Think youre going to have another election in this country if you dont have one where we win. Certainly not one thats meaningful. More rhetoric by donald trump over a rally in ohio over the weekend. Well bring his incendiary remarks straight ahead. And it comes as mike pence takes a stand against his former boss. Well show you what pence said about his former president and january 6th. And, meanwhile, President Bidens campaign is reporting one of its strongest fundraising months in almost a year. Well look at whats driving the large hauls of campaign cash. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this monday, march 18th. We hope you had a nice st. Patricks day. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day and week with us. And we begin this morning with a race for the white house where donald trump delivered another divisive speech over the weekend, this time while stumping for an ohio senate candidate. Just outside of dayton, the 2024 republican nominee kicked off the rally on
Peter has a warning for us all that these markets have been barely climbing he says were running out of oil and were here to detail how much plenty of new worries about an escalating war in israel and what were told the tense phone call between President Biden Benjamin Netanyahu Higher Oil Prices as a result dont count scott martin saying that somehow there is a shift that is hitting the fan i had to practice that a number of times. Scott, always good to have you what you make of this all the sudden we had these worries escalating war the whole 9 yards, peter is coming up saying get ready its going to get bad where are you on this . Is amazing when the shift hits the fan in the family keep spinning no matter what even as the shift gets heavier, thats really what we need to remember as investors as almost as dark as it gets the dawn is coming and thats why i believe as we run out of wall of a climb in the intake there the reality is the market will build other walls to climb. When we go
We ran a campaign that was in keeping with the spirit and values of this great city. 0ur Political Correspondent leila nathoo gave us this update from city hall following the announcement. If you look all the way through the campaign, the Opinion Polls were always in sadiq khans favour and evenif always in sadiq khans favour and even if you remember that the results didnt actually get started counting until this morning, so any speculation was really wildly off the mark so counting started this morning but as soon as the first results came in, it was very clear that sadiq khan was looking in a pretty good place because he had already proved in the first two boroughs that he was capable of attracting more votes to the labour party than he did last time. As the day went on, and more constituencies declared, it was pretty obvious sadiq khan had actually increased his support and won a very comfortable victory. It would have been a hailjab set i think if susan hall had got anywhere near cl
President biden has called to advance it swiftly so it can head to his desk in the oval office so he can sign off on it. The pentagon for its part watching the political infighting going on has been trying to pre position weaponry where it can so that those weapons can head to ukraine, head to troops on the ground sooner rather than later. Potentially within days as opposed to weeks. That doesnt rule out the prospect of further political infighting despite the fact that Congress Woman nancy pelosi had called to sign off on the bill for ukraine. We know that it had been facing resistance from the republican party. They had wanted ties to strict immigration laws, Stricter Border security with the us mexico border. That particular vote failed. They needed a two thirds majority so that did not come to pass. Instead what you saw with the ukraine bill is that more republicans voted against it. Than actually voted in favour. We know that republican Congress Woman Marjorie Greene has signalled
Russian officials said it would further ruin ukraine and result in the deaths of even more ukrainians. The focus is now on when the aid will arrive, with reports suggesting it could begin within days. Our first report is from our North America correspondent nomia iqbal. On this vote, the yays are 311 and the nays are 112. The bill is passed. The moment has been a long time coming. After more than six months, a bill pledging further military aid for ukraine finally passed. Translation today we have got the decision we were waiting for on the american Support Package for which we fought so hard. President zelensky, how is. . President zelensky had personally met with us lawmakers to lobby for support. Many in congress waved ukrainian plans during voting, but there was still divisions, with members of the Democratic Party backing kyiv, others in the Republican Party not so much. But this is the sell out of america today. When we have members of congress in there waving the ukrainian flag