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Demands despite getting the inquiry many of them pushed for. Also ahead what many are learning this morning about russian president Vladimir Putins meeting with north korean dictator kim jongun. All right, good morning. Welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, september 14th. Im sam stein in for jonathan lemire. We begin this morning with the president s comments on House Republicans Impeachment Inquiry. On tuesday speaker Kevin Mccarthy announced hes directing three committees to conduct the ...

Write about. i think that it just lays it all out there for people to see. >> i want to go back to shimon. he is getting more information. >> i wanted to bring up the point that this is not about something that was going to be published in the "national enquirer." it seems what the "national enquirer" was -- ami here was trying to do is trying to get "the washington post" from publishing a report on the "national enquirer." they clearly have been digging in, trying to do more reporting on ami an...

If everything that jeff bezos lays out in that article is true, and if everything -- all the questions are answered that there was something politically motivated and nefarious going on with ami and karen mcdougal as jeffrey was discussing, you have to at leastexactly what amis m are. >> if i could just -- thats not an if. i mean, i sat next to david pecker and he said to me, well, you know donald trump is a friend of this publication, is a friend of mine, and i, you know, did what i could to he...

General for another few days. as a lot of people pointed out, the urgency of his testimony, the relevance and the compelling nature of it diminishes over time if bill barr comes in and they have all these fights in court about who has to testify or who doesnt. these battles that are going to happen -- you will see more in the coming weeks and months with respect to every committee chairman who has a gavel and subpoena power. theres no real judge. theres no referee or umpire. at the end of the da...

The president about syria or some sensitive information. he can invoke executive privilege for that. he should answer whether the president tried to obstruct justice. >> does this give whitaker -- i know the democrats and republicans would like to have him answer a lot of questions. does it give him an opportunity, an excuse to not show up tomorrow? >> no. i think he will come. he is going to come and he is going to look awful if he tries to duck and say that he is going for executive privilege ...

Were doing that again on a criminal justice front. so whats actually being funded appears to be in direct contradiction with the presidents sort of that speech saying, okay, we are going to be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic. and that doesnt seem possible with whats funded, with the medicaid rollback thats still on the table and will always be on the table as long as republicans control congress and the presidency. so yeah. what were actually funding is totally at odds with our stat...

Different how we, in terms of how its being executed and how it was executed 30 years ago when it was basically considered only in black and brown communities? >> absolutely. and thats certainly what people have told me this past week who are on the ground with this issue and who were involved in the fight against drugs 30 years ago. right now, were seeing language explaining this epidemic as a substance abuse issue, as a mental health issue. thats not the language we saw about 30 years ago. and...

Backpack and hit know in the upper in the head. the officerss injies are not seriou a fellow officer shot the suspect. a lot of details still to come. the investigation is ongoing. >> thanks for the reporting you have been giving us. staying on the star for us. i want to bring in a former fbi agent and msnbc contributor. we are trying to parse when we were covering this earlier. there were a number of people saying you are speculating. no one claimed responsibility for us. i think its crucial. y...

City of new york. right now it is -- you know, they are trying to figure out new ideas to be able do more luxury housing. the housing authority, continues to be wasteland and really -- city administration, housing authority, head, continues to allow thousands of apartments to sit on the side that are vacant. city of new york needs to help focus on creating housing. that helps to keep people -- >> what does this focus mean? how do you operationalize that? >> housing authority, proposal to put it ...

They think are extraneous to educate ago young person. >> gretchen: could it be that the american public is gaining more knowledge about the money thats already been spent on education and theyre look at the results coupled with the fact that were also concerned about the deficit right now than in years past? >> thats right. i think a lot of parents are look at the schools and the kids performance and saying, whats going on here? all these lavish benefits that the teachers are getting and there ...