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
if you can time the shot right. welcome to meet the press daily, i m chuck todd on a very busy september tuesday. this is going to be a september to remember politically, that s for sure. president biden wrapped up his first address to the u.n. general assembly this morning, questions about america s credibility and leadership on the world stage, at least trying to answer some of those questions. we will bring you more on his address, the reaction to it in just a moment. we want to start here in washington. the president and his democratic allies are facing a tangled web of legislation, urgent deadlines and there s inter party divisions to navigate. it s not hyperbole, it s just a fact that the biden agenda, the progressive vision, infrastructure, future of the democratic party, health of the economy, fate of a government shutdown they have all been intertwined. if you re joe pesci from my cousin vinnie what do you do you want to put on this truck. seems like leaders
custody. chicago maori lightfoot earlier today held a press conference saying guns and gangs are the, quote, common enemy causing the rise in violent crime and so many of the shootings on the streets of her city. senior correspondent mike toe bun live mike tobin live from chicago with the latest on this tragedy. mike? reporter: and, eric, the police officer who gave her life in the name of mix safety was just 29 years old. she d only been on the force since 2018. a police source tells me the other officer was shot three times, and and one of the bullets went through his eye. it was a very emotional scene outside the university of chicago hospital where he is fighting for his life at this hour. officers gathered, they hugged and shed a tear for the fallen and gravely wounded officers. mayor lori lightfoot declared a day of mourning as flags have been lowered to half staff. she urged the public particularly in black and brown neighborhoods to end the constant strive with po
shooting that injured one person killed another. the nation also grapples with the civil unrest over other cases of police violence and excessive use of force. sources say shots were fired at the minnesota national guard and police teams as they brace for more protests over the shooting death of dontae write and as the george floyd murder trial continues. we want to go to miniand sara sidner. police were afraid of overnight violence there. the fear was realized. what are minneapolis police telling you today? what is happening now. we are talking to the protesters who are here. all the things have been heightened everyone is on alert. everyone has been heightened. they are doing a protest now called black and yellow. basically it is aboutertert spoing asian-americans who have faced so much hate. i will give you a look at the crowd. we are at the square, outside cub foods where george floyd died. hundreds of people are gathered here. what we are also hearing from are mothers
you have shoes on. yeah. pants were the problem. i don t know. and the fact of the matter is it s a red herring. i think within my rights to question anything that comes from the desk of rudy guliani. so i don t know is the answer. how is this funny? hunter biden went into great detail on why he was qualified for that cushy gig on the burisma job. i went to yale law school. i served on at least a dozen boards before burisma. i had an expertise in corporate governance. i was asked to serve on the board. i was a lawyer also, which is how i was first approached. what i didn t take into account is the way in which they would use the perception against my dad. for that, i have i wouldn t do it again for that reason. so i have to go to our own in-house late night host, greg gutfeld for a response. so you know, my show, gutfeld put in a request for hunter. it was monday. he s people because he has people said he wasn t doing any more press. so that was monday. so i c