President Kamala Harris to speak together at a Labor Day Rally in the key Battleground State of Pennsylvania President stepping up his new role as a top Paris Campaign surrogate also this hour, israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing hamas will pay a heavy we price after the bodies of six hostages were recovered In Gaza. And hes asking for forgiveness amid huge protests over his failure to secure a hostage release deal. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im Alex Marquardt and youre in the Situation Room we begin with the race for the White House we begin with the race for the White House as Labor Day, marks, the unofficial kickoff to the final sprint to Election Day. Were standing by for Kamala Harris to make her pitch to Working Class Voters in pittsburgh with a high profile assist from president Joe Biden, cnns kayla tausche. She is on the ground for us and joins us now, kayla, pennsylvania is a mustwin for K
right now on early start, the new poll releasing this very minute showing nikki haley is closing the gap on donald trump in one early primary state. plus the republican front runner planning to be in court just hours from now while his lawyers argue he s immune from prosecution. hi, everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. good to see all of you. i m omar jimenez in for kasie hunt. it is tuesday, january 9th. we are we have a lot of news to get to. let s get going. we want to start with 5:00 a.m. in washington. we have a brand new cnn poll for you all. that poll shows donald trump s lead narrowing as nikki haley surges. the former president now at 39% of likely gop primary voters with haley just 7 points behind at 32%. the rest of the field hovers at least 20 points further back in the poll taken just this week. chris christie is at 12% fo followed by vivek ramaswamy and ron desantis in single digits. now trump is roughly where he was
ukraine will never be a victory for russia. what does victory look like and are we give them enough to win the war or just surviving? if you want victory, we have to do more. plus, rising tensions. you are approaching chinese airspace. as the u.s. continues to warn china about sending weapons to ukraine, tensions are rising in the south china sea. is the pentagon preparing to move more troops to taiwan? my guests this morning, if national security adviser to president biden jake sullivan and dan sullivan of alaska. and off the rails. i sincerely hope that when all of the politicians get here including biden to get back from touring ukraine that he s got some money left over. donald trump travels to the site of the toxic train derailment in ohio to bash the biden administration for focusing more overseas, creating the first real split screen moment of the 2024 campaign. joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news chief white house correspondent kristen
selling and then the rapidly developing clash in washington as we re getting new details about what the true republican agenda may be in the congress or in the people running for president. there are prominent conservatives that are reviving an idea long left for dead and interesting one that barack obama himself warned about on the midterm campaign trail. the idea, bringing back what was once a bush era plan to change or gut social security. the president tonight we re told will say much more about how he plans to reshape social security. the system is headed toward bankruptcy. i earned capital in the campaign, political capital. strengthen it, improve it, do not privatize it. even though some consider it, some the third rail of american politics. some are afraid to touch it. some don t want to touch it. some provide excuses not to touch it. [ laughter ] do you want to touch it? even in friendly territory it s fair to say he s finding that his plan is going t
[laughter] i heard that one already. will: yeah. try having a sitdown with that person. it never goes well. we have had it. you leave right now and play now and give you six months pay. that s half of your entire contract. please, just just go. [ laughter ] see if i stay the whole year, i get it all. will: sound logic. george always had sound logic. i don t know if we can say the same for the city of oakland in california who in this analogy is george castanza. they haven t sat back and realized covid is over and it has been for a while. but the city in the bay area is still operating under pandemic insanity and they do not want it to end. oakland hasn t killed its covid eviction moratorium. in fact, right now as we speak, they are holding hearings on potentially ending that moratorium. possibly extending it though into july. too little, too late. if you are a tenant in oakland you haven t had to pay rent for the past three years. on the other side of that, there