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
as steve bannon, the trump aide, surrendering in new york for new criminal charges, money laundering, defrauding his own maga supporters. a story nicole and our colleagues have more on that in tonight s broadcast. we begin here with the united kingdom and really much of the world mourning. queen elizabeth ii dying at 96 years old. she sat on the throne as you may have heard for a full 70 years. if that sounds like an extraordinarily long time, even for a monarchy, that s because it is. it is indeed the longest reining british monarch ever. her son, prince charles, is now officially king charles iii. mourners are outside buckingham palace. you can see that there in the evening, a make shift memorial has been growing. the queen passed away in scotland at the family s summer vacation home where she had actually been living for most of the duration of the last two years. the posts on that gate, the queen died peacefully at balmoral this afternoon. that is how the world learned of
border. they made the trip as more of those buses from texas have been arriving in manhattan, including today. texas governor abbott s office giving us a breakdown of the numbers so far. new york city 40 buses carrying 2100 illegal immigrants hoping to stay in the u.s. washington, d.c. 180 buses carrying 8,000. and chicago the newest destination three buses carrying roughly 150. chicago s mayor lori lightfoot is not going to the border but she is going to d.c. it s about cash. the sanctuary cities want lawmakers to give them federal cash to pay for the so-called conditions they re facing on the ground. lightfoot with choice words now for the texas governor. this is entirely within the knowledge of the texas governor who he is putting on buses when they are coming, what their specific conditions and needs are. the same thing he is saying hey, i need more help, so do we. he is treating these human beings like freight. all this is about is a manufactured political crisis. ha
closures and the educational progress of schoolchildren. blaming the previous a administration, no teacher i know enjoys it with private learning. twenty in a classroom, 20 at home, former president donald trump ranted and raved as they put the safety measures in place to get this done. the former education secretary is not taking the attack lightly. randy should own up to the mistakes that they made in the way that they have harmed kids and harm families across the country, yet all she is doing is blaming everybody else. this is not about teachers, this is about she and all of her allies that continue to control everything with the democratic party 99% of contributions going directly to democrats do their bidding. they have especially failed the kids and they are supposed to be observant to. only 42% say that they are completely or somewhat satisfied and that is down nearly 10 points since just 2019. and then we have more from the union and the cdc. so what does it tel
mar-a-lago. it s information so sensitive that many national security officials don t have access to it. also ahead, we have got new surveillance video that appears to show evidence of interference in the 2020 election as a fake elector is seen escorting several people into a county elections office in georgia. plus, there are urgent calls for action in ukraine to prevent a nuclear meltdown at europe s largest power plant. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, september 7th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with that new reporting from the washington post. people familiar with the matter tell the newspaper that a document describing a foreign government s nuclear secrets was among the top secret items seized from mar-a-lago a month ago. the post did not identify which government but there are only eight other countries with nuclear capabilities. the paper sources also didn t specify where inside the