Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything. The nfl season kicking off tonight. Colin kaepernick wont play, but his presence will certainly be felt. It sure will be. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im alison kosik here for christine romans. Im dave briggs. It is thursday, september 6th. The president tonight at a fiery rally in billings, montana. At the same time the nfl season kicks off. We start with the mystery Senior Administration official who wrote that explosive New York Times opinion piece. The one that calls out President Trump for his immorality and reckless decision making. The author writing he or she is part of the resistance in the Administration Working against the worse impulses claiming invoking the 25th amendment to remove mr. Trump from office and aides deciding not to risk a constitutional crisis. And this is from whoever wrote it. To be clear, ours is not the resist ants of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think the policies have made america safer and prosp prosperous. We believe the first duty is to the country and the commander has worked to the detriment of our health and our republic. That has the president pushing back hard. It is not clear it is somebody in the white house. That could be many people. I think thousands of political appointees who would qualify under that title alone. And this from the president. Asks treason . The times must for National Security purposes turn him or over to government at once. We have jeff zeleny with more from the white house. Reporter President Trump waking up to another bombshell in the New York Times. With the senior trump official giving the statement. This is one passage this official writes anonymously. It may be cold comfort, but americans should know there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening and we are trying to do what is right. Even when donald trump wont. Now this is really just a blistering assessment we have seen of the presidency. The president pushing back when he was speaking with sheriffs on wednesday evening. He took on the New York Times. When you tell me about an anonymous source within the administration, probably who is failing. If the failing New York Times as an anonymous editorial. Reporter he will be traveling today to montana for a Campaign Rally in billings, montana. Then staying on the road and going to north and south dakota for Campaign Events as well. We know all of this will follow him. Clearly the white house pushing back on this. Press secretary Sarah Sanders says the person is a coward and should resign. Dave and alison. Jeff zeleny, nice work. A sources close to the white house aides are following leads to find the author based on the way the oped is written. Just hours before the opinion piece published, the president asked for aides to help him cooperate with other portrayal of Bob Woodwards new book. He has expressed similar beliefs about gary cohn. One official says it is unlikely anyone will be fired because that adds credence to the book the president is trying to discredit. We are told that the president evaluates aides of being unloyal by how strongly they push back. Two officials tell cnn mr. Trump is pleased with chief of staff john kelly and james mattis. Josh rogin reports that white house officials are actively discussing who will replace mattis at the pentagon when he steps down. On wednesday, the president declared mattis will stay in his job. Josh will join us next hour. No shortage of fireworks on day two of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. Kavanaugh declaring no one is above the law during a 12hour session of the Senate Judiciary committee. He did not want to answer explosive questions from democrats about the man who nominated him. Can a sitting president be required to respond to a subpoena . So thats a hypothetical question. S President Trump claims he hs an absolute right to pardon himself. Does he . Thats a hypothetical question that i cant begin to answer in this context as a sitting judge. It is common practice for judicial nominees to say they cannot answer questions about cases that may come before them. This is a critical issue with the Robert Mueller investigation. Judge kavanaugh tried to clarify his position on had whether a sit position on whether a sitting president can be indict the. Judge kavanaugh maintains his past writings were focused on policy. Ill have an open mind. Ill listen to the airporgument. I will have a completely open mind on the constitutional issue. Capitol Police Arrested 73 people in Office Buildings wednesday and charged with disorderly conduct. Breaking news overnight. North korea state agency reporting kim jongun renewing commitment of denuclearization. Kim telling a south korea delegation that the two koreas should double efforts to achieving that goal and put a timeline on it. Cnns Paula Hancocks is live in seoul with the latest. Reporter dave, we have interesting information coming from the south korean enjoy meeting with kim jongun on wednesday. Kim jongun is saying he is happy to denuclearization within President Trumps first term. This is something washington wants to see as well. He said he had unwaivering trust for President Trump. Despite the fact there have been difficulties. Given what north korea has done already talking about destroying the Nuclear Test Site which has not been independently verified. He also wants to see matching measures from the United States. Then he can go forward to denuclearization. That is the opposite way around that washington wants it. They want denuclearization first. We heard that the National Security adviser will speak at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. He has a message for kim jongun. We learned this from the blue house this afternoon. They were talking that moon and trump when they had that phone call, trump had given moon a message for kim jongun. There is a message coming back in a couple of hours. Dave. Paula, keep us updated on that story. It is 5 00 p. M. In seoul. A lot of weird things can happen on capitol hill to take on the circus like atmosphere. Here is one that takes the cake. Watch this. 4. 