he says are threatening the very foundations of our republic. plus, trump s lawyers and the justice department face off in federal court. we ll explain the big developments to come out of the special master hearing. and, a hot holiday weekend arrives with little to no running water for nearly 200,000 people in mississippi. the state has troops on the ground to help in the water crisis. good morning. and welcome to way too early. i m jonathan lemire. on this friday, september 2nd. thank you for starting your day with us. we ll begin in philadelphia, where president joe biden issued a dire warning about threats to american democracy last night, in a rare prime time address. standing outside historic independence hall, where the united states constitution was written and signed, the president spoke directly about the dangers posed by the trump-backed wing of the republican party. here s some of what he had to say. quality and democracy are under assault. we do ourselves
ukraine s first lady in a speech to congress detailing the suffering caused by russia s invasion and causing for more aid to defeat the enemy. translator: you help us and your help is very strong while russia kills, america saves. i appeal to all of you on behalf of those who were killed, on behalf of those people who lost their arms and legs. i am asking for weapons. weapons that would not be used to wage a war on somebody else s land but to protect one s home and the right to wake up alive in that home. the comments follow new revelations from the white house that putin s army is planning to tighten its grip over eastern ukraine by annexing the donbas region and the territories surrounding the crimean peninsula, fortifying their position away from the port city of odesa. at the start of the year, russia told the world it was not planning to invade ukraine. now we are expected to believe that they re not going to plan to annex ukrainian territory. annexation by force w
good morning. it is saturday, july 30th. i m michael steele in for my friend ali velshi. the january six select committee s historic public hearings may be done for the short term. but, the investigation into the insurrection continues on multiple fronts. the two former senior officials at the center of the latest leaked controversial chad wulf, and former beauty secretary, ken cuccinelli, has responded to a report in the washington post but their text messages leading him to january 6th and vanished. by saying, they did not do it. both former officials took to twitter to blame the former department they worked for, dhs, for the missing text. with wolf adding, quote, dhs has all my texts, emails, phone logs, and schedules. speaking of wolf, the ap report of the select committee has reached out to him could potentially appear. as an act of talks are looking to bring in another high-ranking trump official, including the former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe
i did not shoot my mom and i would never shoot my mom. two trials. every emotion hit. two verdicts. there were only two people who knew what happened that day. one of them s dead and the other one is sitting in that chair. too much to bear. it s just been a hell on earth. hello and welcome to dateline. bill and shirley carter built a comfortable life and raised a family on their sprawling farm in america s heartland. as their golden years approached the couple fell into a routine. daily coffee, working the fields and spending time with the grandkids. but one morning gunshots rang out, leaving shirley dead and planting the seeds of a mystery that would turn one family member against another. here s dennis murphy with the farm. council bluffs, iowa. in a small courtroom the new and final scene of a four-yearlong drama was playing out. count one murder in the first degree. the defendant did with malice and forethought with premeditation
hours after a redacted copy of the affidavit was unsealed. it s not proof of the time, instead it represents the doj is believed that it has probable cause that a trump has been committed. trump s legal team filed a document late last night, to get a special master the editorial boards of major newspapers, the railway in. we ve got the new york times editorial saying donald trump is not above the law. the washington post editorial board says the trump affidavit shows the mar-a-lago search was hardly capricious. the wall street journal editorial board as, the mar-a-lago affidavit, is that all there is? a bit earlier today sheila jackson lee told msnbc have the classified documents in question could be a national security risk. when you think of the names of the sources of individuals who were securing important information through human deeds, human activities, if that was exposed, not only with these individuals be in jeopardy, where they snow in posted in countries aroun