boundaries for their children. set boundaries for adolescents. set boundaries for teenagers on the use of phones. on use of social media. it s hard to protect them. on the use of everything. it s hard but it is it is a lot more important than so many other things. okay. we re over time here, though. we will revisit this. that does it for us this morning. it is so great that yasmin vossoughian is back with us, and she picks up the coverage right now. hey, everybody, good friday morning. i m yasmin vossoughian at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we ve got a lot happening this hour. we want to start in memphis where any moment now five former police officers will be arraigned in court in connection with the death of tyre nichols. you re looking at a live cam there right now inside that courtroom. all have been charged with second degree and a number of other counts as well. authorities say nichols was beaten by officers last month following a traffic stop. he died
the manhattantoday. they will be in tomorrow. but they won t be working on the donald trump hush money case. at least not right now. and that is about all that we know at this moment. it is unclear when the grand jury will be meeting on donald trump again. there is a report saying the case is taking a one-month break starting next week, but our nbc news team says to treat that pronouncement with caution. at minimum, d.a. alvin bragg can still use the grand jury tomorrow, next monday or next wednesday on donald trump. as always, our sources add the agenda is fluid, and can change at any moment. we re going to get an update from someone who used to work in the d.a. s office in just a second. there are also developments in the january 6th special counsel investigation. former vp mike pence now says he and his team are considering whether to appeal a federal judge s order to force him to testify. here he is in iowa today. when are you going to decide on any possible appeal of t
trump had staffed at his country club. we will have more on the special master ruling. florida s other senator is facing questions about campaign cash. it comes after a report from the new york times that the gop has blown through a record fundraising fund nearly two months before the midterms. and also ahead, a white house re-do for the white house and the obamas as the former president and first lady finally get their portraits unveiled. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, september 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with a key and fast approaching deadline for the justice department, following the fbi s search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home and club. the d.o.j. must decide by midnight tomorrow whether to accept judge eileen cannon s ruling that approved the request by trump s attorneys for a special master to review the documents seized from his florida estate last month. the ne
to announce his resignation in early july following repeated criticism of his conduct in government. the decision on who the new prime minister will be is down to a relatively small group of 160,000 conservative party members. borisjohnson will formally resign tomorrow and the the queen will then ask liz truss or rishi sunak to form a government. u nfortu nately, we unfortunately, we have some technical issues with our link to huw, but there is a picture of the door at no 10, who will be walking into it as the new prime minister? we are half an hour away from that announcement. and as huw mentioned, it will be the fourth prime minister in six years. so, the scene is set at the qeii conference centre, which is just around the corner from downing street. as you can see, there is a large press contingent gathered there, waiting for the announcement. and around the corner is where the announcement will be made. we can see all of the journalists lined up, the cameras trained on th
part of the republican party. and he will continue to do that. reporter: and joining us now is washington post national political reporter isaac ards. thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with the piece that you co-authored entitled trump plots aggressive midterm strategy seen in gop as double-edged sword. so could you mean by the double edged swords. in the primary, what we heard was trump s first general election rally. in the primaries he was the envy of all. his endorsement, his backing, every candidate wanted that and what you started to see almost immediately after those candidates won the primary was, taking trump off the top of their website, like dr. oz did. and starting to try to put some distance between themselves and trump. because while he is the number one thing for primary voters, the republican base, with the general election electorate, it is a little bit of a different story. and so what strategists are trying to figure out, republican s