again, the polls close in california in about an hour. california voters deciding whether democratic governor gavin newsom should be recalled, if so, who should replace him. our live coverage will continue throughout the night. "way too early" is up next. thank you all very much. and thank you to 40 million americans, 40 million californians. and thank you for rejecting this recall. good night, everybody. governor gavin newsom survives the closely watched recall election in california. now, the question is, will the race be a model for next year's midterm elections? plus, a bombshell revelation about president trump's final days in office. a top military adviser was reportedly so fearful trump may launch an attack on china, that he made secret calls to his counterpart in beijing.

the question is, did you hear what mike pence did? some of broadway's biggest shows reopen, "hamilton," "wicked" resumed performances last night. 18 months after coronavirus forced broadway to close. broadway is back. but the question is, is it back to normal? it's "way too early" for this. good morning, welcome to "way too early," the show that has always been a rumor in the house. we'll start with the news, california governor gavin newsom survived an attempt to remove him office. the question was ask whether newsom, a democrat, should be removed. yes or no. and against 46 others, led by larry elder a top conservative radio host. newsom succeeded in rousing democratic voters with warning

that a republican replacement would roll back covid protections and betray the state's character. last night, newsom thanks california voters for keeping him at arms. >> we said yes to science. we said yes to vaccines. we said yes to ending this pandemic. we said yes to people's right to vote without fear of fake fraud or voter suppression. we said yes to women's fundamental constitution right to to decide for herself what she does with her body and her fate and future. we said yes to diversity, we said yes to inclusion. we said yes to pluralism. we said yes to all of those things that we hold dear as californians and i would argue as americans, i'm humbled and grateful to the millions and millions of californians that exercised their fundamental right to vote. and express themselves so

overwhelmingly by rejecting the division. by rejecting the cynicism. by rejecting so much of the negativity that's defined our politics in this country over the course of so many years. >> joining us now, national politico reporter for "the washington post" and co-author of news of news the lower, theo meyer. theo, good morning. thanks for being here. what's been the early reaction that came last night early on the east coast. what's the early sense from both parties? >> good morning, glad to be with you. well, i think it's a little bit anticlimactic here for both parties. this obviously was not a close erection. the ap called the race, you know, less than an hour after the polls closed here. and larry elder, you know, for all the talk that republicans who tried to frame this as any rigged election, you know, quickly conceded the race here. so, perhaps a little

anticlimactic. >> what do you think, is next for republicans in california? obviously, it's a deep blue state. but there was a month or two ago, some momentum, some hope, at least some in the gop that this was something maybe they could pull off, that they could deliver a stunning blow to democrats in the nation's largest state. that didn't happen. what's next for the gop out there? >> well, i think in some ways, it is the same story over and over again, for californians. republicans, in california. who, you know, always think that they, you know, might have some shot and then just see her hopes dashed again and again. in some way this is much more disappointing than even the 2020 election cycle when california republicans picked up a number of seats, you know, significantly narrowing democrats' margin in congress and the house. and this, you know, maybe gives them a little bit less cause for hope than 2020 did. >> and then, of course, governor

newsom who survives this recall fight. he certainly made headlines of the negative kinds for is that much coveted dinner at french laundry. and certainly, some of this coronavirus policies have been questioned. and california has seen a dip in cases in recent days. what's next for him, in terms of his political present and future? >> well, i think in terms of the national impact of this race, there's sort of an asymmetry for democrats here, in that, if newsom had lost or even come close to losing, that would have been seen as an enormous warning sign for biden's presidency. but seeing newsom win, you know, really tells, national democrats less of about the state of the democratic party in america. in the same way, that two major governors' races this year in virginia and new jersey, there is the same asymmetry there.

and if terry mcauliffe loses or phil murphy loses in new jersey that would be interpreted as an enormous warning sign for democrats. whereas, if they win, the democratic states, they're sort of expected to win. >> i think that's right, theo. that would has been devastating if they lost. "the washington post's" theo meyer, thank you for being with us tonight. new overnight, the justice department is ramping up the fight over the restrictive new law out of texas that prohibits nearly all abortions in the state. the doj sought an immediate court order to stop texas from enforcing the new law, arguingness under constitutional. the justice department alleges only unprecedented scheme to seeks to deny women and providers the ability to challenge the statute in federal court. earlier this month, the supreme court declined to block the law. then just last week, president

biden promised a whole of government response, to try to safe-guard access to abortions in texas turning now to stunning revelations of the trump presidency. according to a new book from "the washington post" bob woodward and robert costa, chairman of joint chiefs of staff mark milley was so concerned that trump might spark a war with china he took precautions in beijing. nbc news' chief correspondent andrea mitchell has the details. >> reporter: as reported in bob woodward and robert costa's book "peril" general mark milley joined his counterpart general li to tell him that the u.s. would not strike china. miley's last call october 30th was prompted that china was prepared to attack, because u.s. carriers had carried out military exercises in the south china seas.

