Trumps interview with new Meet The Press moderator kristen welker. Well have more of his comments including the delusion hes taken credit for following the 2020 election. Plus, President Joe Biden is in new york this morning ahead of the speech tomorrow in front of the United Nations. Well have a preview of what else is on his agenda for the highly anticipated summit. And also ahead, the latest from capitol hill on the looming Government Shutdown. Republicans have a new shortterm solution, but its not clear if they have enough votes from within their own party to pass it. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, september 18th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day and week with us. And well begin with this. Former President Donald Trump takes responsibility for trying to overturn the 2020 election. Let that sink in. In a wideranging exclusive interview with new Meet The Press moderator kristen welker, trump saud it was, quote, his call to believe the false claim that the 2020 president ial election was rigged. Take a listen. Were you calling the shots then, mr. President , ultimately . As to whether or not i believed it was rigged, sure. Okay. It was my decision. But i listened to some people. Some people said that. Like guys like bill barr, whos a stiff, but he wasnt there at the time. But he didnt do his job because he was afraid. You know what he was afraid of . He was afraid of being impeach. He was petrified to be impeached. He was, how do you not get impeached . Dont do anything. Well bring you more of what trump had to say throughout the morning. Meanwhile special counsel jack smith is seeking a gag order for donald trump in the criminal case against him citing the president s former attacks on those Involved In D case. Smith filed the motion late friday. It reads in part this way. Through false public statements, the defendant sought to erode public faith in the administration of the election and intimidate individuals who refuted his lies. The defendant is now attempting to do the same thing in this criminal case, to undermine confidence in the criminal Justice System and present disthe jury pool. Now, if granted, this order would bar trump from making inflammatory or intimidating statements against potential witnesses, attorneys, court personnel, or potential jurors. Not to be deterred, though, the former president continued his attacks short hi after the gag order was requested both on social media and on the campaign trail. Deranged jack smith, has anyone ever heard of him . I wonder what his name used to be. Jack smith. Sounds so nice, doesnt it . Hes a deranged individual, and he wants to take away my First Amendment rights. If i win and lets say somebody comes along on the democratic side and they look very strong, i can call my attorney general, i guess am i allowed to call him and say, you have to indict him on something. Just find anything. You can indict him for anything you want, just indict him. Trumps lawyers have until friday to respond to smiths gag request. President biden is in the You Nate Nation no, for the United Nations summit. The president has not met with benjamin netanyahu. Benjamin netanyahu wants a white house visit. Hell have to settle for this. Ukrainian president zelenskyy will also be there. Several usual attendees are skipping this weeks summit its, though, including the leaders of france, the united king tom, china, and russia. This comes two days after the summit in india. Joining us now, laura solomon. Great to see you this morning. Today is more Domestic Politics, fundraising. Tomorrow is really the day it starts. Give us your thoughts on particularly ukraine. For biden this is a big deal. This is a chance to engage with his counterparts all over the world, particularly ukrainian president vladimir zelenskyy, as you said, jonathan. Hes going to be one of the top and this comes as the counteroffensive is going pretty slowly. The waur has entered its 19th month and there are fears the money is drying up as the u. S. Careens toward a Government Shutdown. So President Biden is expected to talk with his allies to try to drum up support for the war. The other person hes going to be meeting with is is wray hi Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. One topic thats expected to come up is the grand peace deal that the Biden Administration has been pushed wherein saudi arabia would normalize relations with israel potentially. This is something the white house has been pushing especially since china has stepped in recently to be a peacemaker there. Its gotten a deal between iran and saudi arabia also. So this is something that the white house is really pushing. And in addition to meeting with president zelenskyy and ukraine, that is going to be a very top priority. That oohs great point how this is an important moment for the president to win over domestic minds as well about ukrainian funding, the republican bill sent forward last night. Its going to be a flash point in the days ahead. Lara, talk to us also. So many of these other World Leaders are staying home. No surprise that Vladimir Putin wouldnt travel to the u. N. , but neither is xi jinping in china. What opportunity does that give the president to talk to other allies . That is actually a big opportunity. This is something my colleagues pointed out in politico last week and early this week that four of the five other leaders are not in attendance. There are a lot of other summits going on. Prince charles is visiting france. So there are a lot of reasons the leaders are not coming here today