whose ex wife accused him of abuse, and schmidt is the state attorney general who joined trump s lawsuit to overturn the 2020 election. both want to be the endorsement of trump and trump taunted taunted leave decision by simply endorsing eric. it s unclear how much trumps endorsement manners matters at all. to me it s a little bit alarming because this man is no longer a former president to a lot of these people. he is like a god, he is something that they look up to and to me a lot of times maybe he isn t the best person to look up to. that doesn t mean to say that he didn t do a lot of good things, especially for the middle class community, but i think people are running a little too far with his influence. over in arizona where polls close in just two hours, trump is backing a poll of election deniers in the republican gubernatorial primary. trump went for carey lake, she has made her trump s false claims of a storm election the centerpiece of her campaign. and an extr
also on the ballot today, reproductive rights in kansas. a referendum there would strip women of their rights to choose unless enough people vote no. and we all know speaker nancy pelosi is a bad ass. she arrived in taiwan today even though china is furious about the trip. plus, trevor reed the former marine who spent three years behind bars in russia and is now speaking out for the release of brittney griner and paul whelan. he joins me right here tonight. we begin with a huge night of primaries in some key battleground states. voters in five states are casting their ballots setting up critical showdowns for this november, and the stakes could not be higher. the choices voters make could very well determine whether or not this country remains a democracy, and that claim is not made hyperbolically. we saw how our democracy was pushed to the brink in 2020 with the twice-impeached former president pushing the lie that the election he lost was rigged. of course it wasn t, an
Trumps interview with new Meet The Press moderator kristen welker. Well have more of his comments including the delusion hes taken credit for following the 2020 election. Plus, President Joe Biden is in new york this morning ahead of the speech tomorrow in front of the United Nations. Well have a preview of what else is on his agenda for the highly anticipated summit. And also ahead, the latest from capitol hill on the looming Government Shutdown. Republicans have a new shortterm solution, but its not clear if they have enough votes from within their own party to pass it. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, september 18th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day and week with us. And well begin with this. Former President Donald Trump takes responsibility for trying to overturn the 2020 election. Let that sink in. In a wideranging exclusive interview with new Meet The Press moderator kristen welker, trump saud it was, quote, his call to believe the false
wallace. ever since charged were handed down against donald trump, the ex president has seen returning to the white house as his best defense. no one is more aware of this than jack smith. jack smith asked the supreme court to rule on donald trump s bid to have the charges ruled out because the alleged crimes took place while he was president. this is not new. judge tanya chutkan rejected that claim and trump appealed. jack smith is asking the supreme court to leap frog the appeals court and settle the matter once and for all. the special counsel s move setting up the first, but maybe not the last time, the supreme courtla a role in the united states versus donald trump. prosecutors say, quote, this caserents a fundamental question at the heart ofur democracy. whether a fmer president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed ile in office or is constitutionally protect from federal prosecution when he s been impeached by the house, but not convicte
as you mentioned, the president of bolivia, luis arce seems to have successfully contained at this apparent military interaction by the end of the army, generalzuniga, interaction by the end of the army, general zuniga, who was arrested and people are speculating about the words he said when he was arrested, suggesting that somehow according to him he was acting on the orders of luis arce and people suggesting, a self coup, which is of course speculation and there will be a lot of speculation in the next hours about that but at this moment, luis arce seems to be in control and has removed the former military high command and installed people he feels are loyal to him and at this moment the situation is apparently under control. what do we know about the military general who tried to take over central la paz, and what his aims were? extremely controversial and extremely ambiguous. general zuniga was a military intelligence specialist and known to have very close contacts in th