What action will be taken to help cities stop the bloodshed. And crime was top of mind for New York City voters who cast their ballots for the mayor. When all said and done, will a former Police Officer come out on top . Its Way Too Early for this. Good morning. And welcome to Way Too Early, the show that shuts down all the fire alarms, i think were good this morning. Unlike yesterday. I am kasie hunt, this wednesday, june 23rd. Well start with the news. Democrats say they will keep fighting after Senate Republicans on a sweeping new Voting Rights action in laws in red states. Democratic governor joe manchin voted to debate, after receiving assurances that his compromise would be considered. At the end, the vote was split 50 50, short of the 60 votes needed to overcome the republican filibuster. Heres what will we heard on the senate floor yesterday. Theres no widespread effort to stop voters from casting a ballot. And theres no design to hand states constitutional authorities over to
At a near standstill since the beginning of the year. The Bank Of England has raised the cost of borrowing 1a times since the end of 2021 to try and rein in soaring prices. That has weighed on the economy, but experts have warned the full effect of those Interest Rises has yet to be felt. Emma vardy reports from morecambe in the north of england. Rowing is a delicate art. A bit like managing economy. A year of slow growth, business is feeling the pressure from rising costs, means as no surprise that many are feeling cautious about their ambitions were branching out. We cautious about their ambitions were branching out. Were branching out. We have struggled were branching out. We have struggled to were branching out. We have struggled to try were branching out. We have struggled to try to were branching out. We have struggled to try to work were branching out. We have struggled to try to work out i were branching out. We have| struggled to try to work out a rationale for expanding. So w
observation of juneteenth as a federal holiday coming as our largest blue state has a historic conversation on reparations for its black residents. i am conflicted tonight. as i watch any number of republican politicians and voters pledge the enduring support for donald trump, seeking a return to the white house well facing a 37 count federal indictment after years of white racial grievance for political gain, paving the way for other gop politicians including the 2024 competitors to attack racial progress in public life. i struggle to justify why, in my mind, america deserves a day off for work, made possible by black history so many republicans now insist should be banned from our institutions. despite the conflict in, me i m still grateful to see that black history recognized at a national level. i just want to see our nation at large are in the holiday created in its name. me now is congressman barbara lee the democrat of california. currently running for the u.s. sen
after turning himself in to the miami federal courthouse. hundreds supporters took to the streets outside the courthouse. some even prayed for trump at a cafe that he arbitrarily stopped at as he left the courthouse. seemed kind of relaxed. the justice department is alleging, in case you ve been in a cave, that the former president mishandled classified documents that included u.s. defensive weapons secrets, even an attack plan on an unnamed foreign power. fill in iran. 31 charges file the espionage act. whatever you think of donald trump s actions, let s put it into context. the espionage act is over hundred years old. president woodrow wilson signed it into law to protect the nation from foreign spies during world war i. most prosecutions involving the espionage act have been reserved for actual spies. even trump s worst critics are not alleging that he passed classified material to russia or china, or anybody else. the espionage act makes clear that espionage is defined as
room one day before a doj official came for the classified documents. the worker was reportedly helping trump val l.a. matt nauda move the boxes but didn t know what was inside of them. nbc has yet to confirm that account. it comes on the heels of a similar the washington post report which says workers allegedly carried out a, quote, dress rehearsal for moving sensitive papers his office received a may 2022 subpoena. and more shocking details from that report reveal trump showed those classified documents to other people. quote, prosecutors have gathered evidence that trump at times kept classified documents in his office in a place where they were visible and sometimes showed them to others. trump has insisted he s done no wrong. i have every right to under the presidential records act. you have the presidential records act. i was there and i took what i took and it gets declassified. i took the documents i m allowed to. but reports indicate special counsel jack smith