over his trip overseas, forcing the president to cut short his time on the world stage. he was warned. new details about the man accused of leaking classified documents on discord. he was makinged for mishandling information, so we have to ask, why did he still have access to the documents? we re live from the pentagon with the latest. enough for the refs to say we are the ones who are out, now parents are stepping up. we are following these stories and many more, automatic coming in to cnn news central. right now president biden is juggling a looming debt crisis at home, and fragile alliances abroad. he landed in japan today, meeting with the prime minister ahead of the g7 summit in hiroshima. on the agenda, counters china, of course, aiding ukraine and reassuring allies that the u.s. will not default on its debt. the last bit depends on talks in washington. today, with two weeks to go, lawmakers from both parties are indicating that there s been progress. new cnn s
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
Get under his skin that his own running mate is not defending him. Im curious the kind of mood in trump world right now. You know, i have not heard that theyre upset by governor pences performance in any way or that theyre worried that he might have upstaged donald trump. There was a lot of pushback to that reporting from the campaign. But what i can tell you was that before they were deciding on who was going to be Donald Trumps running mate, there was some concern about choosing somebody who would upstage donald trump, somebody like Newt Gingrich or Chris Christie who is more of a politician, a more practiced politician, bombastic politicians who know a lot more about policy than donald trump does. So there is precedent for that feeling, but im not getting anything from the campaign about them feeling like governor pence did too good of a job last night. But what i do know is that ty want to get donald trump better prepared for this next debate coming up on sunday. I was talking to a