stretch. america reports is looking to a battleground matchup where stakes couldn t be higher. j.d. vance is neck and neck with his republican opponent. he join us live. judging from the opponent speaking this morning the tense political battle is about to hit a boiling point. try to dismiss j.d. as being an extremist weirdo which he is and everybody knows it. extremist weirdo? see how he responds in a closing race that could poachly tip the power out of democratic reports. welcome to america reports second hour. we will get to vance in a moment i m sandra smith in new york. we invited democrat tim ryan to join us any time. he s welcome on the program and hope he will come on to make his case after we hear from j.d. vance. he s been here before and can be here again. we begin the hour with breaking news. the hour at the white house the press secretary will face questions any minute 13 days from the midterm the president announcing plan to tackle inflation vowing to
that valona today was his 94th birthday, he dedicated his life to make sure that this nation s founding ideals and principles applied equally to african americans. and as a nation honors in this holiday weekend we are reminded just how far we ve come and how far we still have to go. the country remains deeply divided on many important, issues of factor flecked it by the new congress. in their first full week as a majority in the house republican zeroed a in the last week, republicans have been given a free path to a theater e. you are under cut to the draconian budget plan that will lead to, cuts to, medicare and social security. even though it might seem like we are headed for two years of unrelenting chaos, we should heed the message doctor king delivered. the now peoples overwork and how to creation culture with the mines turn to me now is the chair, neutral, of the congressional black caucus. hum. on the foot traffic gun was completely eroded? made no mistake ab
roger stone openly calling for insurrection violence. one democratic congressman says what happened in two pennsylvania districts will tell us everything about which party controls the house next year. we begin the hoyer with hurricane ian and florida now bracing for its arrival. the cat 3 storm on a direct path for the sunshine state. already packing maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour. ian expected to strengthen over the next 24 hours. local officials making urgent pleas for people to evacuate. the storm did make landfall this morning in cuba. heavy rains and winds hammering the area. forecasted storm surges up to 8 feet. the current track puts ian s center ten miles from st. pete. if that holds true, it will be the closest path to tampa for a major hurricane since 1950. carlos suarez live on the ground outside tampa. first let s get to the weather center and cnn s chad myers. the 11:00 advisory came in and the american model came in in the past ten minutes.
obama returned to the white house yesterday for the unveiling of their official portraits. president biden resuming a tradition that stalled under donald trump. we ll play more from the white house reunion. it was lovely. including poignant remarks from mrs. obama about why traditions like this are important for democracy. plus, former attorney general bill barr continues to speak out about the trump records case, saying the justice department is close to having enough evidence to indict him, but shouldn t. we ll discuss his reasoning. and the 60-day sprint to the midters begins today, and it seems whoever is managing the money for the republican senate candidates can t get it right. how republican senator rick scott explains burning through loads of cash with little to show for it. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, september 8th. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, author of the big lie, white house bureau chi
they d be carried out on a stretcher, folks. guards are gentle, walking out, high fives, smiling, laughing. i d like to punch him in the face. i ll tell ya. we re in a serious moment in our country, and i mean it from the bottom of my heart. as i said last week, we remain in the battle for the soul of america. by the way all right. god love ya. let em go. let em go. no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, let him go. look, everybody is entitled to be an idiot. no, no, everybody is entitled. president biden s response to a protester while campaigning in wisconsin yesterday, as compared to how donald trump handled hecklers during the 2016 campaign. remember that? yeah, willie, it kind of feels like he was speaking to me there. everybody is entitled to be an idiot. i had the same thought. a different approach than donald trump, obviously. that was for us. exactly. also looking back on 2016, too, the idea that donald trump has ever been in a fistfight in his life, the