hey, everybody, i m yasmin vossoughian in for hallie jackson, with me now is nbc white house correspondent mike memoli, the washington post and msnbc political analyst, ashley parker, also with us new york times politics reporter, lisa lerer. mike, let me start with you on this one and talk about what we heard from the president around the 1:00 hour. essentially the message is get out there and vote, especially if you are for abortion rights because we can help codify it come january. talk us through that, three weeks out now from the midterms. yeah, that s right, yasmin. i think the political strategy here on the part of the white house is very clear. democrats saw a real boost in the polls in the late summer months after that june decision by supreme court came down, striking down the protections for abortion rights under roe versus wade. as one democratic strategist put it, maybe if that decision came down in august we d be feel better about where things stand now. w
and bells will be tolling any moment now and at some places already all across england. i want to bring in now cnn s max foster who is our royal correspondent, senior royal correspondent. max, thank you for joining us. listen, what can we expect today as far as what s going to happen ceremonially and also prince charles is expected to speak as well. bells tolling at westminster ab abbey, st. paul s and westminster. we will be hearing gun salutes as well. you can hear the bells tolling, westminster abbey is very close to us here. let s listen in for a moment. so they take different patterns depending on the event and this will be an extended version basically because it s such a significant event. the bells tolling at st. paul s, there will also be a service later on, the first moment for national figures to reflect on this moment. i think to hear that prince charles has left balmoral, i would expect to see him come here, actually, don. it s not confirmed, but there s flow
today governor desantis defended his actions. we are not a sanctuary state. and it s better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction. and yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you to be able to go to greener pastures. the critics call it a stunt. we should point out that last month, 1.8 million arrests, apprehensions or encounters on the southern border were reported for the physical year to date. that s according to customs and border protection. and that is an increase from the last fiscal year, and this one isn t even over yet. the move from desantis mirrors bus trips texas governor greg abbott began months ago sending immigrants to other areas, mainly new york city and the nation s capital. today at least two more buses arrived in washington, d.c., this time outside the u.s. naval observatory, the residence of vice president kamala harris. it comes after she made comments that the southern border was, quote, secure. so far as the florida chartered flight
good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it is tuesday, september 6th and i m brianna keilar with john berman. in california, this morning, the state is bracing for rolling power outages as a brutal heat wave is expected to shatter the record for power demand. temperature in parts of the state hitting 115 degrees with no end in sight. not ideal conditions, obviously, for fighting wildfires. evacuations are now under way in riverside county where the fairview fire has killed two people and scorched 2,000 acres. yeah. in the northeast, though, a much different threat. flood watches are now in effect for more than 50 million people across 11 states. virginia to maine. some areas could see 7 inches of rain by this afternoon which is not good news for people in providence, rhode island. where heavy rains and flash floods closed i-95 in both directions yesterday afternoon. we re going to have much more on this ahead. this morning, officials in memphis are
investigation. and when they searched, the government seized twice as many documents marked classified as the trump team had given them when they claimed they had handed over everything. and the filing included this photo, documents you can see, the red cover sheets, the yellow cover sheets, recovered from containers spread out on the floor by the fbi and the classified markings are clear, top secret, secret, highly classified information there, brianna. that s right. the fbi seized 33 boxes containing more than 100 classified documents during its search earlier this month. three of those classified documents were not found in boxes, but in trump s desk. and for all of those reasons the justice department vehemently opposes trump s request to appoint a special master to oversee the documents. the trump legal team has until tonight to respond to this latest doj filing. at a hearing on thursday, a judge will hear arguments before making her final decision on whether or not to