hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in the east. where there s smoke, there s usually fire. repeated denials of any connection between the radical manifesto written by the heritage foundation to send america back to the 1800s and team trump are generating a whole lot of smoke. after the fire brand-new reporting reveals project 2025 are also behind trump s republican party and their official party platform. abc news reports this, quote, in may the trump campaign and the rnc announced their platform committee leadership team, the senior officials tasked with drafting the republican platform, and russ vought and ed martin as deputy policy director, both have ties to project 2025. as we reported on this program yesterday, vought was a former trump administration staffer, which brings us to the wider point. if you want to look at what trump and his allies plan to do in a second trump term, look at what they sought to do in the first. a key plank of project 2025 is a total transformation
that the wall street journal was criticized and denounced for a story headlined closed behind closed doors that biden was slipping. paused for extended periods and closed his eyes for so long that some of the room wondered whether he tuned out and the piece was widely attacked. i am sort of actually embarrassed for the wall street journal with this piece. this piece is so tilted, so off the mark, is he 81 years old? yes. in the wake of president biden s disastrous debate and growing media and democratic revolt against the candidacy, coauthor annie linsky was surprised at the correspondent rhus of condemnation. what we ve seen in the last few days is the reporting we did was vindicated. we had a high bar for of what we were willing to report and what my editors were willing to report. where does the journal go to get its apology? this cover of the economist says it all. now other journalists are digging into biden s mental fitness and new york times reporting t
ways. we just seem to have lost the ability to dialogue and to reason, and to do it in a way that s respectful and thoughtful, inside of politics. on monday, the democrats plan to pay for the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill that came into focus. the house ways and means committee announced tax hikes that would amount to nearly $2.1 trillion in increased revenues. but left unscathed, the vast fortunes of the megarich, like mark zuckerberg and elon musk. perhaps that s why congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez struck such a chord with the fashion statement heard round the world at one of the most opulent events of the year. and to aoc s credit, just a few days later, president biden seemed to echo her sentiments. people with tens of millions of dollars. they play by a different set of rules. where is it written with all the tax breaks in the american tax code go to corporations at the very top. i think it s enough. i m tired of it. meanwhile, as democrats plow full ste
the washington post write in their new book peril that general mark milley you have gotten to flow him more recently, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, took action twice, once right before the election and then after january 6th to block trump from going rogue. to limit him from potentially ordering a dangerous military strike or even launching nuclear weapons. the question to start with is, why? milley was reportedly very concerned, concern shared a d b others in the administration and congress that a desperate trump had gone into a serious mental decline. in addition, to consoling his chinese counterpart that the united states democracy was intact and no military action was imminent, the general also called a secret pentagon meeting two days after the insurrection. the point was to review the process for military action with senior officials. if you think back to that time, it wasn t too long ago, trump had been upending the military s leadership, if you reme
in the united states and around the world. it is wednesday, september 15th. i m brianna keilar alongside john berman here in washington on this special edition of new day. governor gavin newsom will keep his job, breaking overnight, a blowout victory for the democratic governor of california who crushed a republican-led recall that could have ousted him from office. newsome s restrictive coronavirus policies actually validated by democratic voters in this race. they said, no, to the recall by a nearly two to one margin. the governor thanking his supporters and sounding a warning about republican schemes to undermine democracy. i think about just in the last few days and the former president put out saying this election was rigged. democracy is not a football. you don t throw it around. it s more like, i don t know, antique vase. you can drop it and smash it in a million different pieces. and that s what we re capable of doing if we don t stand up to meet the moment and pu