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Gaza as negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release continue. Well bring you the very latest out of The Middle East straight ahead. Plus, well go through yesterdays key moments in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial including the judges warning about potential jail time for the former president. And well get an update live from capitol hill on the looming threat to remove Speaker Mike Johnson. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, may 7th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the Israeli Defense forces announcing theyve...

Described by republicans as more of the same story, not necessarily flushing it out. democrats see it differently and think that it is a reservoir of more and more information. so it presents big challenges to the white house in terms of how to manage this, both politically and legally. and that is part of what we're seeing waged kind of in a day in/day out battle. >> and two sides here. if you can, talking about the doj and bill barr, one side will say that this is proper, these investigations are necessary as we move into the criminal investigations that have been discussed so far. and the o...

Question. >> if you would be there elected to the president, what would be your foreign politics especially in relationship with my country and do you want to continue the politics of sanctions that damage both economies? >> her attorneys say that allegations are overblown and that butina is not a russian agent. it's also interesting to note that vladimir putin told chris wallace that russia has never interviewed with the internal affairs of the united states. court documents reveal that maria butina wrote in an email that representative prudence administration had approved her mission to esta...

Donald trump a question. >> if you would be elected as president what would be your foreign politics especially in relationships with my country and do you want to continue the politics of sanctions that are damaging both economies? >> reporter: the us government allegations are overblown and insists she is not a russian agent and also interesting to note vladimir putin told chris wallace never interfered in the internal affairs in the united states but in 2016, in an email representative of vladimir putin's administration approved permission to establish that back channel operation. >> tomorr...

That's where we find chief correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports," andrea mitchell. andrea, you've covered this all since the beginning. how did we get here when we're looking at cuba? >> it was an initiative from the white house, a secret initiative that the pope pope francis, helped to broker. private meetings were also done through the embassies in canada hosting the delegations was just secret negotiations. someone from the state department someone from the nfc who i'm going to be interviewing at noon and this has all been a very secret back channel operation over the past cou...