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In second place down a whopping 11 points is Florida Governor ron desantis who now stands at just 13 merse. All other candidates earn just single digit support. The poll also shows most republicans think the criminal cases against trump are illegitimate especially the two relating to Election Interference. More than 70 say those cases are without merit while just over 20 say the charges are legitimate. Overall, 48 of republicans say that charges against trump make them more likely to vote for him. 16 say the charges make them less likely to support them, while 36 say the charges have no impact on their support for the former president. Now, trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani is waiving his formal arraignment and pleading not guilty in the Fulton CountyElection Interference case. Late on friday giulianis legal team entered a court filing with a plea. Giuliani faces 13 criminal counts including racketeering and conspiracy. Giuliani is one of 12 codefendants to waive their guilty plea. Trump is using his decision not to return to atlanta as what else, an attempt to boost his fundraising. In a new message to supporters trump bragged about waiving his arraignment and says he, quote, refuses to play into the lefts hands. Elsewhere on the legal front convicted proud boys lieutenant joseph biggs is hoping trump is elected in 2024 because hes certain the former president would pardon him if he took office. Last week biggs was sentenced to 17 years in prison for his role in the january 6th riots. Prosecutors originally sought 33 years. Trump hasnt said whether hell consider pardons for the proud boys specifically, but has said he would pardon a large portion of rioters if he were to return to the white house. Later today proud boys leader Enrique Tarrio would learn his fate. Prosecutors are seeking a 33year sentence for him as well. They describe him as someone who possesses a lead over his group. And because of this, quote, a significant sen sns it necessary. Joining us now to walk through it msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. Two other leaders of the proud boys received significant sentences but less than what doj asked for. Doj often asks for pretty high sentences, and the court is not required any longer to follow the Sentencing Guidelines. In other words, they have to calculate them, they have to take them into consideration, but they can go below what the Sentencing Guideline Range suggests, and they do that fairly often. You may look at these defendants and say draconian, no problem, i dont care what sentence they get. But just to give you an idea if the key to today is will the judge apply the terrorism enhancement, that enhancement alone could add about 15 years to a sentence. It is unbelievable punitive of anyone who engages in any kind of terrorism activity, which is probably the way americans like to see it. If they engage in terrorism, the Sentencing Guidelines will boost your sentence into the strat fear. And lets remember late last week there was one january 6th rioter who had begged the court for mercy, still got ten years and on his way out of the courtroom screamed trump won, so this factors into how doj is looking at all this. Lets turn to georgia now. 12 of the 19 defendants have waived their right to arraignment. How does that impact their cases . Zero. Anytime youre in a jurisdiction where you can waive arraignment, not appear, and enter your plea of not guilty remotely, you do it. I dont really know the purpose other than symbolic for any defendant in this case where theyre allowed to waive their arraignment and not appear especially in a high profile case why in the world theyd want to physically be in the courtroom and waive their arraignment. Waiving the arraignment and entering a plea of not guilty as you can see procedurally is something that you can explain. You can explain whats going onto your client, give them a copy of the indictment. They dont need to be there. Some jurisdictions dont let you waive it. Some courts dont let you waive it. They make you come in. But if you can do it, i always try to waive the arraignment and enter a plea of not guilty. It is confusing to me why any defendant in this georgia case would want to be there physically in court. We should note of course once those trials do start in georgia they will be televised, which is great news for transparency. Lastly, danny, and briefly, theres so much going in the waterfront in these legal cases, whats the next one we should be looking for . Thats a tough one. I think for me what im really fascinated about is how this georgia case is now georgia cases. In other words, this case now is going to have multiple trial dates. Its going to be in multiple courts. And i dont mean multiple courthouses within the state system. I mean two different sovereigns, Federal Court and state court. The Federal Court removal of them may get sent back down to state court, but i think theres a decent chance some or all of this case could end up in Federal Court. Its already a mess, jonathan, procedurally, and its already a month into the case. A sprawling case could indeed be messy. We appreciate it as always msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. We turn to capitol hill now, and the senate is back in session today while the house is set to return next week. Lawmakers have a long list of items. At the top 06 their agenda the Federal Budget set to expire on September 30th and need to be renewed to avoid a fullfledged shutdown. Some House Republicans, however, are brushing aside an extension. The hard right House Freedom caucus is demanding concessions in any funding language to include a house passed Border Security bill. They also want to address what they they deem the politicization of the Justice Department and the military. 