bullets. he went right over the top of them and was hit. what a fine man he was. as for the investigation into the assassination attempt, video shows the shooter, thomas crooks, lurking outside the rally in an hour before he tried to assassinate the former president. we re told at this point, police identified him as a person of interest for wearing a backpack and holding a golf rangefinder, which measures distances. but crooks was not yet considered a threat at that point, according to several lawmakers, 19 minutes before the first shots were fired. crooks identified as suspicious and then a search commenced. a secret service source tells fox the shooter hid his air 15 style gun somewhere before the rally began. the question is where the first time authorities spotted crooks with the gun he was holding it on the roof. as for crooks to phones, the fbi has gone into both of those phones. the 20 year old apparently had photos of president biden and the former and government o
all my life i had to start again. just my children and my wife. thank my lucky stars here today because the flags the republican presidential ticket is set with trump getting his party s nomination for president. the historic moment coming just hours after he also picked his running mate. thank you for staying with us in this very late hour monday night. and i m jonathan hunt. j.d. vance, pick for vice president, showing his appreciation in a overnight writing, quote, just overwhelmed with gratitude. what an honor it is to run alongside president donald j. trump. he delivered peace and prosper pretty once. and with your help, he ll do it again. onward to victory. convention attendees also voicing their approval following the much anticipated announcement. i am thrilled about the vp pick. he s a midwesterner, so how could we? not being from wisconsin, happy. and he s got a compelling story. he wanted tough race in ohio. so i think he ll be great. he ll and it ll be a great t
awards. the question is, has streaming officially taken over? it s way too early for this. good morning. and welcome to way too early. the show that always roots for afc richman. i m jonathan lemire on this monday, september 20th. we ll start with the news. tomorrow, president biden is set to deliver his first united nations general assembly speech since taking office. it could amount to a major test of his presidency. as some of america s closest allies look to see whether u.s. foreign policy has really changed since donald trump left the white house. tomorrow s speech comes on the heels of a series of stunning setbacks for the biden administration on friday. first, the pentagon acknowledged that a drone strike targeting terrorists in afghanistan late last month mistakenly killed ten civilians, including seven children. fda advisory panel overwhelmingly voted against a proposal to give a third pfizer covid vaccine dose to the general population. the booster shot was
the american academy of pediatrics reports more than 250,000 new cases involving children arise in the last week. that s a 23% increase from the week before. and 250% increase from five weeks ago. nearly 27% of all new weekly cases are children. that is a much higher percentage than we have seen over the course of the pandemic. now, it is important to note that while a quarter of all new cases are now among kids, they represent a much smaller portion of those hospitalized, about 2.5% of hospitalizations. though, the raw number of children hospitalized does continue to climb. look at that graphic, higher than it s ever been. nearly 2,400 kids in hospital beds at the moment. overall hospitalizations and hospitalizations have been one of the more accurate ways to measure the trajectory of the pandemic, they do appear to be leveling off. let s hope that trend continues. yeah, let s hope. now schools that reopened in the south where governors fought mask mandates are paying a de
what diplomatic sources are telling us about getting americans out of afghanistan and how the taliban worked with the u.s. in the final days of america s longest war. plus the new threat coming from the house republican leader. kevin mccarthy s warning sparked by the january 6th commission, what he says a would-be gop majority will not forget. i m hallie jackson in washington along with julia ainsley, nbc news senior political editor mark murray, former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquaid joins us as well. julia, let s start with the law out of texas, the most restrictive abortion law in the country. here s what it can you see, not just bans abortions after the fetal heartbeat or roughly six weeks which is before many women know they re pregnant, only a couple weeks after a missed period and has no exceptions for rape and incest and gives private citizens the power to sue anyone who helps somebody who is going to get the procedure, that means somebody who