tv show and wrote to democrats in congress to say he was the person best placed to beat donald trump in november s election. our north america editor sarah smith reports from washington. everybody! she sings. seeking salvation for his presidential campaign, joe biden started at a church in philadelphia yesterday. and followed up with a busy schedule of events, specifically designed to show he s got the stamina required for this election. four more years! this is the president, this is our guy, this is our nominee, and he is entitled to take this to november, because he has been a great president and is the only person that has ever beaten trump. but as democrats come back to capitol hill today after a holiday break, it s expected more of them will call forjoe biden to step aside. this morning, he sent a letter telling them he s not backing down, saying. and he called in to a breakfast tv show to repeat the same message. it s not an option, and i m not lost, and i haven t
soar there. we ll have the very latest. plus, we are following the continued battle in florida over the governor s ban of school mask mandates. a judge ruled the governor s order was unconstitutional, but the state still has gone ahead with financial penalties against school districts. we ll have an update on that story. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday, september 1st, i m willie geist, and we re start with president biden s address to the nation, one day after the final american troops left afghanistan, officially ending our part in the war. peter alexander takes us to the president s defense of the decision. reporter: with the taliban declaring victory in afghanistan, president biden at the white house marked the end of america s longest war. leaving august the 31st is not due to an arbitrary deadline. it was designed to save american lives. reporter: facing bipartisan backlash, the president at times angry and defensive, standing by his decis
in the law and society. and i just hope somebody s not misapplying it for profit here. i think you re being listen, i think you re being very jgenerous and careful as yu should be. i am not. because this is where our judicial system, the legal system, the court system should look at. because someone should say get out of my courtroom with this. that should happen but that s not what this is about. good luck with them for all of that, fine. but it also for legitimate issues when it comes to what you re talking about, it diminishes that. because there are people who have real issues that should be in the court of law, and the legal system is overrun with people who file these lawsuits that should not i mean barely have the merit or whatever but the system can account for it. you have sanctions, you be frivolous lawsuits if someone had put my naked picture as a kid on on an album i would be saying look at me, that s me as a kid. that s how most people should. that
today, my cohost harris faulkner along with emily compagno, morgan ortagus and in the center virtual seat, david avella, welcome, everyone. texas state democrat lawmakers in a sense-deleted tweet posted this picture of her and other democrats on a bus as they skipped town in a move to a single election reform legislation. another democratic lawmaker also getting ripped for mentioning their sacrifice as this picture shows the group traveling with a case of beer. it was miller lite. 50 or so lawmakers boarded two charter just jets for washington and the second attempt to block those voting bills to pay they are seen smiling on one of the planes without wearing masks. one of the texas democrats who fled said this outside the u.s. capitol today. we were quite literally forced to move and leave the state of texas. we also know that we are living right now on borrowed time in texas. and we can t stay here indefinitely to run out the clock, to stop republican anti-voter bills. t