we had people saying where's nancy pelosi? we had people who were taking desks, sit agat the desk of the speaker of the house and attempting to find people in order to bring them to justice and saying to -- yelling at the police kill them, kill them all. and so why trump has done this is beyond me. >> that was carl rove, a former senior advisor to former president george w. bush with some advice for democrats and strong criticism of donald trump. we'll bring you more of his comments straight ahead. meanwhile, the former president is running out of delay tactics in his hush money case. we'll bring you an update on that looming trial. and we'll have for you the latest on the growing global outrage over the israeli air strike that killed humanitarian aid workers in gaza. the leader of that organization is now calling the strike a targeted attack. good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this thursday april 4th. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we have a lot to get to this morning, and we'll begin with the growing tensions over the war in gaza. and with that as a backdrop, president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu are expected to seek by phone again today. this will be their first direct communication since the israeli air strike that killed seven world central kitchen workers. earlier this week biden expressed some of his strongest criticism of israel to date saying he was outraged and heartbroken by those deaths. it's worth noting that biden and netanyahu last spoke on march 18th when the president warned the prime minister against carrying out a military offensive in the southern city of rafah. meanwhile, world central kitchen founder jose andres, the celebrity chef, is calling for an investigation into what he is now saying was a deliberate attack on his organization's workers. speaking on camera yesterday for the first time since the israeli air strike, andres rejected the israeli government's claim the blast was accidental. >> they were target systematicically car by car because they were not successful in hitting, they keep trying. this happened over more than 1.5, 1.8 kilometers. this was not just bad luck situation where, oops, we dropped the bomb in the wrong place -- or no. every country actually, the united states that had nationals that die in this attack, we need to have an investigation that is neutral. humanitarians and civilians should never be paying the consequences of war. this is a basic principle of humanity. at the time this looks like it's not a war. it seems it's a war against humanity itself. >> on tuesday the white house says president biden called andres on the phone to, quote, convey that he is grieving with the entire world central kitchen family. additionally, the united states and israel remain deeply divided over israel's plans for a ground invasion of rafah, and it was evident in a virtual meeting on monday between senior officials from both countries. the meeting grew contentious, and at one point israel's minister of strategic affairs, ron dermer began yelling and waving his arms around as he defended the plan. that's according to two u.s. officials and one former u.s. official familiar with the meeting. american official president including national security advisor jake sullivan and secretary of state antony blinken kept calm and did not respond in kind according to those officials. israel presented a plan to move over 1 million civilians from rafah to tents that would be setup north of the city. but israeli officials only thought through a fraction of where those tents would come from. also the plan did not address basic needs such as food, water, or sanitation. when u.s. officials said they did not deem this idea as realistic, that's when their israeli counter parts erupted. two administration officials did note it's long been routine for dermer to be animated during meetings and described this meeting no more contentious than other recent conversations between the two governments, underlining their last intention there. joining us now white house correspondent for politico and coauthor of "the playbook," our friend eugene daniels. eugene, good to see you this morning. it does seem like we're at some sort of inflection point in the relationship between the biden administration and israel. the nens meeting monday. president biden making no secret of his anger about the air strike that killed those humanitarian workers. biden and netanyahu set to speak today. but yet and we're hearing louder and louder criticism from democrats about this in the last couple of days, though biden has said he's unhappy he hasn't changed policy towards israel including conditioning any aid or weapons that go there. is there any sense that could change? >> not really. you know, while you have president and the administration's public frustrations outrage becoming more and more as the weeks go on, the same thing is happening in people looking at an administration who is telling reporters that the president is upset, that is making sure that everyone understands how frustrated president biden is with netanyahu over this world central kitchen incident and the larger tactic as it's gone on. but for what folks watching and paying attention what they say is it doesn't matter if you're not willing to change anything. this is president who has said from the very beginning he's going to stand with israel the entire time and make sure they have what they need to essentially make sure october 7th doesn't happen again. even john kirby, the nsc spokesperson, said that earlier this week when talking about the world central kitchen situation. asking over and over is this going to change, and basically they said the president is very upset but they're going to continue to