People behind including racine. On my watch we make promises and we keep promises and we leave no one behind. That was President Joe Biden in the Battleground State Of Wisconsin yesterday announcing a Major Economic investment while highlighting his predecessors failed deal in that exact same town. Well have more of his comments straight ahead. Meanwhile, the president is also drawing a hard line on Military Support for israels impending invasion of rafah. That decision is now drawing some sharp criticism from lawmakers on capitol hill. And also ahead well get a preview of what to expect today in Donald TrumpsHush Money Trial with Stormy Daniels set to take the Witness Stand yet again. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, may 9th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin with President Bidens visit yesterday to wisconsin, a key swing state in novembers election. The president was there to announce a 3. 3 billion investment by microsoft to build an Artificial Intelligence data center in the town of racine. Itll be on the exact same site as a Foxconn Facility Who donald trump claimed during his administration would be the eighth wonder of the world. But the facility never materialized and the Taiwanese Company drastically scaled back plans for the factory reducing the number of new jobs from 13,000 to the roughly 1,000 spots that are now filled. Thats according to the milwaukee journal sentinel. President biden drew that contrast and highlighted all of that in this speech yesterday. In fact six years ago when my predecessor came here with the promise of, quote, reclaiming our countrys proud manufacturing legacy, we had infrastructure day every week for four years and didnt build a damn thing. His administration promised a 10 billion investment by foxconn to Build New Manufacturing Complex and create 13,000 new jobs. National he came here with your senator, ron johnson, literally holding a goldsen shovel promising to build the eighth wonder of the world. Are you kidding me . Look what happened. They dug a hole with those golden shovels and then they fell into it. Look, they didnt shovel other dirt. They did shovel some dirt. 100 homes were bulldozed. They raised hundreds and millions of dollars of your state and local tax dollars in promise of a project that would never happen. Foxconn turned out to be just that, a con. Go figure. The president clearly reveling in that contrast. Meanwhile, there are four new polls that show biden and donald trump neck and neck in the Battleground States of wisconsin as well as pennsylvania. In the badgeritate the latest Quinnipiac Survey finds biden leading by a single point. Meanwhile Third Party Candidates combine to receive 17 of the vote. Thats pretty substantial in that poll. Separate polling from Marquette University conducted last month also shows the wisconsin race within a single point among likely voters but this time its trump ahead 4241. In pennsylvania now an aarp poll shows trump leading by 5 points among likely voters 4641 . Another poll from the Keystone State Has Trump and biden tied at 35 each with robert f. Kennedy jr. Netting 18 of the vote. All four of these fall from the margin of error and connected before the revelation of the worm that died. Meanwhile, President Biden says he believes donald trump will not accept the results of the 2024 election. He made those comments on cnn last night while adding that his rival is a fundamental threat to democracy. Biden was responding to trumps claim that you have to fight for the right of the country if the Election Results are not, quote, honest. How seriously do you take that threat . Seariatesly just like i do january 6th. The guy is not a democrat with a small d. I mean he is the idea that you cant only love your country when you win, number one. How many court cases they had, Supreme Court cases. They all said it was determined a legitimate election. This is trump. I mean its and he may not accept the outcome of the election . I promise you he wont. Promise that he wont. He wont. Which is dangerous. In a split screen that defines the 2024 election at the moment while President Biden returns from the Battleground State of wic, now in just hours Stormy Daniels is set to return to the Witness Stand for more questioning in the donald trump hush money criminal trial. The court was off yesterday, so the defense will continue its crossexamination of the Adult Film Actress in a New York City courtroom later this morning. On tuesday daniels described the Sexual Encounter she says she had with trump back in 2006. The trump denied a Defense Motion for a mistrial after trumps attorneys called daniels testimony unnecessary and prejudicial towards trump. Prosecutors have indicated they plan to redirect or ask some followup up questions. Trump defies falsifying Business Records. The former president also denies having any Sexual Encounter with daniels. Joining us now nbc news and msnbc legal analyst glenn kirschner. Hes a former u. S. Attorney for the district of columbia. Were always grateful when he can join us. On tuesday the defense tried to paint daniels as a liar and extortionist. What more do you expect to see from the defense today . Jonathan, i