That shows Donald Trumps lead only growing in the republican president ial primary. Well have a lot more on thoz numbers in just a moment. Meanwhile, half of Congress Returns to capitol hill today with a long todo list including a new Federal Budget, but demands from farright members of the house could complicate getting a deal done before the end of the month. Plus Vladimir Putin is turning to yet another dictator for more weaponry for his war in ukraine. Well have that brand new reporting straight ahead. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, september 5th. I hope you enjoyed the long weekend. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day and week with us. New polling shows that Donald Trumps republican primary lead is growing as support collapses for the person who was once viewed as his most viable opponent. In the latest Wall Street Journal survey 359 of gop primary voters say that trump is their choice for 2024. Thats up from 48 in april. In second place do
Im david culver. We start you off with news out of the white house which says that jill biden has tested positive for covid19. The first lady spokesperson adding that she is currently experiencing only mild symptoms she will remain at their home in rehoboth beach. The president tested negative. And mr. Biden who is 80 will be tested regularly this week and monitored for symptoms. U. S. Officials say north Korean Leader kim jungun expected to meet facetoface with Vladimir Putin to discuss possibly selling weapons to help russia in its war in ukraine. You are looking at footage from previous meetings they have had. A National Security Council Spokesperson urged pyongyang to cease arms talks and stick to its promises not to sell arms to russia. Kristie lu stout is live in hong kong this morning. Good to see you. So do we have a sense of when or where this inperson meeting between kim and putin might actually take place . Reporter we do. According to reports it could take place sometime th
Beyond those who have been so outspoken to push back on that. Will we see other senators come out today and take a flake or corkerlike position on that . Well find out. But right now i doubt it. A standing ovation. I want to bring my panel in. Robert costa, National Political reporter for the Washington Post and bret stephens, an oped columnist for the New York Times and megan murphy, the editor of Bloomberg Business week. Brett, i want to start with you. One trump critic said the ice is beginning to crack. What were seeing with bob corker, with jeff flake, youre going to see more republicans follow suit. Do you think thats the case . Follow suit in denouncing the president . Yes. Or in renouncing their political ambitions. Fair point. This is the key thing. Theres a law in economics, greshams law, bad money drives out good. In a sense what we have is bad republican politicians driving out good ones who are just removing themselves literally
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a criminal contempt referral at this stage and who are they going to continue to negotiate with? and i think we re going to see that play out through the course of today. of course, this was supposed to be the day that steve bannon, the former trump white house counsellor, a fire brand conservative commentator and a trump booster and big booster of the big lie of the election results and carb patel, the former dod official at the pentagon on the day of january 6th, were supposed to appear before the select committee for private depp stations. now, we believe neither of the men will show. we know in fact carb patel is not going to show and steve bannon has made it through communications with his lawyers that he s planning to defy the subpoena requests so the question is what will we find out later today about the way that the committee plans to respond to both of these men? it s clear that patel is still engaging with the committee on some level. how cooperative he s being, they aren t
economy coming up. and the amazon rain forest is burning. we ll break down the devastating, long-term effects this could have on global warming and the air that we breathe. let s begin with the 2020 democratic presidential field getting smaller while a republican contender may emerge to primary president trump. democratic washington state governor jay inslee is out of the race. he s telling supporters in an e-mail today he is going to run for a third term as governor. he made the announcement last night on nbc to rachel maddow. it s become clear i am not going to be carrying the ball, not going to be the president, so i am withdrawing tonight from the race but i have to tell you i ve been fighting cliechmate change for 25 years. i ve never been so confident of the ability of america to move the ball. there could be a new presidential hopeful on the republican side. former illinois congressman joe walsh, currently a fire brand conservative radio host, calls president trump a, quot