Im going to allow an opportunity for every Single Member of the house to vote their conscience and will on this. Im willing to take personal risk for that because we have to do the right thing and history will judge us. I do not spend time Walking Around thinking about the motion to vacate. I have a job to do here and im going to do the job. Regardless of personal consequences, thats what were supposed to do. Speaker mike johnson pushing forward with a series of aid bills despite push back in his party. The question is how much will he need to lean on democrats to get that funding passed . Plus the senate dismisses articles of impeachment against Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. And what to expect today when Jury Selection picks up again in former President Trumps hush money trial. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, april 18th. Im ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. And we begin this morning on capitol hill where House Speaker mike johnson is digg
bothers him he s sat in court all day, it s not a great looking courthouse and he can t be on his phone, right? we know that normally he sends about half of his truth social posts on his phone. the others he dictates. i mean he can t do that right now as he s in court, so-so he s got and the gag order doesn t help. and the gag order doesn t he seems very cog niz want of that. he s even said it s unfair i have to sit here and watch people on tv talk about me. but he knows he can hit repost, he can hit retweet, the equivalent on truth social, which is retweeting a documentary, a 30-minute documentary that was made about the four prosecutors, you know, criticizing that. i mean it s the same talking points but now you ve got people like laura loomer, even elon musk to his 180 million followers on x doing that. trump loves that. it s really this shadow messaging at work that s going on that he s really savoring it.