recuse herself from donald trump s classified documents case despite recommendations to do so from two other federal judges. and democrats are targeting a 150-year-old law in their latest effort to protect reproductive rights nationwide. all right, good morning. welcome to way too early on this friday. thank god, friday. june 21st. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. for the first time in months president biden has overtaken donald trump in national polling averages. according to the poll aggregate site, 538, biden took a 0.8% lead in the race yesterday. that is the first time biden has led at least since march, which is as far back as the website s tracker goes. the change comes after a series of recent polls showed biden narrowly ahead of trump though all the results were within the margin of error. there s new audio now of donald trump admitting he lost the 2020 election and then quickly reverting back to the big lie. comes from research from the new book apprenti
italy. and we ll recap an eventful day on capitol hill where senate republicans blocked a democratic led bill to protect fertility treatments for women. and the former president was also on the hill for the first time since his supporters attacked the capitol. we ll go through trump s meetings with top republicans in both chambers. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 14th, flag day. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for being with us. and we ll begin this morning in italy where the second day of the g7 summit is under way, and in just moments president biden will hold a joint appearance with italy s prime minister, leaving president biden and the other g7 leaders will meet with pope francis. following that gathering the president will depart italy and head to california where he has a couple of major fund raisers. during yesterday s events the president and his ukrainian counterpart, volodymyr zelenskyy, signed a ten-year bilateral security agreem
Make Funding Pledges to tackle Cash Shortages in schools in england. The boss of barclays will be facing pressure today over his pay and also his handling of a controversy surrounding recruitment in the bank. Ill have the details shortly. In sport, the french opens a fortnight away and andy murray says he still needs to get better but hes through to the third round in madrid. Our build up to this years Eurovision Song Contest starts here the bbcs Steve Rosenberg is in kiev with all the tunes and all the facts you need to enjoy the worlds biggest singing competition. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Thank you. Iam in kew gardens next to the Japanese Gateway. I will tell you more about it through the morning but if you adjust stepping out it is a chilly start although most of us will have a day of plenty of sunshine, except in the north of scotland where we have some patchy rain. Good morning. First our main story. President trump has fired the head of the fbi james comey in a mo
while trump refuses to help his long time loyalists filing es showed the self-proclaimed billionaire himself has had $21 million in this own legal fees paid for by his supporters. the special counsel is objecting to donald trump s call to push his 2020 election interference trial to 2026. trump s defense lawyers argued they would need years to comb through but trump s defense team say they re exaggerating the burden. smith s team wrote trump s proposal is premised on the notion that lawyers will, quote, individually and manually review discovery material, which is not consistent with modern practices. the special counsel s office had proposed starting jury selection in december. judge tanya chutkan is expected to set a trial date next monday. eight republican presidential
and an end to, quote, woke policies at the department of defense. joining us now congressional reporter for the hill myiakae snell. it never ends. it s this ongoing cycle. time is running out and the demands among house conservatives are increasing. when congress returns to session next month there ll only be 12 legislative days for lawmakers to come to some sort of consensus before september 30th or of course they risk a shutdown. you mention in your introduction house freedom caucus finally came out with their official position on a potential cr yesterday and it covered a lot of ground. a, they re not going to support a clean continuing resolution, which means they need a number of policy provisions to get their support. what are those provisions? first off, they want to tackle the doj. house republicans have been claiming that the department of justice is weaponized especially