His firsthand account of what happened that dark day. Plus, well take you through the latest testimony released by the january 6 committee. Including what the wife of Clarence Thomas had to say about her texts with the former chief of staff. And well take a look at what is ahead for President Biden in the new year and his looming decision on whether to run again in 2024. 2024. Good morning. Welcome to Way Too Early on this monday, january 2nd. Happy new year. Thank you for starting your day and 2023 with us. The u. S. Capitol police chief during the january 6 insurrection is sharing new details about the alleged Government Failures he says allowed the attack to happen. In a new book that is out tomorrow which has already been reviewed by the Washington Post, stephen son give his firsthand account. In the book, he writes that top leaders from the fbi, dhs and even the capitol polices own Intelligence Division were tipped off about the attack weeks before it happened. Those warnings were
International analyst for msnbc news, and the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, happy new year to you all. Happy new year to you. Happy new year. We have so much to talk about. New year yesterday morning, mika and i went to a new Years Day Service, and the priest gave a homily on the need to be architects of peace in our daily lives and political discourse, and Foreign Policy and everything. The harsh path we have taken in our not so new century is elevated, revenge over reconciliation. And reminded us for all of us in attendance, and i love this. Its a good one. He said start by digging two graves. One of them for yourselves. Yeah. Wow, that really does strike you when you look whats happening in washington over the past 20 years because i really do believe, mika, we live in two americas. One that has seen Childhood Poverty has dropped to 60 year lows, and teenage pregnancy drop to 70year lows. Its in the u. S. World dollar and anytime over
top of the hour and you were live in the cnn newsroom on boris sanchez and i m beyond golodryga. today the secret service is meeting with the district attorney s court officers to discuss security logistics. this of the arrangement of the former president, two sources tell cnn that former president trump is expected to be processed at 2:15 p.m. on tuesday. his detail will be with him as he has fingerprinted and photographed from mug shots. at this point. the former president isn t expected to be handcuffed as he will be surrounded by armed federal agents for his protection. sources tell cnn that the indictment involves more than 30 counts related to business fraud. the new york grand jury has been investigating trump s role in that alleged cover up the $130,000. he made in a payment through his attorney, michael cohen to adult film star stormy daniels during the 2016 campaign . now that former attorney and fixer michael cohen has been a key witness in this case, he has this m
says the judge overseeing his indictment hates him. see where this one is going to lead starts right now tuesday 2 15 trump s arraignment s set, according to cnn sources, the unprecedented security that now needs to happen for this unprecedented court appearance, plus 30 news organizations come to the defense of an american journalist detained in russia. their demands to putin and a friend of that reporter will also join me this hour. and from the midwest to the south confirmed tornadoes on the ground with the governor of kentucky, saying tonight s forecast is the worst he has ever seen. welcome to the lead on this busy friday. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start in our politics lead with new developments surrounding the historic indictment against former president donald trump tuesday around 2:15 p.m. trump is expected to appear before manhattan judged to be arraigned, according to sources . the former president is facing more than 30 counts related to business
it s historic. we ve never seen anything like this before. let s get the latest now from laura ingle live in new york. good evening, laura. good evening, bret. as you can see, cameras are downtown at the courthouse. fox news can confirm that a manhattan grand jury has voted to indict former president donald trump. the first former u.s. president to be charged criminally. the 23 grand jurors have been listening to ed since january on trump s role in hush money payments to former porn star stormy daniels. trump has denied having an affair with daniels and any wrong doing. but his former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen has testified that he paid stormy daniels $130,000 to not speak about her relationship with the former president. and that trump reimbursed him for that payment. earlier this week, former national inquirer publisher day vick pecker testified for a second time. pecker has played a key role in linking trump to daniels. during a rally waco saturday, trump who is ru