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distinguished supreme court practitioner, laurence tribe. harvard historian, yell historian, and of course on this important night we are fortunate to hear from to law professors who are also practitioners, andrew weissmann, and neal katyal. neil katyal is of course a distinguished supreme court practitioner, having argued 50 cases before the court, and andrew weissmann is a former federal prosecutor and justice department official. my mission therefore in this hour is to get out of th...

that they dont want to default. they want to avoid that, but they dont agree on how to do it. mccarthy wants to hold it at hostage in return for massive cuts on discretionary programs meaning basically everything but social security and medicare which along with defense, make up the clear bulk of the budget while president biden has been adamant that no cuts are on the table. none. so what are these guys going to talk about? and how will mitch mcconnell, chuck schumer and hakeem jeffer...

district attorney calls a special grand jury. and for the second time in three years lawmakers on capitol hill are talking about police reform following a black mans deadly encounter with officers. plus president joe biden sends a message to speaker kevin mccarthy, show me your budget. thats all ahead on "way too early." good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this tuesday, january 31st. im jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. well begin with a move that ...

good morning, everyone. im bianna golodryga. our top story this hour, former president trump unleashing a angry response this morning after the january 6 committee voted to subpoena him for documents and testimony under oath in connection with the capitol riot. >> we are on bligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. and every american is entitled to those answers. so we could act now to protect our republic. >> in his response, posted on truth social, tr...

Final day of the presentation of their case against paul manafort, the president s campaign chairman, simultaneously a woman named kristin davis, who is better known in tabloid circles as the manhattan madam will be testifying tomorrow before the grand jury in d. C. , convened by the special counsels office reportedly about her relationship with Trump Campaign associate roger stone. Expect that to be an incredible tabloid scrum, if nothing else. We wont necessarily know what that legally is goin...

When Richard Nixon was being investigated by a Special Prosecutor and by congress, it was a special investigation in congress. While most republicans tried to look at the mounting evidence against president nixon as favorably as possible, none of them ever tried to say anything like this. Just remember what youre seeing and what youre reading is not whats happening. Republicans did not try to deny reality during the investigation of Richard Nixon and eventually it was a group of republican senat...

Presence? >> in the past, leader mcconnell has had a role in diffusing these situations. i think he is a more sensible voice in the room than the maga extremists that are driving speaker mccarthy, and i think that senators on his side dont want to flirt with a default and the catastrophe that ensues, so i think theyll react more readily through the threats and the tremors as the economy begins to shake. >> is there anything worth negotiating on? speaker mccarthy wants to cut this discretionary s...

Said hunter received gifts from the chinese. he said the biden administration can be compromised by the chinese influence. hes taken a different stripe on the news networks than when he is speaking in washington. if you look at the polling data, independents are not as enthused with many of the investigations, especially into the hunter biden situation, as hard-core republicans. republicans, now theyre in power and in the majority, they want to keep the majority and dont want to go too far as th...

How many will accept the liz cheney line of not supporting election deniers who they agree with on other issues. >> well one election deniers we didnt hear from was ginny thomas, the wife of clarence thomas. we know she did speak to them. >> i make of it, she didnt give them anything worth while. we know the reporting came out that she continued to say that she had questions about the 2020 election which is not something that the committee necessarily wants to highlight. but what i take from tha...

Trying to find political dirt on joe biden in ukraine. thats not the case for the attorney general. what is so many questions for him including when they got referrals based on this complaint, why did they decide there was not anything worth pursuing criminally? >> david, look, as we know, trump repeatedly told ukraines president in the phone call, barr would be calling and barr would be in touch and thats in the transcript and it is not even in the complaint allegation and its in the transcript...