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and i aced it. i think it was 35, 30 questions. and let me tell you, they always show you the first one, like a giraffe, a tiger, or this. a whale. which one is the whale? >> donald trump is again bragging about acing the dementia test. while claiming that presidents should have full immunity for any crimes they might want to commit. former u.s. attorney general eric holder joins me on that. and on a big victory in louisiana, where a new legislative map with two majority black distri...

spinning toward the west coast of florida this morning. bringing with it life-threatening storm surge, catastrophic winds and flooding. well have a live report from tampa in just a moment. and also ahead, a former d.c. metro police officer does not hold back at a sentencing for a capitol rioter. plus, well dig into new data that suggests significant covid waves could be coming this fall and winter. ♪♪ good morning. and welcome to "way too early" on this wednesday, september 2...

Their claims of weapons of mass destruction, and was repeatedly trying to scrub that testimony, and grieved for years that he had misled the nation and the world over it, but had done so unwillingly, and he was an uncomfortable fit with bush and cheney as the years progressed in the iraq war, and eventually the change was made to condoleezza rice for the second bush term. so -- and he went on with americas promise and all of his other nonprofit contributions to americans and to others and broke ...

Anti-trust stuff. he has a lot of rich friends. he has a lot of admirerers. he has a lot of credibility dealing with issues like the l.a. riots and other things that were part of the bush term. he should be in good shape. >> he previously, obviously, served as attorney general under george h.w. bush and ironically we bid our good-byes to him this week. his background could help the trump administration bigley, as some would say, as i moves into the next -- that is your word, right? >> thats corr...

So willing to turnover these documents and he was convinced, he convinced the president this thing would all be over soon if they just cooperated and give everything up and turn everything over. this will be over by thanksgiving. obviously that hasnt happened. and the question i have is, is emmet flood going to strike a very different posture with mueller? and i think the other thing thats going on here is the trump team is looking down the road and they see the value of having somebody like emm...

Hands and committees start having subpoena power, then you have to fight in the house and you have to fight subpoenas. maybe you have to fight impeachment hearings and emmet flood has done that. he fought in the second bush term against congressional inquiries, and he fought both congress and the independent counsel during the clinton years. so, this is really the white house and team trump girding for a long-term fight. >> i spoke with somebody familiar with flood today. said you dont hire this...

Strikes against north korea and iran. he obviously was one of the central characters in the runup to the i iraq war making a case that there was weapons of mass destruction, has been unapologetic since the war. what is the practical impact, not just the philosophical one but you think the practical impact of john bolton sitting next othe president every day? >> i think it raises the stakes for military action around the world. i dont think theres any doubt about that. you have to take people ser...

The security guard said it was for me. >> kimberly: they almost broke the glass. >> dana: i thought they were supporters. >> jesse: they were not. he says he is retiring because he thinks president trump is going to be impeached and his work is done. he lives for humiliating republicans. he spent the entire bush term rooting for president bushs impeachment and now hes not going to dance on trumps grave when he is impeached. im not buying it. i hope trump gives him a tweet and says goodbye. >> gr...

To go and get involved in this lame party because were not guilty. we dont have to do this. what youre seeing are a bunch of people realizing that their super power is fading. they had this magical gift to make us feel guilty and the president just gave them the ole. >> this? >> can i disagree slightly with you? >> yeah. >> i think theyre showingy passion, but its fake. partly because when this agreement was signed, the left in particular was not happy with it. it didnt go far enough. if you loo...

Qualified. when you look at the hamilton papers about this, he says the role of the senate is to knock out the unqualified, favoritism, somebody would favor one state over another, a special relationship to the president, some family member, not to substitute your judgment for that of the president and not to substitute your philosophy for that of the nominee. thats my view. >> its what some amusement that senator harry reid invoked the nuclear option for appeals court judges and for trial court...