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Want to miss. But, first,. No water, barely have food. Everybody expiring in the fridge. Being without power is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is not having drinkable water. Right now everything is just devastating. It s eye opening. I talked to one of my close childhood friends yesterday. And her house is completely destroyed. And we are just thankful we can get here to get diapers and formula and a hot meal because right now those are very important to us because the stores don t have them. Laura: at least 230 people have lost their lives across six states from hurricane helene. There are 1. 8 million total power outages. Buncombe county, north carolina alone where asheville is makes up 31% of the total deaths. And there are at least 200 people still unaccounted for. Families as you heard are continuing to struggle to get basic necessities. That means that private citizens in the absence of federal government relief, they have to provide relief. And this is all despite
Party. Vice president harris reacting to getting the baking from former congresswoman Liz Cheney and also cheneys father, Dick Cheney. The former Vice President following the warning he heard from his daughter, that its not enough just to not vote for Donald Trump. He will take the next Step And Vote for Kamala Harris. In his statement released On Friday, he called trump a threat to our republic and pointed to his repeated 2020 election lies. Quote, he tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again. Trump responded in a social Media Post calling Dick Cheney irrelevant. He also did a lot of other things on Social Media that well be talking about this morning. Good morning. Welcome. Monday morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is september 9th. Good to have you with us. With us, we have the host of Way Too Early, white House Bureau Chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. The president
And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
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