she previewed the president s speech on thursday, take a listen. no, it s not this is an opportunity for the president to directly have a conversation with the with the american people. the republican party is dominated, intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans and that s a threat to this country. alicia: and we are going to have to get back to that because we are now going to head out to tupelo, mississippi, where the mayor there will be speaking regarding the rogue plane that was stolen this morning by an airport employee according to officials and is now on the ground and the suspect is in custody. let s listen in to the press conference for officials. without all the help and assistance and being prepared, the main concern for us was the citizens of this community, the citizen of this city and action that is our guys took earlier and emergency services divisions was just to make sure that we were prepared for what might
thursday and then we ll talk. democracy cannot survive on one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election, either they win, or they were cheated. you can t love your country only when you win. susan, what did you make of this? this is not necessarily a president that went after the former presidents followers in this way. and even naming the former president. he didn t use the word trump up until this point. he is also a president that has had an incredible summer. lot of legislative winds. the approval rating is. up the economy is looking stronger. good jobs reports out. there could be possible of inflation ticking down where it s just a tap. what did you make of it? it was a beautiful speech. i loved hearing it. i think unfortunately it s from
follow this for more developments. alicia: thank you, griff. we are going to continue the conversation that we started there. i told you guys it was coming. al matter and ted harvey, before we went to the news conference we played a piece from karine jean-pierre where she explained that the president s speech on thursday was not going to be political, that it was a direct conversation with the american people, reminder, and that the president in his speech said that the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga that is a threat to this country. al, how is that not political and how is that a conversation? well, it s both, alicia. both in you re talking about a political party but the point that the secretary is trying to make that the underlying problem is real. there are facts that evident to anyone that our democracy is more at risk now because of the fact that millions of americans mostly on the right believe the last election was s
alone. trump is going to be there holding his own rally on saturday. and i should note in the president s speech on thursday, it is going to harken back to that message you often heard from him on the campaign trail about democracy being under attack. governor kasich, republicans have tried to go ahead. yeah. i was going to say, look, there is no excuse and no republicans are going to stand up and defund the fbi. and that s wrong to attack this kind of an institution. we have to see how this all plays out. but it s interesting to see joe biden trying to turn the tables and say, i m not for defunding the police, when as you know, the democratic party has been playing catch-up because of the sense of some people in the party, extremists just like you have in the republican party, extremists in the democratic party saying we should defund the police. we re not defunding the police. in fact we re refunding them because we understand the implications. when it comes to the attacks on t
no. but we re trying to keep him out of the hospital and keep him alive and it really will do that. joe biden is one of millions contracting covid as cases rise across the u.s. and the rest of the world. the u.s. centers for disease control says the ba.5 omicron subvariant is now causing about 80% of new covid infections in the u.s. and los angeles county department of health says the high level of community transmission there means universal indoor masking mandate could be enacted as soon as next week. globally cases continue to spread as well. the world health organization says in the past six weeks covid cases have tripled in the european region. a violent attack on an american lawmaker caught on camera, an armed man mounted the stage and attempted to stab republican congressman lee zeldin as he was giving a speech on thursday. zeldin did be seen grabbing the attacker s wrist to stop him