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
wise and where are you on the sports stuff? baseball is not my thing. ask me about severe thunderstorms and i ll give you all the details, which is exactly what i m going to do right now. thunderstorm watch in parts of the plains specifically missouri and kansas. this is going to last 6:00 a.m. central time, but we ll see these thunderstorms ramp up as the day goes on. notice how massive that severe threat is today. does include 26 million people with the bulls eye, but extending from the midwest down to texas, dallas, wakefield, little indianapolis, all included in that. that will last into this evening, and then we look ahead to friday. we ve got another storm system going to kind of develop right along a stalled out front. that s going to leave us with rain chances not just for one day but for a couple of days. we ll see this rain kind of spread across parts of the south as we get to saturday for basically texas to carolinas is the areas we ll be watching. we ll likely see heavy r