and trump was berating china for the coronavirus. >> we must hold accountable the nation which released this plague on to the world, china. >> reporter: two days after the insurrection, miley called li again. putting the two nations on the 95's edge of disaster. >> and it's in the aftermath of that he sits down with commanders at the pentagon and goes over with them the procedures for how a nuclear weapon can be used. >> reporter: also alarmed after january 6th, speaker pelosi who calls miley to ask, according to a transcript obtained by the authors what precautions are available to prevent an unstable president from initiating military hostilities over accessing the launch codes and orring a nuclear strike? miley ends up assuring her, i know the system and we're okay. the president alone can order the use of nuclear weapons. one person can order it, several people have to launch it. and the book reports mike pence

initially sought a way around counting the electoral college votes calling dan quayle who had played that role in 1993. who tells pence, mike, you have no fwlexability on this. none, zero. forget it. >> that was nbc's andrea mitchell reporting. general milley is not commenting on the book, but people familiar with the matter tell nbc a number of cabinet officials agreed to keep a close watch on the president's national security issues at this time. meantime, former president trump responded to the claims during an interview on newsmax, take a look. >> well, if it is actually true, which is hard to believe, that he would have called china and done these things and was willing to advise them of an attack or an advance of an attack, that's treason. for him to say that i was going to attack china is the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard. and everybody knows it. >> a number of republican senators yesterday called for president biden to fire joint

chiefs of staff chairman miley, suggests that he was committing even treason by speaking to his chinese counterpart. the white house had no response to that. i think many watching this show will be surprised that dan quayle seemed to be an unlikely defender of the republic. still ahead, antony blinken defends the american withdrawal from avenue gone. and dan kildee will be my guest. those stories and a check on weather, when we come right back.

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secretary about president biden's mental fitness. >> you know, there is not enough lipstick in the world to put on this pig to make it look any different than what it actually is. somebody in the white house has authority to press the button, and stop the president, cut off the president's speaking ability and sound. who is that person? >> i think anyone who knows the president, including members of this committee, knows that he speaks very clearly and very deliberately for himself. no one else does. >> somebody has the ability to push the button and cut off his sound from speaking. who is that person? >> there is no such person. again, based on my own experience with the president over the last 20 years. anyone who tried to stop him from saying what he wanted to say, speaking his mind, would probably not be long for their job. >> that was idaho's jimmish, the committee's ranking member. he was referencing a statement

in boise. despite the president's claim it was not caused by a mute button, but rather a predetermined cutoff point as the white house had determined. and the pool reporters traveling with the president who were advised ahead of time that what was the event was going forward. general scott miller reportedly told reporters in a briefing yesterday that he opposed a full withdrawal from the country from the country where he led nato and u.s. troops until july. >> we had quite an event with general miller. and he did say that it's acknow posed the effort that took place. and he did not tell the president that, because the president wasn't there. but he did talk to his -- to austin mckinzie and miley, and

told them that he had been opposed to the total withdrawal. that was senator imhoff, the top senator on the armed services committee. he added he believes there were inconsistencies within the administration on the withdrawal. former committee member elizabeth warren added that the general was quite candid. and he felt that the military and the nation needed to do a lot of soul-searching on lessons learned from the war. meanwhile, intelligence officials say it's only a matter of time before al qaeda reconstitutes itself in afghanistan. >> the current assessment is one to two years for al qaeda to build some capability to at least threaten the homeland. >> i think we are already beginning to see, you know, some of the indications of, you know, of some potential movement of al qaeda to afghanistan. >> military experts have long

