and brett favre insists he is the victim of he insists now he is the victim of a smear campaign in mississippi. this is what we are watching at this hour. we begin with cnn s exclusive interview with president biden. the president responding for the first time about putin s war in ukraine since his warn about a nuclear armageddon. he told jake tapper he doesn t believe the st. putin will actually yew nuclear weapons, but the mistake he believes putin may upon invading ukraine. i think he s a rational actor who has miscalculated significantly. i think he thought he was going to be welcome with open arms. this is the home of mother russia, and i think he totally miscalculated. the conversation also touched on saudi arabia. brittney griner, the economy, even the possibility of criminal charges against the president s son hunter. more on that in a moment. let s start with m.j. lee. m.j., he doesn t do many sit-down interviews these days. what are you hearing from there to
unleashing a violent crime surge biden is delusional enough to think america loves what he s doing. look what i got done. name me a president in recent history got as much done as i have the first two years. you may not like what i got done but vast majority of american people like what i got done so it s a matter of can you do the job and i believe i can do the job, i ve been able to do the job. not a joke. if biden thinks he s so great why are so many vulnerable demps afraid to be seen in public with him? biden thinks the republican party has nothing to campaign on. what s the republican platform? what are they running on? what are they for? first thing they said they re going to get through the inflation reduction act. what s that going to do? i mean, i don t know what they re for. even bernie sanders is begging democrats to listen to the people who get them elected and focus on top polling issues that voters actually care about a concept the democrats just seem no
welsh this is brand new contemporary music. we re going to get into that as well as the politics. also tonight, carole king, the icon is here with us live. we re going to get into her activism, and why she says she has something to talk about on the beat, and we said come on over. it s a lot cooking here on this late august summer vibes. a lot of news, guests and a lot to get to. it ain t summer as far as the president is concerned. president biden going at what we calls the semifascism of certain maga republicans in that party. these are, according to some, the strongest comments yet, as he rebukes maga today just days after making waves in what was a parentally a very clear deliberate effort to address authoritarianism in america. so let me say this to my maga republican friends in congress don t tell me you support law enforcement if you won t condemn what happened on the 6th. for god s sake, whose side are you on? you can t be pro law enforcement and pro insurrect
calls to stop punishing addicts if it is to end its reputation as the drugs capital of europe. president biden has tested positive for covid. the white house says the symptoms are mild. the bbc has apologised to the former royal nanny tiggy legge burke over a number of serious and false allegations made against her by panorama reporter martin bashir in order to obtain an interview with princess diana. a coroner has said that the five people, including four teenage soldiers, who died in the guildford pub bombings in 1974, were unlawfully killed. and no ordinary telescope for the first time scientists will be able to detect the smashing together of neutron stars good evening. now that the conservative leadership contest has been whittled down to two candidates rishi sunak and liz truss, the focus is shifting to what each of them stands for. it s early days but the battleground appears to be economic policy. mr sunak was chancellor for nearly two and a half years but ms truss sa
get it done. meantime, thanks for your concern. keep the faith. it s going to be okay. jesse: president biden saying he s doing well after testing positive for covid. experiencing very mild symptoms with a runny nose and dry cough and taking paxlovid. he will isolate for five days but says he s busy working. may have just noticed that biden was not masked up and the white house got called out over that. look, in the video that you saw, there was a videography that was there with him and wore an n-95 mask and had the six feet distance. the same situation as well with the photo. as you saw in the video, he was outside. jesse: the positive covid test comes days after joe biden s middle east trip to saudi arabia. yesterday the president was seen mingling with a bunch of people barking questions over whether biden got infected. where, we don t know. the white house is shutting down any discussion of that. where was he infected? i don t think we know. i certainly don t know