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Hes supposed to head to india and then vietnam. Meanwhile, the historic Impeachment Trial of specs s attorney general ken paxton is set to get under way this morning. The Fire Brand Conservative has been accused by members of his own party of taking bribes, abuse of power and more. Paxton was suspended from his duties back in may when the republican led house impeached him, but today State Senators will consider the charges. If enough republicans vote to convict, it could lead to his permanent ouster from office. Paxton has denied any wrongdoing and has vowed to fight the charges. And the music world is mourning singer songwriter Jimmy Buffett who passed away on friday. According to his website the 76yearold had a rare aggressive form of skin cancer. Buffet was known for his 1970s Hit Margeritaville and cheeseburger in paradise. Many of his focused focused on good times. He filled arenas with fans who deemed themselves. 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Close to 100 degrees for all the kids headed back to school in the north east. 47 million americaned under heat alerts from the midwest and great lakes, also the southern planes. The Southern Plains some spots will feel like 110 in spots. Were going to see this taking place for at least the next couple of days into the north east. Its going to take until the weekend to feel much, much better. Were looking at temperatures into the upper 80s, upper 90s. 91 degrees today in New York City. Factor in the humidity going to beal like 95 and were looking at temperatures right around 100 degrees in d. C. Notice that blue line off to the left. Thats a cold front sweeping through so midwest is going to get the relief and finally by the weekend in New York City were going to see much more temperatures. 85 in baltimore by saturday. Also tracking the chance of storms and that cold front moving through so 5 Million People at risk from Duluth To Minneapolis where you see that yellow shading best chance for storms with Winds Gusting up to 50, 60 Miles Per Hour and damaging hail. I want to talk about the tropics because theyre heating up. Were looking at an area of low pressure moving to a conducive area for development. Were looking at a 90 chance for the next two days, 100 clans in the next seven days for our next named storm. Back to you, jonathan. Michelle grossman, thanks very much. We appreciate it. Still aherd here on Way Too Early, what House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy is saying about a possible vote to open an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden. Plus new reporting on how some of Donald Trumps closest allies are trying to boost his spirits amid his mounting legal woes. Way too early will be right back with that. Too early will back with that thats whenever you want it to be. 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To open an Impeachment Inquiry is a serious matter, and House Republicans would not take it lightly or use it for political purposes, so should the house move forward with it, it would occur through a vote on the floor of the peoples house and not through a declaration by one person. The speakers comments come as he faces pressure from the rightwing of his conference to launch an inquiry over claims of financial misconduct involving the president s son, hunter biden. Some members including Marjorie Taylor greene have said theyd not vote for a Government Funding Will unless an Impeachment Inquiry is opened into biden. Mccarthy keeps changing his tune on this. He opened the door to Impeachment Inquiry and walked it back and then he said they would proceed, and he is the one who suggested they might not take a formal vote. Well see what is next in the story. During an interview on Meet The Press yesterday republican governor chris sununu, a voker critic of donald trump encouraged the 2024 gop Primary Field to step up attacks on the former president. When youre running for president against the former president , its a very odd dynamic to be sure. The key to taking on not just taking on trump but you just call the balls and strikes like you see them. You dont make things personal. You do thinks cheerily in the best interest of the constituents you serve regardless of party. Im a staunch fiscal conservative and i want to support republican ideals, but that doesnt mean were going to bend and break rules because when you do that you set precedent for the other side. As for the other candidates running for president , i couldnt think youre right. I think they have to be a little tougher on trump. Chris christie goes a little nuclear on him. He exposes a lot of that which is important. I think theres still a little too much kowtowing to him. You had vivek saying he was one of the greatest president s but he was still going to be running against him. It was an odd dynamic to be sure. Joining us now congressional reporter for axios, sophia great to see you this morning. Lets talk about the Impeachment Inquiry threat. The white house is bracing for this. They certainly no white house welcomes a line of inquiry like this. It is time consuming. It is distracting. This west