are warning this winter could be extra hard. not just for covid, but for flu, and now a childhood respiratory virus that s going around. it is an important message and we re going to go to the white house when he begins speaking. speaking of the president and midterms, biden is going to syracuse this week. yes, syracuse, yes, new york. yes, new york, in the last two weeks before the midterms. he s coming here because as blue as new york is, some of the congressional races are looking a little more purple. after a haywire redistricting process, new york has more congressional battlegrounds than nearly any other state in the country. even the democratic campaign chairman is locked in a dead heat, forcing the house campaign arm to spend a lot of money to defend its own chief from republican michael lawler. it s not just malone in westchester. nine of new york s seats from the tip of long up to pew kip see are in play and now the governor s race is tightening. kathy hochul, once
plus, an alarming new claim from former republican congressman about a call that came from the white house during the capitol attack. and also ahead, the top republican in the house unveils the gop agenda if they win in november. but the plan is being slammed and focused more on talking points than substance. good morning. welcome to way too early on this monday, september 26th. thank you for starting your day with us. we start with a new interview by republican congresswoman liz cheney over the weekend. the wyoming representative who lost her re-election bid in a bitter primary battle last month says she ll do whatever it takes to keep former president donald trump from taking back the white house in 2024. and that includes campaigning for democrats and leaving the republican party if necessary. we cannot afford to be a society where we re tearing each other apart. think about what the leaders say about american democracy. they say our elections can t really they don
classified material in the first 15 boxes that were returned to the national archives. and a member of the january 6th committee has revealed a new thread of the panel s investigation, the money behind the january 6th riot. all this while the former legal team struggles to define a defense argument. if there s a prosecution of donald trump for mishandling classified afternoon after the clinton debacle, there will be riots in the streets. let s dig into this with ryan riley and ali vitali, along with glen kushner, a former prosecutor, and robert gibbs, press secretary from the obama white house. the washington post is reporting that the filter team has already gone through these documents and taken out what was lawyer/client privilege. that s all they should have to go through. @ job should be done for them. the doj did go through this very quickly over the course of essentially two or three weeks. that s according to the latest filing this morning from doj. it said th
and rea mitchell kicking off a special two-hour edition of andrea mitchell reports today. we are in washington as the focus on the classified documents seized from donald trump s mar-a-lago estate is going to shift in the next hour to a courthouse in west palm beach, florida. that s where trump s lawyers and the justice department are clashing over the former president s request for an independent master to go through the stack of files taken from mar-a-lago to see where any might have involved attorney/client privilege. the government says they have already done that and doing it again could harm the investigation. meanwhile the current president is going to be in philadelphia this afternoon into the evening at independence hall delivering a primetime speech on threats to our democracy, what he calls saving the soul of the nation. and another midterm special election win for democrats overnight. alaska voters rejecting former vice presidential candidate sarah palin s bid f
testimony of other witnesses. i think we did learn a few things, which we will be rolling out in the hearings to come. have a january 6th hearing is another mounting investigations of his actions. clearly getting s to trump s head as he lashed out in las vegas. biden has established committees to go after republicans. it seems as if the justice department and local and state prosecutors have become weaponized. thereafter politicians, not the people who are murdering people on the streets. trump reportedly even considered releasing steve bannon from his nonexistent executive privilege claim to unleash him on the committee. in a moment i will speak to senator ben cardin about the january six committee after the july 4th mass shooting in highland park, illinois. that community is engaged in what has become a sad american ritual, laying the dead to rest, after one of the senseless attacks yet again. this hour also, the shocking assassination of former japanese prime minis