if you looked out the right side of the plane, you would look over the potomac live, you saw a lot of small, nondescript monuments arranged neatly over rolling hills in a place called arlington national cemetery. if you don t have people that are willing throughout our history to stand up, i put on that uniform, risk their lives and in many instances give that last full measure of devotion, then it isn t going to amount to very much. we must fight the good fight, we must finish the race also supposed to be in iowa today for if a massive rally postponed it about an hour ago. he s still posting his campaign message on truth we ve got to make sure we have a great election. we ve got to win big, and we re leading crooked joe biden by a lot, a lot. the polls are showing we re 7 points up, 8 points, 9 points and even 11 points in one instance. let s keep it that way. our very own alexis mcadams is live in hinton, iowa. what have you got for us? reporter: we were expecting to
president, he went straight into the worst part of town to demonstrate his concern the nominee traveled to the south blonks blythe has left dozens city blocks a waste land. shouting match with residents many of whom demanded jobs reagan replied i can t do a damn thing for you if i don t get elected. are there more jobs coming through the bronx. i am going to dry as far as i can all i can tell you is i m going to try to bring that about and not with the kind of a promise that carter made. jesse: they weren t happy to see reagan and most of them probably didn t vote for him. but it was important for reagan to see what they were going through. there s a reason the bronx doesn t look like that anymore because powerful people saw the problem and they knew how to fix it. biden went to our southern border this week but he didn t really see what we have been showing you for the last two years. before air force one touched down, they cleaned it all up. threw the tents and garbag
that and more on the rise in violent crime many in several major cities. and ongoing concerns about the security of supreme court justices after an activist group offers money to anyone who reports the locations of the six conservative members of the nation s highest court. more on these stories lout the hour. but first, to president biden defending his upcoming visit to saudi arabia in a new op-ed ahead of his trip to that nation and others in the middle east this week. kevin corke live at the white house with that. reporter: jon, good afternoon. frankly, no two ways about it, the president s upcoming trip to the saudi kingdom comes with fairly heavy risk on both the domestic and international fronts. from the international perspective, he ll to obviously tie to smooth other hard feel feelings with the saudis, all while maybe encouraging them to open the spigot when it comes to oil production. but there s heavy cost and heavy risk here domestically because the president is
That shows Donald Trumps lead only growing in the republican president ial primary. Well have a lot more on thoz numbers in just a moment. Meanwhile, half of Congress Returns to capitol hill today with a long todo list including a new Federal Budget, but demands from farright members of the house could complicate getting a deal done before the end of the month. Plus Vladimir Putin is turning to yet another dictator for more weaponry for his war in ukraine. Well have that brand new reporting straight ahead. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, september 5th. I hope you enjoyed the long weekend. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day and week with us. New polling shows that Donald Trumps republican primary lead is growing as support collapses for the person who was once viewed as his most viable opponent. In the latest Wall Street Journal survey 359 of gop primary voters say that trump is their choice for 2024. Thats up from 48 in april. In second place do