25. 5. 50. I yield back. Bravo. Well done. And then came the applause. Why a Congress Member revived his auctioneering skilling and what came from the big hearing from tech executives. Facebook Coosheryl Sandberg and jack dorsey outlining the steps their companies are taking to tackle disinformation and make political advertising more transparent. When bad actors try to use our site, we will block them. When content violates our policies, we will take it down. When our opponents use new techniques, we will share them to strengthen or collective efforts. We dont believe we can create a digital Public Square for people if they dont feel safe to participate in the first place. That is our number one and singular objective is to increase the health of the public space. Theres that and a lighter moment when the protester interrupted jack dorseys answers. Billy long used his skills from a previous job to drown her out. Listen. Jack dorsey is trying to influence the election to sway the election. What did she say . I cant understand her. 15, 20. 30 here. 35. 40 here. 5 . 50. Officer, will you escort this young lady out . So you know what happened, everybody erupted in applause. That protester is laura loomer. She has been banned in the past from platforms. I love that moment. Billy long. Well done. Mans got some skills. Lets bring in another guy with skills. Business and Technology Correspondent samuel burke. We know you dont have auctioneering skills. This hearing. We all anticipated it and the Justice Department makes the news. They issued a statement about the tech industry. The attorney general convened a meeting with a number of state attorneys general to discuss a growing concern these Companies May be hurting competition and stifling the Free Exchange on platforms. Your reaction to the department of justice statement. Dave, it was very troubling to see that statement come out after the first hearing. Two different hearings yesterday. First one with jack dorsey and Sheryl Sandberg was about foreign interference in the United States elections and interference in other places in the world i might add. It wasnt partisan. The questions were tough. Answers were well thought out. The statement from the doj was talking about supposed political bias on the platforms. The first meeting wasnt about that. You are seeing something that has real political hinges to it coming out of a hearing that wasnt political in its nature. The other hearing with jack dorsey that came out after that statement was more political. I want to put up on the screen what we saw. The things most important to know what these Tech Companies are doing given at one point Mark Zuckerberg said it was crazy to think facebook swayed the election one way or another. Now the executives are saying they hired thousands modders moderators to find fake news and remove it from the platform and work closer with authorities. In spite of the actions they are taking, sandberg admitted up to 4 of accounts on facebook are fake. You do the math. That means up to 89 million accounts are facebook are still fake. That is still a big problem as we head into the midterms. Samuel, everybody thinking what will we do . There will be regulations. You heard Mark Zuckerberg last time. A lot of people thought it seems the Congress Members dont know about technology. How do they regulate it. They seem to have a better understanding. Senator warner saying the days of the wild, wild west are over for the tech industry. If we can put the stock prices up on the screen. Tech stocks started falling. Facebook stock down 2 . Twitter is just down over 6 actually. I think that is because Sheryl Sandberg had confidence. She doesnt have tech and business experience, but she was in the political world. She was trying to help jack dors dorsey. Jack admitted he is very shy. He is not the best communicator. He was reading from his phone. He said i would tweet it. He tweeted while testifying before congress. He talked about fundamental problems twitter has on the platforms. Investors saw this and got nervous. Some regulation may be coming. Investors dont like regulation. This is the deregulation administration. Now suggesting a regulation of Tech Companies. Sam, thank you. Former Alabama Senate candidate roy moore suing sacha b baron cohen. He is seeking 95 million for defamation and Emotional Distress and fraud. During the interview, cohen brought out a device claiming it could detect pedophiles. Moore has been accused by several women of sexual mu misconduct. Colin kaepernick will make an appearance of the nfl opener in philadelphia. Not on the field in the new nike ad. Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything. The commercial narrated by kaepernick features lebron james and Serena Williams and several others. Kaepernick campaign against social injustice started in 2016. Now a carls sports store getting rid of the nike merchandise. His fatherinlaw was a prisoner of war and claims kaepernick doesnt know sacrifice. Always a reminder it was a former green beret who suggested to Colin Kaepernick he take a knee. That is the one who gave him the idea for the form of protest. Nate boyer. Ahead, President Trump warning the Syrian Regime against an assault on the last rebel stronghold. We have Frederik Pleitgen on the ground in syria next. If youre turning 65, you may be learning about medicare and supplemental insurance. 