Good morning. And welcome to Way Too Early. The show that cant believe it has to Say Something nice about the yankees but hey, this is a cool story. Im Jonathan Lemire on this wednesday, january 12th and well start with the news. With his most forceful speech yet, President Biden is making his case for why he believes the Senate Filibuster should not stand in the way of moving forward with Voting Rights. Im making it clear, to protect our democracy, i support changing the senate rules. Whichever way they need to be changed, to prevent a minority of senators from blocking action on Voting Rights. When it comes to protecting majority rule, in america, the majority should rule in the United States senate. Not a single republican has displayed the courage to stand up to a defeated president. To protect americas right to vote. Not one. Will we choose dem shadows . Justice over injustice . I know where i stand. I will not yield. I will not flinch. I will defend the right to vote. Our democra
Good to be with you here, laura. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and Around The World. Two variants are reminding us why this virus isnt going away any time soon. The u. S. Shattering its record for average daily cases more than doubling in two weeks, thanks to a combination of both delta and omicron. The cdc even adjusting its data now, showing delta still accounts for about 40 of these cases. Hospitalizations are not spiking as fast, but experts still have concerns about the weeks ahead. There is no question that january will be filled with a lot of shortterm challenges. Hospital beds, Staffing Shortages of tests, shortages of almost everything. Its tough to handle this many indications at once. I think we have a good thing in these tests, but there wont be enough in many places to get us through the most trying time. Now the fda says athome coronavirus tests may be less sensitive to picking up the omicron variant. That could send more people out for pcr tests, extending
Tested positive. Plus, the first case of omicron reported in the United States. The question is what will President Biden announce when he updates us on the fight against covid later today . And lockout. Major League Baseball shuts down for the first time in decades after owners and the Players Union failed to reach an agreement with four months left before the season. The question is opening day in jeopardy . Its way too early for this. Good morning, kind of. Welcome to way too early, the show that is going to be clear about this. Games better not be lost. Im Jonathan Lemire on this thursday, december 2nd. Were going to start with the news. The inevitable has happened. The first case of the omicron variant of covid19 has been dedeathed in california. The cdc announces the patient returned from south africa last week and developed symptoms a few days later. The person then tested positive for covid, and genome sequencing confirmed it was the omicron variant. The individual who was full
Joins us to discuss. Pushback against mandates starting january 4th affecting tens of millions of workers, what you need to know before the deadline and what kind of fine businesses could be facing for refusing to comply. New developments in the investigation by special counsel john durham and new information on what is pushing the trump russia collusion story. Democrats in disarray still scrambling to push through the fake infrastructure and spending bills on the heels of Election Losses across the country this week, White House Correspondent kevin corke is covering that for us tonight. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Leadership Team spent hours today scrambling to narrow the number of holdouts on the sweeping spending bill. While it is still anyones guess if, and i mean if, they will manage a boat on friday as expected, they would do so on that and the Infrastructure Offering i should point out, no matter what makes it over the finish line especially as it relates to the build bac
Are saying about the speakers gamble. And the lastminute negotiating Behind Closed Doors. Plus, what about that bipartisan Infrastructure Bill . New details on a timeline for a vote on that. Spoiler hope you dont have weekend plans. Im Hallie Jackson in washington. I definitely dont have plans this weekend. Along with nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, Olivia Beavers is joining us, as well, congressional reporter for politico. And pete, let me start with you and this hearing related to the documents on january 6th from the trump white house. You say the judge seemed skeptical about the arguments that were being made by Those Trump Attorneys who were looking to keep those documents out of the hands of the January 6th Committee. Why . Well, the Trump Lawyers are making two arguments here. First of all, they say that the January 6th Committee has no legislative purpose that congressional committees dont have a freestanding authority to investigate, they can only gather informat