good morning, everyone. it's the top of the hour. we're so glad you're with us. it's a busy morning on the global stage. >> global stage and domestic as well. it's crazy how much news is happening this first week of september. >> kids are back in school. the news is back. it is september 6th. secretary of state antony blinken is on the ground in ukraine. he will meet with president s zelenskyy. we will see the first televised hearing in the georgia election subversion case. after former trump and all 18 co-defendants pleaded not guilty. what the judge decides could have a major impact on trump's very busy calendar. also mitch mcconnell will talk behind closed doors about his health with the senate republican conference after two freezing incidents in just two months. the capitol doctor says the senator shows no sign of stroke or seizure disorder.

200 law enforcement officers are searching for the etscaped murderer a week after he broke out of a prison near philadelphia. they have a plan to try to stress him into making a mistake so they can capture him. two school districts remain closed as this manhunt intensifies. >> the world has just experience ed the hottest summer on record by a lot. the heat is so extreme here in the u.s., it's forcing school closings and early dismissals. "cnn this morning" starts right now. here is where we begin this morning. right now, secretary of state antony blinken is in kyiv. this is a surprise visit. his third since the war on ukraine began. he will meet very shortly with volodymyr zelenskyy. it's a major show of solidarity from the west during a critical phase of the war, as troops struggle to breakthrough in this counteroffensive.

>> i'm here, first and foremost, to demonstrate our ongoing and determined support for ukraine as it deals with this aggression. we have seen good progress in the counteroffensive. we want to make sure ukraine has what it needs not only to succeed for the long-term. >> before he arrived, russia launched a barrage of missiles, a stark are minder that america e america's top diplomat is in a war soep. his visit also comes as polls show american public support for more u.s. aid to ukraine is starting to wane. u.s. support has been an essential lifeline for ukrainians up to this point. melissa bell is on the ground for it us in kyiv. what have you been hearing about the surprise visit so far? >> reporter: these kinds of visits are tremendously

important to the ukrainian people, first and foremost, because as you mentioned, this grinding counteroffensive, we're 19 months into a war that's tiring the entire world. imagine for a moment the ukrainian people. it's incredibly important in terms of showing support, but it comes as a critical juncture and secretary blinken is here to hear what the ukrainian offensive is. the state department's assessment is the gains have been impressive. but he's here to say what more help they need, but it also this visit comes at a critical juncture in terms of western continued support for this war 19 months in. it comes less than a month after president biden went to congress to ask for a $24 billion of help

for this war effort at a time when polls show a softening of support for that. it's also time just ahead of the u.n. general assembly. that's going to be about aligning the american and ukrainian message as ukraine president prepares to speak to the world about what is happening with this war and why he needs those 50 countries currently giving not just more financial support, but military support, humanitarian aid, need to stick with it. it's been critical that it hasn't progressed as quickly as it should. it's exactly what progress is being made. >> absolutely. really significant. glad you're on the ground. we have a new development in the federal case against former president trump and his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. special counsel jack smith

accusing trump of making daily extra judicial statements that prejudice the jury pool. while trump's team want it is to remain sealed. >> they have waived their right to arraignments. former chief of staff mark meadows is among them. he's trying to move his case to federal court where it could be d dismissed. that could begin as early as next month. sara murray joins us with more. it's really interesting

basically saying watch what you say because what you say contains a jury pool. >> that's right. obviously, some of the underlying fight is still a mystery because it's under seal, but we know donald trump has been making statements about the charges he faces in a number of these cases, about the prosecutors who are are bringing them. we saw the team make this argument and these kinds of prejudicial statements. it's going to be really hard to choose a fair jury pool that's not contaminated. the longer the former president is out there whaling against the cases against him. >> getting back to georgia, there will be a televised hearing. there's so much reporting on this particular case and the lead up to it.

