i don t like the bill. speaker johnson s been on the job for, what, two or three weeks now and that s like throwing a quarterback in the fourth quarter and expect him to make up for three quarters of failure and you re behind 35-0. the reason he finds himself in the position he s in because of nine months under speaker mccarthy. it s also a no vote from bob good of virginia on speaker mike johnson s plan to avoid a government shutdown. but there are some democrats who are signaling they may support the funding bill. we ll tell you about that. plus former trump allies who pleaded guilty in the georgia election interference case give new details about the plans to stay in power. and also ahead, the latest from gaza where the area s largest hospitals are running out of fuel and efforts to evacuate the patients are stalled amid heavy fighting. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, november 14th. i m jonathan lemire. and thanks for starting your day
reporting is one of the newly released e-mails between somebody at the meeting and his son raises the question of just that. the son e-mailing and asking why don jr. would release the e-mails that led up to this meeting. that was the first news we all were reporting on and asking this, why was he admitting collusion. we don t know the context. if they saw it then, what does this mean for team trump now? well, i think every piece of evidence that establishes a connection between team trump and the russians gives the prosecutors, the investigators another place to look, another point of entry into these witnesses to try to get the substance of the communications to see, were they, in fact, exchanging negative research, dirt, on hillary clinton, in exchange for lifting of sanctions? that, of course, would be
e-mail suggests that at least some people in the trump arguizati organization thought of it again. we don t know in what context they were specifically talking about. it makes it harder to believe that this was just sort of a blip on the radar that never mattered. i will say, we keep finding more about the meeting in its aftermath. that s the thing. why isn t it all out there? it s like, if this was don jr., well, you know, it did happen, this is all that happened, the end. okay. but we have gotten six different versions of what happened, each slightly more revealing and slightly more fulsome regarding the connections. again, there may be nothing at the end of the road, but suggests you have to go down that road. let me play what donald trump jr. told fox news after the initial story broke about all this.
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respond to the news reports. instead, he spoke to trump aide who is almost always by trump s side. trump jr. claimed attorney-client privilege on the conversations with his father. congresswoman, jackie speer who was at the meeting with don jr., told erin burnett, the president s son had a lot of trouble answering a number of questions. he has a very serious case of amnesia and he was pretty nonresponsive on a lot of issues that, frankly, you would have a recollection of. the follow up e-mails raised during don jr. s interview were discovered by congressional investigators. none sent directly to trump jr. manu raju is on capitol hill. another amazing wrinkle that contradicts what trump jr. said in public. reporter: no question about it. the message, all along is, this is a meeting focused on russian