Crossing the Southern Border soars. And as some republican governors resort to political stunts with peoples lives, well talk about that. Later this morning, former Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton will be our guest. We look forward to talking with her as well. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is friday, september 16th. Along with joe, willie and me, we have u. S. Special correspondent for bb news, katty kay in london, and the host of Way Too Early White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, also with us the president of the National Action network and host of politics nation, Reverend Al Sharpton joins us this morning. You know what people say about our show, that morning joe show is the most mindful show, we teach everybody that two things can be true at one time. Were not always that mindful. Were going to be talking about that. Were going to be talking about the crisis at the Southern Border, and by the way, i understand every two years, yes, theres the Conv
how quickly and how easily it came off, how much better i felt, what a change it made so fast. i feel like anything is possible after accomplishing what i ve done with golo. it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. the department of justice just delivered a major blow to the new gop-controlled house. in a letter to chairman jim jordan, the department signaled it may not fulfill house requests for information on ongoing investigations. as you know, there are now special counsel investigations into how president joe biden and former president trump handled classified material. cnn s sara murray and jessica dean join me now. what does the letter from the justice department say? reporter: jim jordan has asked doj for all kinds of things, all kinds of documents and staff briefings and in this letter, they re saying, thank you so much for your interest, but here are the guidelines around what we re going to be able to give you a
board. mike allen, thank you for that, and enjoy your weekend and thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this friday morning. morning joe starts now. let me say that i not like one of those booster rockets that has fulfilled its function and i will now be gently reentering the atmosphere and splashing down invisibly in some remote and obscure corner of the pacific. and i am returning to my plan, and i will be offering this government nothing but the most fervent support. like cincinatus. that was boris johnson giving his farewell speech but he s now back in the fold now that liz truss has resigned. hardly knew ye. back in the states it s been more than a week since the january 6th decided to subpoena the former president. we re going to go through why donald trump has not been served yet. and the investigation into the capitol attack is in need of serious funding but there s not a lot of time to make that happen. we ll explain. plus presi
i can t remember the exact quote, but remember when churchill said britain needs an ass kicker. churchill said many wonderful things. those particular phrases i don t remember. you re the historian, not me. everybody attributes everything to churchill, and then like the greatest churchill quotes ever, he didn t say. all the things churchill said but didn t say, i m laying claim to them. take them. tim ryan took that one, though, and i think he owned it quite well. it is a close race that could determine the balance of power in washington. the democratic nominee, congressman ryan will join us in just a moment. but first, nbc steve kornacki is standing by at the big board to break down where things stand with the midterms less than a month away. we are at go time. the rage is here, and i m a little nervous. he s pissed off, look at him. he s trying to hide it. i know. we re following the latest from ukraine as russia escalates attacks on civilian areas. g7 leade
evidence. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. russia s military said to be divided tonight over ukraine s stunning military offensive, retaking thousands of square miles from moscow s forces, which are now on the defensive in eastern and southern ukraine. cnn s senior international correspondent matthew chance has the latest for us. matthew, cnn s reporting that putin himself is giving directions to generals on the battlefield as russia s military appears increasingly divided on how to proceed with this war. tell us more of what you re learning. reporter: that s right, wolf. tonight another illustration of just how much intelligence u.s. authorities have, the u.s. intelligence has, on the thinking of what s going on inside the russian command structure. they re talking about intercepts that they ve sort of made available to cnn. we re reporting on that. about how there are disagreements on the