Next in the case. Plus, officers who put their lives on the line on january 6th were at the Courthouse Yesterday for that hearing. Well bring you their reaction. And theres still one more major legal issue on the horizon for donald trump. What the georgia prosecutor is saying about that case. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, august 4th. Its friday, folks. We made it. Im jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. History was made in the nations capitol again yesterday where for the First Time Ever a former president of the United States was arraigned for his alleged efforts to subvert american democracy. Just a few blocks away from where he took the Oath Of Office and from where his supporters carried out an unprecedented act of violence just a few years later, donald j. Trump pleaded not guilty to four Felony Charges yesterday stemming from his actions after the 2020 election. The charges were conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to o
america. but you know what, you shouldn t be prosecuted for your thoughts. and the difference here is when hillary clinton said it, nothing happened to him. when they said it in georgia s elekds, nothing happened to them either. when the dnc said it, nothing happened to them either. that is wrong and that should stop now. there s only one problem with all that, it s not true at all. hillary clinton did not challenge the results of the 2016 election. she gave a concession speech the very next morning saying she hoped trump would be a successful president for all americans. and back in 2000 you ll recall al gore won the popular vote, and then it took five weeks of florida recounts and court battles, eventually going all the way to the supreme court before george w. bush was declared the winner by 537 votes. gore in his role as vice president then presided over the
but what they are about to impeach him on is his behavior towards ukraine and they are explicitly noting that his behavior towards ukraine fits the pattern of what he did with russia for the 2016 election, too. and when democrats talk about the speed with which they re moving forward in these impeachment proceedings, that s what they said today, they need to move quickly now in advance of the 2020 elekds to try to deter him in inviting and trying to further extort foreign powers in interfering on his behalf as well. politico.com reporting tonight when article of impeachment are voted out which will likely be this week, the house tends to file a lengthily report expounding on this point and specifically the evidence turned up in the mueller investigation and how the president s behavior is a coherent pattern between both the scandal of his treatment of ukraine and the scandal of his involvement with
it s november 3rd, just two days before the 1968 presidential elekds. mr. president, i m getting him right on. yes, dick. in a call secretly recorded by the white house, president lyndon johnson draws a line in the sand for his old adversary, richard nixon, the republican candidate for president. lyndon johnson is desperate before his term runs out to get the north vietnamese and the south vietnamese at the peace table. we all want them to come and hope they ll come and really believe they ll come. is it a question of nixon was trying to sabotage those peace talks. if peace talks were announced before election day that would help his opponent.
the trump administration s immigration policy. the president tweeted his congratulations to lopez obrador. reporter: what many are calling a revolution for this country. you see people pouring into the square behind me to celebrate an event they never thought would take place, the elekds of leftist populous candidate andres manuel lopez obrador. this is his third attempt at the office. previous attempts he said kept him from gaining office because of corruption. not right now, though. he has more than defeated the opposition. that s because more of mexican society he s mainly appealed over the years to nation s poorest. but this election he managed to reach out to so many people who were struck by his anti-corruption message, his