what the hell is the matter with us? i m not joking. think about it. what are we doing? president joe biden gives a fiery and impassioned speech in pennsylvania, vowing to ban assault-style weapons while calling out republicans for criticism of fbi following the search of mar-a-lago. we ll have much more of the president s remarks just ahead. meanwhile, there are several new developments in the justice department s investigation into the former president, including this picture from the doj, showing some of the documents seized. we ll walk you through everything that s happened overnight. also ahead, qanon and dangerous conspiracy theories. that s how donald trump spent his time yesterday on his fledgling social media platform. we ll explain how it is part of a growing trend for the former president. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 31st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we ll begin with that breaking news overnigh
now, it s sickening to see the new attacks on the fbi. threatening life of law enforcement agents and their families. for simply carrying out the law and doing their job. look, i want to say this clear as i can, there s no place in this country no place for endangering the lives of law enforcement. no place. none. never, period. i m opposed to defunding the police and also opposed to defunding the fbi. president biden condemning the attacks on the fbi after the remarks which came just hours before we got stunning new details overnight about why the justice department felt it had no choice but to seize classified documents from the president s florida estate and club. including evidence that some of the documents were likely moved and hidden. we ll have the many new revelations from the late night court filing. also this hour, remembering mikhail gorbachev, the final leader of the soviet union. a reformer who lifted the iron curtain and helped to end the cold war. good mor
his polls go up, popularity, throat% to 44%. i think a lot of that has to do with the legislative successes he s seen over the summer. and he s really starting to lean in hard to political campaigning. we saw him start this last week on thursday. calling out donald trump and really maga republicans across the country trying to paint the republican party as far right, you know, trump sycophant party. and it s looking like it could be a successful strategy of his. i think we re going to continue to see that throughout his time in pennsylvania. we saw that yesterday, in his first stop in wilkes-barre. and i think we can anticipate that again tomorrow and throughout the week. and also in pittsburgh over the labor day. where he s really going to be trying to paint republicans overall as the party of trump. meanwhile, trump doing the exact opposite. going after biden, going after democrats. i think we can very much expect him to say he s a victim of what s been happening with the doj investi
return to new york city last night, rallying to a four-set first-round victory under the lights of arthur ashe stadium. three years after he left the u.s. open with a trophy. he s the biggest name on the board. on the women s side, emma raducanu, u.s. open title defense is over after just one round. the 19-year-old brit unable to replicate last year s storybook run, stunningly falling in straight sets against kor nay. two-time u.s. open champ naomi champ also gone, losing in the first round of a second-straight major tournament. that s 19th seeded american danielle collins advancing in straight sets by defeating osaka. let s go just across the park lot, also in queens, major league baseball at citi field, the visiting dodgers beat the mets 4-3. this may be an nlcs preview.
today? good morning, jonathan. we have interesting reporting that s looking at republican candidates across the country. are, you know, severely walking back a lot of their most sharp and strongest rhetoric on andy abortion. and their anti-abortion stances. we re seeing this in places like pennsylvania, arizona, north carolina, michigan. several empire states as well. where a lot of these candidates, a senate candidate blake masters in arizona who has really leaned hard into the abortion debate early on. and i think in a way, too, attracted many primary voters, are starting to walk that back. and it s a really interesting time that we re seeing this happen because i think a lot of republicans and even many democrats thought that abortion was a big issue but they didn t think it would be as big an issue as they re seeing ahead of the midterms. and it s become a base fuelling issue. we saw that play out in the new york 19 race last week where