since the indictment was brought, how quickly could all this it move? >> this is a great question for the judge to work out. >> i was asking you though, sara. >> you are the judge on this show, sara murray. >> i am not envious of what this judge has to do. he has 19 defendants. he's buried in paperwork from all of them filing these different motions. so today is going to give us the first sense from the district attorney of realistically how long does she think it would take to try all these 19 folks together, how many witnesses would she call, how many exhibits would she have. and then for the judge to give us insight into how he's thinking about this, because it's a mess. >> it's a mess. you don't get to go yet. but on a serious note, this sentence that came down yesterday. 22 years for the proud boys

leader. longest sentence so far of any of the january 6th defendants. very significant. but i was really struck by the words that the judge chose to use when explaining the sentence. >> yeah, this is a very interesting sentencing. the judge took a lot more time in laying out his sentence than he did for some of his fellow proud boys. and also faced lengthy sentences. they faced 10 or 15 years. he's the only one cracking the 20-year mark with the 22-year sentence. let's talk about some of the things enrique said at the trial trying to defend himself. he said i'm not a political zealot inflicting harm or changing the outcome of the election. it was not my goal. he said i held myself morally above others. the judge in this case essentially pointed out that

enrique was the ring leader. the had been ordered to leave te city because he was arrested on another matter. they still said you're the ring leader. you're the guy who essentially helped organize this and helped make this happen. the judge said it's not my job to label anybody a terrorist. nothing i do today does that in one way or another. but he was pointed in saying this is not what the founders of our country had in mind. >> it was a very interesting distinction. it's not the judge in the georgia election subversion case. butwater going to act like it because you know all the things. thank you so much. an extremely dangerous murderer is still on the lose. we're going to tell you how searchers are trying to force

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destination. temperatures south of here, but it is also outside of the initial two-mile radius that law enforcement officials were seeking. he was able to slip out from under them, but police said that's their system working. they are putting stress on him and forcing him to move. that is a good sign he's not able to hide and he's being pushed into moving. what they hope ultimately means he will push to slip up. so that was yesterday. and those trail sightings were back on monday evening. but then this morning as we were driving into the area, there was a heavy police presence a little further east along baltimore pike. it's one of the main drags out here. confirmed police activity. we're still waiting for official confirmation if that's a sign this search is expanding. all of this really continuing to worry neighbors and residents in

this area. take a listen to what one resident nearby had to say. >> everyone in this area just hasn't slept. i can't imagine the people what they went through now that he's gotten out and we have a little more sense of how they were feeling for the last three days. it's just tiring, it's exhausting and your nerves are on edge. you just second guess everything. >> reporter: nerves continue to be on edge. those two school districts that were closed yesterday, still closed again today. the school district noted specifically because three of its schools are in the search area and because those road blocks keep changing as this manhunt continues. >> danny freeman, thank you. there's a new letter from the capitol's attending physician, and it's about mitch mcconnell's health, as he's set to address this issue directly with members of his party today.

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today mitch mcconnell is expected to address fellow republicans behind closed doors about his health after he froze twice in front of reportsers. the attending physician releasing a new pretty short but important letter yesterday writing, there's no evidence that you have a seizure disorder or that you experienced a stroke, tia or movement disorder such as parkinson's disease. the senator made a passing reference on the senate floor. listen. >> at one particular moment of my time back home has received its fair share of attention in the press over the past week. but i assure you all this was a busy and productive month for me and my staff back in the commonwealth. >> melny zanona joins us.

you have this letter that's a few sentences that every word is being analyzed. what do we know? >> so the topic of mitch mcconnell's health dominate d te discussions in the hallways yesterday as the senator returned for the first time from a recess. and i will will say that most republicans are standing by mitch mcconnell saying they have no concerns about had his f fitness to serve. that includes some critics and some of his potential successors. but notably, there were several republican who is were openly expressing concerns about his ability to lead, saying they are not sure whether they would support him again for gop leader and also casting doubt on that assessment from the capitol physician. let's take a listen. >> i think it's an inadequate explanation to say this is dehydration. i practiced medicine for 25 years and it doesn't lock like dehydration. it looks like a neurologic event. it doesn't mean he can't serve.

it means that somebody ought to wake up and say, wow, this looks luk a like a seizure. >> i have seen kids in my profession of football really struggle for a long time after a concussion. that's the reason you don't play them after that wp they don't go back into the game until you're completely well. >> mitch mcconnell is expected to address the topic of his health during a closed-door party lunch today. obviously, members still have questions, so that's going to be a critical moment for him, but as one gop lawmaker put it, mcconnell knows transparency is his friend. there's more of an effort to be more forthcoming with details about his health and what is going on. after that party lunch, we are expecting mitch mcconnell to deliver his weekly press conference in front of reporters, in front of cameras a very similar setting to where we have seen these freezing episodes occur in the past. no doubt his performance today is going to be very close ly

