good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, june 21st, i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we are now hours away from the fourth public hearing by the january 6th committee. this afternoon, we will hear much more about this infamous phone call. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. so what are we going to do here, folks? i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. that was former president trump calling georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger days before the insurrection, pressuring him to find the votes needed to win georgia. 11,780. raffensperger is one of three republicans testifying today. the other two are raffensperger s top deputy, gabe sterling and arizona house speaker rusty bowers who says trump and rudy giuliani called him after the election asking for help to overturn president biden s victory in his state. we re also goi
cards this week, and needless to say they are looking at a bill that would reduce the deficit and raise revenue, probably by taxing ormgs corporations and high earners, joe biden pledges not to tax people earning under 400 grand a year and cut the cost of insulin and that sort of thing to save some families money on one end if they can t do much on the other end when it comes to gas prices and you heard joe biden spoke with larry summers and summers has been an oracle on this, and saying inflation is running away an getting worse than the administration was willing to admit at the start, and one of the thing he is saying, for inflation to cool off, he thinks we need a sustained high unemployment rate for several years and the unemployment rate is hovering near modern lows right now so he is signaling and presumably told joe biden yesterday in a phone call that there is some pain ahead on this. and josh, if this were to get done and i think democrats are skeptical with anything with j