think they are far from done from attacking Stormy Daniels, and i think they need to be careful. You know, if Defense Attorneys go too hard after a witness, it can tend to backfire. You know, its interesting because neither Stormy Daniels nor Karen Mcdougal have anything that is directly relevant to the falsifying of Business Records. Now, they have relevant testimony because what theyre providing is evidence of Sexual Encounters or relationships that they had with donald trump that donald trump through his council maintained never happened. So in a very real sense, this pits Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal directly against donald trump. And once the jurors make the all important determination about whether Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal are telling the truth, if they conclude, yes, theyre telling the truth about these encounters and relationships, that will really damage donald trump, and it will potentially damage the balance of his defense like the jurors might say to themselves, look, if he cant even tell the truth about these dalliances, do we really believe that he knew nothing about falsifying Business Records to cover up these relationships to gain unfair advantage in the 2016 president ial election . So, you know, this is a tactical minefield for the Defense Attorneys, but i do anticipate they will continue to go right at Stormy Daniels as they continue their crossexamination of her. So we just said the Prosecution Plans to redirect. To your point there if the defense is attacking daniels credibility and maybe doing so relentlessly, how does the prosecutor counter that . They will probably go back into details that really sort of rang true. She had some pretty excruciating detail about the setting, the circumstances, the things donald trump said. And, you know, when you think about the fact she was a 27yearold young woman who was invited to dinner by donald trump, he was a 60yearold man, and when she showed up for dinner he is in his silk pajamas, i think that paints a particular picture. And even she said, you know, i felt the imbalance of power under those circumstances. It is not hard to see how there would be an imbalance of power. So i think the prosecution will try to rebuild her credibility to the extent they think its been damaged on crossexamination and it would be up to the jurors. One interesting thing the Defense Attorneys argued vigorously about how damaging and how bad and how prejudicial this testimony was in seeking a mistrial. Of course the judge promptly denied a motion for mistrial, but the Defense Attorneys were kind of proving a point. This is precisely why donald trump wanted to pay to cover it up and falsify Business Records to that end. Lastly and briefly just give us your overall impression so far of daniels testimony. Has she been effective for the prosecution . She has. You know, people expect people expect witnesses to sort of come right out of central casting and deliver all lines perfectly and flawlessly. That is not the reality of prosecuting cases. You know, people are flawed. People are human. People make mistakes. People can overstate or understate. They can exaggerate. She is who she is, but, you know, by all accounts too bad we dont have cameras in the courtroom, but by all reports coming out of the courtroom, shes holding her own. And, you know, she is the flawed person she is as we are all flawed. And i always told my jurors dont expect these witnesses to perform as if theyre in a movie. Theyre flawed. They make mistakes. They have imperfect memories, but theyve sworn to tell you the truth, and we believe theyre going to do that. Nbc news and msnbc legal analyst, glenn kirschner. Thank you. We hope youll come back soon. Well have complete coverage of the trial all day long on msnbc. Still ahead on Way Too Early, House Speaker mike johnson survives an attempt to oust him from leadership. Well break down what happened on capitol hill. Plus what were learning about Top Democrats possibly planning to revive the failed bipartisan border deal. Theyll try to do that later this month. 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The vote on greenes motion to vacate just ten republicans sided with greene. Thanking his colleagues for defeating the effort to push him out. I want to say that i appreciate the show of confidence from by colleagues to defeat this misguided effort. That is certainly what it was. Hopefully this is the end of the personality politic and the frivolous Character Assassination that has defined the 118th congress. Its regrettable. Its not who we are as americans and were better than this. In this moment the congress definitely needs a functioning congress. And thats what the overwhelming majority of the members of this body demonstrated today. Donald trump the leader in the Republican Party suggested he was opposed to the ouster though he still has his criticisms of the speaker. Elsewhere on capitol hill axios is reporting Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer may try to bring the bipartisan Border Bill Back for a vote later this month. Thats according to multiple Senate Democratic aids. 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