and this week, but it does give an opening for President Biden to push his agenda. He will talk to World Leaders across the world stage. And ukraine, its an opportunity to bring other leaders to ukraines side of the fight. President zelenskyy is going to be going on his own Charm Offensive in conjunction with President Biden. Zelenskyy and biden are expected to try to drum up support for the war in ukraine against russia from places like latin america, asia, africa, countries that so far have been reluctant to go against russia in ukraines war. Yeah. There will be a lot of developments. Ill be going there myself and bring my own reporting to the show as well. But, lara, we want to talk about the abortion law and tuberville. How does it fctor into his ongoing Military Block kind thats received so much criticism. What weve learned is as few as 2 people in the last year has actually used the policy the pentagon has. The policy is paying for troops who have to travel to seek abortions. You think about troops stationed in places like texas, louisiana, places that have a lot of Military Bases but have very, very restrictive abortion rules, and troops, of course, cant decide where they live, so theyre stationed there for years at a time. This policy pays for to travel, to fly, to drive to seek an abortion. What were finding is only a very few handful of troops are using this policy because theyre nervous it compromises their anonymity and privacy and might open them up to stigmatization. Senator tuberville is holding up all of these military promotions over it, really causing chaos at the pentagon. Hes saying only a few people are using it, so maybe the pentagon should drop it. On the ore side, the pentagon says abortion rights, Reproduction Rights are important to us and something were not going to compromise on. Its unclear where its going to end. Pentagon reporter for politico lara seligman. Thank you for seeing us this morning. Still ahead on way too early, well bring you the latest on the united autoworkers strike against the detroits big three and how the white house may be getting involved in the negotiations. Plus, President Bidens sarcastic response to the house Impeachment Inquiry. Those stories and a check on weather and sports when we come right back. K on weather and sports when we come right back age is just a number, and mines unlisted. Try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for Muscle Health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. Boost® high protein. Now available in cinnabon® bakeryinspired flavor. Learn more at boost. Com tv mom bringing in a new roommate to save money is that the plan . Now available in cinnabon® bakeryinspired flavor. dad well we gotta find some way to save. So say hi to glen. From work. glen hey. Thats my mom. mom i think i have a much better plan. We switch to myplan from verizon. We get exactly what we want and save big. 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Nearly 13,000 employees at three plants in missouri, michigan, and ohio, walked off the job at midnight on friday when their fouryear contracts expired. The union is demanding up to 40 wage hikes over four years along with shorter workweeks and better benefits. Union Officials Say since negotiations resumed, theyve had, quote, reason play productive talks with ford and plan to meet with General Motors as well. Both of those companies along with Stellantis Have offered 20 raises. The union, hour, rejected that. Now the white house is stepping in to help. President biden dispatched a team to support talks between the union and the automakers. The president spoke about the issue on friday saying he understands the workers frustrations. Ive been in touch with both parties since this began over the last few weeks and over the past decade. Auto companies have seen record profits, including the last few years because of the extraordinary skill and sacrifices of the uaw workers, but those record profits have not been shared fairly, in my view, with those workers. Lets be clear. No one wants a strike. Let me say it again. No one wants a strike. But i respect their right to use the strike in the collective bargaining situation. They sacrifice so much to keep the industry alive and strong especially during the pandemic. The workers deserve a fair share of the benefits they helped to create with the enterprise. The president has closely aligned himself with labor and has much as stake if the Company Takes a hit. Well have much more when uaw president shawn fain joins us later on this morning on morning joe. Now to a tragic story out of los angeles. Authorities are asking for Help Tracking Town the gunman who ambushed a sheriffs deputy. Nbc news Correspondent Dana Griffin has more. Reporter the Desperate Search for a gunman who killed Los Angeles County sheriffs deputy. We need to get this guy off the street. Reporter while on duty saturday, Surveillance Video appears what is a black vehicle pulls up to the deputy. The car pulls up closer, stops, and takes off. The video is the focus of the investigation. The 30yearold field trainer was a Third GenerationLaw Enforcement officer engaged to be married just four days ago. He was shot in the back of the head, according to investigators. He was just driving down the street, and if no apparent reason, somebody decided to shoot and murder him. Reporter moments after being shot, sirens blair as a line of Patrol Vehicles support his trip to the hospital. A Good Samaritan found the deputy and called 911. Later that night, a somber salute as the officer covered by an American