welcome to msnbc s live coverage on this monday, september 5th. it is labor day. there is a lot happening this morning. we begin with breaking news from london, where british foreign prime minister liz trust was just named prime minister by the ruling conservative party, succeeding boris johnson who resigned amid scandal, beating out the former chance lor to lead the party and the country. i know that our beliefs resonate with the british people. our beliefs in freedom and the ability to control your own life in low taxes, in personal responsibility. and i know that s why people waited for us in such numbers in 2019. as your party leader, i intend to deliver what we promised those voters right across our great country. she will be formally appointed by queen elizabeth tomorrow and will be confronted by a looming economic crisis, as well as an ongoing energy crisis. we will continue following developments from the united kingdom. but first, we ll focus here at home. la
part of the republican party. and he will continue to do that. reporter: and joining us now is washington post national political reporter isaac ards. thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with the piece that you co-authored entitled trump plots aggressive midterm strategy seen in gop as double-edged sword. so could you mean by the double edged swords. in the primary, what we heard was trump s first general election rally. in the primaries he was the envy of all. his endorsement, his backing, every candidate wanted that and what you started to see almost immediately after those candidates won the primary was, taking trump off the top of their website, like dr. oz did. and starting to try to put some distance between themselves and trump. because while he is the number one thing for primary voters, the republican base, with the general election electorate, it is a little bit of a different story. and so what strategists are trying to figure out, republican s
descending into poverty. the most advanced continental and the planet, the birthplace of western civilization is getting much poorer, moving backwards at a high speed. just a year ago, europe was in a modern place. the overwhelming majority of europeans filled their homes with natural gas, as modern people do. in germany, the world s richest country, only about 6% of households heated their homes with and you can expect that given that germany is a modern, industrialized country, with central heating, indoor plumbing, the trappings of a modern society that has last year, only 6% of germans used wood to get their homes, but it s risen so fast, the demand, that there is none left to buy. so now, germans are cutting their own, scouring the forest like their ancestors. some in germany are taking matters into their own hands. about two hours outside of berlin, residents of the small town to go have to be innovative for this project organizer, if you don t it will neve
now this is the high ranking agent who allegedly attempted to slow walt the hunter probe in 2020. now tonight fox news has confirmed that tebow is no longer with the bureau. we did reach out to the fbi for a statement. they declined to comment. former president trump, he s speaking out blasting the bias and abuse of the fbi. quote, tonight sadly we have seen this before, former top agent, by the way, peter strzok was also once escorted out of the fbi bureau. you might remember for political bias. remember prior to the 2016 presidential election? he texted his colleague, his lover lisa page, said he had a plan to stop trump from ever becoming president. we ll stop him. he also texted about an insurance policy if her policy, that they discussed in andy s office, didn t work. in other words, the russia hoax to smear, slander besmirch donald trump in the unlikely event that he does become president, first, of course, to prevent him from ever becoming president. after he was fired
good morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m jose diaz, picking up another hour of coverage on nbc. president biden traveling in milwaukee this hour. stop one of a battleground blitz, he will also be heading to pennsylvania, where the senate race is critical for control of congress. more on his message in moments. plus, travel headaches this labor day, as millions of americans take to the roads, and air. i woke up to a text message saying my flight was canceled. they were steady. what you need to know on the busiest labor day since before the pandemic. right now, u.s. immigration policy is in the spotlight. nine people, including a pregnant woman, lost their lives in the waters of the rio grande as they tried to cross into the united states. what is happening at our border? we begin this hour with the unofficial kickoff of the final sprint of the 2022 midterm campaign. president biden is now on his way to milwaukee, wisconsin, where he will take part in labor day festivi