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Smith. Well dig into that blockbuster new document and what prosecutors are saying about trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Plus well bring you the latest from the Middle East as israel continues to launch Air Strikes targeted at Hezbollah Facilities in lebanon. And also ahead president Joe Biden visited the carolinas to survey the Storm Damage left in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Well take a look at the ongoing Recovery And Cleanup efforts. Good Morning And Welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, october 3rd. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And we have a lot to get to this morning, and well begin with the new filing from special Counsel Jack Smith that lays out the case for why former president Donald Trump should still be held accountable for his actions on January 6th despite the Supreme Courts ruling on immunity. Nbc News Justice and Intelligence Correspondent Ken Dilanian has all t ....
Most people. you get to the heart of a bigger picture look. we have that conversation between sondland and trump on the 26th. it s made very clear what president trump is interested is in the investigation. two more text messages after that call on the 25th. in which he went to volker and said we did what we were supposed to do and let us know about meeting. i passed your message along. there s all the threads. just outside of the transcript. where the communication between volker and sondland in between the ukrainians and americans. what s being laid out in the transcript is this exchange. meeting for the investigations. which we see reflected in the call between the sondland and president. thank you both. the president has a lot of legal trouble with his hotel. taxes and roger stone. ....
It to be. it s going to hit that point 2.5% that will bring it to a hand recount. they think that issue will be rectified once people start looking at those ballots. huge, huge difference there. if they are right that could be election altering. if they are not, they could be out of luck there. thanks so much for that. the votes still coming in in florida. votes still being tallieied elsewhere. we thought we would take a bigger picture look of what happened in this year s mid term leks a elections. this was the target list for democrats in the house. right now they re net gain stands at 31. they won 34. there were three democrat seats they lost. t ten uncalled races. democrats are leading in bunch of those. this democratic net gain could ....
I guess it s down today from something we had a few days ago. sometimes it s up, sometimes it s down. let s take a step back and take a bigger picture look. it s time to ask a different question all together about donald trump s approval rating and what it means. and the question basically is, does this approval rating mean what it looks like it means? we re used to past presidents 35% being a disaster and with past presidents it certainly was. but the situation is a little bit more complicated with donald trump because we can look at this number here, 35% job approval rating, a 36% personal favorable rating, a popularity rating and we can realize these are the numbers we saw in the campaign last year. check this out. look at that 36% favorable rating. go back to election day last year. look at the national numbers, look at key states that put him over the top. this is his personal favorable score on election day last year. 38% nationally. but look, he actually got 46% of the vote. tha ....