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Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

Way Too Early 2/25/21

Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

MS NOW, Ali Vitali

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4.5538 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Acting Capitol police chief says intel warned of violence before riot, but no specific credible threat.

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0:00.0

Am I making this up, as Mr. Jordan apparently would have you believe, that the President of the United States last summer, Donald J. Trump, publicly said voting by mail would lead to massive fraud.

0:17.6

Did he say that, or am I imagining that?

0:23.1

Things get heated during a hearing into the U.S. Postal Service as lawmakers relitigate the agency's political issues that came up during the 2020 election.

0:32.0

With the Postal Service still in crisis, the question is, does President Biden have a plan to fix it?

0:38.9

Plus, more testimony today into the security failure that led to the January 6th attack on the Capitol. With key players

0:44.2

offering contradictory statements, the question is, how will Congress get to the bottom of what

0:49.6

happened? And new polling shows a majority of Americans, including 60% of Republicans, support President Biden's COVID relief plan.

0:59.7

With the bill being so popular, the question is, how exactly do Republicans plan to oppose it?

1:06.4

It's way too early for this.

1:16.8

Thank you. It's way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early.

1:19.2

I'm Casey Hunt on this Thursday, February 25th.

1:22.7

We'll start with the news.

1:24.4

We are learning more about the security breakdown behind the January 6th attack on

1:28.5

the Capitol. According to prepared testimony for a House hearing set for today, acting Capitol

1:33.9

police chief, Uganda Pittman, will tell lawmakers that while intelligence warned that violence

1:39.1

by extremist group was likely, was likely, quote, it did not identify a specific credible threat.

1:47.2

On January 6th, Pittman was the assistant chief of police for the department that oversees

1:51.6

intelligence and coordinates with other law enforcement agencies.

1:55.5

According to Pittman's testimony, the department issued an intelligence assessment three

1:59.3

days before the attack that stated

2:01.9

militia members, white supremacists, and other extremist groups would be participating in the

2:06.8

January 6th event, that these groups plan to be armed and that the event would be unlike

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