behind the counter or add pickup lockers. there s a special place in hell for people who steal my chipotle. thank you joining us. i m christine romans, cnn this morning starts right now. are there circumstances you would consider pulling out of the race for speaker? no. not one? no. three strikes for kevin mccarthy but he says it s not over yet, it s not over yet. you re looking at kaitlan in washington. i told you she wasn t going to be here. i called it at the end of the show yesterday. she s going to need some friends and drinks and debriefing when she gets back. and some extra clothes. some extra clothes we ll send you before you get back. i m don lemon, poppy harlow, kaitlan collins is in washington as you see. what happens today when congress reconvenes and how long will the power struggle last? that s the question. there s still chaos on the hill. we ll speak with members of the mccarthy s party who voted for him and against him and for him an
she can play doubles for another five, ten years, but also they need to bring that same energy for every mactch. i guess they expected last night would be the last one, they have to bring the we love serena signs every night moving forward. how could she walk away from something that brings her this much joy. it s the top of a brand new hour on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. any moment now in pennsylvania, president biden will give a speech on gun safety. he s promoting his safer america plan, which includes increased funding for police and public safety along with a renewed push for an assault weapons ban. this is the first of three trips to pennsylvania in the coming days. on thursday, president biden will deliver a prime time speech in philadelphia. he ll be back on labor day in pittsburgh to celebrate american workers. cnn s arlette saenz is traveling with the president in wilkes bury, pennsylvania, what can we expect from the presi
the biggest nuclear power plant. a pair of u.s. senators who landed, what they re telling our team in ukraine about the surprise visit. we have all of that coming up. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to start with nbc news justice reporter ryan riley and former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst carole lamm. ryan, i want to come to you with some of the questions hanging over this filing, some of the key questions our team has identified. is it going to convince a judge not to appoint a special master which is what the department of justice wants. will the filing give us new clues about the investigation itself, things we did not know more broadly? will the doj challenge the judge s jurisdiction here, the one who said, she said this weekend, judge cannon, she was inclined to go ahead and appoint the special master which raised eyebrows in the legal world. to you on this. the investigation itself we could see bread crumbs. the justice department has chosen to spea
when serena williams won her first u.s. open in 1999 tom brady was still at michigan, lebron james hadn t yet played a high school game, bill clinton was in the white house. harry styles was in preschool, napster debuted, tlc demanded no scrubs and the backstreet boys want it had that way. now she is one step closer to another title on her way out the door. good morning, i m brianna keilar with john berman. the almost 41-year-old defeating the number two player in the world bringing the crowd to its feet as she advance toss round three and another magical performance at the u.s. open. it wasn t easy she was facing anett kontaveit one of the world s top players, 14 years her junior but in the critical first set serena rose to the occasion by win ago rousing tiebreaker and went on to grueling three-set victory. the stands were packed with celebrities as they always are. tiger woods, he was right there, serena williams says she is still playing because of him. he helped her fi
very political nature in this case. i don t think we need any of those things. you have norm eisen filing a brief in the case. he s been all over anti-trump stuff forever. just play it straight. if the documents are as the government says, they re going to have to be a lot of answers provided. and here now is the aforementioned norm eisen, former house judiciary special counsel and donald trump s first impeachment trial, as you heard, norm filed a brief in opposition to trump s request for a special master. thank you for being with us. your name was invoked. your response. well, john, this is such an important case that not me, i was just one of the lawyers for the case with the distinguished group of co-counsel, but seven leading gop legal voices, from every administration prior to donald trump s going back to the reagan administration put together this brief because they wanted to say to the judge, and there is not a political word in it, it is about the law. and they w