Finished? if you get my drift. Welcome meet the press daily. I m chuck todd. Lawmakers quarrelling ober new mask man dates and signaling the day came to a deal with republicans and president biden. Dive into the latest on those stories. The most important development in american politics. Hence the leadoff formtp daily. And what this reveals about the limits of donald trump s party. It was not a good day for the former president or republicans who frankly should know better. Many do, but have chosen time and again to somehow appease him. Look at where that s left them completely sidelined at yesterday s hearing, a powerful indictment of trump s supporters. When you think about that and share with us the vivid memory of the cruelty and violence of the assault that day, and then you hear former president trump say, it was a loving crowd. There was a lot of love in the crowd. How does that make you feel? it s yub setting. Upsetting. A pathetic excuse for something had you himself helped m
details about novak djokovic s appeal. and an eerie calm settling over kazakhstan, after the president gave a shoot to kill order to quell the protests. okay. we begin in the u.s., because that s where covid cases are soaring to record levels. driven by the super contagious omicron variant. infections are now averaging more than 660,000 per day. this map gives you a sense of the dramatic spread across the nation, with cases surging in nearly every state. child hospitalizations are at an all-time high as well. some of the largest increases are in children under 5 who are not authorized to be vaccinated yet. hospitalizations in that group are up 48% from a little more than a month ago. and with the public skexasperat by what seems like an endless pattern of covid surges americans want to know when will it end. in a news conference on friday, president joe biden was asked if this was going to be the new normal. no, i don t think covid is here to stay. but having covid in t
functioning? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that wishes these playoff games didn t run so late. i m jonathan lemire on this tuesday, october 19th. we ll start with the news. former president donald trump has filed new lawsuit against both the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection and the national archives. the suit, which was expected, seeks to block the committee from obtaining his administration s records from the archives. in the 26-page complaint, a lawyer for the former president argues that the records must remain secret as a matter of executive privilege. in a joint statement from the panel s chair benny toms and vice chair, liz cheney, the committee vowed to, quote, fight the president s attempt to obstruct our investigation. meanwhile the white house is ramping up the pressure on democrats to find a compromise on their vast lenl lative agenda. president biden is leading a flurry
ex-president it all but ensures that special counsel jack smith will hear from the key witness who none of the other investigations into the trump cou plot not the fulton county d.a. has ever heard from under oath we re, of course, talking about mike pence a ruling handed down wednesday night by a federal appeals court rejects an emergency request by trump to block mike pence s testimony. new york times reports this, quote, the 11th hour ruling by the u.s. court of appeals for the district of colombia paves the way for mr. pence to appear before the federal grand jury as early as this week the ex-president has a few legal options left including an appeal to the supreme court but as nbc news reports, quote, in previous instances, where appeals sent senior aides must testify, his legal team has opted no the to fight the decision further and those witnesses have quickly appeared before the grand jury and trump s argument that executive privilege prevents pence or any of his ai