attempts. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, july 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we begin with tonight s eighth hearing from the house january 6th committee investigating the attack on the capitol. it is set for 8:00 p.m. eastern and is expected to last about two hours. the committee says it is likely to be the final of this round of hearings. but more are likely to be scheduled around the release of two reports later this year. the committee chair bennie thompson will lead the hearing and he will do so remotely after testing positive for covid on tuesday. the hearing will focus on what the committee calls a former president trump s dereliction of duty. and a minute by minute account of what happened inside the white house between trump s rally at the ellipse and his tweet finally telling the capitol rioters to go home. the washington post is reporting this morning that the public could see outtakes from trump s january 7t
yesterday at a former coal-fired power plant in massachusetts that is being converted into a facility that will make wind power components. the executive actions include bolstering the domestic offshore wind industry in the gulf of mexico and the southeast. and it also allocates $2.3 billion from an existing federal emergency management agency program to help communities specifically disadvantaged neighborhoods cope with soaring temperatures by building structures and enacting programs to withstand severe heat, storms and fires and floods. the president called out congress for refusing to ak and said he will roll out further executive aks in the near future. as president, i have the responsibility to act with urgency and resolve when our nation faces clear and present danger and that s what climate change is about. it is literally a clear and present danger. the health of our citizens an our communities is literal aat