Flag is wheeled out of the hospital. Lights once again illuminate the night sky in a professional to the Coroners Office where his family walked hand in hand behind him. Somebody saw something. Somebody knows something. Reporter investigators now pleading for help. The person that did this is a coward and they will be caught. Reporter the community now showing an outpouring of love to the officer once devoted to them. Thats nbcs dana griffin reporting. Still ahead here on way too early, well turn to sports and bring you a look of some of sundays top plays from around the nfl. Plus, well give you an update on the playoff picture in Major League Baseball with two weeks to go in the regular season. Thats all straight ahead. Ular season thats all straight ahead. But to advance how the game is played. Aaa relies on tmobiles network to stay connected nationwide, so they can help get their members back on the road. And were helping pano ai innovate, to stop the spread of wildfires. 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Taking a deep shot for flowers, and flowers has it House Slinging it to the end zone. Was it caught . Yes. Mclaurin, touchdown. Jones throws. End zone shot. Its caught by hudgens for the touchdown. Those are some of the biggest plays by the winning teams across the nfl yesterday including the gametying touchdown that brought the giants back from 21 points down a third quarter. A later field goal would complete the victory over the arizona cardinals, salvaging their season. Its not all good news for the giants. Saquon barkley limped off with an ankle injury. Hes expected to undergo an mri today. Meanwhile the Cincinnati Bengals fell to 02 for the season. Joe burrow aggravated a strained right calf during the game. Lets go to fox brother if we must. New England Patriots hosted the Miami Dolphins on Sunday Night Football last night. Raheem mostert ran for a pair of runs. Two others added a two yard touchdown pass. Dolphins beat the patriots 2417, a game the pats kind of had to have. They are in some trouble. Werer hooking forward to a monday night doubleheader to round out the nfl season. The panthers and will welcome the cleveland browns. Lets turn to be able. Baltimore orioles and Tampa Bay Rays have a spot in the playoffs. Orioles took the lead over the race and blue jays over the rox. Weve got some movement as well heres the blue jays winning it. We didnt need to show that. Lets go to the H National League now. The Miami Marlins have moved things in the wildcard standings. The fish now tied with the chicago cubs. There we go. Theres the a. L. Standings. Rays are in. Blue jays, mariners right now and the National League marlins are tied with the cubs for the third and final wildcard spot. Lets go to the weather now and meteorologist bill karins is here with the forecast. Bill, its certainly a soggy start for the u. N. General assembly in new york. Its going to be a soggy week. We did get hit in cape code. Yesterday was a beautiful day, so a lot of those people got power back. That was great news. So the heaviest rain is going to continue from philadelphia up to new york city. It will be with us right through the heart of the rush hour. Airport delays definitely with there. Theres no lightning. If youre driving in the area there will be water on the roads. Its on i 5 and especially from philadelphia up to the five boroughs in new york city. As we go throughout the data, by 5 00 p. M. , most of the rain in new york is over with. But boston,ite goes doing be pouring all the way through providence. And then 5 00 p. M. To 10 00 p. M. Is when it will finally exit that area. By tomorrow morning its all gone. It has been a ridiculously soggy period of wet weather in the northeast and that continues today. The middle of the country, youre fine. Above average. Warm conditions. The middle of the week, no issues. A little storm comes in from the northwest. If you have plans, friday, saturday, sunday, we have another storm thats going to be coming up the east coast. So it looks like our first fall weekend on the Eastern Seaboard may be kind of ugly. Bill karins, great to see you. The pats play next week. 1 00 sunday. So yardwork. Were going to skip it. Still ahead, the latest on the fight to to avoid a shutdown. Well discuss why its likely to get to the senate. Plus why the White House National security adviser had a secret meeting with chinas foreign minister. Thats coming up next on way too early. Nister thats coming up next on way too early. Inwash scent boosters. Age is just a number, and mines unlisted. Try boost® high protein with 20 grams of protein for Muscle Health versus 16 grams in ensure® high protein. Boost® high protein. Now available in cinnabon® bakeryinspired flavor. Learn more at boost. Com tv trelegy for copd. Birds flyin high, you know how i feel. Breeze driftin on by. You know how i feel. You dont have to take. 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With comcast business. It is. Is it possible to use predictive monitoring to address Operations Issues . We can help with that. Can we provide health care virtually anywhere . We can help with that, too. Is it possible to survey foot traffic across all of our locations . Yeah absolutely. With the advanced connectivity and intelligence of global secure networking from comcast business. Its not just possible. Its happening. Welcome back to way too early. It is 5 30 a. M. On the east coast, 2 30 out west. