that s why they re sending all these democrats in to run. it s crazy. it is not personal for me. i have no you know, people want me to hate trump or love trump. that s not what it is. i just tell it on policy. i m not going to talk about him personally. i don t care about that. i think politics is too personal, and i think that s why people are so frustrated right now. donald trump and nikki haley with different approaches about talking about the other. both are making their pitch to voters in new hampshire, while ron desantis has his sights on haley s home state. we ll have more from the campaign trail straight ahead. plus, the latest on the foreign aid package that republicans have tied to border security. we ll go through yesterday s meeting at the white house between president biden and speaker mike johnson. also ahead, another concerning escalation in the middle east as pakistan launches a retaliatory strike inside iran. good morning. welcome to morning joe.
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
joe biden looks like he s doing it in pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin. we ll see, mika. let s get to the drama on capitol hill. there was lots yesterday. a shouting match broke out during a house oversight committee hearing yesterday when chairman james comer and ranking member jamie raskin got into an argument about the republican-led effort to impeach president biden. take a look. president what business was the what business were the bidens in? what what business did joe biden s family own? what business were they in? did they have hotels, a social media company? did they have golf courses, casinos? did they have office mr. chairman. what business? did they have an energy mr. chairman, we spent tens of millions of dollars for you pursuing joe biden, and you have not identified that is a lie. a single thing. that is a lie. really? how much have you spent? we haven t spent hardly anything. it s been for free, okay, all
we felt very strongly that we had to set a precedent that impeachment should never be used to settle policy disagreements. if we allowed that to happen, it would set a disastrous precedent for congress, could throw our system of checks and balances into cycles of chaos. any time the house would want to just shut the senate down, they could send over another impeachment resolution and could create frivolous frivolous impeachment trial after impeachment trial. meanwhile, back to the house side of the bill, a shouting match broke out during a house oversight committee hearing yesterday when chairman james comer and ranking member jamie raskin got into an argument about the republican led effort to impeach president biden. look at that. what business were the bidens in? what business did joe biden s family own?