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What action will be taken to help cities stop the bloodshed. And crime was top of mind for New York City voters who cast their ballots for the mayor. When all said and done, will a former Police Officer come out on top . Its Way Too Early for this. Good morning. And welcome to Way Too Early, the show that shuts down all the fire alarms, i think were good this morning. Unlike yesterday. I am kasie hunt, this wednesday, june 23rd. Well start with the news. Democrats say they will keep fighting aft...

Three hours. Afterwards the two president s held separate News Conferences but hit some of the same tones and themes, Mutual Respect and optimism tempered by realism. I did what i came to do. The bottom line is i told President Putin we need to have some basic rules of the road that we can all abide by. I made it clear to him that i believe. Consequences of that would be devastating for russia. I dont think hes looking for a cold war with the United States. President putin seemed to be looking f...

47. 47 . 47 comes next . Not the letter l . See if you can see where the unexpected veer, the unexpected plot twist comes in. Heres how the story is headlined in the detroit free press. Michigan republicans michigae republicanled Investigation Ep rejects trumps claim that November 3rd Election was stolen. Heres the Associated Press headline, Senate Republican probe, no systemic fraud in michigan election. Heres the New York Times headline, michigan republicans debunk voter fraud claims in unspar...

Breached the capital, but they failed. they failed. >> reporter: biden said trumps assault on democracy started well before january 6th, with a quote web of lies. >> even before the first ballot was cast, the former president was preemptively sowing doubt about the election results. hed built his lies over months. it wasnt based on any facts. he was just looking for an excuse, a pretext to cover for the truth. hes not just a former president. hes a defeated former president. >> reporter: biden d...

Just the reality of geopolitics today. the fact of nato being in former soviet republics like the baltic states, the fact of there being a nato troop presence on the ground. russia knows these are not things that the u.s. can negotiate without changing the fundamental nature of nato. at the same time, when he puts out things like not wanting nuclear weapons on his borders, you know, you have the opening to have a negotiation around something that youre not doing as something of an off-ramp for p...

Vice president, governors and state officials and every battleground states have all said he lost. even before the first ballot was cast, the former president was preemptively down of the results. he built his lies for months. he was not based on facts. he was looking for an excuse and pretext to cover for the truth. hes not the former president. hes a defeated former president. former president who lies about this election and the mob that attacked this capitol could not be further away from th...

For the new yorker and global affairs analyst, stationed in moscow for several years. susan, thanks for joining us. this latest threat from the russian deputy foreign minister seems like a significant escalation in the rhetoric coming from russia. what does it suggest to you? >> yeah, look, i think, jake, that was the worry about this intensive week of talks all along was there was no possibility of an agreement because they were framed in such a vague way. russias demands are complete nonstarte...

He is absolutely right. >> because of that connection between the pretext for the january 6th attack and the pretext for the voting rights restrictions that you just described and the attorney general described today, i wonder what you make of the fact that a number of republican senators voted to impeach donald trump for what happened on january 6th. voted to impeach him for his role in inciting that attack on the capitol and the effort to overthrow the election and yet even those senators will...

Was the rest of the plan. what about that rest of the plan? was that cool? getting republican state legislatures whatever gossamer or false pretext they needed to throw out election results and instead replace them with, were just going to say trump won, because that was a real plan, and we know a lot more about that plan today than we did a year ago. did attorney general merrick garland today let the country know if that other part of it was okay? we know theyre prosecuting people who broke win...

Countries, to the west of russia suffers. >> reporter: russia has more than 100,000 troops positioned near ukraines borders. it is demanding ukraine never be allowed to join nato and that nato shrink back to what it was in 1997 dismantling much of the alliances present across eastern europe and the baltics. u.s. officials say its such an unrealistic demand they worry vladimir putin is building a case for the talks to fail, creating a pretext to invade ukraine. at the front, soldiers told us they...