is one of the most extreme there is, where you are not where the majority of americans are, that is extreme. joe biden flips the script and talks about maga, ultra-maga, trump and making it about anything other than joe biden, this is political play, obvious what it is and they will try to drag this down everybody s throat. todd: griff jenkins has more from washington. griff: turn on the red light, history will remember strangely lit speech outside of independence hall and remember president biden attacked his predecessor warning they are a threat to democracy. president biden: donald trump and maga republican represent extremism that threatens foundation of our republic. maga forces are determined to take this country backwards. griff: he pledged to unite the country, that was the centerpiece of his campaign. i pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but unify, who doesn t see red states and blue states, only sees the united states. without unity, there
friends as we wrap up our all-american summer concert series with lee brice in attendance. i do believe as they adjust the microphones there, rachel and brian, i think 500 of the members in the military are going to be there in fort hood where my dad was actually posted back in the olden days. rachel: good morning. steve: good morning to you. rachel: good morning, brian. brian: a lot of soul talk. i like the soul baby. we have got our soul cleanse last night. steve: soul of america. brian: a lot of soul. geraldo s daughter s name is sol. steve: that s sol, as in the son. rachel: as in the sun. will cain has a lot of soul. brian: how do you know? rachel: because i work with him. he is a soulful guy. steve: that s a striker vehicle. will: steve, brian, rachel good morning. welcome to fort hood, texas. the world s largest military installation. 340 square miles home of the third corps. when america wants to drop the hammer, they soldiers in the armored d
friday. president biden wasting no time bragging about the august jobs report. even as americans still feel the squeeze of inflation. the president s show of optimism about the economy very different tone than he struck last night. i m john roberts in washington, hello again, sandra. sandra: and we have you there, john. good to be here ahead of the long weekend. president biden s speech in primetime, everyone is talking about it, it turned so political at times that critics say it was more like a campaign event. the president attacking supporters of former president trump accusing them of being a threat to the american way of life, and just moments ago, our own peter doocy pressed president biden himself after that speech on his divisive message. we ll play it out here, it s about a minute long. mr. president, do you consider all trump supporters to be a threat to the country? no, everyone, come on. come on, guys. i don t consider any trump supporter to be a threat to t
he says are threatening the very foundations of our republic. plus, trump s lawyers and the justice department face off in federal court. we ll explain the big developments to come out of the special master hearing. and, a hot holiday weekend arrives with little to no running water for nearly 200,000 people in mississippi. the state has troops on the ground to help in the water crisis. good morning. and welcome to way too early. i m jonathan lemire. on this friday, september 2nd. thank you for starting your day with us. we ll begin in philadelphia, where president joe biden issued a dire warning about threats to american democracy last night, in a rare prime time address. standing outside historic independence hall, where the united states constitution was written and signed, the president spoke directly about the dangers posed by the trump-backed wing of the republican party. here s some of what he had to say. quality and democracy are under assault. we do ourselves
force which means maybe inflation pressures will ease a little bit. and i ll point this out, joe, and mika, the idea here, interest rates didn t move on this and neither did the expectations in the futures market for where interest rates will be by the end of the year. so, again, kind of like that goldilocks scenario. i mean, at least for this month, of course this is a month by month thing, but at least for this month, you look at everything from new jobs added, job participation rate, the wages going up, but not so high that it adds inflationary pressures on the economy. a lot of really good news in this report. and legendary tweeter duke st. journal said, i think this may be a few minutes ago, i think this may be what a soft landing looks like. if we were of course to continue to move into this direction, dom, i guess this would be what a soft landing that the fed is desperately trying to achieve would look like, right? this would be. and the reason why you have this s