to say about the possibility of taking the witness stand in his own defense in the classified documents case. and also ahead an update on president biden s covid status following the first lady s infection as he s set to leave today for a major summit overseas. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, september 7th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin with the first major hearing for the fulton county election interference case that ended in a loss for two defendants. sidney powell and kenneth chesebro were denied their requests to split their trials. the pair each requested speedy trials but did not want to be in court together. district attorney fani willis is still pushing to keep all 19 codefendants together, trying them all on the expedited trial date that chesebro was granted. now, fulton county superior court judge scott mcafee did not seemed convinced that could be possible. it just seems a bit unrealistic
wave after wave of biden border disaster. from the campaign he doesn t talk about shutting down the border. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. biden s campaign manager recently told the washington post the president doesn t talk about shutting down the border and is not advocating for shutting down the border, that s a quote. there is a problem with that, though, the president has already said this about the democrat-led senate border bill. his quote here. it would give me, meaning that bill, as president, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. and if given that authority, i would use it the day i sign the bill into law. then he said it again. president biden: if that bill were the law today i would shut down the border now and fix it quickly. this bill would save lives and bring order to the border. also give me and any new president new emergency authority to temporary shut down the border when the number of
We need to slow down and get it right. Like mom used to say, you rush and you make mistakes. Democrats are going to continue in their headlong rush to pass a government takeover of health care. From where i stand and frankly Many Republican senators stand who are troubled by the pace is of concern. We should have had more time to digest it. I guess history has a funny way of repeating itself. What a difference eight years doesnt make. Republicans today sounding a lot like republicans back in 2009 on Health Care Reform. Only this time, they are battling themselves. Can President Trump and House Speaker paul ryan bring their own party on board . This as one new report says at least 15 Million People, joe, will lose their Health Care Coverage under the new gop plan. This morning, we are going to speak live with the u. S. Secretary of health and Human Services dr. Tom price. Plus, the man responsible for whipping votes in the house, Republican Congressman Steve Scalise and congressman tim
Cares. That itself was an interesting thing to watch at the time. President ial nominee absents himself from the Party Platform process. Interesting. But what was way more interesting than that, what was riveting and bizarre to watch at the time that we Couldnt Make Heads Or Tails of at the time was the Trump Campaigns one exception on the Party Platform. Even hope the they let this other stuff slide, that was very much not in keeping with trump and the campaign, they did decide to get up on their hind legs and fight and intercede aggressively for one specific thing in the platform. One specific part of the republican Party Platform, and that was a thing about russia. There was a proposed plank for the republican Party Platform that said ukraine should get help from the United States up to and including lethal weaponry so ukraine could fight off russian incursions. And you know what, the Trump Campaign let Everything Else in the platform slide. Even stuff that might theoretically have