What action will be taken to help cities stop the bloodshed. And crime was top of mind for New York City voters who cast their ballots for the mayor. When all said and done, will a former Police Officer come out on top . Its Way Too Early for this. Good morning. And welcome to Way Too Early, the show that shuts down all the fire alarms, i think were good this morning. Unlike yesterday. I am kasie hunt, this wednesday, june 23rd. Well start with the news. Democrats say they will keep fighting after Senate Republicans on a sweeping new Voting Rights action in laws in red states. Democratic governor joe manchin voted to debate, after receiving assurances that his compromise would be considered. At the end, the vote was split 50 50, short of the 60 votes needed to overcome the republican filibuster. Heres what will we heard on the senate floor yesterday. Theres no widespread effort to stop voters from casting a ballot. And theres no design to hand states constitutional authorities over to
what the voters want? at the same time, it s a legal challenge, not a political one, that may pose the biggest danger to the only other declared candidate, donald trump. what s the special counsel s latest request from a judge say about the possibility that trump faces criminal charges? and we re watching the white house where the president could face questions from reporters just a few minutes from now. under pressure to talk publicly about the shootdowns in the sky. new nbc reporting about the internal debate over whether he should answer those questions. so a lot going on on this wednesday, but we start with republicans facing critical questions about the future of their party as newly announced presidential candidate nikki haley hits the campaign trail for the first time, officially giving the gop something they haven t had in nearly seven years. an alternative to donald trump. we re ready, ready to move past the stale ideas and faded names of the past, and we are m
every community in america should be sharing in the burdens. it shouldn t all fall on a handful of red states. we are not a sanctuary state and it s better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction. instead of working on solutions republicans are p playing publics with human beings using them as props. what they re doing is wrong, un-american and reckless. president biden ripping the governors of florida and texas for busing and flying migrants to democratic states. texas governor greg abbott sent two buses of migrants to the president s resident in washington. and now jb pritzker is sounding off, saying they re not telling them how many migrants are coming or when they re arriving. the governor of texas is choosing not to tell the ngo or chicago how many people are on the buses before they arrive. they won t tell us how many infants, children, seniors, or families are on board. we have tried to direct the buses to reception centers in chicago that we have prepared
as they wait for vaccines and testing. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. president biden has issued a major disaster declaration for the state of kentucky, as catastrophic flooding has killed at least 16 people, including six children. and the death toll is expected to rise. flash floods wiped out entire neighborhoods, scores of people are missing. kentucky governor andy bashir says it s hard to get a fix on the number of cell services out. bridges were demolished, and some homes were completely carried away. for many who have been affected, the damage is devastating. i don t know what we re going to do. we don t have no place to live now or anything. the water got to about there. we had about this much more room before we got flooded, and i ve never seen it that high. we came out of the house, and it was so swift that even a jet ski was hard for him to handle. and he took us out one at a time. federal disaster declaration will free u
early, a week and a half ago with her endorsement of schiff. what do you think the impact of that is and does it in some ways close the door at least a little bit on some of these other candidates? what about the criticism that here she is, a woman and she s trying to close the door, essentially, on two other women, including a black woman. pelosi hasn t answered that question yet. one of my colleagues that tried to ask her that yesterday in san francisco, and she said, well, now is not the time to talk about it. i would be very curious to hear what the speaker amer tus answers on that. it does help shift when you have one of the most powerful women in politics in the nation s history endorsing you, but yet that s one of the things it s going to come down to in this race. schiff is also seen as, and this may be strange to hear, as more of the centrist in this race. the other two have been members