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2017. time now for the weather. let's go to nbc's bill karins for the forecast. bill do we have any break in the heat in washington? >> no, the summer heat is here to stay, right till the middle of the month at least. yesterday, obviously, the big news is the landfall of nicholas. it weakened all day yesterday. we still have heavy rain to deal with but the power crews did a great job in texas. at one point, 500,000 people without power. now down to 100,000 people without power in texas. 90,000 people in louisiana without power, most of that was from ida two weeks ago. i'm going to give you the latest. it's a tropical depression that's become a remnant low that's going to drift over areas of louisiana. and rain in new orleans in the last two hours so there is troublesome weather with it. and isolated flash flooding will be the biggest concern. it's just going to kind of drift a little bit in central louisiana as it begins to dissipate over the next two days. we do have a flash flood warning south of alex andrea.

north of baton rouge. flash flood watch in green includes 6 million people, areas of pensacola, all the way to panama city, isolated flooding is possible and river flooding. another one two three inches of rain possible today. driving interstate 10, anywhere near the gulf coast, you're going to drive in and out of heavy downpours throughout the day today. and even through the day tomorrow. and relentless landfalls, we'll call this. so 2020, you know, last year, we were like, we can't do this again, this was crazy. we had 11 u.s. landfalls last year. notice, look at louisiana there, four of them. this season already, we're only halfway through it, we've had eight u.s. landfalls so far. and typically, we only get like three a year. and we've had 19, you know, in 17 months. it's been absolutely ridiculous. we don't have anything coming our way in the next five to seven days. we'll get a little bit of a break. the other story we have posed

on. a strong round of thunderstorms late today, areas of new england, from central pennsylvania, yum state new york, to capital district, vermont, new hampshire, maine, 12 million people in risk of strong storms. that heat, 90 again in d.c. that humidity is what won't goal away for so many people, jonathan. there's no relief in sight yet. i think we have to wait for october this year. >> bill, that's bad news. and the number of landfalls extraordinary, almost as if the climate is changing. bill karins, thank you for that. still ahead, democratic leader joe manchin crossing the aisle. before we go to break, we want to ask, why are you awake? email to waytooearly@msnbc.com. or tweet me @jon lemire.

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♪♪ welcome back to "way too early." it's just before 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 out west where governor gavin newsom survived a recall election in california. the department of homeland security is estimating roughly 700 million people will join the justice for rally. the department has taken steps to make sure law enforcement is better prepared than it was

prior to january th. on saturday, supporters of former president trump, many with ties to the insurrectionists who stormed the capitol earlier this year, will gather for another rally. dhs has also learned via social media that similar protests are planned across the country. majority leader chuck schumer is making plans to push along the new voting rights bill but it's facing tough opposition before it gets to the senate floor. democrats need ten republicans to back the bill but the gop looks united against them. senator lisa murkowski of alaska seemed to signal she would not support the bill. moderate republican, susan collins of maine also tells nbc news she was against some of the changes in the legislation. senator manchin met with minute majority leader mitch mcconnell to pitch voting rights. he left the meeting telling reporters he was, quote,

optimistic, but mcconnell doubled down on the party's complete opposition. >> there is no rational basis for the federal government taking over how we conduct elections in this country. every state conducts elections differently. you're watching some states pass their laws, based upon the experience we had last year, during a 100-year pandemic. what do all of these new laws have in common? none of them, not one, is designed to suppress the vote based upon race. so, there is no reason for the federal government to take over how we conduct elections. it is a solution in search of a problem. and we will not be supporting that. >> some democrats are reportedly now hoping that thisological show senator manchin that bipartisanship is impossible for voting rights and may get him to back the filibuster exemption. joining us now, co-founder of punch bol news, anna farmer,

she's also an msnbc contributor. reconciliation, avoiding a shutdown. i know you guys interviewed senate minority leader mitch mcconnell for the news this morning. what does he have to say? >> with a slew of what we're dealing with we sat down with senator mitch mcconnell to talk about raising the debt ceiling. democrats seem to believe they're going to convince mitch mcconnell to support raising the debt ceiling. he cold us unequivocally, that that is not going to happen. he has continued to say what he has been saying for month. and he said, i'm not bluffing. so this really leaves democrats in a a conundrum, what to do to push forward. while it looked like a

november/december for them. it looks like they're bow terribly going to have to raise the debt ceiling by midoctober. >> we talked about how joe manchin met with mitch mcconnell yesterday. and what's the latest reporting that you guys have heard, in terms of, and you cover the hill so well, in terms of this idea of the filibuster and whether this could be, even if not yet, this process here, if manchin can't get republicans on board with voting rights could that lead him to reconsider his opposition to changing the phil buster? >> i mean, so far there's been no sign at all that senator joe manchin is moving to blow up the filibuster on this issue, much less any other issue, hot button topics like ado and other things that democrats have been pushing the last couple of months. honestly, if you look at where march be is, he's been for months in the staple place.

