also, chris christie joins me with the iowa caucuses growing closer and any challengers chances growing slimmer. and you likely saw the japan these crash. new details on how every one of the nearly 400 people of the airliner got out alive. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news. the start of a year which will be unlikefully in american political and legal constitutional history. a former president running for office again facing 91 state and felony charges, also two civil trials and fighting efforts in several states to remove him from the ballot. that s where we start. we re also waiting for his appeal in a similar case in colorado and a filing on the question of whether a former president can even be prosecuted for actions taken while in objection. in addition the former president is spinning fresh conspiracies about his legal troubles online. all of this with the iowa caucuses less than two weeks away. welcome to 2024. we ll speak with one of h
Occupation of a building there. Well have the latest on that situation and the growing demonstrations on campuses across the country. That comes as theres some optimism that a ceasefire in gaza and the release of israeli hostages could soon be reached. Wellbri you those developments out of the middle east. And also ahead a preview what we can expect in court today when Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial resumes in manhattan. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, april 30th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the growing unrest at Columbia University. Overnight propalestinian Student Protesters occupied a campus building. Its 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 up for nearly two week
officials say nothing suggests an attack is imminent. they only say recent incidents reinforce the terror threat. and hope for a grand debt fix was dimmed just a bit in washington. some democrats and republicans are picking apart the latest plan with the same old complaints. liberals say it cuts social security and medicare. conservatives say it raises taxes. republicans have refused to raise the nation s debt limit without deep spending cuts and no tax increases. the deadline now is just 12 days away. somalia s president is asking the world for immediate help to feed his country s people. the united nations says more than 3.5 million somalis are threatened by famine. aide workers call the food shortage even worse than the ethiopian famine of the mid- 80s. our children need immediate action. immediate action is action today. almost half of this country s population will be sweltering in a dangerous heat wave today. hot air and high humidity will make big cities along