give the weapons. and i think what you're going to see is more frustration with folks. the president and netanyahu are going to have this conversation. they have this long relationship where they can do tough talk as aides put it on the phone with each other and then kind of move on and continue their relationship. at some point people want to see the super power, the united states acting like a super power. and they feel there's a little too much of the tail wagging of the dog here with israel. >> we'll certainly have more on this throughout the morning onmist star-spangled banner. eugene, stay with us. former advisor to george w. bush -- rove tore into trump for his callings to pardon those who stormed the capitol on january 6th. >> what those people did when they violently attacked the capitol in order to stop a constitutionally mandated meeting of the congress to accept the results of the electoral college is a stain on our history. and every one of those sons of [ bleep ] who did that, we ought to find them, try them, and send them to jail. and one of the critical mistakes made in this campaign is that donald trump has now said i'm going to pardon those people because they're hostages. no they're not. they're thugs. i'm a republican. i don't want to have a democrat president. i want to have a republican president. but we're facing as a country a decision -- and everybody gets to make it as to what kind of leadership we're going to have. and to me it is a mistake on the part of the trump campaign to allow the president's impulses to identify himself with the people who assaulted the capitol rather than people who stand for law and order. >> so pretty strong words there. and rove has been critical of trump before. eugene, what's the biden campaign's approach here. there are some republicans deeply critical of donald trump. liz cheney, mitt romney, carl rove. how does the biden campaign plan to utilize their words and potentially even get them to appear on behalf of the current president? >> it was also chris christie, there are all these senators having stayed away from donald trump having criticized him, lisa murkowski, susan collins, these kind of folks. our colleague jonathan martin did this amazing column asking the exact question, why hasn't biden called kristi, and we talked to campaign officials. what they say essentially is their focus right now is on the voters, that they're talking to republican voters. you've seen ads where they are obviously leaning into the words of republicans, people who run against donald trump in what was supposed to be a competitive primary and has since dropped out. and they'll probably use carl rove's words in order to do that. the question is whether or not they're actually going to talk to the people. and i think what's on their mind is nowadays everyone kind of has an opinion on joe biden and donald trump. and so asking chris christie or having someone like carl rove, someone to stump for them would maybe not be as useful as it was in the old days. but we also have to look to 2020 when they had the former ohio governor john kasich at the actual convention, sydney mccain at the convention. it's likely they'll do something like that again, but they don't seem that interested in reaching out to the lawmakers or the folks at what used today be the top of the republican party and more so focused on talking to those kind of independent minded republican voters or moderate voters at this point. >> start to see if that strategy changes in the months ahead. politico's eugene daniels, thank you for starting us off this morning. we reel appreciate it. an update on a story we brought you yesterday. lawmakers in nebraska have rejected an effort to change now the state counts its votes. they wanted the state to shift to a winner take all system. currently nebraska splits its five electoral votes. two go to the overall vote winner of the state with the remaining three going to the winner of each congressional district. in 2020 you'll recall donald trump received four of the five electoral votes. we had some reporting here the biden campaign was reaching out to nebraska democrats certainly concerned about this because in 2020 biden won one electoral college vote, and his easiest path to the white house this time would be if he wins pennsylvania, wisconsin, and michigan and that one nebraska vote. that would give him 270 and he could afford to lose all the other swing states. if the nebraska vote was taken away, they would need to win somewhere else to. the republicans say they may try other efforts to change the law here, but it would be an extremely uphill climb. at least for now it appears the situation in nebraska will not change, but we'll keep an eye on it. it is an important, important story. still ahead here, the manhattan district attorney's office hits back at donald trump's delay tactics in his upcoming hush money trial. plus special counsel jack smith criticizes a ruling by the judge who's overseeing trump's classified documents case down in florida. those stories and a check on sports and weather when we come right back. we come right back you can't leave without cuddles. but, you also can't leave covered in hair. with bounce pet, you can cuddle and brush that hair off. bounce, it's the sheet. power e*trade's easy to-use tools make complex trading less complicated. custom scans help you find new trading opportunities, while an earnings tool helps you plan your trades and stay on top of the market. e*trade from morgan stanley. 