Im rahel solomon. And i am amara walker. Thank you for spending a part of your morning us with. Hopefully, you are able to wake up slowly and get that coffee brewing, or that tea. Heres what we are watching for you. This is the largest Natural Disaster we ever experienced. Its going to also be the Natural Disaster thats going to take an incredible amount of time to recover from. The death toll from the maui wildfires just to 93, making it the deadliest wildfire in the past century. We are live in maui as federal help pours in. We are also hearing from respiratory frustrated with the governments response. Fulton county, georgia, District Attorney investigating former President Donald Trump and his attempts to interfere in georgias linebackers, expect today present her case to a grand jury this week. Republican president ial candidates swarmed the Iowa State Fair to convince voters they are the best choice for president. How they are trying to stand out in a crowded field that is dominat
These decisions should not be between a person who needs health care and the government and politicians. It should be between a woman and her doctor, that is the ultimate goal right there. Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs yesterday highlighting her Executive Orders to prevent abortionrelated prosecutions as her state is now at the center of the fight for reproductive care. Well have the latest on efforts to repeal that states controversial abortion ban in just a moment. Also ahead, Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial is still on track to start on monday, and now were learning who may take the witness stand. And well look back on the life of o. J. Simpson, one of the most divisive figures in modern american history. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, april 12th. Im jonathan lemire. We made it to friday. Thanks for starting your day with us. We will begin here with this headline. The first criminal trial of a former american president is set to get under way on monday. This
unfazed by the torrent of bad headlines his disjointed debate performance had generated. i don t debate as well as i used to. but i know what i do know! i know how to tell the truth. crowd: yes! he seemed for all the world like a new man, reading from the teleprompter with a passion that had been all too absent the night before. gentlemen, thanks so much for being here. let s begin the debate. let s start. it was a far cry from the rasping and rambling performance on the debate stage that was all too often painful to watch. everything we had to do with. what. if. we finally beat medicare. it has left his party in a state of crisis. yet despite rumblings about replacing their candidate, publicly, at least, democrats are circling the wagons. referring to his own lacklustre performance in the presidential debate in 2012, joe biden s former boss barack obama tweeted. bad debate nights happen. trust me, i know . despite being just three years younger thanjoe biden, donald trump h
as always, thanks so much for joining us. now, desperate to stop the maga express, the biden campaign has tried out more slogans than leo decaprio has tried out 22-year-olds. we are going to build back better. we have to. we must. we will. because that s who we are. [inaudible] much fun of bidenomics anymore. they are thinking maybe it works to build from the middle out and the bottom up. january 6th happened. when he unleashed an insurrection. now he is running again and he is clearly unhinged. let me tell you about this ultra maga agenda. it s extreme as most maga things are. laura: okay. is any of that landing? well, while the national head-to-head polls are tightening a bit. historically, this is some of the best swing state polling that donald trump has ever seen. he is leading in five key battleground states, even in the allusive pennsylvania. and, whoa, check out biden s al approval ratings in some of these states. 36% in arizona. 35% in georgia. 39% in michi
despite his lead in the polling, despite the fact that governor ron desantis is increasingly trailing the former president, trump still sees him as a threat, and his analytics, his data probably suggests that as well. what about ron desantis? he is, obviously, dealing with some campaign struggles. just this week, he had some shakeups, including replacing his campaign manager. but on the ground we saw some hecklers. he did hit some snags during that fair side chat. is that reflective of how the people in iowa feel about him or how he might do in the caucuses? it s hard to say. for desantis and his and the pro-desantis super pac, they treated iowa as a must-win state. most candidates have a state they want to do well with. for desantis, it s iowa. at the same time, we shouldn t be surprised as we near the