his death now raising fears of a potential escalation in the region which could expand into a wider war israel has eso far avoided. plus, three years after rioters stormed the capitol, donald trump further cements his dominance over republicans. what brand new polling is revealing about the gop s increasing loyalty to trump and their thoughts about the legitimacy of president joe biden s election win. and also ahead hours from now house speaker mike johnson and 60 republicans will head to the southern border as senate negotiations resume. we llbri you the latest on where those talks now stand. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, january 3rd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ve got a lot of news to get to this morning. we ll begin overseas where hamas is now blaming israel for the death of one of its leaders, who was killed in an explosion in lebanon yesterday. what appeared to be a drone strike happened in a densely p
oversight committee of the house of representatives has discovered corruption of foreign influence pedaling by a president of the united states. a startling i should scare every american and quite frankly shows the illegal grift that donald trump and his family have put on this country. you ll see that we used very conservative accounting methods here and the republicans have not been able to find one thing wrong with this report. they ve basically accepted the facts. house democrats saying that donald trump received millions of dollars from foreign governments during his presidency. the dozens of countries he accepted payments from and what else was uncovered in that report. plus, israel s defense minister has outlined a new phase-in the country s war against hamas. the targeted approach that s now on the table as the nation still tries to free hostages. and also ahead, republican presidential candidate nikki haley is addressing the backlash over her comments about t
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his death now raising fears of a potential escalation in the region which could expand into a wider war israel has eso far avoided. plus, three years after rioters stormed the capitol, donald trump further cements his dominance over republicans. what brand new polling is revealing about the gop s increasing loyalty to trump and their thoughts about the legitimacy of president joe biden s election win. and also ahead hours from now house speaker mike johnson and 60 republicans will head to the southern border as senate negotiations resume. we llbri you the latest on where those talks now stand. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, january 3rd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ve got a lot of news to get