year of campaigning. now it is time to vote. one week from tonight, we could know who won iowa. donald trump is about to raise from the courtroom to the campaign trail and pack again as his rivals are hoping to pull off an upset. also tonight, the missing piece of that alaskan airlines plane that blew off at 16,000 feet in the air has now been found. more planes are being grounded for inspections as one major airline says they found something. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. it has been one week now since defense secretary lloyd austin was admitted to the icu. tonight, not only do we still not know what exactly sent him there, we don t know why his staff didn t tell the white house for days that he was even in the hospital. nonetheless, in intensive care. the lack of transparency from a top u.s. military official, especially while the u.s. is dealing with multiple crises around the world, has resulted in some calls for austin s resignation. the top republic
indictment, attorney general merrick garland is voicing support for special counsel jack smith. we ll show you his new remarks. plus new polling shows that trump s support among republicans is standing strong despite his mounting legal troubles. we ll break down those new numbers. and the judge handling trump s classified documents case, aileen canon, is coming under new scrutiny for having very little trial experience. that new reporting and so much more is straight ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 15th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. for the first time since donald trump s federal indictment, we re now hearing from attorney general merrick garland. speaking to reporters yesterday, garland declined to answer questions about the case, but he defended special counsel jack smith, the man that he appointed to lead the investigation into the former president. so as you know i can t talk about particulars o
pretty frustrated about it. you said you don t prefer it, but you did not say no. also, speaking of what s going on, i know there s a lot of immigration concerns that republicans have about what s in this bill. democrats say they re concerned about what their party leaders are willing to agree to. there s also a hearing on capitol hill on wednesday regarding the potential impeachment of the homeland security mayorkas. does this rise to high crimes and misdemeanors in your view? yeah, i do. look, i have been in that position for about three years. i put out a report three years ago detailing the extent to whichmayorkas had not carried out his duties. now he s down at the border, he acknowledged 85 persh of the people being encounters are being released into the united states, we have about 50,000 a month got aways. 300,000 encounters in december,
their top choice for the 2024 gop primary. that is within the poll s margin of error and essentially unchanged from last month. we should note the poll began last thursday. that s the same evening that trump announced he was being indicted, so this does reflect that moment. in second place is florida governor ron desantis at 23%. all other candidates polled at less than 5 persh. we should note, though, in a hypothetical general election matchup the polls show president joe biden beating president trump 48% to 44%, but of course margin of error comes into play there as well. it s close. meanwhile, we re learning more about former president trump s efforts to fund raise off his indictment. a campaign e-mail sent out yesterday claims his team has raised over $6.6 million since thursday. that s including the 2.1 million they say they raised on tuesday night during his post arraignment rally in bedminster in new jersey.
thanksgiving week, so he would read up on all kinds of things that have to do with thanksgiving. and that holiday. smart. he wound up winning a lot of money. eric, last question. quickly, i play along and i m lucky to get 15% or 20 persh of the questions. how many do you get right? well, i go he has the answers. i know, bob, but clearly, he could probably answer a lot of them. i ll give you my standard response. i used to test myself on a regular basis for 15 or 16 years. we would prepare four new quizzes each year for prospective contestants, and i would ace all of those. and finally, i said i got the job. why do i have to keep testing myself? but in the game, the games are more difficult now because there s more pop culture, and i m not into pop culture. we re honored to have you here. it s really good to have you here. we love it that you watch