Weekly News Conference said to happen later this hour. We will bring it to you live. And the enemy within, secretary lloyd austin orders every branch of the military to stand down over the next two months, after an investigation of homegrown extremism within its ranks goes on. We are live with that development coming up. Im Hallie Jackson In Washington Along With Garrett Haik and former Virginia Republican congresswoman barra comstock. Garrett, let me start with you. We are expecting to see some stuff go down in the house today. You have new reporting from your team and your sources pulling back the curtain on what went on behind the scenes in that gop meeting. Reporter a fivehour meeting, House Republicans are trying to figure out who they will be in the postdonald trump era. The solution they came to for now is try to make the tent as big as possible. Room for both Liz Cheney On One Side and Marjorie Taylor green on The Other Side. Neither member will be punished or chastened in anyw
along with joe, willie and me, we have pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. and president emeritus of the council on foreign relations, richard haass, back with us this morning. he somehow becomes even more distinguished. he does. amazing. erudite is the word that come comes to mind. yes. willie, we ll get to the whistleblower that comer couldn t find, and then must be humiliated, as they found him in the southern district of new york. oh boy. oh no. a spy or something like that. we ll get to the details in a little bit. seriously, the gang that couldn t shoot straight, they keep getting the political gun, aiming it right at their foot, right? it s absolutely crazy. willie, last night, of course, midsummer, one of the most fun annual traditions, not joey chestnut eating nathan s hot dog eating contest for the 16th time. 16th time, you have to love the guy. the home run derby last night, how exciting?
he says are threatening the very foundations of our republic. plus, trump s lawyers and the justice department face off in federal court. we ll explain the big developments to come out of the special master hearing. and, a hot holiday weekend arrives with little to no running water for nearly 200,000 people in mississippi. the state has troops on the ground to help in the water crisis. good morning. and welcome to way too early. i m jonathan lemire. on this friday, september 2nd. thank you for starting your day with us. we ll begin in philadelphia, where president joe biden issued a dire warning about threats to american democracy last night, in a rare prime time address. standing outside historic independence hall, where the united states constitution was written and signed, the president spoke directly about the dangers posed by the trump-backed wing of the republican party. here s some of what he had to say. quality and democracy are under assault. we do ourselves
dana perino along with judge jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, jesse watters, greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. republicans trying to seize the momentum after slugging it out at another contentious debate, the big talk of the night was a blowup between nikki haley and vivek ramaswamy that devolved into a series of personal insults. i want to be careful to avoid making the mistakes from the neocon establishment in the past. do you want a leader from a different generation who is going to put this country first or do you want dick cheney in 3-inch heels. they are 5-inch heels, and i don t wear them unless you can run in them. in the last debate she made fun of me for actually joining tiktok. well come her own daughter was actually using the app for a long time so you might want to take care of your family leave my daughter out of your voice. dana: wasn t just the taunts, candidates digging into the issues that americans care most abou
which is been the focal point for the last 12 months the republicans have been getting hammered on. we need to humanize it. we need to care about the mother do certain things and come to common ground. i think she did the best job articulating that. you saw on a fox news poll that she went up 17% from that debate in terms of people wanting nikki haley as her preference after the first debate. if she continues the message like that she could chewed up before the next debate on foxbusiness. where does she go from here? i think she did a really good job. putting herself at the top of the establishment. we will see a number of these in the mega lane with president trump. ron desantis was kind of in that lane. nikki haley has come forward to be the one in the establishment lane. also the ambassador to the un and the foreign policy side. if she continues to do that in