I would do fox, too. Id do fox, too. But right now we have to determine whether we want to do it. We had a Great Night Last night. Thats Donald Trump on a possible Debate Rematch with Vice President Kamala Harris. It comes as hes facing criticism from his own party for his performance tuesday night. Well bring you the latest fallout from that consequential showdown. Meanwhile, one of trumps most egregious lies from the debate is now forcing the city of springfield, ohio, to reassure americans that migrants there are not eating pets. Well show you the response from city officials. And then from Capitol Hill, speaker Mike Johnson pulled a Spending Bill off the House Floor hours before lawmakers were supposed to vote on it. Well explain why and what could happen next. Good Morning And Welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, september 12th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. We have a lot to get to this morning, and well begin with Donald Trumps Debate Performance
to commemorate the 18th anniversary of september 11th. it s somber and beautiful driving into the city this morning. a reminder of what the city has gone through. and a reminder to remember what happened. never forget. well said. welcome back to early start. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. it s thursday, september 12th. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. the white house taking a step to curb the vaping epidemic. the trump administration looking to ban flavored e-cigarettes with specifics expected in coming weeks. teens are smoking less tobacco, doing less drugs and drinking less alcohol but vaping is a concern. federal health officials find a quarter, 28% of all high school students use e-cigarettes. staggering number, nearly doubled from 2017 to 2018. vaping has become a big
uber, all big businesses, leading the way. privately, many of the ceos said something has to be done. a retailer can say, you can t carry a weapon in our store tomorrow, in open carry states. they can do that. but congress has to change the laws. 98%, universal background checks. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. i m dave briggs. we ll be on at 3:00 eastern time tomorrow. here s new day. welcome to our viewers all around the world and the united states. this is thursday, september 12th. it s 6:00 here in new york. and a big day. it s like the first day back at school but bigger. for the first time all leading democratic candidates will be on the same debate stage which means that for the first time, former vice president joe biden and elizabeth warren will face each other directly.
those who went to war in its things not necessarily tougher name, for those still dying they than me, john s known as a tough guy, he is so tough, he got us rushed in to help. into iraq, that s tough. and john wasn t in line with that s it for september 11th, what we were doing and actually in some cases he thought it was 2019. thank you for being too tough what we were doing. mr. tough guy. you know, you have to go into iraq. going into iraq was something that he felt very strongly it is a great day in about. so we re right now in, for over america. we will lay out where things stand as the top democratic $7 trillion into the middle east. but we were set back very presidential candidates appear on stage together for the very badly when john bolton talked first time. about the libyan model. plus, president trump takes a and he made a mistake. fewal security adviser john and as soon as he mentioned that, the libyan model, what a bolton but the big question now is whether it could
alleviate some of that. there s more affordable housing in the works and he hopes the issue will be better in the next year or two. we ll see if that happens. well, this is a blight on our nation that that many people are without homes. completely. very good to see you back, my friend. we ve missed you. you could have bangs too. i ve been admiring yours. it might be awhile before i have them. we ll share yours. thank you. all right. it is thursday, september 12th. the last ditch plea to trump on guns. after spending 40 minutes on a call with trump and his staff, pat toomey and chris murphy and joe manchin are waiting for any word from the white house. they were told to expect a decision on gun control measures as soon as today. they ve been urging the president to support the manchin-toomey gun legislation that expands background checks to cover private sellers on the internet and gun shows. more than 24 hours ago, the president said he and senators were coming up with some