children were on lockdown this afternoon. i have two small children and their schools were on lockdown responding to this tragedy. they re there, i m here hoping and praying that they are safe. but the truth is none of us is safe. that s senator rafael warnock of georgia on the senate floor yesterday addressing another mass shooting in america, this one at a medical center in atlanta. we ll have much more on the deadly attack and the senator s call to action in just a moment. also ahead the latest on the suspicious claims out of russia accusing ukraine of a drone strike on the kremlin. plus donald trump s legal team makes an odd choice for its defense strategy in a civil rape and defamation trial. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 4th. i m jonathan lemire, thank you for starting your day with us. we begin with the latest mass shooting in america this time in atlanta, georgia. at least five women inside a medical center there were shot,
Today on this special labor day edition of inside politics. Tries to earn his nickname. Joe biden spends labor day in philadelphia making the case to the union Rank And File he is still their man in washington and deserves another it turn in the white house. A 2024 snapshot makes clear the republican primary is Donald Trumps to lose, but are the four criminal indictments a sugar high, putting the former president on a course crash. A mess of their own making. Reporting from cnns Capitol Hill Team underline the Mountain Congress needs to climb and climb quickly to avoid a shutdown. Im manu raju in for dana bash. Behind the headlines and inside politics. Joe biden this labor day who hes talking to and what it tells us about 2024. The current president s team sees shaky ground. Mr. Biden is in philadelphia home turf, the audience is what we would think of as reliably blue voters, union workers. But how organized the labor vote is behind the incumbent is simply not a lock. Polling and just
instead of the obama election being in some ways the peak of that world it was the trump election a few years later. so talk to us about that, the idea conservative forces in so many ways have run rough shot, have dominated facebook and other sites. do you see that as will there be a course crash or that s where we are? when i went back it was a lot of the figures that would go onto dominate conservative media andrew brightbart, steve bannon and others. we re in this aurally as we re there and learning and actually internet media was a really good fit for donald trump s right-wing populism. it was always kind of anti-establishment, but the sort of anti-establishment of barack obama liberalism was not willing to go as far as the sort of steve bannon-donald trump
norm macdonald, the former snl star s long, private health battle announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone as a hurricane, it was short-lived, but now tropical storm nicholas is still delivering a dangerous punch along the gulf coast tonight, water and lots of it 5 million people living under flash flood alerts, rain amounts as high as 20 inches possible as the storm makes a brutally slow crawl across parts of texas and louisiana after its landfall not far from houston early today with 75-mile-an-hour sustained winds. in this very active tropical season, nicholas the 14th named storm, the 8th to make a u.s. landfall, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses morgan chesky is in the storm zone for us tonight with late details. reporter: tonight, nicholas on a gulf coast course crash first slamming