Twitter account targeted by the Special Counsel. The evidence jack smith was searching for and new details on twitters resistance to the probe. And President Biden touting his economic agenda, but are americans onboard . What new polling shows about the impact of his economic policies and chances in 2024. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, august 10th. Im ali vitali in for Jonathan Lemire. We start with breaking news. Officials in hawaii say at least 36 people have been killed by the fast moving wildfire sweeping across the western part of the island of maui. Dozens more injured and treated for burn. Hundreds of homes and businesses are destroyed, and communications on the island are crippled. Thousands of residents have evacuated with some even diving into the ocean for safety. The devastating wildfires have been fanned by strong winds from Hurricane Dora passing well south of the hawaiian islands. In a statement yesterday President Biden said hed ordered all
it is a done deal, billionaire elon musk completing his $44 billion takeover of twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. good morning. good morning. john berman is off. and according to sources, musk immediately fired twitter s ceo, the chief financial officer and the company s top lawyer. musk first agreed to buy the company in april, then he spent months trying to get out of the deal, which was finalized just before today s deadline. musk attempted to reassure advertisers, posting an open letter on twitter why he bought the platform, saying, quote, there is currently great danger that social media will fracture into far right and far left wings that will splinter our society and overnight he tweeted the bird is free. reporter: there is a lot of uncertainty at twitter. employees aren t sure what to expect after musk came in, took control and fired the top executives. unclear who the top team is, maybe employees will learn more at an all-hands mee
lost its mojo, that they ve blown a historic midterm opportunity, that all because their primary winners were just terrible. you do have republican nominating, shall we say, flawed candidates. herschel walker in georgia, j.d. vance in in in ohio, dr. oz in in pennsylvania. what looked like a wipeout for democrats in the fall is maybe not going to be so bad because of the candidates. republicans are nominating. walker can lose ause, can lose, johnson can lose their bad candidates so smug and so wrong. liberal super pacs even helped boost the so-called election, denying republicans the primaries with the thought that they d be easier to defeat in the general elections. well, even our own senate minority leader joined the pig pile against his own party, trying to tamp down his party s expectations by blaming the populace. the maga folks. there s probably a greater likelihood the house flips than some senate races are just different or statewide. candidate quality has
been fanned by strong winds from hurricane dora passing well south of the hawaiian islands. in a statement yesterday president biden said he d ordered all available federal assets to help with the response. crews battling the blazes are urging visitors to stay away. meanwhile, a court ruling has revealed that months before charging donald trump in two separate cases, special counsel jack smith s office executed a search warrant of the former president s twitter account. according to the redacted ruling made public yesterday, the justice department executed the warrant back in january despite being challenged by the elon musk owned company. musk first refused to turn over trump s account because of an objection to the part of the warrant that barred twitter from informing trump his accountwise being and twitter was ultimately forced to comply. that was after a judge ruled that was, quote, probable cause to search the account for evidence of criminal offenses.
book in paper back because gets what my kids will read it. great to see you both elon musk has officially taken the reigns at twitter, the new owner. and the freakout from the left is almost too delicious to put into words. but the names he fired tonight that are making the most waves. for the details on this we go to matt finn in our la bureau. matt, this is pretty exciting. hey laura, elon musk has reportedly completed his takeover of twitter and fired executives including the ceo and cfo and top legal and policy executive vijaya gadde a key executive in removing former president trump from the twitter platform. musk strolled into twitters head coaches in san francisco yesterday carrying a porcelain sink later tweeting entering twitter hq, let that sink in. musk first agreed to buy twitter in april for $44 million, then he later threatened to walk away from the deal after accusing