Good monday morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. Hope you had a nice weekend. The sun finally came out in new york. It was many days. Hope your weekend was sunny and nice. Weve got a lot of big news to get to this morning. Five things to know for monday, october 2nd. The government stayed open for now but washington is bracing for another chaotic week. Speaker mccarthys Leadership Job is on the line. Gates told cnn he will file a motion to remove mccarthy as speaker this week. Happening today donald trump said hell be in court in person for the start of his high stakes civil fraud trial. Breaking overnight, gavin newsom speaking a replacement to fill Dianne Feinsteins seat. Search is underway in Upstate New York for a 9yearold girl who may have been abducted. She vanished while riding her bike at a state park. For the second state week, taylor swift showed up at a game as the chiefs narrowly, and i stress narrowly, beat the jets. Cnn this morning starts now. Just made the crew in
a court ordered early voting begin began today. both candidates using this holiday weekend to make their final pitches to voters. let s discuss it all. let s get started. joining me now, congresswoman sheila jackson lee, democrat of texas and a member of the judiciary, budget, and homeland security committees. congresswoman, thank you for joining us tonight. with the house majority can secured for republicans in the next congress, current health leader minority kevin mccarthy in the midst of his push to become speaker has pledged to strip a handful of house democrats, adam ship, eric swalwell, and alone omar, from their committee assignments. all three democrats have been vocal in their criticisms of former president trump. schiff, having managed trump s
feels healthy enough he ll run in 2024. that prospect is hanging over the republican party and until that changes the rest of the party is not going to change and will remain essentially hostage to the former president. one other opportunity one other thing to be mentioned is say he doesn t run and say he decides that he wants to endorse an independent candidacy, think about what that would mean. that s something to chew on as we go down the line here. he doesn t care at the republican party and if he wrecks it completely. of course not. potentially dangerous moment in history. thank you. we ll have more on the former president trump s truly outrageous claim to be reinstated as president by august and will talk about wit the chairman of the house intelligence chairman adam ship. we ll discuss when we come back. wealth is saving a little extra.
what should the average american know about the holder. chairman of the committee to defend the president joins us to weigh in. good morning, merry christmas. let s talk about this hold up on the impeachment article, a lot of people wondering why nancy pelosi did this. what do you think? i think she s desperate. i think she realizes the corrupt process they have in the house where adam ship was holding these impeachment hearings in the basement the media wasn t allowed in, they spied on the media, spider members of congress, looked into their phone records, without a doubt the most abusive abuse of power america has ever seen by congress, now i have nothing. they are holding articles of impeachment that show no crime. they have nothing to present to the american people, it is failing in the polls across the country and nancy pelosi is desperate to find a crime and she hopes in the interim they are going to have the tax
we are not sure whether the president is going to be speaking on the ground there it appears that he s about to get into the presidential limousine and he will be which,ed off to the white house. because he s going in by motorcade and not by helicopter, it appears we ll not be hearing from the president tonight. the answer as to whether or not he would consider testifying will have to come from somebody else on his staff. doug collins is a member of the house judiciary committee. he talked about all this and who he thinks should testify. listen to this. the first person who needs to testify is adam schiff. adam ship is the adam schiff is the awed her to of this report. if he choose not to, they will question his veracity and what