That shows Donald Trumps lead only growing in the republican president ial primary. Well have a lot more on thoz numbers in just a moment. Meanwhile, half of Congress Returns to capitol hill today with a long todo list including a new Federal Budget, but demands from farright members of the house could complicate getting a deal done before the end of the month. Plus Vladimir Putin is turning to yet another dictator for more weaponry for his war in ukraine. Well have that brand new reporting straight ahead. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, september 5th. I hope you enjoyed the long weekend. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day and week with us. New polling shows that Donald Trumps republican primary lead is growing as support collapses for the person who was once viewed as his most viable opponent. In the latest Wall Street Journal survey 359 of gop primary voters say that trump is their choice for 2024. Thats up from 48 in april. In second place do
Spepding, military budget, the cost of reform and personnel pensions. The discussion with fiscal policy and military strategy researchers was hosted by the brookings institute. It is about an hour and 20 minutes. Good morning. Im director of fiscal Monetary Policy here at brookings. I want to welcome everyone to the event today. How much money for defense is enough . This event began with a call i got from someone i respect who said to me simply, how do we decide how much money the u. S. Should spend on defense . I know a little bit about the federal budget but im more comfortable talking about Social Security, low income home energy, the state and local tax itductions than the Defense Budget. So i called my colleague and he said i just finished a 20,000 word answer to the question. So here we are. You can read all 20,000 words on the website. But he promised he will not try to read all of them today. I want to start with a yegz i cant answer, how much does the u. S. Spend on defense.
Implications of the israelhamas war. As war three strikes hes out republican jim jordan drops jim jordan as the house triggering more chaos. How Robert Garcia, of the democrats what they think about this. And double trouble. Two of Donald Trumps codefendants suddenly plead guilty in the Georgia Elections interference case, and could testify against him. Why the twice impeached four times indicted on 91 counts former president who is out on bail and bond, four jurisdictions should be very, very afraid. Im jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. Capehart, this is the saturday show. The two freed hostages spoke last night with President Biden, who pledged his full support, as they recover. In a press briefing yesterday, secretary of state, anthony blinken, said the State Department is working to identify ten other americans who are still unaccounted for. Joining me from tel aviv, nbc news foreign correspondent, kelly, thank you for being here this morning. Why were only 20 trucks al
And trumps Hush Money Election Interference Trial just days after Stormy Daniels testimony. We have an inside look at the biggest week of the trial yet. Allies at odds. President biden draws a red line on israel launches a full scale invasion of rafah. And, the black vote. New Polling Raising questions about President Bidens support among this critical group. And how black lgbtq plus voters could be a decisive factor. Kelly robinson of the Human Rights Campaign and Terrance Woodbury join me to break down what is behind the numbers. This is the Saturday Show. This week of Donald Trumps New York Criminal Trial was all about the dirty details. With Adult Film Star Writer and director Stormy Daniels testifying about the one night stand, trump allegedly spent 130 grand to cover up. Not only has trump denied the charges of falsifying Business Records, he claims he never had a sexual encounter with daniels. During a rigorous cross question in which trumps Defense Attorney charged that daniels
Israeli hostages dragged over the border, either from homes or Music Festival. By now, you have seen the truly horrific images of families with small kids, grandparents, and young people being paraded through the streets of some of themcansccording to the u. S. State deparent. In a moment, ill bed by the nfc coordinator of strategic communications, john kirby at the white house. Lets get to the reporting. Richard engel reporting from the border city this afternoon. Stay down, down. Reporter there has been a lot of incoming fire here. We believe that it is mortar fire. Some of them also appear to be rockets. They have been coming in quite close. That is why we are on the ground right now. Joining us now from telaviv is chief correspondent ali velshi, thank you for being with us. In the time that weve spoken since we last spoke, weve seen a number of counter strikes on gaza, smoke in the air. Fires, explosions and whatnot. How does it sound from tel aviv . Raf a little bit earlier was he