you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. just days after the january 6 committee exposed a president whose actions were a disaster, there is little evidence that donald trump has lost his mojo with the far right of the republican party. in fact, he was greeted with a hero s welcome last night in florida. watch this, complete with video and pyrotechnics. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 45th president of the united states of america, donald j. trump! and i m proud to be an american where at least i know i m free and i won t forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and remember still today but unlike the lyrics to that lee greenwood song, trump didn t gladly stand up to defend the country on january 6. he sat watching tv fo 187 minutes while the insurrection happened and even last night he wasn t letting go of his bogus election grievances. if i stayed home, if i announce that
you tou court, send you to jail if you refuse to cater tore their every whim. there s a lot more behind this . you re a clinton lawyer named michael sussmann, you get accused credibly of lying to the fbi, a jury of clintons donors. they re going toth clear of all charges and you ll get away scot free if you re eric holder and obstruct justice and obstruct congress rather no charges, no jail time, no fine. we don t have equal justice or application on our laws. well,t with a lot more on this coming up later in the program, also tonight, this is a prettyf unbelievable story. a woman suinga a man he didn t show up for a date. she s suing him. g and while the courtet proceeding is going on , she gets in a huge fight with the judge. here s a preview. you brought my mother to your you are away. so you have some more to play. oh, yes. you have to play. you have not. you re going to love this entire tape. plus, new york republican i gubernatorial candidate lee zeldin will join
Hunter biden. Now weiss says the agreement well apart in july along with hunters plea deal on tax charges. Team hunter disagrees indicating both sides signed the Diversion Agreement. Meanwhile congress now is looking into whistleblower claims that the Secret Service tipped off hunter biden to a potential i. R. S. Interview which foiled those plans for the interview one month after the election of 2020. Jonathan turley telling us last Hour Congress has no choice but to pursue the evidence. This is going to end up with a confrontation between congress and the administration. The question is why the administration is doing this . Its like a game of chicken and they want to see if Congress Jumps out first. Well, congress can change the game. They could start an Impeachment Inquiry and they could say look, we want these answers. Dana were live in washington. Last week we said this Court Hearing will be a week from today. Here we are, david. High stakes for hunter biden . It really is becaus
Demands despite getting the inquiry many of them pushed for. Also ahead what many are learning this morning about russian president Vladimir Putins meeting with north korean dictator kim jongun. All right, good morning. Welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, september 14th. Im sam stein in for jonathan lemire. We begin this morning with the president s comments on House Republicans Impeachment Inquiry. On tuesday speaker Kevin Mccarthy announced hes directing three committees to conduct the inquiry and claims joe biden used his position as Vice President to further his son hunters foreign Business Dealings. Mccarthy made the move without holding a floor vote. Yesterday the president addressed the inquiry for the first time at a democratic fundraiser in virginia. Biden brushed the republican move off saying, quote, not a joke, not focused on impeachment, ive got a job to do. Ive got to deal with the issues that affect the American People every single solitary day. The president also
Week. Just ahead this is a political stunt. I think that it would be very unusual to actually see a referral of impeachment. He looked as though he had been put through an awful lot. He looked tired. Certainly clothing looked weathered from being out there. Wet. They have lived their own personal nightmare. I cant underscore enough that the family sustained. We obviously dont want to see russia get anything that would help them kill more ukrainians. Russia desperately needs ammunition, potentially from north korean sources as well. Live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. It is thursday, september 14, 9 00 a. M. In london, 4 00 a. M. In washington where for the first time u. S. President biden is speaking out about the republican Impeachment Inquiry. At a fund raising event, he said republicans want to impeach help because they want tohut down the government, referring to the looming shutdown in abouo weeks time. He add that he is not focused on impeach