should be really proud of what you ve done, and i m very proud of you as your friend, it s awesome i m proud and happy to do it with you yes, that s the best part thank you to all of you at home for joining us this hour if you re a superstitious person as i am, maybe you re familiar with the notion bad things happen in threes for example, you might get a flat tire and spill coffee all over yourself or sprain your ankle on the same day. or if you re donald trump you may grapple with a major setback in a federal investigation and be faced to face the specter of a state investigation in the same week. we learned late this afternoon trump s vice president mike pence will in fact testify before the special counsel s grand jury investigating january 6th. trump and even pence himself they had tried and failed to block that testimony, but in a statement today an aide for pence said pence will comply with the subpoena. will comply with the subpoena. a federal judge in d.c. ruled p
should happen now it should get dismissed. we re not going to stop on this nothing s changed. we believe he s overstepped. two top republicans in the house are promising to investigate the manhattan district attorney following the indictment of donald trump that comes as the former president is escalating his attacks on social media which now include a call to defund federal law enforcement. meanwhile mike pence will soon have to testify before a federal grand jury in one of the cases tied to trump. we ll tell you which one and why the former vice president appears finally ready to talk. plus the gop controlled statehouse in tennessee could take historic action today against three democratic lawmakers. we ll explain the controversy connected to calls for new gun legislation. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, april 6th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin today with the fallout from this week s historic arra
laid out in thaz vigly written transparency law, and they ve complained to 50 counties in the state of florida about the book s potentially divisive concepts for example he uses the phrase woke and sprinkles in the phrase and also describes systemic racism and summarizes the 1619 project all of that could run afoul of desantis very own law so far one school district respond today florida democrats complaint saying they don t yet have the book. by my count that s one response and 49 more to go. 49 to go before we might see ron desantis author get a taste of ron desantis governor. that does it for us this evening. we ll see you again tomorrow way too early with jonathan lemire is coming up next after we ve seen all that yesterday, i think people think it s even more political than we thought this case never should have been brought, and what
unfortunately, we ve seen some folbooks in some of these libraries, some of the stuff that s ended up there incredibly, incredibly disturbing stuff in the year since florida governor ron desantis signed that bill into law requiring school districts to review every book available to students, in the year since then florida school districts have pulled thousands of titles from classroom library shelves. some of those incredibly disturbing books include roberto clemente, pride of the pittsburgh pirates, the picture book that mentions racism. it was pulled because racism could be one of the concepts banned by desantis law. that book was reinstated in
february, but there s also this children s book, when willma rudolf played basketball that book was eventually reinstated after a review. but the next book that could be on the chopping blocks, the courage to be free florida s blueprint for america s revival. florida democrats have decided to follow the pluprint desantis laid out in thaz vigly written transparency law, and they ve complained to 50 counties in the state of florida about the book s potentially divisive concepts for example he uses the phrase woke and sprinkles in the phrase and also describes systemic racism and summarizes the 1619 project all of that could run afoul of desantis very own law so far one school district