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
good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. here is the story. former president trump back on the stand right now behind those doors in new york city. he and the judge went at it this morning with trump telling him this is a very, very, very unfair trial. and then the judge asking trump s attorney to get control of his client at one point. before we take you to the courtroom with the very latest and the reporting inside, look at these new polls that came out over the weekend from the new york times sienna polling group shows trump beating the current president pretty handily in the battleground states right now. take a look at the margins. this is nevada, georgia, arizona, michigan, pennsylvania. if you can see those numbers. maybe we can take them tighter. most of these are really the battleground, the deciding states for 2020. when you look back at 2020, the same period of time, biden was ahead in these states. he went on to win all of these states. now you have big-name demo
martha: thanks very much, strikes. austin also pushed for more john and aishah. good afternoon. funding for israel, taiwan and i m martha maccallum. breaking right now on the ukraine. he says without american story, a live look at gaza as support, putin will be successful. if putin is successful, he will tensions roil the globe and move on to nato countries and that means american troops will certainly between israel and get involved. gaza to be sure. back to you, martha. now it s spilling in to the martha: a tangled web. thanks, rich. halls of congress today. with that, we bring in four-star secretary of state blinken and secretary of defense austin general jack keane, former vice faced this kind of questioning chief of staff of the arm my and during their senate hearing just chair of the institute for the study of war. a couple hours ago. good to have you with us, general. obviously there s escalation [shouting]. happening in gaza. we re hearing in a moment from the
the new york governor on a serious note andrew cuomo facing yet another brand-new sexual misconduct allegation. now a sixth woman has come forward accusing cuomo up touching her inappropriately. at this point, andrew cuomo has been totally humiliated and soon he might be out of a job. more on this breaking tonight straight ahead. but first we are going to go there. what is going on with the president of the united states joe biden? seriously. we come a the american people, u deserve answers. barely has any public events. his vice president kamala harris is taking solo calls with world leaders. that would be that commander in chief job. joe gets ready for bed after a little milky around 7:00 p.m. the first president in modern history that has not held an official press conference in his first 48 days. during the rare occasion that biden does actually appear in front of the cameras, usually to bypass congress and totally abandon a coequal branch of government, that being the le
Companies. The typical family of four earning 75,000 will see an Income Tax Cut of more than 2,000 slashing their tax bill in half. Its going to be a lot of money. Going to have an extra 2,000. Theres more than that. Our plan expands the Child Tax Credit for working families. Youll hear the numbers very soon. Theyre even larger than anticipated. Even nearly doubles the amount of income taxed at the rate of zero. I dont know if any of you are paying zero. I hope youre not. I hope youre paying above that, but a lot of people who are having its a little tougher will be paying zero. It closes special interest loop holes. It lowers tax rates for families. And our plan also cuts taxes on businesses, which is expected to raise income by an average of
more than 4,000. So your income goes up. Its like having a 4,000 increase, which isnt bad, which isnt bad. Its a lot of money to spend, a lot of jobs will be created with the money that you spend. Very special. It makes america competitive again