it s that time of year when yearbooks come out and everyone gets to pour over pictures of their classmates and quietly judge their haircuts and senior quotes. you get to look back and remember when certain classmates seem so nbt and others seem so awkward and look what has happened since. mullets are back in style. who could have known? well, there was a unique sort of class photo taken in washington this week. it was for a very small group of people the men and women who have been speaker of the house. that is speaker kevin mccarthy posing with almost all of his living predecessors. there is newt gingrich, of course, who was speaker of the house from 1995 to 1999. there s nancy pelosi who was speaker 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to this year. there is john boehner speaker 20 # 1 to 2515. and then there s kevin mccarthy the current speaker of the house. if you re wondering about the years 19991 and 2007 that is when dennis has rt is speaker of house. and he s very much al
while answering questions about the negotiations. we ll have those comments for you in just a moment. and they come as president biden is busy with world leaders at the g7 summit in japan. we ll recap yesterday s events and preview what s ahead including a new round of sanctions for russia aimed at closing loopholes that moscow has been using to security previous attempts to hold it accountable for the invasion of ukraine. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, may 19th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning on capitol hill where it appears that at least some progress is being made on the debt ceiling. house speaker kevin mccarthy shifted to optimism yesterday on the negotiations saying a deal could now be made in time in order to avoid a default. i just believe where we were a week ago and where we are today is a much better place because we have the right people in the room discussing it in a very profes
things except himself. given disney s financial straights, he said, falling market cap and declining stock price, it is unsurprising that they would restructure their business operations. the reality here desant has likely cost his own state more than 2,000 high paying jobs, jobs that would be appreciated elsewhere like say california. governor gavin newsom today said turns out bigoted policies have consequences. that s 2,000 plus jobs that will be welcomed back with open arms to the golden state. and desantis presidential announcement is expected next week. that is our show for tonight. i ll see you again tomorrow. way too early with jonathan lemire is coming up next. this morning a debt ceiling deal seems to be on the right path. house speaker kevin mccarthy had an optimistic tone yesterday
collections democracy continues to be under great threat. number two, the newsom campaign, shows the wind about 20% of republicans in the bay area. 80% of the people who vote in california will be vaccinated. i think you re looking at 20, two it shows that democrats can make an appeal, not just to their base, not just a democratic meeting in, but independents for republicans that are vaccinated. as they re being responsible, and they can t be trusted. not to mention there is massively important races in 2022, that will be a big part of the story now if the democrats can hold on to my house majority, in looking at the results in those districts, there s results are. key i hope democrats don t say california that s funky, leave the lessons to california, i think we have to look carefully, because i actually think democrats need to go on the offense, which you vaccinated americans, and say, you can t trust this other crowd, in a lot of those are seniors by the way. in many states are up
all. and here to respond to this example of media bias is and more prominent, is a criminal defense attorney, advocate for israel, benjamin brokman. how are you? i m fine and thank you what you ve been doing for israel. what would america do if three american kids were kidnapped and slaughtered, a thousand rockets being fired into let s say california, texas, new york, d.c., north dakota, what would america a thousand rockets? and but for iron dome, what we we do? put an end to the rocket fire. the biggest tragedy of this conflict is with the exception of fox news, main stream media is helping hamas perpetrate a fraud with the intellectual dishonesty used and how the story has been reported they didn t mention hamas once in that segment. how do you talk about this