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for being with us. Theres a deal to keep the government funded until october 31st. The deal includes a funding bill for the didnt of defense as well as a wish list of conservative demands. Multiple gop sources with knowledge of the gop said. It also restricts severe sanctions to the asylum and calls to finish the border. It also calls for an 8 cut to domestic spending. However, there is no mention in the bill at all of aid for ukraine or disaster relief, which have been sticking points for both parties as well as the white house. While the bill still may pass the house this week, its all but certain to die in the democratic led senate which still leaves Congress Without a permanent Government Funding solution. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy had this to say regarding his conference yesterday. Unfortunately i had a handful of members last week that literally the republicans stopped the didnt of Defense Appropriations from coming forward, and so im trying to get that to move forward to make sure that the republicans arent stopping us from being able to get our work done. Joining us now, cofounder of punchbowl news, anna palmer. Shes an msnbc contributor. Great to see you this morning. Talking this deal, what was reached, whats in it, but doesnt it fly if the face of the Spending Agreement reached by speaker Kevin Mccarthy earlier this year . The devils are in the details here and weve seen the negotiations between the conservative House Republicans and the more moderate mainstream ones going back and forth Trading Paper because Kevin Mccarthys plans were stymied by conservative member of his congress. I think the big thing to think about here is were 13 days away from a Government Shutdown. Even if this bill, this compromised bill you kind of laid out actually passes the house, which is a huge if, Kevin Mccarthy is going to have a very difficult time getting the votes. Theres a bunch of members of his congress who already have said they dont like this deal. Theres a lot of members of the Freedom Caucus who said they dont want to pass a short term spending bill. So fechb if hes successful there, its a nonstarter. The big question, are House Republicans kind of wasting time here and are we going to hurdle into a Government Shutdown at this point . Yeah. Certainly the betting odds would suggest that we might because as you say, the house is no sure thing to pass this, but its almost most definitely not going to get through the senate. Where does that stand . Tell us where the gop leadership in the senate, mcconnell and his team, how are they viewing this . What are they doing to keep the lights open, which mcconnell keeps saying he wants . Its such a different dynamic than we saw in the debt deal where you had Senate Republicans really take a step back and allow Kevin Mccarthy to be the key negotiator with the white house and lead on the know gauche United Nations. Right now you have Senate Republicans more closely aligned and the senate and white house particularly when it comes to the ukrainian president coming to speak to the capitol with democrats and republicans. Its unclear who zelenskyy is going to be spooking to on the house side. Theres a real divide here, and so far weve not seen mcconnell come to mccarthys aid at all. I dont know how helpful mcconnell could be at this point because clearly the more conservative part of the republican conference and the house isnt looking to mcconnell to solve their problems. I think the Biggest Issue for mccarthy and you saw him get really frustrated last week, is the fact he has such a slim majority, and those republicans on the right are really holding the rest of the Government Funding hostage at this point. There are not many days left on that legislative calendar we just showed to strike a deal. Were going to bespeaking to you real soon, e oom certain of it. Anna palmer, cofounder of punchbowl news. Thank you, anna. Coming up, cbc will joins live with this mornings business headlines as well as the markets which are moving higher awe head of the opening bell. Well be right back with that heg bell well be right back with tha upgrade ready. Upgrade ready one. One. Patrick is saying tmobile lets you upgrade as often as every year. 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Theyll be looking at that, asking what will the permutations be beyond this meeting. Theres a 90 expectation from analysts that the fed will not increase Interest Rates any further and decide to employ another waitandsee approach with a chance, then, there could be another Interest Rate hike perhaps in november, but the devil is in the details as it always has been. What happens in that inflation in the time period . What happens to a rise in wage growth as well as initial jobs claims numbers . All of those factors will be at play again as they normally are in the cycle, but it leads to that decision by the fed later this week. Certainly such a huge story as united workers strike now entering day 4 and the Work Stoppage is beginning to impact production. Arabile, give us the very latest here. Yeah. So youre quite right. 12,700 people have at the very least gone on strike. Thats the Continuing Consensus right now. Stellantis and ford are going to be back at the negotiating table. Its day four of the strike thats set to cripple the Auto Industry if it does continue to cripple and bear fruit if it gross beyond the 12,700 present on strike. Lets remember the United Autoworkers Union has 146,000 people within its union. So this is for now a Target Strike in certain places and certain parts of the business. If all 146,000 were to go on strike, it would be absolutely massive. Its the first time the uaw has had a strike against all three of the major Auto Manufacturers in the United States. So clearly motor city or detroit is really feeling the impact of this, and a lot of those operations are beginning to slow down. Production is beginning to drop and the costs thereof are set to skyrocket which will impact all of those companies. An ongoing story and one well keep providing updates on err day. Cnbcs Arabile Gumede live from london. Thank you as always. 