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well, we served six years together here in the house i know what he believes. i know his principles and i ve seen his record since he went to florida. i d be really excited to have him as president those are a couple of the lawmakers who are already endorsing ron desantis for president in 2024. the florida governor was on capitol hill yesterday trying to win more support for a campaign that he hasn t officially launched, but was desantis outmaneuvered yesterday by his biggest rival? plus, we ll have the latest developments in two high profile shootings. in both cases the victims made the simple mistake of going to the wrong house. and also ahead we ll break down the massive settlement that fox news agreed to pay for airing false claims about election fraud, and we ll explain why the legal issues for the network are far from over. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 19th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. ....
keilar. and a flurry of new developments overnight surrounding the january 6th insurrection, just hours before the next hours gets under way. the new york times reports previously undisclosed emails from trump lawyer john eastman claiming he was aware of a, quote, heated fight among supreme court justices over whether to take up a case on the 2020 election. but even more than that, the times reports a response from another pro-trump lawyer, quote, odds of action by the supreme court before january 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be wild chaos on january 6 unless they rule by then either way. this was about two weeks this email before the insurrection. the times says this raises questions about a link to the idea of the violence that ultimately took place. much more on this in just a moment. but first cnn is learning exclusively what an adviser to former vice president mike pence will say at today s hearing which focuses ....
focus. the january 6th tour taking pictures of hallways, tunnels and staircases inside the capitol complex, clearly not normal tourist fare and there s more. the committee has also released video of that same man you saw there near the capitol on january 6th issuing violent threats against house speaker nancy pelosi. senate majority leader chuck shumer and other democratic members of congress. we re coming in like white on rice for pelosi, nadler, schumer, even you, aoc. we re coming to take you out and pull you out by your hairs. how about that, pelosi? we re coming to take you out. we ll pull you out by your hair. we made the decision to play the video to you at all, not to amplify the threats, but to present the powerful evidence in the hands of the committee that refutes congressman loudermilk s previous forceful denials that he was not involved with tours of any insurrectionist in the run-up to january 6th. today loudermilk doubled down denying once again that ....
into bear market territory yesterday. economists predict the fed will raise interest rates again in another attempt to battle rising inflation. cnn business correspondent solomon is here with me now. this ppi report, why should people at home care about this? what s it matter for us? it s interesting because ppi doesn t get as much attention as the consumer price index, but it s really important because it s factory level inflation, what producers are experiencing, and we know what companies are feeling, we ll likely see a few months down the line in terms of consumer prices. even though we did see slight moderation in categories like food, the topline number is troubling because we know after friday s report that there were no signs of moderation, that there were signs of acceleration in inflation and what we have now with this report is a sign perhaps of more pain to come down the road. okay. so, now, tomorrow, expecting this big announcement. on how much, by how ....
ginnie thomas, conservative activist and wife of supreme court justice played a much bigger role than we previously knew in pushing the election results. virginia ginnie thomas pressed arizona lawmakers after the 2020 election to set aside joe biden s popular vote victory and choose, quote, a clean slate of electors, that s according to emails obtained by the washington post. that email sent by thomas to lawmakers in 2020 argued that legislators needed to intervene because the vote had been marred by fraud. though she did not mention either candidate by name, the context was clear. thomas urged lawmakers to stand strong in the face of political and media pressure. she told lawmakers the chance to have lawmakers was yours and yours alone and had the power to fight back against fraud. that push by thomas in battle ground states ultimately culminated of alternate slate of trump electors being sent. the states are now under investigation by the justice department and they ....