joining us is nicholas wu. we are watching for, lawmakers returned to lights and camera of capitol hill in the wake of those guilty verdicts in the trump hush money trial. what i am going to be watching for his help of parties st week. we have seen republicans try to hit democrats on it and fire up their base. we saw a republican fund raising arms break some of the records. meanwhile, the interesting dynamic to see is democrats in red states like sherrod brown of ohio and jon tester of montana, i have shied away about talking about this. opular. the other hand of the house democratic campaign has been finding ways to hitch vulnerable republicans to trump saying they support a valid. host: jim jordan talked about this in a hearing. matthew costello, one of the senior cancels in that case testified. what we know about that hearing and will there be more than one hearing? guest: you know they have been asked to testify. the question is whether or not they would appear for such a hearing given that ■tin many was th

joining us is nicholas wu.ers returned to lights and camera of capitol hill in the wake of those guilty verdicts in the trump hush money trial. what i am going to be watching for his help of parties capitalize on the conviction last week. we have seen republicans try to hit democrats on it and fire up their base. we saw a republican fund raising arms break some of the records. ■xmeanwhile, the interesting dynamic to see is democrats in red states like sherrod brown of ohio and jon tester of montana, i have shied away about talking about this. trump is fairly popular. the other hand of the house democratic campaign has been finding ways to hitch vulnerable republicans to trump saying they support a valid. host: jim jordan talked about this in a hearing. matthew costello, one of the senior cancels in that case testified. e know about that hearing and will there be more than one hearing? guest: you know they have been asked to testify. the question is whether or not they would appear for such a hearing given that

and nicholas wu talks about the week ahead in the congress. retired d.c.oryize answers questions about the u.s. legal system overall and in lady trump hush money case. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: good morning. it's monday, june 3, 2024. the house returns from the memorial day recess at noon eastern. the senate is back at 3:00 p.m. we're with you for the next three hours on the "washington journal." we begin with theri

nicholas wu. thank you for your time hurricane earl is gaining strength as it moves moves toward barbados, write out as a category two storm warnings are out for parts of the caribbean were talking barbados, st. lucia, the windward islands, cnn's elisa rafah is joining us now. it is june. and there's a category to that strengthening heading toward the caribbean. >> it is early for this. we're talking month or more ahead of scatter jewel for a major hurricane, if we're looking at rapidly intensifying again today, did that yesterday was a tropical storm and a very quickly became a hurricane. and we'll find it rapidly intensifying again today to become a major hurricane right now and say category to storm with 100 mile per hour wind gusts up to 120 miles as it continues to work it's way west. and it just being a hurricane already set a record for the farthest east that we've had a hurricane in june in the tropical atlantic. once it hits that major status of a category three storm, it would be the thi