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If it is a slaughter, the world will get very, very angry and the United States is going to get very angry too. That is President Trump warning the Syrian Regime as Government Forces prepare to attack the last rebel stronghold of idlib. The Russian Forces and syrian conflict seems imminent. We have Frederik Pleitgen with more. Do you think about the civilians there . Millions of civilians are in Idlib Province. Many who escaped violence in other areas of syria. How can they not get caught up in the violence . Reporter it certainly will be difficult, alison. You are right. Experts say 3 million civilians in Idlib Province. The alternative is to get into turkey which seems impossible because the border is closed or cross into government territory. You are right. That is some of the areas they fled. Some of the information we are getting on the ground, alison, is not only has the Syrian Military surrounded idlib which is full of terrorist tellmeelem but it has hardened battle groups here in aleppo and damascus. Bashar al assad seems unfazed by the warning. They want to address the situation in idlib. The offensive could be imminent and one that could take long. The russians and iranians who are backers of the Assad Government are unfazed by warnings from the United States. They think the offensive could be imminent and russians at this moment, alison, have a huge fighting force here in syria as well. Much bigger than they usually have. They sent extra shifts and planes to the waters off syria. We will watch closely. Fred pleitgen live from damascus. Thanks. Feels like a boiling point. Ahead, detrimental to the health of our republic. The words in a new oped from the member of the president S Administration claiming there is an effort to save the president from himself. Now the search is on for the auth author. An anonymous editorial. Can you believe it . Gutless. Gutless editorial. The president attornresident. Someone in the administration. Who wrote it and what is the president s next move . Thats a hypothetical question. Im not going to answer hypothetical questions. The president Supreme Court the president s Supreme Court nominee doesnt have much to say about legal issues that could impact the commander in chief. Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything. The nfl season kicking off tonight. Colin kaepernick wont play, but his presence will certainly be felt. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Iemds im dave briggs. Im alison kosik sitting in for christine romans. It is thursday, september 6th. We start with the mystery Senior Administration official who wrote that explosive New York Times opinion piece. The one that calls out President Trump for his immorality and reckless decision making. The author writing he or she is part of the resistance in the Administration Working against the worse impulses claiming invoking the 25th amendment to remove mr. Trump from office and aides deciding not to risk a constitutional crisis. Heres more from whomever penned this oped. To be clear, ours is not the resist ants of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think the policies have made america safer and prosperous. We believe the first duty is to the country and the commander has worked to the detriment of our health and our republic. That has the president pushing back. It is not clear it is somebody in the white house. That could be many people. I think thousands of political appointees who would qualify under that title alone. And this from the president. Asks treason . In all caps on twitter . The times must for National Security purposes turn him or over to government at once. We have jeff zeleny with more from the white house. Reporter President Trump waking up to another bombshell in the New York Times. With the senior trump official giving a blistering assessment of hiS Administration and frankly his capacity for office. This is one passage this official writes anonymously. It may be cold comfort, but americans should know there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening and we are trying to do what is right. Even when donald trump wont. Now this is really just a blistering assessment we have seen of the presidency. The president pushing back when he was speaking with sheriffs on wednesday evening. He took on the New York Times. He said this. When you tell me about an anonymous source within the administration, probably who is failing. Probably here for all the wrong reasons. If the failing New York Times has an anonymous editorial, meaning gutless editorial. Were doing a great job. Reporter he will be traveling today to montana for a Campaign Rally in billings, montana. Then staying on the road and going to north and south dakota for Campaign Events as well. We know all of this will follow him. Clearly the white house pushing back on this. Press secretary Sarah Sanders says the person is a coward and should resign. Dave and alison. Jeff zeleny, nice work. A sources close to the white house aides are following leads to find the author based on the way the oped is written. Just hours before the opinion piece published, the president asked for aides to help him determine to cooperate with the other portrayal of Bob Woodwards new book. He has expressed similar beliefs about gary cohn. His former chief economic adviser. One official says it is unlikely anyone will be fired because that adds credence to the book the president is trying to