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
classified briefing where secretary pompeo, secretary shanahan came before us and received those challenges and questions from congress. but the actions of iran need to be deterred, and they need to be deterred of course short of military action, and that s certainly what we re seeing from the administration. how? we re seeing increased troops in the area and our allies are incredibly important because they re threatened by iran and their actions. nancy pelosi said this dep lee concerning decision may escalate the decision with iran and risk serious miscalculations on either side. on iran and on the increased hostilities from iran including the intense pressure that is being placed on iran in the