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With comcast business. It is. Is it possible to use predictive monitoring to address Operations Issues . We can help with that. Can we provide health care virtually anywhere . We can help with that, too. Is it possible to survey foot traffic across all of our locations . Yeah absolutely. With the advanced connectivity and intelligence of global secure networking from comcast business. Its not just possible. Its happening. Welcome back. President joe biden yesterday brushed off a question about the houses impeachment uninquiry. Lots of luck, the man side. Meanwhile Kevin Mccarthy told fox news the president s son hunter will be subpoenaed but its not clear one. The one thing america has to understand theres a strategy behind everything. We only follow facts. Hunter biden will get subpoenaed. But when is the appropriate time . Do you do it when television wants it or around the facts and the timing . I think we should have the Bank Statements to actually know where did the money go so you would know the questions to ask hunter biden. To just subpoena hunter biden because you want to fund raise or do something dont you have emails joining us now, chief White House Correspondent from the new york times, our friend peter baker. The Paperback Edition of peteres 2022 book the divider coauthored with Susan Glasser is due out in paperback tomorrow. We cant wait to get our hands on that. The inquiry into President Biden is one part of what you say was a particularly tough week for the white house and the president in particular. How is the west wing handling this growing mountain of obstacles . Yeah, it wasnt the best of weeks for him obviously. An Impeachment Inquiry was open. His son was indicted on three gun felony charges. The union strike obviously against the autoworkers puts the economy in peril. But what you see here in this white house, of course, is theyve become accustomed to the gyrations of, you know, modern politics, that this is something they begin to get used to. One of the worst things in some ways was the conversation last week about whether the president s too old to run again. Our friend whos been on morning joe this last week wrote a very wellread column that said its time for the president to pass and not run for a second term. That had to hurt the president obviously because ignacius has been somebody who is ooh been very supportive to this administration in a lot of ways and somebody he respected, but he isnt going anywhere. Hes said, you underestimated him before, in 2020 and in 2022, and youre underestimating him now. Peter, as this is happening, the president s focus this week is largely going to be on Foreign Policy. He, of course, is here at the United Nations general assembly. It wraps up tomorrow with the centerpiece being his major address tomorrow morning. What is the census of what we should expect to hear from him . Youre exactly right. Hes got meetings with president zelenskyy, a must watch meeting with benjamin netanyahu. I think were going to hear a president who will talk about one of his favorite lines is this is an Inflection Point in history. He believes that the war in ukraine, the challenge to democracies in various places around the world, challenges from china all present the United States and its allies with a rather unique and daunting challenge to defend the traditions of institutions that have governed the world in the postworld war ii era. I think youll hear him talk about the need to stand up to aggression, particularly in ukraine where russia has tried to rewrite the borders of europe through the use of force. And, peter, of course, the president while in new york does as many president s do in new york, have a bunch of fundraisers for his campaign. His opponent donald trump was on Meet The Press as you know as well. Whats the sense we heard from trump, particularly this idea where he seized ownership of the idea that the 2020 election was rigged and, therefore, one could assume, attempts to overturn it. Yeah, its interesting. There are a few notable things he said. Number one, he said he acted on his own instincts in challenging the election, trying to overturn the election. That would simply understand cut the argument in that he said he was doing what the attorneys told him to do. You heard how he was trying to defraud the voting public and the country. The argument of some of his is up supporters were saying, he did what the lawyers said. He said, no, i followed my own instinct. That may come back to haunt him. Kristen welker asked him to describe what he was doing on that day. He said, im no not going to tell you. Stance. He usually has an answer, even if its not a true answer about most things. Hes not telling them what he did or didnt do more appropriately to say on january 6th which is the one time he is listening to his lawyers. We dont want him to say anything to incriminate himself. Theres an Impeachment Inquiry looming. Donald trump has been pushing it, pushing republicans almost as a what aboutism. We heard the president sort of laugh it off. Whats