he's not interested in changing the filibuster rule. truly, he's at the tip of the spear. there are a lot of democrats willing to do this. you're going to see a lot of campaigns push this issue for democrats in the next couple of months. but it's hard to see him changing his tune on this. or voting rights. >> it does seem like manchin is the face of what a number of democrats actually oppose. anna palmer, punchbowl news, thank you so much. still ahead, nearly a year and a half after lights went out on broadway, a totally different sign for new york city's return from the pandemic. "way too early" back in just a minute.

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package. joining me now the chief deputy w.h.i.p. of the committee, congressman dan kildee. congressman, thank you for being here. today is the final day of markups for the committee. will you have the necessary votes to pass it? >> i believe we will. this has been a difficult process, but in most are united, democrats are, making sure we come up with what i'd refer to as the boldest common denominator. it may not be everything that everybody would like. if i were writing the bill by myself, i'd probably do it differently. but that's not how our system works so i think what the chairman has done is a pretty masterful job of trying to get to the priority, raising the revenue we need to raise, but do it in a way that gives a chance to work something with the senate that will gives the progress that we need on the big questions. it's not easy. this is the task we have, and if we can't get it over the finish line.

no one should be proud of what they happen to be in favor of. we need 218 votes in the house. 50 votes plus the vice president and senate and the presidential signature. we have to get something done. that's what we're focusing on. not what we're for, not sending in a message, actually getting something across the finish line. >> you just alluded how tricky this is going to be. how are you about balancing the various interests from the progressive wing of the party. and more moderate wing of the party. we certainly heard wildly different ideas how substantial, the size of the very package. >> well, that is the challenge. and we've got different views, a variety of positions. and a lot of questions to be faced. and i'm talking about within were the democratic caucus itself. so what i've been asking my colleagues is to step back. and realize what we may not have this the way we want it. but the question you have to answer for the american people, if we did something that moved

us in the direction of more to go. is this a big bold step? or is it just a big bold idea that we can talk about? i think my colleagues, at least the ones i talked to, understand, we're going to argue as hard as we can. we're going to fight for our own priorities. but at the very end of the process is not a maybe button. it's not a yes, accept button. it's yes or it's no. as we go forward, or we go back home and try to explain why we didn't. and i don't think that's going to be acceptable. not for democrats, that's for sure. >> time is certainly tight to pass a long list of bills before speaker pelosi's september 27ing deadline. it's september 15th now. we're talking another two weeks. do you have enough time to get everything done, congressman? >> i think we do. we've actually been working on much of this for many, many months. the piece i've been most focused is greeting fleet. i have the electric vehicle tax credit. we've been working on this for

more than months. for about a year. i'm on the budget committee. it will go to the budget committee. they'll knit together the pieces that all of the committees and house of representatives have been spending hours and hours on. for us, it will be about 40 hours of work, just during this markup. and then we go to the floor. so, we have the time. we have the time and the days on the calendar. the question is whether we can get a package that gets us that 218. that's, of course, the focus. so, this isn't as much a question of time as it is will. >> and the final question for you, congressman, you mentioned greeting the fleet. certainly, climate change has been dominating the headlines in recent weeks due to the extreme weather events we've seen from coast to coast, and the president out west, in idaho, california, colorado. how concerned are you that that part of this remains in the package? we've heard some whispers that some in the senate, senator manchin among them, may be

suggesting that should be the pieces that fall out. >> that would be a huge mistake. we owe it to future generations to take this moment seriously. and we can't pretend, just because we might not want to do the hard thing that climate change is somehow not real. we're the last generation that has an opportunity to do something to change the trajectory of the changes in the climate. if we don't take advantage of that, you know, it certainly might not show up in next year's election. it might not show up, you know, in next year's balance sheet. but it will show up in the next generation. and ultimately, at the end of the day, that's what we have to focus our attention on. we have a responsibility to do this. we can't pretend that these threats aren't real. we're experiencing that every single week. look at what's going on around the country. look at what's going on around the world. this is a moral obligation. i hope they see it that way.

