A florida courtroom as he pushes to delay his classified as thousands of russians gathered to pay their respects to Alexey Navalny crowds chanting his name and turning his funeral into a protest against Vladimir Putin plus An Extreme Winter Storm is slamming california, bringing 100 mile per hour wind gusts and dumping up to get this ten feet of snow will talk about that in a little while from now. In the meantime, im jim acosta in washington as the news right now and we begin with for President Donald Trump returning to his playbook of attempting to delay another trial this morning, trump is set to appear inside a florida courtroom as a matter of fact, we think he just five moments ago and the federal criminal case over his handling of classified documents, a judge could determine whether the trial will go ahead in may or be delayed. Cnn chief Legal Affairs correspondent paula reid is live outside the courthouse for us in fort pierce, florida paula, what do we think were going to see
america. the president saying today s gop is, quote, dominated, driven, and intimidated by maga republicans. we ll have complete political and historical analysis of his address to the nation. plus, the latest developments in the investigation of former president trump s mishandling of classified documents, as another conservative legal voice predicts trump will be indicted. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, september 2nd. with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay with us. the host of way to early, white house bureau chief at politico and the author of the big lie, jonathan lemire. pulitzer prize-winning columnist at the washington post, eugene robinson. and nbc news presidential historian, michael beschloss joins us this morning. glad to have you all. so much to talk about. jonathan lemire, i must start with you. it is like secretariat at the kentucky derby in 1973. starts out slow and then, boom, takes off. i kn
you, andy scholes. thank you very much for being with us. i ll see you tomorrow. and thanks to all of you for joining us. don t go anywhere. cnn this morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. glad you re starting your day with us. here are fife things to know. happening right now, the israeli military carrying out an operation at the besieged hospital in gaza. there are reports of active fire fights inside of that collects. we ll hear from the idf live later this morning. and new hope for a deal to release the hostages. president biden says he believes it s going to happen. also president biden today set to have a high-stakes summit with chinese president xi jinping. the goal to keep tensions from getting any worse. it s up to the senate to prevent a government shutdown before the deadline on friday night. the house passed a short-term measure yesterday. and new overnight, president biden blasting donald trump for calling his enemies vermin. the remark was l
some 240 hostages. i believe it s going to happen. president biden suggesting china s economy hz real problems ahead of his meting with xi jinping today. relations are at their lowest point in half a century. we want to signal to the american people and our allies that he is engaged with china in a responsible way. a government shutdown likely averted. speaker johnson had to rely heavily on democratic votes to get this over the finish line, and a few fistfights as well. i got elbowed in the back ask there was kevin. if i hit somebody, they would know i hit them. stand your butt up then. you stand your butt up. we re looking at the impact of a party that is not a functional party. this place is a pressure cooker. good morning, everyone. welcome. happening right now, israeli troops are carrying out an operation inside gaza s largest hospital. a palestinian journalist tells cnn there s been intense gunfire as soldiers search the complex and interrogate yo
be convicted. right. those are good things in his column. do you think there would be any downside here for president biden were hunter to be convicted? of course, as the personal toll, of course. do we think there is political im impact? yeah, there are low information voters who are like, they re both in trouble with the law. i would say hunter biden is very different than donald trump and being a crack addict because you have an addiction is very different than a myriad after criminal charges, many cases which you ve been able to punt. then you have the fraud cases. i don t think they re the same at all, but i do think, you know, everything can be a problem, especially in politics. certainly, those close to president biden worry about just how he will receive this news. we know he is deeply worried about his son. also, the first lady coming back from france to go to the trial. i mean, the sister has been there. everyone in biden world, they re a close family. i t