president biden is expected to slam election deniers into a surprise speech tonight. the lead starts right now, six days from the midterms president biden has something to say, adding a prime time speech to his calendar taking on the heightened political climate. as the election rolls in candidates are rolling out their closing message. plus, the plan to rope supreme court clarence thomas into the 2020 election. why a trump lawyer called thomas the only chance to delay the process. and north korea is firing off its longest short-range missiles in one day as cnn also learned the rogue nation is secretly supplying russia with weapons. hello and welcome to the lead. i m brianna keilar in for jake tapper. the countdown is on in our politics lead. just six days left until the votes are counted in the congressional balance of power decided. a brand-new cnn poll suggests republican candidates have the momentum. 51% of likely voters say they ll vote for the republican can
plus, living at the extreme. major flooding on the east coast, explosive wildfires out west, and fears of blackouts due to record heat and stress on the power grids. and companies call on employees to return to the office after labor day, but that s not what many workers want. might their push to work from home motivate your own conversation with your boss? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin this hour on democracy watch in our politics lead. monitoring the latest evidence of the pernicious and growing threat against the american experiment itself. former president trump continuing to endorse and help election liars win. republican primaries for offices that are relevant to your vote s integrity. trump s pick for the republican primary in massachusetts today is someone who falsely said that the 2020 election was, quote, rigged. and who will, trump says, quote, rule with an iron fist. trump is also talking about pardoning those who violently attacked the cap
plus, the damage is so bad florida authorities can barely make out where property is, let alone search the property. and rescue missions are now recovery missions. six days after ian, crews cannot confirm who is missing and who might still be alive. areas getting food drops. and audio recordings of oath keepers with a plot to reverse the will of the american people and keep trump in office using force. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we begin with that breaking news. president trump asking the u.s. supreme court to intervene over the seizure by the fbi of documents from his home at mar-a-lago. the latest shocking development in this legal battle after fbi agents searched his home in august and seized more than 100 classified documents. trump s request is to ask the supreme court to reverse the 11th circuit court ruling. that ruling of course gave the justice department access to review those classified documents recovered from trump s florida estate. his latest requ
the inflation reduction act yesterday at the white house just hours after the release of new disappointing data on inflation and as the stock market fell while he spoke. we ll look at the next possible steps to help bring down costs for americans. plus we ll get into the latest developments on the documents seized from mar-a-lago as a judge unseals more information about the search and the possibility that trump might be holding on to more classified information. and also ahead, south carolina senator lindsey graham unites republicans and democrats, but not in the way he hoped. we ll have about his bill that upsets some on both soids of the aisle. good morning, welcome to way too early on this wednesday, september 14th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. a judge has unsealed previous hi redacted information relating to the fbi search of former president trump s mar-a-lago home and club in palm beach, florida. the bulk of the material has to do wi
today brittney griner told the russian judge she is realty of drug charges and random political retribution, the top deputy say they were both audited by the top irs after they angered the then president. johnson finally deciding that math was overwhelming. that after nearly 60 cabinet ministers resigned their post in just the past 48 hours. johnson today speaking out 10 downing street was trademarked defiant. instead, johnson laid out a bullet point list of what he considers considerable achievement during his nearly 3 year watch . is inflicted lies, fraud and chaos in the country. and bring a vote of no- confidence because we can t go on with his prime minister clinging on for months and months to come . it will be actively contesting. the overall impression that it is back to business as usual . in the current process of picking a replacement for johnson which he did not detail and didn t say when it would take could take weeks or even months . uncharted without a doubt.