watched. >> for sure. lots of questions. melanie, thank you. joining us is reporter for the root jessica washington and political analyst john avlon. i think there are major questions, and we discussed them not just in the context of mcconnell, but age in politics. i want to start with mcconnell and his moment and place in the republican conference, which he has ruled and been very popular within since 2006 when he became leader. for context, rand paul and mitch mcconnell do not get along. they do not like each other. tuberville, not a big mcconnell fan. josh hawley also raise d concerns. if you put this up for a vote behind closed doors, mcconnell would be reelected without any question at all based on everyone i have talked to. and yet, there's validity to concerns in this moment. >> yeah, we have seen him now have these episodes twice. it's important that we have the capitol hill doctor send out

that note. mcconnell is talking to people about his health much more openly than before. we know this is going to be happening behind closed doors, but there are concerns. we watched it happen in realtime. we can't all pretendwet didn't see what we see. this idea it's only happening when we're watching and there isn't anything behind the scenes is going to feel suspicious to people. >> but there are defenders too. let's play mitt romney and what he said. >> the reality is that we may expect the mitch mcconnell will check out for 20 seconds a day, but the other 86,380 seconds of the day, he does a pretty darn good job. >> seconds in the day. >> that's a good stat to crunch. you think he prepped that? >> a little bit. >> but chris murphy defended mcconnell saying these are isolated incidents and he's had

a chance to interact with the senator and i find him to be still in charge of that caucus. >> i think he is very much in charge of the caucus, to phil's point. he's been an effective leader. but statistically, you can't pretend these are the only two times where he happened to be in front of cameras. and it does highlight age, particularly within the senate. and not just republicans. but fractionally for reasons of her dignity, i think it's an unfair position to keep putting her in, but that's a separate conversation. i think mcconnell is going to have to restore some confidence, but it's obviously a broader conversation we should be having about at what point do people need to step aside. >> to that point, you were on the hill forever. >> how old am i? >> let's not.

but i think made the point that does he need to answer questions for the american people too? not just behind closed doors, but really direct answers in that press conference today. >> i think that's an excellent point because you talk to republican senators who said the same thing. when you talk to him, everything is fine. we have never seen it before or experienced it. but he is the most powerful republican in the land. he leads the senate republican conference. the expectation that he should be transparent is not just because people are trying to get juicy things. this is important for people. >> yeah, i think so. i think everyone is having these questions about their age. joe biden has had to answer these questions in the same way. just because he's not elected by the entire american public, he does need to answer these questions directly. that's completely fair.

>> and those giving him a pass should apply the same thing to the rhetoric around joe biden. the idea of playing consistent standards across party lines is revelatory these days, but it's crazy. and yet that's what we should do. >> can we talk about tommy tuberville? >> it's like a christmas buffet. when lawmakers return from recess, manu just gathering a million threads of great string. >> it's exactly right. but it highlighted the power of one senator to hold up the most critical nominations of senior military leaders and the most senior. listen to this. >> i'm not budge ing. i already told him that. >> there are several nomine nees that could be held up by this, including the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. are you willing to see that position be vacant if this is not resolved? >> they will bring him individually.

>> the democrats are indicating they are not. >> millie is going to have to work overtime then. >> what senator tuberville is doing is a threat to national security. he is grand standing on a specific issue that is important to him, and many republicans, but he's applying it to something that's largely unrelated. he is risking america's readiness. the pentagon could not be more clear. again, apply the same standards. this is outrageous. >> the latter point, no argument, tuberville says he's had closed-door briefings with the pentagon. they say he's not convinced the national security issue is as substantial as they claim. >> final thought? >> i would have to agree. it is obviously say ing this isa national security threat. it just is hurting moral. that's something they have been talking about. it clearly seems like an issue