wing has ramped up a war room to be ready for it. They also think there can be political benefits believing voters will see through this as frivolous and therefore punish republicans. Tell us the calculation as to what House Speaker mccarthy and the Republican Leadership is thinking. How do you suspect theyll be proceed . I mean, look, this is something theyve been talking about since day one that Speaker Mccarthy was elected, but his problem is hes only got a margin of four and already over the weekend we saw some vulnerable republicans talking about how this is not where we want to do yet, this is not where we are, and its not what they are ready to do, you know, as members. And when hes got such a small margin, hes really got to be careful. And so like you said mccarthy has done a little bit of flap flipflop, a lot of flipflop actually and i think youll continue to see him walk a fine line. This fight here over the Impeachment Inquiry is there trinsically linked to the battle of government shutdown. Some in the president s orbit believe that mccarthy is going to try to forge forward with the inquiry as to way to placate the extreme right so upset about the Spending Bill and still upset about the Debt Ceiling Bill a few months ago. What does your latest reporting tell us in terms of how likely it is well get this continuing resolution this month to extend funding for at least a few more months . Yeah, i mean, theyve always waited until fairly late in the game. I think, you know, nobody really wants a shutdown, but this is going to be a fight that bidens closest advisers as well as mccarthy will have to tee up here. Sophia, youve got reporting on what you call former president trumps circle of flattery and how his closest aides for trying to boost the former president s spirits. Tell us more about that. This is really one way trump communicates and keeps his allies close and also another way his aides keep him happy. And so how it works is that people who want to flag their work or supportive tweet or oped, theyll text his aides like jason miller and steven chung. And the ones that his aides deem important enough, theyll print out for him and theyll show them to him and give them to him in this stack. And trump takes his Signature Black Sharpy and when he feels like it he aninates some of them mainly with supportive comments like thank you or keep it up. And he always signs it, and his aides then mail the physical copy back to the sender. And, you know, it is what it is. Its flattery, but trump also doesnt have email, so its also an important way he communicates. And hes been doing it for decades. We saw him do this when he was ipoffice at times with lawmakers on the hill and others. And now hes using it to his political advantage. And i think its significant that this is what hes spending his time doing as he faces down all these legal challenges. And certainly a number of reporters in washington have received Press Clippings with Hand Written Scrawls and sharpy about things he liked or more likely didnt care for in terms of coverage. We also note the former president will be ramping up his Campaign Schedule in coming weeks in south dakota and other plays. 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What are you watching this holiday shortened week . Yeah, good morning, john. It has been a while since weve spoken, right . And in that time weve kind of all things like the Unemployment Numbers which have come out, 3. 8 that was the highest sort of figure we had seen in quite some time, in fact, so that certainly would have hurt things. In more than a year in fact was that 3. 8 figure. That will be a key picture pushing onto the Market Picture later this week. We anticipate last week would be a weakened week for the u. S. Market, right . But it actually turned out not to be. In fact we saw the 30 stock Dow Jones Industrial at around 1. 4 . The nasdaq added around 3. 3 as well, ending august in what was a positive week then. Although on the month it was downward. So we are anticipating some weakness for the remainder of this week with not too much really driving things along, but it is going to be about norvo nortis. Aramco may launch the biggest Stock Offering in its history. Whats the latest . Yeah, i mean they tried to actually do this last year but decided the market was perhaps not in the most favorable condition. So lets some clarity on what the exactly has happened here. Considering selling a stake with around 50 billion on what is a secondary share which wile be offered in rihad. The sale could happen actually before the end of the year. Aramco has been sounding out potential investors which includes other National Conglomerates as well and sovereign wealth funds to participate then in what would be a massive, massive deal. Lets remember they are the Worlds Biggest Oil company, 2. 2 trillion and shares have risen around 20 this year alone on the back of some of those Oil Prices Also headed a little bit higher. Very significant. The initial ipo was in 2019. They managed to raise more than 25 billion from that alone, so this number will definitely be huge. Well be looking for that. Arabile, tell us a little bit more here as we wrap up about danish drugmaker novo nordisk. Not so long ago hit that 500 Billion Euro mark which is quite significant as well. Novo nordisc posturing to become the biggest business in europe. And this is on back of having launched its treatment there as well that is used for diets and slimming, so that has been quite significant. That launch happened in the u. K. , and that has really pushed a lot more people to really get into the stock perhaps seeing future potential sales being much high than initially projected. Fairly well, novo nordisk now at number one. Cnbcs Arabile Gumede, live from london, thank you for all of that. Still ahead here on Way Too Early north Korean Leader kim jongun plans to meet with russias Vladimir Putin to discuss weapons deals. The move now concerning deeply concerning u. S. Officials. Well speak with former congresswoman jane harmon on the time line and possible reactions the United States will take. 