the senior liberal justice followed by sotomayor and kagan. gives biden the first supreme court opening of his presidency. they have urged him to retire ahead of the fall s midterm elections. sandra: shannon bream, big questions whether or not he s choosing to retire now or forced to. well, we all remember over the last few years what happened with justice ginsburg, there was enormous pressure on her, op-eds, legal pundits, professors, law schools, people calling on her to resign so that her seat could be filled by somebody who was like-minded. she resisted the pressure. if anything, we thought it made her more resistant. i think justice breyer has much the same attitude. he s 83, leaves a legacy to be proud of on the court. many other interests, and he gets it. this is a smart, smart individual who is aware of the political climate. i think if he felt he was being forced into it he would not do it. if it feels like his own decision, and yes happens to be political pressu
rights heats up as protesters show up at the home of justice samuel alito. the author of the leaked draft opinion that would overturn roe v. wade. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, may 10th. i m jonathan lemire. french president emanuel macron is throwing cold water on ukraine s hopes of joining the european union. in an address to the european parliament yesterday, the newly-re-elected macron pushed back against the possibility that ukraine could join the group in the near future. instead, saying the membership process would likely take decades. despite calling for a quote stronger and more sovereign europe, macron argued that expediting ukraine s membership would lower the standards of the bloc. to join the eu, a country s candidacy needs to be approved by all 27 member states. instead, macron proposed a new quote european political community. yesterday, to include countries with aspirations of joining the eu. but his comments come in direct c
message to could-be candidates, particularly women, as she gears up for a tough midterm election season. today, president biden is ready to announce his plan to lower consumer prices. we ll take a look at what he s expected to say and how the markets are responding. there s also a remarkable story in this morning s washington post that details the lengths former president trump s chief of staff mark meadows took to keep trump in power after joe biden won the electoral college. we ll dig into that new reporting. we re also following the latest from ukraine and the new assessment from the pentagon on why the russian military is still not making much progress. they re a third grade army. there s that. plus, french president emmanuel macron dashes ukraine s hopes of an expedited path into the eu, while also proposing a, quote, new european community that ukraine could join. you know, he should if he s uncomfortable with zelenskyy coming to eu meetings, i guarant
the hearings today could actually be he a break glass in case of emergency kind of moment. he get immunity. the georgia election subversion case, the mar-a-lago classified documents case. they could all change the course of this election. and donald trump s strategy is right there in his team s argument to supreme court today on the case of immunity, he s claiming that months long criminal trial will make it harder for him to campaign translation, delay, delay, delay, and the fight over trump s immunity, or frankly, lack thereof, has already prompted district judge tanya chutkin to postpone a trial date that was previously set for march 4 coincidentally or perhaps not the day before super tuesday. and then there s the mar-a-lago classified documents case. you remember this one? then we haven t heard about it as much lately, but take a complex case, add some defendants multiple at that and classified records that are part of the evidence. and what do you get when you mix it al
have been calling on president biden to take action may finally get their wish. but for some, this executive action won t go nearly far enough. we ll explain. plus, vladimir putin takes his first foreign trip since the invasion of ukraine as the russian president looks for an ally in a nation also isolated from the west. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, july 20th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. the secret service is now saying text messages that may have been able to corroborate some of the events of january 6th are likely gone forever. after being issued a subpoena by the house select committee investigating the attack, the agency had enough yesterday to turn over its records from january 5th and 6th of 2021 that it said had been accidentally erased. but after initially being hopeful that the data could be recovered, committee member stephanie murphy revealed otherwise on msnbc last night. we received a letter today that di