tonight with this really weird moment that happened last week at a house hearing. transportation secretary pete buttigieg was testifying before a house committee and as you woulde expect, for several hou, theyfo discussed infrastructure roads, railway, electric vehicles, energy prices, all of the usual stuff until one republican congressman on the committee suddenly took the transportation hearing off the rails. and that joke was for you, transport nerd, you re welcome. have a watch. now have president biden in office for 18 months and just recentlyfi we see the mainstrea media questioning president biden s mental state and for good reason. sadly he shakes hands with ghosts and imaginary people and falls offeo bicycles and even a the white house easter celebration, easter bunny had to guide him back intonn his safe place. end of speech, where he actually states, that is, if he sta stays awake. so my question for you, is, sir, have you spoken with any other cabinet member ab
hosting a saudi-backed golf tournament at one of his clubs. good morning. and welcome to way too early. i m jonathan lemire. it is friday, july 29th. thanks for being here. let s get started with the news. we begin on capitol hill where senate democrats are racing against the clock to pass a wide-ranging spending bill through the process of reconciliation. with just about a week to go before congress leaves for a month-long recess, a source says that senate majority leader chuck schumer called on his caucus to stick together during a closed door meeting yesterday. just one day earlier schumer and west virginia democrat joe manchin sent shot waves through congress by shock waves through congress by introducing the inflation reduction act of 2022 seemingly out of left field. planning to bring it to a vote at the senate floor next week and democrats are expressing cautious optimism about the chances of moving forward and that includes president biden who had this to say at
investigated for having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paying for her to travel with him. matt gaetz who repeatedly denied any wrong doing. but he made sure to vote down this common sense do good bill in congress. that does it for us tonight. way too early with jonathan lemire is coming up next. comedian and veterans advocate jon stewart goes off on the senate, calling some republicans senators out by name, after they blocked a bill to increase care for veterans exposed to burn pits. the move has some democrats speculating that this is a retall anyfor an unexpected compromise on capitol hill. we ll show i you stewart s impassioned remarks. more missing texts tied to the january 6th attack on the capitol, this time it is messages from former president trump s homeland security department. and the former president is also making headlines for what he said about september 11th while
want money, we want to go to their family and in a few months, they want to go back to their husbands, their lives, their schools, et cetera, they need somewhere safe to go and the problem is they have been hitting bureaucratic barrier after bureaucratic barrier, which means at the moment their lives are simply lost in limbo, and are struggling to get to the u.k. thanks very much indeed. some related news, meta is allowing to call for violence against russian soldiers in retall anyfor what is going on in ukraine and the social media company is making temporary changes to the hate speech policy that will allow some posts to call for death to vladimir putin or alexander lukashenko. the government has been trying to block social media platforms from russia as part of the disinformation campaign to