Welcome back, everyone. Im Alex Witt from new york. Mourning and angry. Thousands taking to the streets in israel demanding a Cease Fire Deal and gathering at the funeral for one of the six hostages killed by hamas in gaza. What President Biden just said about a potential Cease Fire Deal and prime Minister Netanyahus efforts to bring the hostages home. Plus, the President Today set to reprise his role as campaigner in chief, but this time for Vice President Cam Kamala Harris in pennsylvania. And a Labor Day Strike for thousands of Hotel Workers across the country. Why they say theyre walking off the job on one of the biggest travel days of the summer. But were going to start with growing pressure on prime Minister Netanyahu to cut a deal and bring the remaining 101 hostages being held by hamas Back Home. Crowds of demonstrators lining the streets in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Today venting their anger at the prime minister as well as his government. In the u. S. , President Biden was asked
take these cuts off the table. remember i said it no, i m serious. remember what i said, i said so you re not going to cut it, huh? no, i said okay, we ve got a deal. i sure hope that s true. president joe biden hits the road following a strong state of the union address keeping republicans in the spotlight for proposed cuts to social security and medicare. plus speaker kevin mccarthy spent parts of biden s speech trying to calm down rowdy members of his own party. we ll show you what he had to say about their outbursts. and house republicans got to air their grievances against twitter. we ll have the big moments from yesterday s contentious oversight hearing. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, february 9th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. president joe biden is continuing his populous push following his state of the union address taking his message to the swing state of wisconsin yesterday. the president spoke t
said about six truckloads of soil were headed to michigan. officials in michigan said they never received a warning about those shipments. a representative saying our priority is to keep the people we represent safe. with me now is congresswoman dingle. how did you find out about these reported shipments to your state and what can you do? it began in the grapevine late afternoon yesterday that we have two different sites in my district. one is an injection well, which is accepting liquids. the other is a contamination site in belleville township. i quickly made some calls. the governor was not aware of this either. we spoke to each other very quickly. we learned that the governor of ohio had posted it on his website that they were headed for here. i called everybody. i called the epa, the norfolk southern and demanded answers. we very quickly realized that no one had been given a heads-up that it was coming here. there are issues related to the injection well, specifically
it s backed off a bit, but if you look at the tech heavy nasdaq, it is off 4% and plunging. john: debbie dingle standing by with her thoughts on how this could affect her party s midterm chances. but first, to jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn this hour and rather ironic the president has a celebration of the economy this afternoon. how are they reacting to the cpi report? either the white house expected numbers a whole lot better than this or someone in the scheduling office had an unfortunate oversight and getting an earful. it is ironic they are hosting a bunch of democratic lawmakers here today to mark the signing, last month s signing of the inflation reduction act just as those new numbers come out showing inflation, core inflation shot up last month 6.3% in august, up from 5.9% in july. and that is a key metric that the fed watches very closely and these numbers are more than the 6.1% that economists predicted, the next set of rate hikes will likely be quite a
least six states already. omhouse republicans are pushing on legislation to ban abortion after 15 weeks nationwide. the united states is joining the ranks of nicar nicaragua, polan el salvador to roll back abortion rights. reporter: large crowd here at the united states supreme court, let s look around, i ll show you the vast majority, the people here at this time are abortion rights supporters. you can that by the proponents. we had verbal confrontations, cursing, what have you, but it has remained peaceful. still the folks here projecting a sense of anger, projecting almost shock if you will, and that s one of the things i m asking people about in the crowd here, given the fact there was so much advance warning that the court was headed in this direction, abortion rights opponents have been protesting, if you will, roe v. wade for 50 years and then just a few weeks ago, we got that advance opinion that leaked opinion of justice alito really signaling the court was headed