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the summer officially was the hottest on record for the planet. that is a new report from the

european union's climate change service. it's not over yet. more heat on tap today. record-setting heat has busted through the old records, now scorching temperatures are upending the start of the new school year forcing some schools to close down after a few days after classes in several states. if it's hot here, i can't imagine what it's like there. >> it's very moth hot. it feels like the heat days are becoming the new snow days with thousands of schools now impacted by these extreme temperatures right at the start of the school year. and a big part of the problem is that a huge percentage of schools, especially in the northern u.s., don't have air-conditioning. so some are telling students to head home early. others saying it's really not safe to come in at all. as scorching heat bakes

baltimore, these kids are heading home from school hours early. >> it's too hot. >> reporter: the rest of the students are staying home entirely, taking virtual classes all week because the school has no central air-conditioning. >> is it hot in there? >> yes. it was super hot. >> reporter: this 7-year-old and his mother are frustrated. >> it's not fair. for people to be in the sun while they are in school. >> reporter: do you worry about your son's safety and flost air-conditioning? >> i do. he has asthma. >> reporter: 15 schools are on similar heat schedule this is week because they lack air-conditioning. in somes cases, delivering cooling units to classrooms. >> i can already feel this place heating up. >> imagine trying to learn in that environment. >> reporter: a district spokesperson took us inside these empty classrooms. >> it's better to ship them to an environment where we can have

the focus be on teaching and learning opposed to it's hot. >> this heat wave is closing classrooms from connecticut to wisconsin. in pittsburgh, dozens of schools are going virtual. in philadelphia, 74 schools dismissed early on the first day. here in detroit, an entire district shut down tuesday because of the heat. parents at this school are upset that kids are in class despite a broken schooling system. >> we know how hot it's going to be, so the fact that they aren't prepared for these incidents is ridiculous. >> reporter: a government report estimated 41% of public school districts need to update or replace hvac systems in at least half their schools. 36,000 in all. many of them spent covid relief dlas on hvac improvements, but districts not known for sweltering temperatures are now struggling with what could be a new climate-fuelled norm, with

recent heat days like kansas city, denver and milwaukee. >> how big of a setback can this be for students to have several heat days at the start of school? >> it's definitely not preferable. you don'tment to send kids home early for a long period of time. >> reporter: at a time when kids are still recovering from pandemic learning lorks many l loss, many are headed right back home. >> what are we going to do? we can't keep letting them go without the air. >> baltimore schools is one of the districts that's invested in hvac. they had 75 schools without air-conditioning. that number is down to 10. but like many districts, they have found that it is expensive and inefficient putting those new systems into very, very old school buildings. i should also mention it's not just classrooms that are being closed by this extreme heat.

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we can't have joe biden forget where he is. our enemies are watching owl all of this. every time they have an instance like that, america is less safe. >> that was republican presidential candidate nikki haley ed advocating for mental competency tests for those over 75 say thanksgiving need to let a younger generation take over. that group includes president biden and the republican front runner former president trump. a poll out this week found that voters overwhelmingly think booid season too old to run for reelection. and a new book on president biden's presidency addresses questions about his age. it was striking that he took so few morning meetings or presided over 10:00 a.m. it reflected decline in mental faculties that no pill or regimen can resist. in private he would admit he felt tired.

this book is a behind the scenes account of his first two years in office and draws on 300 interviews that his cabinet and oldest friends and members of congress. the book is called the last politician. thank you. congratulations on the publication. the 300 interviews was something that always stood out to me. this is a tough team to crack in terms of they don't talk out of term or talk a lot. and the ability to get inside is very different. it presents a nuanced view. that point on the age, the paragraph i read is from the end of the book. what i find so striking and really gets to the crux of this is the very next paragraph down, with ukraine, varng of having an older president was on display. he was the west father figure who foreign leaders can call for

advice and look to for assurance. it was his calming presence that hped lead the alliance to such an aggressive stance, which stymied authoritarianism. he was a man for his age. that dynamic of everything you laid out about his age and how he is physically, 100% accurate. everything you laid out in the next paragraph is the view inside the white house with the current president of why he's done well in their minds in the first two years and why he is up for reelection. >> it's so hard to have a nuanced conversation about the president's age. on the one hand, everybody can see the way he walks. he's got a gate that suggests an elderly person. sometimes i have seen him in the course of telling a story and forget somebody's name. somebody he knows decently well or a senator who is in the headlines. but then i have seen this other part of joe biden where he draws on his wisdom and experience to give very commanding, very nuanced, very detailed analysis

of dynamics or grand strategy that would pass any test that nikki haley would be able to throw at him. and we need to be able to hold both of these thoughts in our head at the same time, which is a challenge for a lot of people. and a challenge for white house has compounded, because there are these moments joe biden goes out and does a press conference, and he will say something that goes off script. anybody who knows joe biden for an extended period of time knows the essence of joe biden is he's going to go off script at some time. he probably did that as a teenager too. they tend to keep him in his box, and he focuses on the details of governing, which he also happens to get to love. he adores that part of his job. but the public would benefit from having this view into the way that he thinks and talks about the world. >> the extent to which the