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shouldn't be awarded with adjournment and actively seeking and i'm no lawyer but hard to argue with that one. we're also following, though, a major new development in trump's classified documents case. special counsel jack smith is strongly criticizing a recent order by the judge who's presiding over that trial. in a filing late tuesday the special counsel argued that judge aileen cannon's proposed jury instructions are, quote, flawed and wrong. smith urged judge cannon to rule quickly on the jury instructions and her on her view whether trump can be charged under the espionage act. trump claims the law does not apply to him, and smith threatened to appeal if judge cannon rules in trump's favor. the dispute stands from what role the presidential records act plays in the case. trump insists the classified documents became his personal records under the act when he took them to mar-a-lago after leaving the white house. smith contends trump told no one of the decision and it would not matter even if he did because the presidential records act does not govern classified documents. both trump's and smith's replies came in response to judge cannon proposing two jury instructions that basically followed trump's argument. one potential instruction would have told jurors that they and the court had no power to review trump's decision to keep the records. in his filing smith called that legal premise simply wrong and that it would distort the trial, concluding that the presidential records act should not be play any role at all in this trial. we'll see what the decision is and when it might begin. next up we'll turn to sports and bring you all the major headlines out of yesterday's action across major league baseball. plus we'll show you the wild brawl between bitter rivals last night on the ice. we'll be right back with all that. we'll be right back with all that (♪♪) (♪♪) try dietary supplements from voltaren, for healthy joints. ohtani first dodger home run. >> there it is, nine games into the regular season shohei ohtani finally hit his first home run in dodger blue. his solo shot in the seventh inning provided some insurance for los angeles on the way to a 5-4 win but completed a three game sweep of their rival the san francisco giants. meanwhile, in phoenix yankees captain aaron judge also connected for his first long ball of season entering the day with his fewest hits ever in six games. he was just three for 24. judge launch that two run opposite to right center in the fourth and then added an rbi double. the diamondbacks already come back a couple times thin this game. they cut the deficit to one in the bottom of the 11th but because of earlier moves were left with no dh. so therefore they had to send their pitcher to the plate with two outs and bases loaded. you can predict how that went. >> and the 1-2. strike three. ball game over. >> okay, that pitch was pretty clearly off the plate. a generous call, but i guess the pitcher wasn't going to hit there anyway. 6-5 victory over the diamondbacks. they will host the toronto blue jays in their home opener tomorrow, and the red sox completed a sweep of the oakland a's. now to the celtics where they are guaranteed to finish with the league's best record. the c's won their 11th consecutive home game last night with a 135-100 blow out over a good oklahoma team. and secures boston home court advantage throughout the playoffs. that will be important. to the nfl now. the buffalo bills have traded away their top offensive target. four-time pro bowler stefon diggs is headed to houston. diggs is joining a now loaded texas offense headlined by cj stroud and newly acquired running back joe nixon. meanwhile, just one of the five wide receivers who caught passes for the bills last season now remains in buffalo. dixon unhappy there, but i'm sure josh allen will be able to figure it out. and the neighboring new jersey devils and new york rangers were very quick to drop the gloves in madison square garden last night. the game start would a massive line brawl involving all ten skaters on the rink in the opening face-off. literally 2 seconds into the game. eight players, four from each team received game misconducts and were ejected. that is one way to start a game. rangers went onto beat the devils 4-3. time now for the weather and meteorologist angie lassman is here with the forecast. angie, does not feel like spring across most of the country. >> no, it doesn't. especially new england where they're dealing with snow and i know it's not what you want to see in april when you step out for an early morning commute. we still have that unsettled weather across michigan snow, across the ohio valley still dealing with rain and snow and got the rain across parts of the north east. we've got 8 million people under these winter alerts and much of it across parts of new england including folks dealing with not just the wintery weather and even the rain but the potential for some really strong winds. we've got 5 million people under wind alerts. at this time you probably heard the wind outside your window. last night we received 40, 50 mile per hour gusts outside these spots. and still going to watch the potential and places like vermont could still see stronger winds as the morning goes on. the system is still not going to let up. we're going to be dealing with this snow across new england for the next day or so. we'll see a couple of rounds of scattered showers. nothing like what we saw yesterday as far as rainfall totals erthe rumble of thunder you might have heard, but we're going still to be dealing with the breezy, chilly weather on top of the rain and snow in some of those areas. when it comes to totals, prettym impressive this time of year. we've got potential to see additional snowfall through the evening hours tonight, 6 to 9 inches, potentially up to a foot of snow in some of these spots, this is going to be their largest snowfall of the year. >> 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