hit him with criminal charges, or even put him and his people in prison. according to the justice department s office of legal counsel, a sitting president cannot be charged with a federal crime. now, the same is not true for a prosecution at a state level. however, that would possibly go to the supreme court. let s bring in the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former staff for hillary clinton. good to have you both on board this morning. not a surprise. a lot of people have been talking for some time that donald trump may seek re-election to avoid prosecution. it seems of course, you have a new book coming out that goes through everything donald trump has done, certainly everything he did around january 6th, that now seems to be landing him in hot water. not just politically, as we heard from mike allen on your show, but it is impacting him politically and legally at the jus
week. because the news is really boring right now and he had to come up with something. greg: tonight monologue, evil. yeah. an uplifting topic, right? it was either evil or this. you re the guy who said gonorrhea was more worse than the cold. i ll bet you never have a cold that felt just like that, did you? i must ve got it on the toilet seat. that s a hell of a place to take a girl. greg: i love that! yeah, i will take evil. evil obviously exists but does calling people evil help you win an argument? or is it like me after three afro sports is, just too easy? and really, when someone does something awful, just saying it s evil won t stop it. i mean, the view is in its 25th year. [scattered laughter] greg: i kid. they aren t evil, they re just wrong. so what is evil? well, communists are evil, fascists are evil. cats are evil. especially that one. when you get in a debate about stuff, such evil branding sucks. the left will often call you evil to end conversa
griff: anita, great to see you. let s kick things off with lucas tomlinson from the white house. the labor department issuing a brutal report saying inflation is getting worse not better. in los angeles president biden says it s not just putin that s responsible, but exxon as well for skyrocketing prices. they have 9,000 permits to drill, they re not drilling. why aren t they drilling? because they make more money not producing more oil. the price goes up, number one and number two the reason they re not drilling, they re buying back their own stock. exxon made more money than god this year. when president biden was sworn into office he had a 57% approval rating, gas was just 2.39 a gallon. today s approval rating was presume plummeted to 39%, some lower in some polls. and gas nationwide soared across the country and the president s popularity has gone down. president obama once told him his popularity was tied to the price of gasoline and it s happening once again toda
All right. Thank back. Remember when we asked you who wants to bail out a Billionaire Well Tonight we got our answer. Thanks for dramatic music. Everyone donald trump posted their hundred and 75 bond. The new york civil fraud case. Well not him exactly, but an insurance company. He did it and then providing that and promising to pay. Lets just call it his knight in shining armor because her name night specialty insurance. Remember the original judgment was supposed to be more than 450 million plus you got to add the interest. But trump got it, reduced, not the actual judgment, but the bhante had to pay to appeal and he had until thursday to pay up. So all the talk of the Attorney General in new york, Letitia James seizing potentially his assets sits on Ice For A Little While now, while trump appeals the actual cooling. Now again, the ruling was that trump lied for years about his finances and overvalued as assets to secure favorable loan terms. Now, in a moment, were going to reaction