This morning, neck and neck, new polling shows no clear leader in the race for the white house. Kamala harris and Donald Trump prepares to come Face To face with first time. And debate details on the polls and how the candidates are preparing for tomorrows big showdown. This morning, a manhunt underway for a suspect accused of shooting five people on a busy highway in what is being called a planned attack. And Football Season officially in full swing. And the Super Bowl halftime michelle just revealed what Kendrick Lamar saying about his big moment in new orleans. Im Kate Bolduan with John Berman and sara sidner. This is cnn new central its going to be one of the most critical moments in the president ial elections so far, the first debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in preparations are already in full swing this morning. All while new numbers from a New York Times Sienna College Poll showing just how critical Tomorrow Night is going to be among likely voters, right now, the
President trump is just one week away. Apparently in her Debate Prep, harris is focusing on ways to rattle trump. Yep, she wants to rattle trump. Right now shes deciing whether to wear a jacket that says irs or fbi. Good Morning Welcome to Morning Joe its wednesday, september 4th, along with joe, willie, and me. Is It September already . What . It is. Its school time, its falls coming, summers over. Nothing to weep about. Just an election straight ahead. Yikes. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early, Jonathan Lemire. Chief white House Correspondent for the New York times, peter baker, and New York times Opinion Columnist, David French joins us this morning. Good to have you all with us. Great to have everybody with us. Jonathan lemire, Mike Barnicle and i will certainly tell you that summer is likely over and as barnacle would say, time to put the shutters on the windows, the seasons over. The Red Sox desperately i mean, the royals who keep losing and the twi
Cybersecurity and cisas cybersecurity and infrastructure Security Acting director and we will have with us today i think hes joining a little bit later. Senator warner is the vice chair of the intelligence committee, representative will hurd whos the Ranking Member of the subcommittee on intelligence modernization and readiness and on the house intelligence committee, and representative underwood, from the subcommittee on cybersecurity, infrastructure , protections, and innovation. And i thought we would start where we just ended, which is we just heard from the cybersecurity and infrastructure cybersecurity agencys acting director from the department of Homeland Security. And the reason why we have an acting director is that the president fired the director , chris krebs. And maybe ill start with representative underwood and then turn to representative hurd, but to see what do you make of the firing of our lead cybersecurity officials. Well, thanks for having me. Hi, everybody. Really
Cybersecurity threats. I want to welcome our guests and remind folks please submit questions and i will read them toward the end of the session today. Just heard from cyberSecurity Acting director, senator warner is the vice chair of the Intelligence Community, representative will heard who in addition to being a cochair of the Cyber Security group is the Ranking Member on intelligence modernization on the health house Intelligence Community. And underwood on the subcommittee on Cybersecurity Infrastructure protection and innovation. I thought i would start with the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Acting director from the department of Homeland Security and the reason we have an acting director, the president fired the director, maybe i will start with representative underwood and turn to representative heard to see what you make of the fire ring of cybersecurity officials. Hi, everybody. I oppose any effort to politicize the National Security department and agency. Our last inve
Welcome, matt, thank you for appearing here. Good to be here with you. Spinal tap thing behind you. Matt it is relegated to the basement and this was the lightest corner i could find. It gets a nine on room rater i want to talk about the walk up to the election, but i think everyone is most interested that you resigned after chris was fired at the Cybersecurity Infrastructure agency. Walk us through two weeks before the election before the firing and what it was like to be cisa. s eisa inside the election was four weeks ago today and we knew that the results process would be protracted because of the mailin voting. So we were gaming out some of the contingencies that we wanted to be prepared for. We get through the weekend and before it was called for biden, it was the day before when politico dropped a piece about a Government Agency that you have never heard of that is countering the president s lawyers claims about impropriety and fraud. That night, i saw at first. I saw it first. I