your sense in the west wing for how theyre preparing . I think its important to remember this is something former President Trump has been pushing publicly. He put on his social media account, they did it to us. Go ahead and do it to him because we need to have retribution. That is a word hes used a lot in his post presidency. For the white house, look, theyre not worried. They dont think the house has votes to open an inquiry, much less to actually impeach the president. Thats why Kevin Mccarthy decided to do it on his own Authority Even though he said he would have a vote 11 days earlier. It couldnt be done by one persons declaration. It had to be voted on the house floor. He knows hes not going to be convicted by the senate. It doesnt mean its not going to be an unpleasant period. They dont want to look forward to it. They want to make clear, its all about politics. The house has no evidence whatsoever of any impeachment crimes. Terrific stuff this morning from chief White House Correspondent for the new york times, peter baker. Thank you. Please come back soon. Up next on way too early, u. S. National security adviser jay sullivan take a fresh stab at easing tensions between washington and beijing. What both sides committed to over the weekend. Well tell you about that. Coming up on morning joe, donald trump, as you just heard, said he didnt respect the attorneys who told him he had lost the 2020 election and that hes not afraid to go to prison. 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Now available in cinnabon® bakeryinspired flavor. Learn more at boost. Com tv welcome back. Jake sullivan secretly met with chinas top diplomat in europe over the weekend. Officials say the covert meeting was part of a larger effort to, quote, maintain open lines of communication. Now their talks could lay the groundwork for a much anticipated meeting between biden and chinese president xi jinping this fall. Xi not attending the u. N. General assembly this week but a possible meeting could take place in november around the Asia Pacific Economic cooperation summit being held here in the United States in san francisco. Biden and xi have not spoken in nearly a year. Joining us now, playbook coauthor, ryan lisman. Lets talk about china. China established some normalcy diplomatically but it does seem that being tough on china is one of the few issues that frankly is bringing republicans, democrats together. Whats the early reaction to the white houses latest push . Its a delicate task here that the Biden Administration has with china. On the one hand theyve worked pretty aggressively behind the scenes mostly, but partly publicly, to get the relationship back on track. Blinken met with xi, Commerce Secretary Romando has been to china. Secretary kerry has been there and now these twoday talks with the National Security adviser and Chinese Foreign minister and hes also serving as the Defense Minister now in china, all i think leading towards what biden has said publicly he wants to meet with xi. He was supposed to have a phone call with him that never happened, so biden wants the relationship on track but the Domestic Politics keep interfering. And as biden enters the Campaign Next year, as you and i know, that campaign is china is going to be the center of that campaign. There are very few china earn engagement advocates. Everyone in washington is a china hawk. The rhetoric from biden next year is going to be pretty tough on china. It already is some days. His republican opponent, whether thats donald trump or someone else, is going to try to get to the right of biden in its rhetoric on how antichina it can be. Its a little bit of urgency to get the diplomacy with china back on track and all of these high level meetings are trying to pave the way for a biden xi summit. Now, jonathan, china has its own kind of Domestic Politics in trade right now, too. There has been high level changes in the Chinese Government that the u. S. Doesnt seem to have a whole lot of visibility into so both sides are getting close to i think being incentivized to have the relationship back normalized in a way, at least to the point where it was pre the balloon incident. Is it true Foreign Policy doesnt sway too many voters. You mentioned china but also ukraine. The ongoing Funding Effort for ukraine is going to be a central issue in next years election. How do you see both sides approaching it . Support for ukraine has started to decline precipitously, especially given the republican primary. The polls, republicans are less supportive of it. Mccarthy has a lot of issues to deal with this month. Ukraine funding is right now maybe two, three, four on his list so at the end of the day, its a number one priority for the administration. Number one priority for Mitch Mcconnell and some in the senate. I predict it will be part of the final deal however that happens this fall in congress, but youre going to hear a lot of republicans complaining about that on the way to the deal. Certainly weve already heard former President Trump do the same. Playbook coauthor, come back soon. Thank you for joining us this morning. Thanks for all of you getting up way too early on this monday morning. Morning joe starts now. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is monday, september 18th. A live look at the capitol as a Government Shutdown is looming over capitol hill this morning. As House Republicans have a new shortterm solution. Well explain the major issues with their stopgap measure. Meanwhile, its not if but when House Republicans will subpoena hunter biden. Thats a