so maybe 14. anyway, all move on. the midterms are coming in 13 days, we ve got mayors and lot enforcement officials who are getting a new warning, sadly, about election intimidation. we have extremists who are looking to disrupt the midterms, at the local level, targeting voters, targeting candidates, targeting election workers, all according to axios. let s bring in our panel, we have cnn chief law enforcement intelligence analyst john miller. new york democratic senator mondale jones, and political analyst ron brownstein. so this is so disturbing, guys, obviously when we think of extremism, i think we think in terms of january 6th, the insurrection, something on a national scale. locally, there are all sorts of examples of people be unintimidated, and just awful things happening. here are a few examples, this comes from axios. in 50 out of 67 pennsylvania counties, election chiefs have left because of threats, harassment, and intimidation. in idaho, protesters and hung i
people, till midterm elections, really two weeks from today we ll know a lot more. anyway i ll move on. the midterms are coming in 13 days and you ve got mayors and law enforcement officials who are getting a new warning sadly about election intimidation. you ve got extremists looking to disrupt midterms at the local level targeting voters, candidates, election workers according to axios. let s bring in our panel. cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller, new york democratic congressman jones and senior political analyst ron brownstein. when we think of extremism, i think we think in terms of january 6th , the insurrection, something on a national scale. locally there are all sorts of examples of people being intimidated and just awful things happening. here are a few examples coming from axios. in 50 out of 67 pennsylvania counties election chiefs have left because of threats, harassment and intimidation. in idaho protesters hung an effigy at a republ
forth their ideas because they have no plan. independents and democrats, to all americans. todd: you are watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus issue not just the midterms americans should be worried about, democrat voters do not want biden at the top of the party ticket in 2024, even though the white house says he plans to run for re-election. here is more from washington. historically, even if a president is polling well heading into the midterm, tips for their party are typically lost and president biden is not near the fairly well territory at all. 56% of democrats desire someone other than the president to run two years from now, 35% preferring biden try for a second term, which is technically still two years off. former white house press secrjen psaki says here is what will happen. if the election is about who is the most extreme, as we saw kevin mccarthy touch on with marjorie taylor green, sitting over his left side, then t
not every republican is a maga republican. maga republicans, the extreme right and trumpys. if this is how they have to motivate their base, we are in for dark, dark days. [cheers] it s my time. why not me for the breakthrough at the u.s. open. i m back back in the n new new york nek groove. we hope you had a wonderful weekend. thanks for waking up with us. a little rainy out there. 57 degrees today. summer is not officially over until september 21st. brian: no, today. ainsley: everyone goes back to school up here in the northeast today usually. steve: they do. if you are sending your kids off to school today, good morning, we will start you for the new school season. it feels like back to school here on the set though because do you know who is back? ed is back. ed has been gone for a little while. carley: ed, i haven t seen him this morning he is back? where is ed back there, brian? steve: he is downstairs. carley: ever so glad you are back. he had hea
today after a break for the holiday weekend, the day, federal prosecutors in washington, d.c., resumed prosecuting a case against five members of the oath keepers on charges of seditious conspiracy, or trying to overthrow the government. last week zeroed in on the group s founder, stewart rhodes. but today s former afghanistan veteran. her name is jessica watkins. introduced evidence that watkins discussed cutting off pool cues to serve as antifa smasher is. she sought to recruit and train people to join the oath keepers. if it convicted of seditious conspiracy, watkins and her fellow defendants face up to 20 years behind bars. there s been a lot of wrangling on the radar. but today s trial is important because it s another example of individual accountability. and this, case accountability for a small group that s not tweens flicked significant damage. individual accountability does not on its own get to the root of the problem, especially here let s take, for exampl