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Kim is expected to travel to russia this month with requests of his own. The New York Times reports that russia needs help acquiring Artillery Shells and missiles for use in its invasion of ukraine. While north korea wants russia to provide Advanced Tech For Sal Lites and Nuclear Powered submarines. Kim jongun also asking for food aid from russia. The meeting between kim jongun and putin is expected to occur in russias far east on the side lines of the Eastern Economic forum which is set to begin next week. Joining us now the chair of the House Freedom board of trustees and former democratic congresswoman jane harmon. Also chair on the National Defense committee. The news hes meeting with Vladimir Putin comes on the heels of the russian president meeting with turkish president erdogan to discuss the grain deal and saying russia at least for now not going to participate. What do you think in terms of what these meetings mean in terms of putins place on the world stage . Well, lets call the putin, kim jongun meeting the p2 for the pariah 2 meeting and wait for it to expand to iran and then it can be the p3. Russia is giving up a lot to get the ammo in this feckless war raging against ukraine. But its giving up technology for north korea, and i wouldnt count on north korea being lashed up to russia forever. Kim jongun is a strange guy. This may upset china because china is trying to keep a little distance from north korea, which is its next door neighbor and now going to have more nuclear toys to play with. So i kind of worry about that. I also worry about erdogan. Turkey is a member of nato. This deal at least not being helpful and blocking not being helpful to ukraine and blocking its ships from going out to International Waters to africa and other parts to raise funds for ukraine and feed the food insecure in africa is very unfair to nato. And i dont understand why nato doesnt act in a more muscular way. Theyre saying this is International Waters, we have three countries here. Were considering a nofly zone or at least well escort the ukrainian ships out. It would put erdogan in a hard position since he does want, certainly seems to want a more active and accepted member of nato and the european union, and that is why it seems to me he finally exceeded to letting sweden become a member of nato. So hes trying to have it both ways, but lets talk about both ways not just one way which is much more prorussia than is seems to me nato should come up. President zelenskyy there has replaced his Defense Minister amid some reported allegations of corruption. Lets turn now to china. You mentioned it. Theres been reporting this week the chinese president xi jinping will not attend. And security said on sunday in order for xi and President Biden to meet in San Francisco this november which is what u. S. Officials are hoping for, quote, the United States needs to show enough sincerity. What do you make of that . I make of it chinas not ready, that their economy is in some free fall and they dont have enough political leverage as they assess it to meet with biden. Theyre sending their premier to the g20 meeting and theyre saying its valuable, but good for biden for going there and good for biden going to vietnam and for the efforts that he is making to shore up the indopacific against any potential annexation and annexation of taiwan. I think thats good and i think well have to see what happens in San Francisco. Chinas going to ask for more, but i think the Biden Administration is playing the china card very well. Its very nuanced. There is diplomacy. There are positive discussions in addition to muscular statements about the need for taiwan to continue as a part of a onechina policy but with its own democracy. And lastly, jane, if you will, can you reflect a bit on the life of bill richardson. Certainly a beloved politician and statesman and someone you knew quite well. Well, he was billie to me and i was jane to me. I saw him a few months ago. I helped give him an award for an Organization Called common good, which is a Bipartisan Group in New York City. He looked very obviously, it was. He was in congress for 14 years. He overlapped the beginning of my service. In 1997, when he became secretary of energy, i got his slot on the House Intelligence Committee which, as you know, was, for me, the capstone of a long congressional career. I was very grateful that he moved on. He went on, though, to have many other careers. Secretary of energy, ambassador to the u. N. , governor for two terms, and then this marvelous mixed Public Private diplomacy role, where he should be credited for helping to get the release of Many Americans wrongly held in a variety of countries. Brittney griner was probably most recent of those. I dont know whether she would have been released if he hadnt been involved in the thing, but he made a his post congressional career into something hugely valuable. Few people have done as much as he did, and Public Service was the center of his life. I salute billy. Bill richardson, former governor of new mexico, ambassador, he was 75 years old. Jane harman, thank you for joining us this morning. President bidens age is back in the spotlight. What were learning now about how a majority of voters feel about that and its potential impact on his reelection bid next year. Then, coming up on morning joe, donald trump is widening his lead in the republican Primary Field despite his mounting legal woes. Well break down the mounting poll numbers and the rival who lost the most support. Plus, its sharpton versus ramaswamy again. The reverend turning the tables on the gop candidate, grilling him over his lack of political experience following this viral 2003 exchange. 