former attorney general bill barr, was seen exiting the january six committees conference room. this would have been at least the second time that barr has met with the committee. back in january, chairperson thompson confirmed that barr had spoken with the panel and has cooperated with its investigation. it remains to be seen if barr or any other high-ranking trump official will testify in front of the american people as part of the committee s public hearings. the justice department, by the way, isn t just working on g involving the twice impeached ex presidents former aide, they are working to prosecute his insurrection supporters, to. yesterday another member of the far-right extremist group proud boys pleaded guilty to a felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding. joshua pruitt is facing up to five years in jail, for taking part in the mob that ransacked the capital, and endangered the safety of members of congress. in court documents, he admitted that he near
several private messages on facebook in the 30 minutes leading up to the massacre. one message referred to shooting his own grandmother. another about attacking an elementary school. julie: a short time later he entered the school through a back door and went into a fourth grade classroom, barricaded himself and opened fire. a border patrol agent from an elite unit rushed into the shooter killing the student. bill: we have heard from many anguished parents waiting for news of their missing children and many are now left to remember their loved ones who are no longer. she was very happy and very outgoing. loved to dance and sing and play sports. hundreds of friends. they were all frantic praying. they were saying anything they could to the policemen to let them get the kids. he is still in there, we can t do that. other kids staying he is in still in there. we re stronger together. julie: last night mourners gathered for a vigil to honor the victims, wanting to com
Friends. That little exclusive became sort of a campaign hallmark. Desantis built his illfated president ial candidacy on turning his state into a maga wonderland. A year later desantis signed the socalled stop woke act, a law that essentially banned the teaching of race and racism in the state of florida if it made white people uncomfortable. Governor desantis came up with the idea slavery benefitted enslaved people, doubling down that suggested slavery was sort of a skilled training program. He signed the dont say gay bill which banned any teaching about Homo Sexuality or Gender Identity in florida public schools. And allthis was supposed to transform florida into a conservative utaupe you that would put Desantis On The Path as the next president of the united states. It was highlighted in speeches and even broadcast live on fox news. All of it except for one thing. There was one agenda item that was so toxic, so unpopular with so many people including republicans that Governor Desan
come. hold onto your breeches because here they come. they re coming back. congratulations. that was just part of donald trump s anti-immigrant messaging yesterday as he hit the campaign trail for the first time in weeks. we ll bring you more from his stops in michigan and wisconsin. also ahead we ll go through brand new polling on president biden and his predecessor in the states that will likely decide november s election. meanwhile, president biden has more sharp criticism of israel following an air strike that killed several humanitarian workers in gaza. we ll have the latest on that deadly strike and the growing international outrage. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 3rd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning in the midwest where donald trump appeared on the campaign trail yesterday for the first time in nearly a month. in grand rapids, michigan, trump fear mongered about migrants
to ease rising prices. data you may recall this week showed a drop from its peak of 1.9% in mid 2022 tojust 3.1% in november. that is above the beds target of 2% and jerome powell cautioned the committee had not ruled out raising rates again in the future. still, wall street, all three major markets finished higher and the dow jones industrial average jumped more than 500 points to a record close. this is the third time in a row after all that central bank decided against another rate hike. for investors satisfied that the fed is done, the only question on their minds is when will the fed start cutting them? investment firm t row what happened in the us overnight? i talked to someone from t rowe price earlier and asked her what the fed s decision means the rest of the world. i think this is a very good question on what we have seen during this business cycle is that the fed and the us rates tend to lead other markets so that is one way we can take signal from what s happeni