Its 1 00 on the east coast. Im Chris Jansing along with katy tur. Andrea mitchell is in washington. The drlt looking for a new president ial nominee with just 106 days left until the election and less than a month before the democratic convention. Right now Vice President Kamala Harris is the frontrunner after president Bidens Endorsement was quickly followed by many top democrats. Senator John Fetterman in just the last hour. Theres no declared opponent. Today the Vice President made her first public remarks since President Bidens exit, celebrating his record. Joe bidens legacy of accomplishment over the past three years is unmatched in modern history. I am firsthand witness that every day our president Joe Biden fights for the american people and we are deeply, deeply grateful for his service to our nation. The Vice President posting this On X as she launches her effort to top the democratic ticket. Its the first full day of our campaign, so im heading up to wilmington, delaware, lat
Insurrection and now all eyes are on her next move including will she add to the committee, will it be another republican. We will proceed in this. As i said they re in the process of the committees and they re in the process of hiring staff to that end. It is my responsibility to get to the truth of this and we will not stand in the way of this. House leaders call on their supporters to get the vaccine. But is that enough on the ground at the local level. In arkansas cases are up and the vaccination rate is abysmal. Ahead i will talk with chris jones, a democratic running for governor there that could face off against sarah huckabee sanders. Let s start with new developments. The battle over investigating january 6th. Leann caldwell is on capitol hill so look. Speaker pelosi knows what she has done in taking these members off of the committee. She thought she had to do it anyway. What are the other big headlines from the press conference? speaker pelosi wanted to make clear that it is
Garland, has, quote, an obligation to clean house, to understand what the justice department was doing the last four years to make sure there is accountability. That s going to do it for us for now. I ll see you again tomorrow night. Now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. Good evening, lawrence. Your message about adam schiff is what we needed before we broke tonight. On one hand it s to intervene to help his friends and try to investigate his enemies. We had learned about the way they were going after reporter sources in ways that appeared to directly violate policy, and now revelations they were going after sitting members of congress, including those who were investigating him and using a gag order to keep it secret from congress as a whole and from those members. It is unprecedented, and the branches of government aren t supposed to be able to do this to each other. And i don t know what the consequences are here, but the merrick garland justice department has a h
Actions to protect trump. House minority leader kevin mccarthy setting the stage for the out of thing of liz cheney. A major development on the vaccine front. The question is how soon will adolescents be able to get the coast shot? it s way too early for this! good morning! welcome to way too early. The show that knows the microphone, it s always on. I am kasie hunt on this wednesday, may 5th. We will start with the news. A federal judge blasted former attorney general bill barr in a decision released last night accusing barr of misleading her and congress. The remarks from judge amy bermanjackson came as she ordered the justice department to released the redacted portions of a 2019 memo that was prepared by barr and top doj officials whether president trump should be charged with obstructing the mueller investigation. The justice department at the time withheld the full memo from a watchdog group saying it continued information around an undecided case. However, jackson wrote in her d
influence shakespeare. jillian: fan cancel culture has gone too far. todd: will you deliver? the rest of february before she starts calling me on it and taking attendance. jillian: welcome on wednesday morning. todd: president biden has townhall. jillian: press on his plan to open went unmentioned. todd: the president s pledged to parents. reporter: president biden taking the covid-19 relief plan. anyone in milwaukee in this when those schools reopen. they are open for one day a week. the easiest set to open, the goal will be five days a week. reporter: mistaken communication was a statement by his press secretary last week. to have the majority of schools, more than 50% open by day 100 of his presidency, it is a week or not more. reporter: biden pledged by the end of july there would be 600 million doses available, a return to normalcy by christmas. he also misspoke about the vaccine situation. there s nothing in the refrigerator, 10 million doses a day