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Great to see you this morning. Lets talk about this poll. In addition to their ages, which we just mentioned, your paper, the journal, in its poll also compared biden and trump on a number of other topics. Tell us a few of the areas where biden fairs better than trump with these perspective voters. Yeah, biden is viewed more favorably on issues like honestly and likability, but there are a lot of trouble spots here in this poll. You mentioned the headtohead being what it is, but when you look at the economy, for example, the president s ratings are very low, under 40 approval. Much lower when it comes to inflation. Then when you dig deeper into the numbers and you look at the comparison with trump, i think thats very concerning for this white house. Voters seem to give higher marks to trump in terms of his past accomplishments. They also give trump better numbers in terms of the direction of the country, having a vision for the country. So i think as a result, youre starting to see more of a contrast between President Biden when hes out on the stump. Yesterday in philadelphia, you had the tape yesterday of the contrast he made with the former president on issues like infrastructure, on job creation, on china. I think youre going to see more of that because the white house realizes that the president , in their view, has a strong agenda, a strong list of accomplishments, but theres a disconnect in how voters view it right now. Trumps vision for the country is to be its retribution, hard to see the appeal in that. Ken, you went there. It was striking yesterday from President Biden, to be so direct in terms of criticizing trump. He doesnt use his name all that often, but even thats a shift. Aides have said to me, and im sure to you, as well, the president is still not going to talk about trumps legal issues, at least not directly, but talk to us, though, about this pivot they seem to be making to be making this really strong antitrump case. That includes the threat to democracy that he still poses. Yeah, i think, you know, they view this period as an important one in terms of setting the parameters of the race and really starting to, you know, chip away at the trump record. You know, most reelections are won in the off year. Theyre won, you know, months before voters go to the polls. We certainly saw that in 2011. You know, obamas Reelection Campaign was very critical of mitt romney, and they defined him long before the election. I think the white house and the Reelection Campaign wants to do the same with former president trump. But, like you say, its not going to be focused on his legal issues. Its going to be focused on his record. Thats whats unique about this race. I mean, both candidates will have records as president , and so, you know, i think youre just going to see a sharper contrast from President Biden. You know, he obviously has this g20 come up, but i think as we get into the fall, were going to see more of these kinds of events. Its a great point about how these are two president s with records, something we simply dont see very often in these races. Youre right about the g20, assuming the president stays covid clear. A return to washington, important moment for the administration. Ken thomas of the Wall Street Journal, thanks for joining this morning. Thanks to all of you for getting up Way Too Early on this tuesday morning. Morning joe starts right now. Someone said, you know, that biden, hes getting old, man. Ill tell you what. Well, guess what . Guess what . The only thing that comes with age is a little bit of wisdom. Ive been doing this longer than anybody, and guess what, im going to continue to do it with your help. President joe biden yesterday in philadelphia, brushing off voters concerns about his age as he seeks a second term. It is an issue that continues to show up in polling, including a new one from the Wall Street Journal, which well get to this morning. That survey also shows Donald Trumps lead in the republican president ial primary growing. Well have much more on those numbers and a hypothetical rematch of 2020 in just a moment. And ive got to say, willie and i, weve faced this off and on since 47. Uhhuh. Couple of young kids coming back from the war. Heros. Their word, not ours, yeah. I never said it. I didnt either. I never said it. But it seems every 10, 15 years, they say, growing a little long in the tooth, willie, but we Keep On Keeping on. Yeah, despite the Wall Street Journal polling about you and me, actually, too, which was very negative, disconcerting. Horrible. Yeah. Were going to dig into it, but this is a new tact that we just saw from joe biden and the white