the jury finding trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation and awarding carroll $5 million. what would you want to say to him? i said it to joe tacopina yesterday. he came over to congratulate me. he put out his hand. i said, he did it and you know it. this hour, disgraced republican congressman george santos now in custody at a long island courthouse facing federal charges, including wire fraud and money laundering and renewed calls to resign from members of his own party. white house and congressional staff negotiators working around the clock ahead of friday s next white house debt ceiling meeting after tuesday s first session ended with angry accusations from both sides. i think he knows that default would be disastrous. and i think he knows it couldn t pass in congress. it s dead on arrival. i didn t find progress in this meeting. we will get back together on friday and hopefully the president then can change the path of the last 97 days. good day. i m a
he says are threatening the very foundations of our republic. plus, trump s lawyers and the justice department face off in federal court. we ll explain the big developments to come out of the special master hearing. and, a hot holiday weekend arrives with little to no running water for nearly 200,000 people in mississippi. the state has troops on the ground to help in the water crisis. good morning. and welcome to way too early. i m jonathan lemire. on this friday, september 2nd. thank you for starting your day with us. we ll begin in philadelphia, where president joe biden issued a dire warning about threats to american democracy last night, in a rare prime time address. standing outside historic independence hall, where the united states constitution was written and signed, the president spoke directly about the dangers posed by the trump-backed wing of the republican party. here s some of what he had to say. quality and democracy are under assault. we do ourselves
he will remember that the archives responded to a subpoena from the justice department back in may to provide all of the documents that they had provided to the january six committee. it appears that tom windham and the team that are looking at things beyond the rioters. they re looking at the effort to impede the transfer of power, and the role of the former president and some of his allies, it looks like they have decided that there is additional material that the january six committee did not know about, perhaps and did not ask about. and that they are interested in as part of their investigation. it tells us that there is more that they know about. kim, it s a tell you anything that the doj is going back to the national archives for more documents about january 6th? i mean, does this mean trouble for the former president, for who else could it mean or could spell trouble for? well, i ve always thought that this was going to be a 12 punch january six committee warms
Fined for violating a gag order as maga completes their house takeover. He was one of the intellectual architects of pushing back on the stolen election. Tonight, the radical shift right in the house with come baseman jimmy raskin, and the remarkable scene inside a manhattan courtroom. The ex president was forced to take the stand. You may have seen mr. Trump storm out. I saw a defeated man. New details on the horrific attack inside israel by hamas as the United Nations warns of the increasingly dire situation inside gaza. When all in starts, right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Today, the ex president stormed out of a manhattan courtroom during of Civil Fraud Trial after being punished by the judge for violating a gag order. Judge Arthur Engoron imposed that order earlier this month after donald trump publicly attract a law clerk working on his 250 Million Dollar lawsuit. This afternoon, the judge ordered trump to the Witness Stand to answer for a new disparaging com