Way Too Early 5/16/25
Way Too Early with Ali Vitali
MS NOW, Ali Vitali
4.5 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Your argument seems to turn our justice system, in my view at least, into a catch-me-if-you-can kind of regime |
| 0:10.5 | from the standpoint of the executive, where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit |
| 0:16.6 | in order for the government to stop violating people's rights. I don't understand how that is remotely consistent with the rule of law. |
| 0:26.4 | That was Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson during arguments over the Trump |
| 0:30.7 | administration's push to end birthright citizenship. |
| 0:34.1 | It was about a lot more than that, too. |
| 0:35.6 | But the question is, how is the Supreme Court ultimately going to rule on this issue? Plus, overseas President Trump is wrapping up his historic trip to the Middle East, touting billions of dollars worth of economic agreements. The question is, are all these business deals on the up and up? Also this morning, Newark isn't the only airport having technical issues. Another major |
| 0:55.6 | U.S. airport has experienced an air traffic control outage. The question is, when will these |
| 1:00.1 | communications blackouts? Stop. It's way too early for this. |
| 1:20.3 | Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that has several producers who are feeling the impact of that New Jersey transit strike this morning. |
| 1:23.4 | Sorry, guys, but we're going to tell you more about that just ahead. |
| 1:27.6 | I'm Ali Vitale on this Friday, May 16th, and we'll start with the news. |
| 1:31.5 | President Trump is wrapping up his visit to the United Arab Emirates. |
| 1:34.0 | It's his final stop in his trip to the Middle East. |
| 1:37.8 | Right now he's visiting the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi. |
| 1:40.9 | It's a cultural site that houses a church, mosque, and temple. |
| 1:44.9 | It's the president's last stop before he returns back to the United States. |
| 1:50.1 | Yesterday, the White House announced the president signed $200 billion worth of deals with the UAE. That includes a more than $14 billion commitment from Etihad Airwaves to invest in Boeing jets, |
| 1:56.1 | as well as an agreement with the UAE to build the largest artificial intelligence campus |
| 2:00.3 | outside of the United |
| 2:01.8 | States. This comes as the country has pledged to invest $1.4 trillion into the U.S. over the next 10 years. |
| 2:09.3 | Trump touted all those deals during a breakfast roundtable with business leaders earlier this morning. |
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