His firsthand account of what happened that dark day. Plus, well take you through the latest testimony released by the january 6 committee. Including what the wife of Clarence Thomas had to say about her texts with the former chief of staff. And well take a look at what is ahead for President Biden in the new year and his looming decision on whether to run again in 2024. 2024. Good morning. Welcome to Way Too Early on this monday, january 2nd. Happy new year. Thank you for starting your day and 2023 with us. The u. S. Capitol police chief during the january 6 insurrection is sharing new details about the alleged Government Failures he says allowed the attack to happen. In a new book that is out tomorrow which has already been reviewed by the Washington Post, stephen son give his firsthand account. In the book, he writes that top leaders from the fbi, dhs and even the capitol polices own Intelligence Division were tipped off about the attack weeks before it happened. Those warnings were
his firsthand account of what happened that dark day. plus, we ll take you through the latest testimony released by the january 6 committee. including what the wife of clarence thomas had to say about her texts with the former chief of staff. and we ll take a look at what is ahead for president biden in the new year and his looming decision on whether to run again in 2024. 2024. good morning. welcome to way too early on this monday, january 2nd. happy new year. thank you for starting your day and 2023 with us. the u.s. capitol police chief during the january 6 insurrection is sharing new details about the alleged government failures he says allowed the attack to happen. in a new book that is out tomorrow which has already been reviewed by the washington post, stephen son give his firsthand account. in the book, he writes that top leaders from the fbi, dhs and even the capitol police s own intelligence division were tipped off about the attack weeks before it happened.
Which was causing problems, the government changed its guidance for buildings with that school buildings, with that concrete in it and essentially a number of schools found themselves needing to close either entirely or partially. Because this is a list the government said basically would keep staff and parents updated. So, we hear today that there are now 174 schools affected by this study, that is up by 27 from two weeks ago. In essence what the government has been doing is going through schools, it sent out a questionnaire last year, questionnaire about this concrete has now come back and in essence the government is going through working out exactly who has got a problem and who hasnt. The other thing we learned from the list today, 85 of schools who have got this raac problem are now fully open and offering face to face teaching for their pupils. That is 148 schools. There is still one school that is closed, in essence, but is offering Online Learning to its pupils. There were 19
Canadian Security Agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents of the Government Of India and the killing of a canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh nijjar. Canada is a rule of law country. The protection of our citizens and defence of our sovereignty are fundamental. Ourtop defence of our sovereignty are fundamental. Our Top Priorities have therefore been firstly that our Law Enforcement and Security Agencies ensure the continued safety of all canadians, and secondly that all steps be taken to hold perpetrators of this murder to account. Canada has declared its deep concerns to the top intelligence and Security Officials of the Indian Government. Last week at the 620 id brought them personally and directly to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in no uncertain terms. Live now to ottawa. Steven chase is a senior parliamentary reporter for the Globe And Mail newspaper, and you broke the story. Talk us through it happen. We not word talk us through it h
It was a worldwide hit, and in essence, it was a very sort of positive explanation of how we humans have come to sort of dominate this planet. It was about our ability to cooperate, to tell shared stories, to give ourselves common purpose. Ijust wonder whether in the last decade, youve lost some of that optimism. I think our shared stories and our ability to cooperate, both as a species, but also on the national level, is collapsing in more and more places. I see it now in my home country of israel, which is really on the verge maybe of a constitutional crisis or even a civil war. Maybe what we need to understand specifically about democracies is that democracy, in essence, is a conversation. You know, dictatorship, there is one person dictates everything. Democracy is trying to reach some agreement through conversation, and conversation is not always possible. For most of history, large scale conversation was just technically impossible. You had small scale democracies, like in city s