congressman george santos as his apology tour fails to alleviate concern over his false statements to voters putting pressure on the incoming house majority to act. we re following new concerning development from vatican city. pope francis met with retired pope benedict after his health took a turn for the worse. begin with ongoing anger and frustration at airports across this countries as today there are already thousands more flight cancellations by southwest airlines adding to the public relations nightmare for an airline struggling to explain why they can t keep overcoming the same holiday obstacles as their competitors are managing to, and nbc shamar stone is at the baltimore airport for us. what a mess. i can t believe all the luggage behind you. what about the extended lines of frustrated customers? just give us a sense what it s like there at dwi. reporter: all right. first of all, we ve been here since 6:00 this morning. seems as though things are getting progres
america. the president saying today s gop is, quote, dominated, driven, and intimidated by maga republicans. we ll have complete political and historical analysis of his address to the nation. plus, the latest developments in the investigation of former president trump s mishandling of classified documents, as another conservative legal voice predicts trump will be indicted. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, september 2nd. with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay with us. the host of way to early, white house bureau chief at politico and the author of the big lie, jonathan lemire. pulitzer prize-winning columnist at the washington post, eugene robinson. and nbc news presidential historian, michael beschloss joins us this morning. glad to have you all. so much to talk about. jonathan lemire, i must start with you. it is like secretariat at the kentucky derby in 1973. starts out slow and then, boom, takes off. i kn
joining. this is big tonight. they have long argued this institution is broken, that right wingers broke it and that you can t even pretend to tackle america s tough problems if you won t clean up the system. today newly elected georgia senator raphael warnock used his first floor speech to invoke the pitched battle over americans right to vote arguing senators right to vote should not be vetoed by republican minority abuse of the filibuster tactic. we are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault on voting rights unlike anything we have ever seen since the jim crowe era. it is a contradiction to say we must protect minority rights in the senate while refusing to protect minority rights in the society. colleagues, those senate rules should overrule the integrity of our democracy. this is jim crowe in new clothes. this was a powerful way to begin his senate career. warnock looking like the rookie and the vet willing to offer new ideas with the experience of a
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Welcome to reporters, i am phillipa thomas. From here in the worlds newsroom we send out correspondents to bring you the best stories from across the globe. In this weeks programme. I thank god led this country to put donald trump in office. Divided america. After week two of Donald Trumps unique style of diplomacy, further splits in opinion. Nick bryant travels to the bible belt of tennessee and finds his supporters fully behind their new president. There are two americas right now and how you react to donald trump determines which one you inhabit. I am 12 years old. 12 years old. The children of la forced into prostitution. Angus crawford gets exclusive access to the us Police Operation to rescue them and meets the girls stuck in a life of hell. What sort of things have happened to you working on the street . Raped, someone pulled a knife out on me, a gun, tried to rob me. The curse of the zika virus. One year on from the outbreak, Camilla Costa reports on new health fears for the th