eight. but at the end of the day they had no plan. they had no plan, and larry, this could stretch out another two or three weeks. this is unfortunate, and, you know, i m ashamed we re in this position. hopefully we ll find someone who can get 217 votes soon. that s house oversight committee chairman joemz comer with a candid assessment of his party and its dysfunctional search for a new speaker. we ll get the latest from capitol hill just ahead. plus, we ll go through all of the new developments out of the middle east including the negotiations to free more hostages after hamas released two elderly women yesterday. and also ahead, donald trump s latest down right deranged comments from the campaign trail, comparing himself to nelson mandela and fantasizing about punching president biden in the face. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, october 24th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. hamas has released two more civilia
occupation of a building there. we ll have the latest on that situation and the growing demonstrations on campuses across the country. that comes as there s some optimism that a cease-fire in gaza and the release of israeli hostages could soon be reached. we llbri you those developments out of the middle east. and also ahead a preview what we can expect in court today when donald trump s hush money trial resumes in manhattan. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, april 30th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning with the growing unrest at columbia university. overnight pro-palestinian student protesters occupied a campus building. it s hamilton hall, the same building students took over back in the 1960s. that building just a few hundred feet away from the guzza encampment site. it came just hours after the university began sus spending students who refused to leave that encampment. the tents have been
unfounded. these attacks have not, and they will not influence our decision making. i will not be intimidated. and the justice department will not be intimidated. that s attorney general merrick garland striking a defiant tone as he defended the justice department during a contentious hearing between house republicans. we ll show you how it unfolded and what happens next as garland faces a potential contempt vote in congress. plus we ll dig into donald trump s new comments that he may jail his political opponents if he is re-elected to a second term. and also ahead president biden signed an executive order drastically tightening the border, and now he s getting backlash from some democrats. we ll break down the divide in his own party and what the issue of immigration could mean for his base in the fall. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, june 5th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president biden issued an executive or
behind me the bill in a tone he was said to be behaving very aggressively eyewitnesses say he was dazed and confused and acting quite threateningly towards the other guests in the dorm police were called and they arrived at the same they tried to calm the man and this him but believed he lunged at police and then they shot him in the leg now during the incident another police officer was also shot both men are injured and in hospital he s a fifty three year old austrian man he s not known to police and it s not believe he has any links to any terrorist organizations now obviously building has been the target of some terrorist attacks in the last couple of years leaving police on high alert but they re not investigating this as a terror attack at this time. that was reporter becker it says at the bell in cathedral staying in germany a power blackout at hamburg airport has grounded hundreds of flights and left thousands of passengers stranded airport officials said the source of the po
alexandra phenomena is in charlottesville where she met hi is mother how the high you know always had that sparkle in her eyes susan bro tells me when we meet in charlottesville carrying on her daughter s fight for social justice she says helps her to cope with the grief when i first held the urn with her ashes. and i realize that aren t in my arms was about the same weight of the same size as she was the day she was born that was hard. hier believed in standing up to discrimination so when far right nationalists came to town she joined her black friends to protest in the august last year wide supremacist neo nazis and members of old tried groups from across the country cupboard to challenge the bill from the now infamous unite the right rally clashes
soon broke out between the group and counter-demonstrators. was. the violence alternate in that two highlands. this is the place where it happened right here a car driven by a white supremacist smashed into a group of counter protester