Thets big barr laying out a flaw in the main defense that Donald Trumps lawyers using in the federal election case. Well have much more from the former Attorney General on trumps many, many legal issues in just a moment. Meanwhile a key conspirator in the riot at the capitol could receive the longest sentence yet for the january 6th attack. And a very significant summit at camp david for President Biden. Well explain the stakes at todays meeting. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, august 18th. We made it to friday, folks. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the trial date proposed by Donald Trumps legal team that is way, way, way in the future. In a court filing late yesterday the attorneys representing the former president in the federal election interference case against him thats the one out of washington requested that that trial begin in april of 2026. That is 2 1 2 years later than the january 2024 star
and the important health care item that was blocked by republicans. plus, another loss for supporters of abortion rights. indiana becomes the first state to pass a near total ban on the procedure since the overturning of roe v. wade. and it was a big weekend for maga world in dallas. we ll have the recap of cpac just ahead. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, august 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. senate democrats have done it. after more than a year of negotiations and dead ends, democrats have passed a reconciliation package that includes a bulk of their priorities. the yeas are 50, the nays are 50, the senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and the bill as amended is passed. no republicans voted in favor of the final bill. it passed with a tie-breaking vote from vice president kamala harris. the bill went through some last-minute changes during an overnight vote-o-rama. that process al
the dodgers also extend their lead atop the nl west to 10 1/2 games over the second place san francisco giants. they have the day off. elsewhere in the nl west the arizona diamondbacks opening a four-game set in san diego with a 3-1 win over the padres. the diamondbacks move to one game out of the final playoff spot in the crowded field. meanwhile the washington nationals dealt a blow to the red sox playoff push. could not make it out of the fifth inning in the second start back from a shoulder injury. the sox lost the nats 10-7 dropping 2 of three to the last place nationals. the nats have been a better team the last couple of days. the red sox will look up to make some ground in a three-game series against the slumping yankees starting tonight in the bronx. it would make sense for the yankees to studly start playing
CLEVELAND (AP) â Rougned Odor’s two-out, two-run single broke a seventh-inning tie â and maybe jarred New York from its hitting funk â and sent the Yankees to a 6-3 win over the Cleveland Indians on Thursday night in the opener of a four-game series.
Odor was batting just .107 and in a 3-for-28 slide when he came up against Nick Wittgren (0-1). He slapped his single through the middle to score Aaron Judge and Gleyber Torres to break a 3-3 tie as the Yankees got just their second win in eight games.
Kyle Higashioka homered in the eighth for New York, which entered with its worst record to open a season since 1991, when Stump Merrill managed and Don Mattingly manned first base.