comments pointed at florida governor ron desantis? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that s watching one florida man battle another. i m jonathan lemire on this thursday, january 13th. let s start with the news. president biden is keeping the pressure on senate democrats to pass voting rights or change the filibuster. today the president will attend a closed door democratic caucus lunch at the u.s. capitol to push senators into backing the two bills, but despite his vocal support, the president still has an uphill battle to get senators manchin and sinema on board. every democratic senator would need to vote in favor of a change for the filibuster. this comes just one day after majority leader chuck schumer outlined his plan to make sure republicans can t stop him from bringing up voting rights. schumer wrote a memo to colleagues detailing a workaround to get the senate bills to floor for debate even if a final vote re
footage on june 24th, 2022, when they were convinced that trump was still withholding classified documents. after trump s attorneys attested in a sworn statement that all documents were were turned it after doj made several attempts to get the documents back. we learned last night that once trump learned of the subpoena, he spoke with both his coconspirators. here s where it got kind of into string. i expected to employees after they spoke with trump went to the security booth where the surveillance footage was stored and looked into how to delete that footage. here s how prosecutors say it all went down. quote, de oliveira told the i.t. worker, the boss wanted the server deleted. when the i.t. worker said he didn t think he could do that, understandably, the new coconspirator said, insisted to him, that the boss, we know who the bosses there obviously, wanted the server deleted and asked what are we going to do? again, a bit of a mob movie scene. this comes while we are stil
cnn has confirmed many probes connections between extremist groups and trump associates, roger stone and others. we also bring him a specific mean committee asked former white house counsel pat cipollone about and what he told them. at the last hearing we saw former white house insider, top aide to chief of staff, mark meadows, testified that the former president knew the mob was about to incite and said marching into the capital was armed. i was in the vicinity of a conversation where the present day something today backed up, i don t care that they have weapons. cassidy hutchinson testifying under oath. she testified to the former presidents eagerness to join the mob of the capital. also to the white house councils horror at that prospect and his fear of being charged, according to her, with every crime imaginable. it s hard to imagine after that welcomes text. in a moment committee members, stephanie murphy, will be handling some of the question tomorrow joins us. but
Serious case. i don t think anyone can say straight faced and his cases more serious than mar-a-lago, or if there is interference indictment i am sure there will be discussions, either between the judges, or the lead prosecutors. so, how does that work exactly? because, as you were just telling me before we came on, that this is pretty common a lot of cases. do judges pick up the phone? did i get on a zoom call? how does it happen when they move the dates? it s all behind the scenes and often those prosecutors. like, i have a homicide, and you have a robbery. okay, you go first. sometimes, if it is one case is speedy trial, meaning it will be that goes to trial immediately, then you say, okay, absolutely, you go first. so, it happens all the time i have been on the end of, okay, your cases more serious and i m talking either the same office, a different office or different jurisdiction. it is just how it works it works itself out. and, in this case, as i said, that ca
Oppressive. anyone who studies something like the civil war, even though it went on in our country during the vietnam war, we ve seen it worse, but there is a feeling that our institutions are dissolving. washington d.c. s most dysfunctional as it has been since the 1850s period. that is frightening. but everybody talks about trump a lot. he eats up a lot of oxygen but we may be living in the age of joe biden. as a two term president, someone who awarded of trumpism, we ll be looking at biden s record very differently if he indeed, as a two term or. that s a good positive note to end on. thank you so much for bringing history to life for all of us. still to come, can we successfully run for president and slurpee shaming children in the first voter state? we don t know. but what honors is happening