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today on this special labor day edition of inside politics. tries to earn his nickname. joe biden spends labor day in philadelphia making the case to the union rank and file he is still their man in washington and deserves another it turn in the white house. a 2024 snapshot makes clear the republican primary is donald trump s to lose, but are the four criminal indictments a sugar high, putting the former president on a course crash. a mess of their own making. reporting from cnn s capitol hill team underline the mountain congress needs to climb and climb quickly to avoid a shutdown. i m manu raju in for dana bash. behind the headlines and inside politics. joe biden this labor day who he s talking to and what it tells us about 2024. the current president s team sees shaky ground. mr. biden is in philadelphia home turf, the audience is what we would think of as reliably blue voters, union workers. but how organized the labor vote is behind the incumbent is simpl ....
is made this morning in a new york courthouse. donald trump will be the first former president and presumptive presidential nominee to face a criminal trial arriving just minutes ago for the start of jury selection in the new york hush money cases. he faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels in the run-up to the 2016 president election. the focus of the trial today, choosing the men and women who will decide this case from a pool of thousands. we have a team inside the courthouse watching it all as it unfolds. we have a team as well with us right now to talk you through it. nbc s vaughn hillyard is standing by outside the courthouse. also with us chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and senior fib official. maya wiley a former u.s. district attorney. williams who is a former prosecutor. thank you all for being part of our coverage. vaughn, let s start there at the courthouse. walk us ....
at the time. but we hear that the decisions he made, there is nothing he can say to you that can improve things. what would you like him to say? things. what would you like him to sa ? , ., , things. what would you like him to sa ? , . , ., things. what would you like him to sa? say? anything he has to say could have been said say? anything he has to say could have been said a say? anything he has to say could have been said a long say? anything he has to say could have been said a long time - say? anything he has to say could have been said a long time ago i say? anything he has to say could l have been said a long time ago that we are nearly four years since the beginning of the pandemic. it is continuing, people are continuing to die every week. i don t think he has got anything helpful to say at this point other than to tell the truth about why decisions were made and why failures happen in the kale that was at the heart of his government. do you think he ....
those two cases were on the 30th and sist those two cases were on the 30th and 31st of january and there would almost certainly be more. the central point according to these minutes is that government had a plan to deal with illness. yes. you didn t in fact, plan to deal with illness. 133 you didn t in fact, within the department of health and social care, commission until the 10th of february the plan, the battle plan as you describe in your statement, or the action plan as it was published on the 3rd of march. and therefore, what plan was it that you were referring to cabinet colleagues too, to deal with the illness? firstly, we had the pandemic flu strategy set out in 2011, but by this point we had a whole series of different plans for expanding different plans for expanding different areas. so we had a plan for the expansion of testing within the hd. that plan didn t go fast enough and i had to take serious action to change that in the middle of march. we had a pl ....
there were the strong personalities within downing street and the strong personalities that went on to dominate and the toxicity within the whole decision making process at the time. he didn t defend that, per se, but he did note some kind of defence about how the strong personalities were needed and it is not surprising they were there at the time because it is those people that i got the government to where it was in the first place. he government to where it was in the first lace. . ~ government to where it was in the first place- government to where it was in the first lace. ., ~ ., , ., first place. he talked about his own decision making first place. he talked about his own decision making process first place. he talked about his own decision making process and - first place. he talked about his own decision making process and how . first place. he talked about his own i decision making process and how that was influenced by people outside government and he c ....