dangerous. i hope that as a nation watches, that we put this light on this to say that this should sound the alarm across the nation, that we are entering into very dangerous territory. one of the two democrats in tennessee expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse we re going to have much more on this partisan punishment just ahead. meanwhile, on capitol hill, one of donald trump s most vocal allies in congress sends a subpoena for the this isn t going to work well for jim jordan the prosecutor is going to explain why he wrote a book saying that, actually, d.a. bragg didn t go after donald trump aggressively enough. but, you know, if you have them, smoke em, jimmy. yeah. this could backfire on jim jordan we ll explain. and we ll dig into the bombshell report exposing lavish vacations taken by supreme court justice clarence thomas, all paid for by a gop mega donor. boy, willie, the clarence thomas stuff keeps coming out
as vladimir putin announced a major escalation in the war in ukraine. this all happening overnight calling up reservists and threatening a possible nuclear response as he suffers major setbacks on the battlefield, and in the geopolitical landscape. plus, the latest in the trump documents case as it goes before the special master, the former president s attorneys refuse to back up their claim that trump declassified the documents before taking them to his club in florida. we ll have the reaction from the judge and it is quite telling. also, the attorney general of new york is set to make a major aa nounsa-of- announce. we ll discuss what that announcement might be. and new developments in the story of the migrants flown to martha s vineyard with some sent to the massachusetts island now filing a class action lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis. we ll have all of the details on that. with us, host of way too early, jonathan lemire. and former aide of the geo
americans and afghan allies. nsc spokesperson john kirby drove home that point yesterday. you have to look at when he came into office, what he was walking into he didn t negotiate with the taliban. he didn t invite the taliban to camp david he didn t release 5,000 prisoners. he didn t reduce force levels in afghanistan to 2,500 he didn t have an arrangement with the taliban they wouldn t attack our troops. he came in with a certain set of circumstances he had no ability to change. he had to deal with it based on what he inherited. congressman, many would argue the withdrawal, the actually day of, was quite chaotic and cumbersome is the pushback warranted? well, mika, if this is an exercise in dividing blame between joe biden and donald trump, let s also remember kirby said yesterday something that is consistent with what we respect harry truman for saying. the buck stops here.
without this republican overreach. so the stupidity is at ramming speed right now. there s no indication that republicans in wisconsin or tennessee are engaging in any kind of they re doubling down on abortion, on attacks on democracy, on extreme positions on gun control i have to say, i would love to be in the room where republicans are talking about this and they re explaining why this is a smart, intelligent thing to do that advances their agenda because i can t figure it out at all. like you said, the stupidity burns. really good way of putting it. you have, again, two members who were in relative obscurity in the lower house in the tennessee legislature, statehouse. right. mika, who are now, again, political stars, for good reasons. we ve looked at them and gone, oh, my gosh, these guys, great speeches they have a future they re dynamic.
the idiots in tennessee in the majority martyred them in front of the world this is going tocontinue to energize younger voters. it is going to energize black voters going into 24. it is going to energize everybody that republicans don t want to energize watch these two members go out they re going to start raising money for causes that are going to help democrats and hurt republicans. yeah. mika, just talking about the straight line from wisconsin down to tennessee, as charlie said so eloquently, what happened in tennessee was pure political negligence you draw a straight line there s a wall street journal editorial page from yesterday, the same negligence that would have wisconsin republicans keep a law banning abortion, tototal almost a total abortion ban, from 1849 on the books going into the election this week. they were warned