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after months of shut downs, restaurants across the country are reopening their doors. restaurant operators are facing problems buying ingredients due to supply chain issues. nbc news senior business correspondent stephanie ruhle has the story. >> reporter: serving up southern style cooking if chef can find them. after struggling to stay in business during the pandemic, restaurants like his faced another challenge.

not enough truck drivers to keep up with deliveries. >> what has it been like trying to get supplies? >> very challenging, we have had to change our menu quite a few times due to not being able to get drivers. >> reporter: michael music is president of valdor specialty foods that delivers to restaurants. sales recently hit a record high, and they could do more if they had more drivers. >> i have done more creative ideas to recruit people than i ever have. >> reporter: that includes a $3,000 signing bonus for new truck drivers, and a driver training program. trucks transport 70% of all goods moved across the country, yet for years there haven't been enough drivers. the pandemic made the labor shortage worse with many retiring. the average age of someone behind the wheel is 48. there are calls to allow people under 21 to drive. >> everybody is looking for drivers to be able to get the produce out. >> reporter: until there are more drivers, many restaurants are left scrambling to find

their own supplies. >> every day i'm having an issue with something coming. >> we're not going to be able to service your account. >> businesses take the hit. customers come in and think we're not prepared. >> reporter: another detour for restaurants on the long road to recovery. >> sometimes we want to have our favorite meal and we can't get it. >> our thanks to nbc's stephanie ruhle for that report. joining us now, cofounder and ceo of axios jim vandehei. >> really a bomb shell about a four star general, chair of the joint chiefs, owing the chinese back channelling, warning there could be some craziness going on, and if there is i'll give you a secret heads up, if there's going to be an attack on

china, was that worried, was that nervous that trump was that unstable post election that he might do something like that. he is going to get grilled on capitol hill, probably like no other four star general has been grilled. you're going to have both sides coming at him. you have republicans saying that he should resign, that he should step down, that he was insubordinate, going behind the back of a commander in chief, if he didn't like or trust the commander in chief, and do things that republican feel is a dereliction of duty, and so this specific aspect, you've covered this stuff as deeply as anyone, we know the contours of it, but this specific instance and the specificity of what he said, that he himself the was source of this, and not just the source of this but other books and anecdotes about his involvement in the final days. this drama that never ends is going to resurface in big ways at congressional hearings. >> those congressional hearings are going to be extraordinary

moments. you're also covering at axios, what we are all referring to as a september to be remember, along with the anniversary of 9/11, what are the other significant milestones washington is facing this month. >> it's a wild month. it's ten years ago, that we had to downgrade because congress couldn't get its act together in terms of the budget, debt limits and our appropriations project. you have the infrastructure bill that need to get done. you've got the debate about the fed chair, you're going to come up against the debt limit, a bunch of resolutions you have to pass, gives you the possibility of a government shut down and so the meat and potatoes of governing is never that interesting, never a headline until it is, until it starts to affect the economy, and people wonder if we're going to keep operating, at a time that it's

not that easy to govern. so lots to watch on capitol hill, and a lot of it matters. >> axios is also reporting on the biden administration's plan to unveil a private refugee sponsorship program next year. what would that look like? >> canada does something like this, and i think one of the good things if anything good came out of afghanistan prices is just how many private citizens try to get engaged to get out of afghanistan and not want to be part of the refugee process. what the biden administration is looking at, can they change the rules and make it easier for private individuals to be able to sponsor refugees, fund them, or at least fund putting them into somebody's home. canada does a program similar that is pretty successful. we have former presidents working with not for profits

trying to do the same thing. i know a lot of people personally who got heavily involved in trying to help people through a bad situation who fought alongside u.s. troops, many who lost family members, lost their own lives, you have americans trying to help them, not just on the government side but the private side. this is an effort to facilitate the private involvement in that. >> one more quick one, let's end the show where we began at the california recall election. any quick lesson, and how it could pretend to next year. >> california is a democratic state, is shows that democrats are going to be successful, democrat territory, i would not overinterpret what this means in off year elections, each of the off year elections as you know in the house and senate have their own local dynamics, that are very different from california. >> jim vandehei, thank you very

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