washington. we re in the situation room. we want to welcome our sures near the united states and around the world. we re standing by to hear from president biden as he faces reporters to hear about the classified documents found in his former private office here in washington. any moment now, president biden will face reporters as he attends this key summit in mexico city. right now let s bring in our chief white house correspondent phil mattingly. phil, the revelation of classified documents found at the president s former office here in washington has clearly overshadowed his trip to mexico right now. he is about to face questions from reporters there. we ll have live coverage of that coming up. but set the scene for us. what you re looking at right now is where the president s focus has been and where white house officials have wanted it to be over the course of these last two turbulent days, given the revelations tied to those ten classified documents that were discov
fights behind closed doors. you walk out and wow. willie what? you know. nancy pelosi would never allow this never. to happen. never. you just don t go out there and get humiliated three times in a row. what a contrast. nancy pelosi never went to the house floor. people saying, what it s going to happen? you went to the house floor, you knew if nancy put it on the floor it s going to pass. did all the work before. hear from a lot of people, willie, kevin pl m had a month to lock it up and didn t do it. he didn t flow how to closed deal so humiliated yesterday. i got to say, that marjorie taylor greene fed up saying she s had enough. you had kevin mccarthy attacking members of his own caucus yesterday. you have the wall street journal editorial page, gop chaos caucus. house republicans said they want to drain the swamp and save america, but they can t even get through day one without a display of dysfunction. it s just it s just chaos. new york post a
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
hatching right now, a deadly shooting at a dallas hospital sparking outrage today. the suspect, on parole and wearing an ankle bracelet. plus, a pledge to keep the student debt relief program moving full speed ahead, just as a court rules to hit the brakes for loan cancellations for now. and which major retailers won t be open on thanksgiving day? you re live in the cnn newsroom. hello, everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. in new york, officials say they re working to tackle the rising crime on the subway system. the city has sewn a seen a wavef crimes like this one. police releasing video of someone pushing someone off a subway platform. police are searching for the suspect. the nypd says subway crimes have skyrocketed 41% from the same time last year. the mayor and governor announcing new plans to address the problems. cnn s reporter is joining us live now. gloria, what are officials saying? reporter: that video you just showed there in many ways
rival, reasserted communist party control over every aspect of chinese city. what we know is tomorrow when we see his top advisers revealed, is that he s going to be stacking it with his closest advisers and loyalists. so in this next term, expect xi jinping to double down on his ironclad rule, so a more authoritarian china at home and a more aggressive china abroad. fredricka? possibly more surprises. selina wang, thank you so much. all right. hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. with just over two weeks until midterm election decides who controls congress, voters are turning out in big numbers across the country to cast their ballots early. so far nearly 6 million people have already voted in the midterm elections. in georgia, more than 660,000 voter have already cast their ballots. that number is not far off the early voting turnout for the 2020 presidential election, and it s a quarter of a million more than the early voting turnout f