A, quote, cancer to the Republican Party. Question is, will we see action against her in the house . And a key day in the second impeachment of donald trump. Today is the deadline for his formal response to the charge against him. Question is, whats his defense . Its way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that has some fond memories of bayside high. Weve really missed you, screech. Im kasie hunt on this tuesday, february 2nd. Well start with the news. Its looking more and more likely that democrats will push through the Biden Administrations nearly 2 trillion Economic Relief package with or without republicans. The president met with a group of Senate Republicans for about two hours in the oval Office Yesterday to pitch their much smaller 600 billion package. But the message from the white house is that it doesnt meet the moment. Senator Susan Collins said the meeting was very productive and cordial, but when it comes to striking a compromise, the s
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. The government and for manafort to keep things moving along. They did. That is the same judge that challenged the special counsels office and accused them of just trying to use charges of financial crimes to squeeze manafort in giving them information that they could use against President Trump. The trial proceeded anyway and the former Trump Campaign manager that was a wakened by an fbi agent performing a noknock raid is being confronted with evidence that he hit 60 million from the irs which he received consulting ukrainian politicians. The charges are for falsifying income tax returns, bank fraud and failing to file reports. If convicted, manafort could face 305 years in jail. Theres Sentencing Guidelines for federal cases like that that would suggest that the judge would probably give him something less than that, shep. Shepard what is the next step in this trial, peter . Any minute, shep, we expect
the jury,
other than for secretary austin to stay in the job and continue in the leadership that he has been demonstrating. republicans want austin out. stefanik says at a dangerous time when american service members our closest partner and ally israel at war with hamas terrorists and the threat from communist china is on the rise. austin himself said he is okay and that i also understand the media concerns about transparency and i recognize i could have done a better job insuring the public was appropriately informed. i commit to doing better. this is important to say. this was my medical proper sired and i take full responsibility for my decisions about disclosure. secretary antony blinken in the middle east didn t want to go any further than that. what is your policy? again, i think he put out a