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nearly a decade in a russian prison. good morning. and welcome to "way too early." on this friday, august 5th. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. news from last night, senator kyrsten sinema has agreed to back democrats reconciliation bill. clearing the way for a vote later this week. her decision comes after days of fellow democrats lobbying her on the deal. in a statement last night, the senator said she would come on board after the carried interest tax provision was removed. lawmakers also agreed to combat droughts that plague her home state of arizona. democrats are...

>> look at that, there's a whole lot of crazy right there. election deniers. insurrectionists. weirdos, freaks, you have it all. the republican candidates in arizona, all of them extreme, all of them insurrectionists, all of them people who actually don't believe in american democracy. they believe in their form of government, where, well, you only recognize elections where your side wins. >> and this is what folks on the far right have been working on for quite some time. what this says about trumpism and the future of the republican party. also, a russian court sentences wnba sta...

team now filing a response to that fbi search for all of those boxes of classified material in his florida home two weeks ago. >> we'll start with the fbi seizure of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the former president wants a neutral third party called a special master to review the documents taken by the fbi and return anything not within the scope of the search warrant. we're also getting new information about how much sensitive data was at mar-a-lago and the concern at the national archives months ago, which set off this entire investigation. >> all right, so, let's get to cn...

>> good evening, once again, i'm stephanie ruhle. today was a very, very busy day on the hill. the fifth january 6th hearing, and we saw even more revelations of just how far former president donald trump was willing to go to stay in office. front and center. how the former president attempted to strong-arm officials and his own justice department to overturn the 2020 election. the riveting testimony came from trump's former acting attorney general, jeff rosen, his deputy, richard donoghue and ha council stephen engel. >> how often did president trump contact you or the department to...

>> on december 13th, an organization called the allied security group issued a report that alleged that the dominion voting machines in that county had a secret 68% error rate. he was adamant that the report must be accurate, that proof that the election was defective. that he in fact won the election, and that the department should be using that report to basically, tell the american people that the results were not trustworthy. >> one of just asking you to do is just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me in the republican congressman. >> the committee also exposed how a low l...