overturn the 2020 election, what to expect from day three of the public hearings. plus, stock futures fall more than 1% after the fed implements the highest interest rate hike in nearly 30 years. the question is whether the move will drive down inflation without pushing the economy into a recession? and we ll have the latest from ukraine. as the united states pledges more aid, the leaders of france, germany, italy all arrived in kyiv overnight to show that europe is still committed to the fight for peace. good morning. welcome to way too early. on this thursday, june 16th. i m jonathan lemire. we appreciate you being here. the third hearing into the attack of the u.s. capitol is set for 1:00 p.m. today. it will focus on efforts to pressure former vice president mike pence into overturning the 2020 presidential election in a campaign that put the former vice president s life in danger. aides tell nbc news the hearing will hit four main themes, the theory that pence had t
which is most favorable to them, and ultimately result in a conviction. the defense is trying to paint a different narrative that shows the defendant in a different light and discredits what the prosecution is trying to do or, b, cast aspersions to the point of reasonable doubt on the narrative that the prosecution has presented. in this case, the issue from the start has been the prosecution has not been able to construct a credible narrative that would establish a good motive around why he may have done this. everything that you just heard about him being this embattled person, finance, issues of substance abuse does not lead to the conclude he kills his wife and son. when you have a case, as you said, when you re dealing with circumstantial evidence, the motive has to be the glue that ties together the pieces. in this case, the prosecution simply has not done that.
justice department to say they had found some classified documents from his vp days at his indiana home, and he says he that takes full responsibility. so another special counsel? are we in danger can of running out of them? no, the media reaction has been very different just as joe biden s discovery of one batch after another of classified material cast what donald trump did in a different light, the pence administration seemed to take the edge off biden s actions. ah, maybe this is a systemic problem. maybe a lot of this material is overclassified, maybe it s easy to misplace. maybe it s not that big a deal. for all the breathless headlines, nobody including journalists really believes pence intended anything nefarious or that biden really intended anything nefarious, so where does that leave the trump story? i know trump was engaged in a long subpoena battle leading to the fbi search that found 100 classified documents, but what was portrayed as utter recklessness according to t
some damage, it s a ticking time bomb. john: border residents sounding the alarm as cartels spread devastation across america. sandra: troopers escorting 15 illegal immigrants out of a car trailer in uvalde county. john: and another six illegal immigrants in the back of a van on their way to an unknown location. the migrants say they paid $8,000 to cross into the united states. sandra: now the cartels violence is moving hundreds of miles north to tulare county in california, a small farming town in shock after a shooting left six people dead, including a 16-year-old mother and her 10-month-old baby. the county sheriff telling us he believes they were killed in a targeted attack. i do believe the cartel is involved, i believe there is
now, let me also show you the border patrol chief overall, putting out in the last 72 hours, three-day report, you can see agents have encountered over 12,000 migrants, seized more than 1,000 pounds of narcotics, arrested six sex offenders and confiscated some six firearms. so, it s a daily occurrence to see the cartels hand in all of this, and it is frightening the residents here in the local border communities. back to you. sandra: and has been for quite some time. griff jenkins, thank you. john. john: bring in victor avilla, he was looking into human trafficking when he was based in mexico. stories like this we should point out are personal for him after he survived an ambush by cartel members ten years ago. his partner jamie zapata did