and so he got upset and so he said he d take one and he d challenge me to one and he d beat me. maybe he would, maybe he wouldn t. but what i said is, okay, well, if that s the case, then get on a debate stage and let s go. bring it, donald. show me what you got. nikki haley going after donald trump at the very start of her speech in her home state of south carolina. a real shift from previous rallies. we ll have more from the campaign trail and the new polling from the gop front-runner. plus we ll bring you the latest from capitol hill where there are now serious doubts about the possibility of passing a border bill, which includes urgent funding for ukraine. and also ahead, we ll explain the new action by israeli forces inside gaza that could create even more tension with the biden administration. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, january 25th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we begin this morning with the race
one opportunity we have to fix it, and we say we d love to have fixed it but it was election season so i thought i d wait. that s republican senator kevin cramer of north dakota, one of the very few gop lawmakers to go on record in favor of passing the border deal despite donald trump s demands. we ll have more from capitol hill on those negotiations straight ahead. plus a potentially significant development in the hostage negotiations between israel and hamas with the cia director set to travel abroad in hopes of closing a deal. and also ahead, we ll go through donald trump s temper tantrum in court and get legal analysis on what s next in the defamation damages trial. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, january 26th. we made it to friday. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin with this news from the middle east. cia director william burns expected to travel starting in europe in the coming days to help broke
trumpers. are we really going to say we re okay having our options two 80-year-olds that run for president? i m not being disrespectful. i m saying we need somebody with eight years. they can t do that. donald trump and nikki haley each making their final pitches to voters in new hampshire before the first primary in the race for the republican nomination. that is tonight. we ll have more from both candidates straight ahead. meanwhile, on capitol hill there are signs that a bipartisan deal on border security and foreign aid is now headed in the right direction. we ll go through those new developments. plus a proposal that could bring temporary peace to gaza. we ll have that latest on that offer from israel. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, january 23rd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. the day of the new hampshire primary. and donald trump made his final pitch to new hampshire voters last night in the city of luconia.
the former president and the state s attorney general inside the courtroom state s attorney g the courtroo and also ahead the latest from capitol hill a pressure campaign. we begin here where the united states and its allies launched military strikes against the iranian backed houthis in yemen. officials say they struck over 60 targets at 16 locations last night using more than 100 precision guided munitions. those targets include command and control nodes as well as production facilities, munitions depots, and air defense radar systems. the houthi s militant group claimed at least five people were killed. now, this action was done in response to the more than two dozen attacks that the houthis have been launching at commercial ships in the red sea since november. earlier this week the group launched its largest attack yet directly targeting american ships. a statement president joe biden explained the houthis have ignored warnings to stop the attacks. writing, they ha, quo
an extreme movement of america, the maga republicans led by a defeated president is trying to steal history now. they re trying to steal an election. now they re trying to steal history. we have an economy that s so fragile, and when there s a crash i hope it s going to be during this next 12 months. trump is expected to attend as a three-judge appeals court panel decides if he can be charged with election interference. and i feel that as a president you have to have immunity, very simple. the question is who s afraid of nikki haley. the answer is donald trump. that election trump lost it, biden won that election. i think what happened on january 6th was a terrible day, and i think president trump will have to answer for it. and that brings us to today, thursday, january 11th where donald trump is expected in a courtroom yet again. this time in a last ditch effort to save his business empire from the fallout of fraud. meanwhile, his two top republican rivals bat