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Thets big barr laying out a flaw in the main defense that Donald Trumps lawyers using in the federal election case. Well have much more from the former Attorney General on trumps many, many legal issues in just a moment. Meanwhile a key conspirator in the riot at the capitol could receive the longest sentence yet for the january 6th attack. And a very significant summit at camp david for President Biden. Well explain the stakes at todays meeting. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, august 18th. We made it to friday, folks. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the trial date proposed by Donald Trumps legal team that is way, way, way in t ....
friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensit ....
a lot earlier. could potentially saved him, maybe. the police say the car crashed early on saturday morning. it was found almost two days later after a member of the public spotted tyre tracks. the officers response is now the subject of an independent review. for now, feelings here are a mixture of grief, shock and some anger. there s also fear that more lives are still in the balance, as the car s two other passengers remain critically ill in hospital. the hundreds who came here tonight wanted to celebrate three lives lost and share in each other s sorrow. emotions are still raw here, with many questioning whether the police could have found their friends sooner. hywel griffith, bbc news, cardiff. exclusive data obtained by the bbc shows police forces in england and wales are recording more cases of dogs being dangerously out of control with more than 21000 offences last year. the number of dogs being seized is also going up, meaning police have had to spend millions on ....
welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we begin with continuing drama on capitol hill. day two for the chaotic and his tor historic fight for the speaker of the house. i ve never seen this. the house has adjourned until 8:00 p.m. after mccarthy failed on his attempt not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six, six attempts to win a majority of votes in the house to become speaker. a source says republicans believe there may be a path forward between the promccarthy and anti mccarthy republicans to negotiate, to choose a house speaker. let s go to manu raju on capitol hill. i am hearing as you are hearing from members of congress, you re hearing from them off the record i guess and hearing from them on camera, who are saying yeah, they think there actually might be a way forward. some are saying that too, on the record chip roy being one of them. others are suggesting there is not. there is still very little room for error for kevin mccarthy but mccarthy j ....
we do expect their gaveling in as we speak and we do expect to see them at some point in the next many hours to move forward with this democrat s climate and tax and health care bill. we ll see them gavel in and then there will be a vote on a nomination, to get all of the senators here. behind the scenes, because democrats are using this very specific budget process that required all 50 of the democratic senators support but has to go through the senate parliamentarian to make sure it meets the rules and could pass muster to be included in this bill. so the parliamentarian is continuing to rule on this as we speak. she s making her way through yowl of these provisions. just earlier today, we learned that the bulk of what they wanted with medicare being able to negotiate drug prices for the first time is remaining in the bill. the parliamentarian did strike a smaller provision on caps for medicine and the private sector that democrats wanted to put a cap on medication, ....