Welcome back, you are watching a special third hour of the weekend this morning. President biden insisting he will remain on the 2024 ticket even as congressional deck at democrats say you should step aside. After dates being sidelined by but, his team is planning trips to georgia and texas when he bounces back. Axios reports democratic officials are urging biden to make a decision on his future this weekend but many biden officials, including the president himself, indicated that the matter is already settled. Joining us now, deputy campaign manager for biden/harris 2024, quentin fulks. It is good to see you my friend. I want to start with comments from nancy pelosi at the unity dinner in a north carolina last night. Elections are not about rewarding you for what you have done. They are about what you are going to do next. And what you are going to do next, we can prove as president biden, vice president kamala harris did, as we did, as the democratic majority, that we know how to do
supported by elected republicans how would president trump lose in an atmosphere like that. aided by allies all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. backed by unconstitutional legal strategies to declare president trump re-elected and accepted by millions. how many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people? this morning as we approach the one-year anniversary of the january 6th insurrection, i ll talk to congressman bennie thompson, chair of the january 6th committee, and to peter meijer, the rare elected house republican willing to admit publicly that joe biden won the election. we ll also look at how the big lie had its start in the 2016 campaign. the only way we can lose, in my opinion i really mean this, pennsylvania is if cheating goes on. then our democracy is in peril if only one side is willing to admit that it lost an election. welcome to sunday and a special edition of meet the press. announcer: from nbc ne
[the star-spangled banner] [the star-spangled banner] brian: jenny buffett has died. rachel: we are remembering the sender behind margaritaville who turned his love for sailing, surfing and beach life into a billion-dollar business empire. will: marianne rafferty joins us with more. reporter: a message was posted on jimmy buffett s social media page saying he passed away peacefully on september 1st surrounded by family, friends, music, and the dog. he lived his life like a song to his last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many. buffett was a two time grammy nominee recording 50 albums, most of them going gold, platinum or multiplatinum and is best known for his songs like it is 5:00 summer, come monday, cheeseburger in paradise, margaritabill, just to name a few. wasted away again margaritaville reporter: he turned the beach lifestyle into a billion-dollar business empire known for his chain of margaritaville restaurants, land shark beer and
ron desantis, he will join us in a few moments. but first, here with the verysto latest on the ground in charleston tonight, katy burn. katy, what s going on theree: ? hi, sean. well, here in charleston, we re just getting ove her r high tide, which was what a lot of people were worried about. what happened was streets turned into flooded roads likein this because the seawall, which is right in this direction, you can t see it right now because ofw becaus how it is. we watched for hours waves from the charleston harbor crash over that seawall and unfortunately, flood roads in charleston s battery thosalso across downtown those seawalls typically protect the charleston peninsula, wherellyprotec you ke got these gorgeous historic homes, businesses where people sandbags laid out to try to stop some of the water from gettino stopom gettig in. but it s not just flooding thato we ve been monitoring here in thering of south carolina. h we ve seen tornadoes touched down acrosav tou
specifically south carolina. florida governor ron desantis, he will join us in a few moments. but first hear with the very latest on the ground in charleston tonight is katie bern. what is going on there? reporter: here in charleston, we are getting over a high tide which was what a lot of people were right about. what happened was streets turned into flooded roads like this because the seawall which is right in this direction, you can t see right now because of how dark it is. with watch for hours, waste from the charleston harbor crash over the seawall and unfortunately, flooded roads in charleston saturday. and also, across downtown charleston. those sea walls typically protect the charleston peninsula where, you know, we have got these gorgeous historic homes. businesses where people have sandbags laid out to try to stop some of the water from getting in but it is not just flooding that we have been monitoring here in the state of south carolina. we have seen tornadoes