perception is perpetuated by they operate around him is a question. you do a lot on the legislative successes, failures, over an extended period of time. it's striking to me, you also talk about the first press conference after the midterms, which was a big moment for president biden where he can talk about i told you so. you were attacking me. the most striking thing for me is the the first question he answered, he would ask what he would do differently and he said nothing because people are just starting to find out what we did. this gets at the issue of today, where look at the numbers. inflation is down, jobs are still up, and yet the latest number was 63% of americans in the latest poll disapprove of

the economy. embedded in a lot of the initial choices that the biden administration made, they were willing to run the economy hot in order to keep people employed because one of biden's fundamental preaccepts is that work is a source of dignity. he would rather have more people avoid their paychecks wouldn't go quite as much, but there would be dignity with keeping people in jobs. but the problem that you're describing is that they have this raft of legislative accomplishments, whether it's the infrastructure bill, the inflation reduction act, which hastens the transition to the economy in ways that have already exceeded our expectations, the chips bill,ment bedded in all of this is a lot of the populism that donald trump promised but has always failed to deliver. he's restoring american manufacturing. he's doing industrial policy.

he's being tough on china and building an economy that's built to withstand whatever happens in china. and wet hyet he's not able to take credit for it. maybe if his speech he gave, there are the makings of that case where one thing thajoe bid he's not an adversarial guy. it's strike whg he starts to talk about trump and that view. that becomes the frame that they could build a reelection. >> definitely a contrast they want. one of the things, you have a great line in there where it says it's a bigger picture line where it says the story of joe biden, a pattern keeps reasserting himself. he's written off because of his attachment. there's a chip on the shoulder of their team. the president has a large chip on his shoulder as well. he's less subtle about it. the one thing based on the first two years and their self-confidence about what they

have done is why run again? why run for reelection? there's no question about that. did you get a sense of why he decided i should go again, even at my age and where i'm at. >> i think he looks at the threat that trump poses to the country and he says, i'm the safest bet in that battle against trump, which is an incredibly subjective analysis, but it is grounded on the fact that he actually is the democrat who beat trump in 2020 and also if there was a primary and you just don't know what happens when you open up the doors to an alternative. so i get why there are all these questions about it. i have a lot of those questions myself, but i can also see there is a line of thinking behind the decision to run again that's more than just a vanity decision. >> structurally in the book, i was wondering how you were going to attack two years of a ton of

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jason carroll has more on the game. >> center court was blistering. five american players blazed a trail at the open in new york. cocoa gauff, keys, tiafo and ben shelton all crushing their way into the quarterfinals. >> hometown heroes. let's go. usa. >> i definite ly watched more o the u.s. open this year than the last few years because i saw all the american flags on the board. >> reporter: it's the first time three american men have made it this far since 2005. no american male player has lifted the trophy since andy roddick won in 2003. >> the usa has had a great tournament and it's going to continue. >> djokovic beat fritz in

straight sets on tuesday. fans say there's still plenty to celebrate after shelton advanced to the semis after his win against fellow american tiafo. >> i'm a huge fan. i also love ben shelton. he brings so much energy and pop to the court. >> also advancing to the semis is 19-year-old cocoa gauff. she's the first american teenager to reach the semifinals since serena williams in 2001. >> i'm headlight really happy for her because when i was younger, i was always looking up to her. >> how old are you now? >> 9. >> go ahead. >> when i was younger, i would look up to her. i would always watch her on the tv. >> i think she's inspiring to the young generation. they are watching a hopeful.

>> reporter: tennis fans say much of the fanfare is thanks to what serena and her sister have done for the sport for more than two decades. >> they also encourage d a whol generation of youth to play the game more. it's not just women, but also men. >> reporter: not lost on fans at the stadium named for the only black man to named singles titles and the australian open are the number of players of color vadvancing at this year's open. >> sports have been opened up to more people. usga has made a concerted effort to expand the presence of tennis without different communities. it's working. >> reporter: it's clearly working for this 9-year-old player. >> do you hope to be some day like those you see up here? >> yeah, my dad always says that when we were up there and everybody was cheering