It is a labor day battleground blitz on this holiday monday. With campaigns making their final pitches in the traditional turn to the final sprint before election day. Youve got joe biden talking labor in pa. The vp candidating holding duelling events in wisconsin. Well take you to all of it. Plus, nbc news exclusive reporting on a possible pentagon shakeup. With the president looking for possible replacements for defense secretary mark esper. Were also live on the latest with the out of control wildfires in central california. One of them growing to 114 square miles. Thats about the size of fresno, california. We have a lot of news on a busy holiday monday. I want to start on the campaign trail and our nbc News Reporters there. Mike memoli is in harris beburg washington. Ali vie ali vitali is in wisconsin. Mike, talk about what were going to hear from bilater. T reporter the Biden Campaign knows pennsylvania well. Biden held his First Campaign event in 2019 at a union hall in pittsbur
President trump, who within the last hour or so is announcing he will be a no show instead hold a rally. Im not going to waste my time on a virtual debate. Now we dont really know whats going to happen with miami next week, and that debate. We do know we have new reaction coming in from joe biden, there he is, within the last couple of minutes. Our team is with him as he takes off for a Campaign Swing out west. We dont know what the president s going to do. He changes his mind every second. Remember, this whole debate move was meant to keep people safe, considering President Trump has covid but . A new interview this morning he says hes cured, just one of the questionable medical claims hes making as he makes no reference to the two dozen plus people affiliated with or connected to his white house or campaign who have tested positive. We sort out fact from fantasy with a guest who used to run the nations Top Public Health agency. Good morning, im Hallie Jackson and it has been a mornin
Destination are still at local beaches and its incredibly warm outside. This is an island stuck in the middle. We know that north korea has threatened to lob those four Ballistic Missiles 20 miles off sea, which isnt that far of a distance actually. The governor, we also sat down and spoke with said that the island here tourists or folks that live here shouldnt be overly alarmed. Homeland security yesterday here on this island as well as the governor released a fact sheet. What missiles should do if fired in this direction. Taking cover behind any kind of buildings and also not directly looking at any blast. Some sobering words for people who are getting those fact sheets and for the residents that live here, they are simply on edge, hallie. Miguel live in guam where the front page of the paper talks about that 14minute timeline apparently between a missile being launched and landing. The president , of course, not doing much this morning to ratchet down those tensions in guam and the
That message to avoid any miscalculation on their part. I want to go to bill neely in seoul just south of the border. Can you walk us through what youre seeing and hearing on the ground and military activities and sort of the mood over there. Yeah, good morning, hallie. Certainly no military activity beyond the normal u. S. Forces here. Nearly 30,000 troops are always at a high state of readiness. No military activity but plenty of activity here. This city of seoul has every reason to be the most nervous capital in the world at the moment. 25 Million People in the metro seoul area. They would be the First Casualty of any war. And, remember, they face the possibility of conventional war for a very long time. 10,000 artillery tubes are pointed at this city from north korea. But there is a new reality. Not just that u. S. Intelligence assessment that puts them in the nuclear crosshairs, if you like. They now know there is a Nuclear Neighbor to the north. But also President Trumps rhetoric
You absolutely do, hallie. Lets start there with the latter news out of the white house this morning. As you say, President Trump has really thrown a wrench into these highstakes trade talks with china. Essentially threatening over the weekend to slap a new round of tariffs on china. Take a look at these numbers, hallie. Essentially starting to raise tariffs from 10 to 25 on 200 billion worth of goods. And then to raise them another 25 on all goods a short time thereafter. So, why this pivot . Why this move now . President trump indicated he doesnt feel as though the talks are progressing quickly enough and doesnt feel as though the administration is getting what it wants from china. Now, chinese officials scheduled to come this week, hallie, for that final round of talks. This, again, has rattled the markets. It caught chinese officials off guard. But, look, this is thenegotiate. Folks who follow him shouldnt be that surprised. Getting some support from chuck schumer, hallie. An unlik