discredit. We are told that the president evaluates aides of being disloyal by how strongly they push back. Two officials tell cnn mr. Trump is pleased with chief of staff john kelly and james mattis. Josh rogin reports that white house officials are actively discussing who will replace mattis at the pentagon when he steps down. On wednesday, the president declared mattis will stay in his job. Josh will join us next hour. No shortage of fireworks on day two of the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing. There was a shortage of answers from the president s Supreme Court nominee. Kavanaugh declaring no one is above the law during a 12hour session of the Senate Judiciary committee. He did not want to answer explosive questions from democrats about the man who nominated him. Can a sitting president be required to respond to a subpoena . So thats a hypothetical question. President trump claims he has an absolute right to pardon himself. Does he . Thats a hypothetical question that i cant begin to answer in this context as a sitting judge. It is common practice for judicial nominees to say they cannot answer questions about cases that may come before them. That is going back to ginsberg. This is a critical issue with the Robert Mueller investigation. Judge kavanaugh tried to clarify his position on whether a sitting president can be indicted. Judge kavanaugh maintains his past writings were focused on policy. Ill have an open mind. Ill listen to the arguments. I have seen all sides of this. I will have a completely open mind on the constitutional issue. A lot of side shows going on. Capitol Police Arrested 73 people in Office Buildings wednesday and charged with disorderly conduct. Breaking news overnight. North korea state agency reporting kim jongun renewing commitment of denuclearization. Denuclearization of the korean peninsula. Kim telling a south korea delegation that the two koreas should double efforts to achieving that goal and put a timeline on it. Cnns Paula Hancocks is live in seoul with the latest. Paula, do we have a firm grasp of north koreas definition of denuclearization . Reporter this is interesting, dave, what we heard is through the south korean delegation. He is saying he is commitmented to it and committed to it and has said he wants to see similar measures from the United States. Effectively what kukim jongun saying he wants to see the United States. Other interesting things we heard is kim jongun said he has unwavering trust of President Trump despite recent difficulties. Also talking about the timetable saying he wanted to have denuclearization by the end of trumps term. We also heard interesting points. Remember on tuesday, a phone call with President Trump and president moon of south korea. In the phone call, President Trump asked president moon to give kim jongun a message. That was given on wednesday in pyongyang. A message now coming back from kim jongun in just a couple hours time where the south korean delegation will speak to john bolton with that message. Thank you, paula. A lot of good things happen on capitol hill. This was a very unusual situation we saw yesterday. Listen. 425. 500. 525. I yield back. Why a Congress Member revived his auctioneering skills and what actually came from this big hearing with big tech execs. Are you a christian author with a book that youre ready to share with the world . Get published now, call for your free publisher kit today welcome back. Facebooks Sheryl Sandberg and jack dorsey on capitol hill for the hearing. Google did not send a representative to the hearing. Dorsey and sandberg are tackling the information and make political advertising more transparent. When bad actors try to use our site, we will block them. When content violates policies, we will take it down. When our opponents use new techniques, we will share them so we can strengthen our collective efforts. We dont believe we can create a digital Public Square for people if they dont feel safe to participate in the first place. And that is our number one and singular objective as a company. To increase the health of the public space. Investors are concerned that the government may slam regulations on the social networks. Twitter tumbling 6 at wednesdays close. There is concern that the recent problems with disinformation could dent the bottom lines. There was a lighter note at the hearing. A missouri Congress Member billy long using skills from a previous job to drown out her voice. Jack dorsey is trying to influence the election to sway the election. What did she say . I cant understand her. What . What . 15. 17. 30. 30 now. 35. 40. 40. 50. 50 down. Officer, will you escort this young lady out . Everyone erupts into applause. That protester is laura loomer. She has been banned in the past from platforms for violating user policies. Well done. Dozens of people, passengers and crew becoming ill on a flight from dubai to new york. New York Acting Health commissioner says it is probably influenza. Ten people were taken to the hospital and treated for respiratory illness. Symptoms like coughing or fever or vomiting. All of the passengers were screened from centers for Disease Control and prevention. A florida mother who claimed her son was abducted has now been charged with his murder. An amber alert was issued monday for 2yearold jordan bellavieu. She shade she was she said she was attacked and when she woke up he was gone. Police say it was a lie. They claim she told police she struck jordan in the face with the back of her hand. His head struck a wall and he suffered seizures during the night. As his health declined, she carried him to a wooded area and left him there. The toddlers body was found the next day. Former Alabama Senate candidate roy moore suing sacha baron cohe nerks cohen. He is seeking 95 million for defamation and Emotional Distress. Cohen brought out a metal detector wand and claimed it could detect pedophiles. A spokesperson for showtime refusing to comment because of pending litigation. Colin kaepernick will make an appearance during the Season Opener in philadelphia during the nfl opener. Not on the field, but in this nike commercial. Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything. The commercial narrated by kaepernick also featuring lebron james and Serena Williams and several others. Kaepernicks protest against Racial Injustice launched an effort against the nfl in 2016. Now a colorado sports store getting rid of all nike merchandise to protest the ads. Steve martin has owned Primetime Sports for years. He said his fatherinlaw was a prisoner of war and claims kaepernick doesnt know sacrifice. The president will be in montana tonight at a rally. Expect that to be discussed. I expect the moral responsibility will start rolling forward. Nike taking the charge. We have seen a long line of that in the last year or two. We swill see if it helps or hurts. President trump warning the Syrian Regime against the assault on the last rebel stronghold. An offense seems i am Flight Attendant seems i s imminen. We have Cnns Fred Pleitgen in syria next. The order the weights of the it, everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everythings pretty much done. Its so much easier so now, were ready, bring on t. Shipstation. The number one ch of online sellers. Go to shipstation. Com tv and get two months free. The world is watching. That cannot be a slaughter. If it is a slaughter, the world will get very, very angry and the United States will get very angry too. President trump warning the seriar Syrian Regime over th offensive in idlib. The syrian army and russian Army Offensive appears imminent. We have Frederik Pleitgen on the ground in syria. Fred, what do we know. Reporter dave, civilians trapped in the province of idlib. There is up to 3 million trapped in idlib. There are offensives on the ground there. The borders of turkey are closed. The place they have to go is the humanitarian corridors and back into syriancontrolled places. That is where they fled from in the first place. The army has taken positions around the Idlib Province with forces and elite and battle hardened forces. Some people involved in the battles in aleppo and dplamascu as well. The warnings from President Trump seemingly not heeded or it is unfazed by bashar al assad. Continuing to call the area a hotbed of terrorism with the syrians and iran rians are sayi they need to be eliminated as quickly as possible. The offensive could be imminent and be very, very big as well. Dave. The president s of russia, turkey and iran meet friday in tehran. Fred live for us in syria. Thank you. In an historic ruling, india Supreme Court striking down law that criminalizes consensual gay sex. The move overturning 150 years of antiantilgbt legislation. This follows weeks of litigation in new delhi. This is in a country where homosexuality is misunderstoomi. U. S. Stock futures are slipping as the rocky start to september continues. The averages closing mixed wednesday. Markets in europe and asia are falling as well. Tech stocks are taking a beating following hearings on capitol hill. Facebook shed 2 and twitter tumbled 6 after sandberg and dorsey faced lawmakers on capitol hill. Investors are concerned regulations will be slammed on the social networks and could departme dent the bottom line of the tech stocks. Look at the tech stocks. All posting losses. Those stocks set to open mixed this morning. The nfl season starts tonight and it is also the kickoff for a very busy season of Legal Sports Betting in a number of states. New jersey, delaware, mississippi and West Virginia recently legalized sports gambling after the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban in may. Other states could follow and many more in the next couple years. That will spark a 2. 3 billion increase in revenue for the nfl. The money will come for higher broadcasts and ticket sales and advertising and sponsorships. The league at had league had 8. 2 billion in revenue last year. That is big money. For you hitting the panic button saying the nfl is in deep trau trouble . Thats a huge growth area. Early start continues right now. The president asking treason . We will tell you why. An anonymous editorial. Can you believe it . Gutless. Gutless editorial. The president torn to shreds. By a senior official in hiS Administration claiming there is an effort to thwart the president s impulses. Who wrote it . Thats a hypothetical question. Im not going to answer hypothetical questions. The president s Supreme Court nominee doesnt have much to say about legal issues that could impact the commander in chief. Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything. The nfl season kicking off tonight. Colin kaepernick wont play, but his presence will certainly be felt. About the same time as that game starts, the president rallies in billings, montana. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im alison kosik. Sitting in for christine romans. It is thursday, september 6th. 5 00 a. M. In the east. The big question is who is the mystery Senior Administration official who wrote the explosive New York Times oped. The one that calls out President Trump for his immorality and reckless decision making. The author writing he or she is part of the resistance in the Administration Working against the president s worst impulses claiming invoking the 25th amendment to rem