Taking away Police Protective Gear and nonlethal weapons. Or at least trying to. Anarchists, leftwing activists this weekend attacked Law Enforcement officers as they seem to do every weekend now. They tried to destroy Federal Buildings and local police precinctings. Dozens of people were shot. Violent mobs attacked Law Enforcement officers all across the country. And lawless activists rioted in at least a half dozen cities. Much of the weekends violence once again concentrated in the Pacific Northwest where thousands gathered overnight outside the federal courthouse in portland. There radical antifa anarchists, black lives matter activists started fires near the federal courthouse before agents fired tear gas against them to disperse the crowd. Disburse the crowd. The Trump Administration ordered 150 more federal agents into portland to protect the Federal Building and those Law Enforcement officers who are under siege. The citys radical dem leadership continues to escalate their war
and new overnight, it appears writers on the picket lines are about to get some reinforcements as failed negotiations set the stage for another strike in the entertainment industry. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, january 13th. i m ali vitali in washington along with jonathan lemire who has another location change, this time in helsinki, finland, where he s still covering the president s trip overseas. lemere, i hope you re drinking coffee and all this travel doesn t have you too jet lagged. but once again set the scene where you are this morning on this next leg of the president s trip. reporter: well, it s not way too early here. it s actually noon. a pretty easy time to do this show, ali. yes, today is the final day of the president s trip to europe, and we re going to get into it. yesterday in many ways was the center piece. he met with president zelenskyy who had been so upset ukraine was not going to be given an immediate entry into nato.
have you spoken to him about the senate proposal, and are you simply trying to kill this to help me out in the campaign? that s absurd. we have a responsibility here to do our duty. our duty is to do right by the american people, to protect our duty. the first and important job is protect its citizen. i have talked to former president trump about this issue at length, and he understands that. he understands we have a responsibility to do here. of course president trump wants to secure the country. house speaker mike johnson with a pretty weak denial yesterday on donald trump s very clear desire to kill any border deal. we ll bring you the latest from capitol hill on the bipartisan senate measure and the future of the house. plus president biden said he decided how to retaliate for the droep strike that killed three u.s. soldiers and injured dozens of others. and we ll show you the new comments from prime minister benjamin netanyahu now bringing even more uncertain to a
trumpers. are we really going to say we re okay having our options two 80-year-olds that run for president? i m not being disrespectful. i m saying we need somebody with eight years. they can t do that. donald trump and nikki haley each making their final pitches to voters in new hampshire before the first primary in the race for the republican nomination. that is tonight. we ll have more from both candidates straight ahead. meanwhile, on capitol hill there are signs that a bipartisan deal on border security and foreign aid is now headed in the right direction. we ll go through those new developments. plus a proposal that could bring temporary peace to gaza. we ll have that latest on that offer from israel. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, january 23rd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. the day of the new hampshire primary. and donald trump made his final pitch to new hampshire voters last night in the city of luconia.
to attack me, but he won t get in front of me and answer the questions. that s nikki haley stepping up her attacks on donald trump in new hampshire just days ahead of the primary that is now essentially a two-person race. we ll bring you t lest from the campaign trail. plus some new hope for a deal to free the remaining hostages still being held by hamas. we ll go through the details coming out of those negotiations. and also ahead an update from capitol hill. foggy this morning and some snow in washington, where lawmakers have avoided the government shutdown for now but a potential package for border security and critical ukraine funding is still facing stiff opposition from maga republicans. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, january 19th. we made it to friday. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. with just four days to go until the republican primary in new hampshire, nikki haley s ramping up her attacks against front-runn