between president biden and governors to discuss plans to protect access to abortion. this morning the trial of wnba star brittney griner began in moscow. we ll bring you the very latest. we start this friday morning with the holiday rush. if you hit the road or the skies this weekend you will not be alone. far from it. according to aaa nearly 48 million people are expected to travel 50 miles or more. that s almost at 2019 pre-pandemic levels. if you thought high gas prices would slow down traffic think again. ron allen is talking to drivers in new jersey. good morning. 42 million drivers exec expected to hit the road this weekend. that s a lot of problems potentially. reporter: there they are right over there. a bunch of problems starting over there. new jersey turnpike heading south to philadelphia and beyond. yes. the traffic is already piling up. it is only what? 10:00 in the morning. the worst time is afternoon and gets worse as the day wears on. this is the first su
Thanking for spending time with us. As mentioned you can find the entire full interview with robert f. Kennedy now. You can watch it for free on msnbc. Com ari. Or our youtube playist if you have any reason you want to watch it. If not, join me here tomorrow. The last word with Lauren Odonnell is up next. They want to keep me off the campaign trail. It is one of the many lies Donald Trump Tells me about his criminal hush money trial. It is a lie because there is always one day a week donald trump is free to campaign. That day is today. Wednesday. But donald trump doesnt have any Public Campaign events scheduled for his day off from court. Instead, he is spending the day at maralago. According to axios, quote, trump flew home to palm beach florida where he is expected to join supporters who bought at least 47 trump n ts at 99 each. According to a copy of the Dinner Invitation reviewed by axios. The Company Selling trump nfts isnt connected to his campaign. Last year, trump reported maki
campaign can do to win back those votes. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, september 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning with the latest out of fulton county, georgia. we ve learned that former president donald trump might try to move his pending election interference trial out-of-state court and into a federal one. in a court filing yesterday trump s attorneys formally notified the judge of the possible effort to make that move explaining that any decision must be filed within 30 days of trump s arraignment. that would give the former president until the end of the month to decide how to proceed. now, trump s former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, has already pushed to try to move his case to federal court and had a hearing on the matter last week. the judge is expected to make a ruling on the meadows request in the near future. meanwhile, fulton county d.a. fani willis is accusing o
that wraps it up for me. right now on andrea mitchell reports, president biden boosted by the fed forecasting rate cuts in the year ahead and the chance of curbing inflation without riing rates. vladimir putin closing the year at his marathon press conference, showing no sign of abandoning his invasion of ukraine, counting on international funding for kyiv drying up. translator: coming back to the goals, they remain unchanged. today ukraine virtually produces or manufactures nothing. they have been importing things for free freeloading. it will come to an end, sooner or later. national security advisor jake sullivan in israel today, meeting with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his war cabinet as the white house presses them to open a second gate for desperately needed aid into gaza. republicans backing the investigation of the president and his family s business dealings. republicans targeting hunter biden, who said he would testify in public but ignore
the johnson & johnson vaccine. let s discuss now. joining me, john harwood and cnn political analyst, john avalon. i have to say last names now, since you gents have the same first man. mr. avalon, this is a new cnn poll that shows this bill increasingly incredibly popular with the american people but zero republicans, not one voted for it. we had jen psaki on a short time ago. she said they re going to keep pushing for bipartisanship. do you think they know the score? the mere fact no republicans voted for a bill in which some of the contentious items were taken out says it will be a tough road. i don t think it is impossible and i don t think biden should simply couldn t seed it is impossible. it is critically important. can something be done on immigration? on infrastructure? should not give up the ghost on that just yet. the republicans have a problem which is that very often, their fetally is to the far right. not only what their voters believe. that s a disconnect wit