happened yesterday in the courtroom in just a moment. plus russian president vladimir putin gives a rare national address announcing significant moves in the war with ukraine. the russian president also talked about a plan that kyiv is calling a desperate sham. and president biden will surely have something to say about all of that when he takes the podium later this morning at the united nations general assembly. we ll preview that and the other topics he will likely focus on in his speech. good morning, welcome to way too early on this wednesday, september 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begin with major moves from russia this morning claiming that the west is, quote, trying to destroy us. vladimir putin announced overnight he s partially mobilizing the military in russia while also approving a move to annex portions of ukraine. in a rare prerecorded national address, putin said, quote, russia will use all the instruments at its dis
obama returned to the white house yesterday for the unveiling of their official portraits. president biden resuming a tradition that stalled under donald trump. we ll play more from the white house reunion. it was lovely. including poignant remarks from mrs. obama about why traditions like this are important for democracy. plus, former attorney general bill barr continues to speak out about the trump records case, saying the justice department is close to having enough evidence to indict him, but shouldn t. we ll discuss his reasoning. and the 60-day sprint to the midters begins today, and it seems whoever is managing the money for the republican senate candidates can t get it right. how republican senator rick scott explains burning through loads of cash with little to show for it. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, september 8th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, author of the big lie, white house bureau chi
good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, what is the doj waiting for? they re silent on whether it will in the trump mar-a-lago investigation. and this comes as we re learning that the documents seized from trump included, by the way, hundreds of documents, but it included a foreign government s nuclear capabilities according to a report in the washington post. that kind of information, a country s nuclear capabilities, is closely guarded, many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about it. and yet, here s where some of the documents were last month. look at your screen there, which you can see in red is just down the hall from where the members go, the outdoor dining area, the members part of the club, and all the guests go through, all the wedding pictures that trump takes every weekend. all that is going on next to documents of a country s nuclear program. it took more than a year for the government to get these documents back. that includ
he has a violent history dating back to his childhood charged with theft at 11, along with assault and rape when he was 14. bill: surveillance images show the suspect attacking eliza forcing her into his s.u.v. and leaving her phone and water bottle behind. police also saying they found a pair of sandals at the scene helping detectives identify and track down abston using dna. cell phone signal placed him near the scene. dana: newly revealed video shows him arriving at his brother s apartment later that same morning where he spends more than an hour cleaning out the inside of his car. shelby county d.a. telling us this earlier. there clearly are cases where person s individual records are so bad like in this case that parole should not have been granted. we would not be bringing these first degree murder charges unless we were confident that we could prove these charges beyond a reasonable doubt. bill: former assistant d.a. phillip holloway back with us today. good mo
a lot of coverage about princess anne here in the uk and the way she s risen to this occasion. the vigil is now over. you can see the king leading the siblings away now. so that s the end of that. there s princess anne and her full ceremonial uniform. so an extraordinary moment for those members of the public as they file through. princess anne accompanying the coffin throughout this whole process. we re hearing earlier how all of the siblings were close to the queen in their own way. princess anne s was through horses and country pursuits which is what they shared in balmoral together and where anne was with the queen for the last 24 hours of her life. so the siblings now leaving westminster hall. they ll go away in private. try to decompress what they had there, and members of the public will decompress what they just experienced. quite extraordinary moment in british history there, and it will be repeated again tomorrow with the grandchildren of the queen, including prince