and the way things are looking right now, making the lloyd republican women for progress. megan, we appreciate your talking with us. thank you. with the high seas of south east asia are a busy place with the philippines and china moving around an area known as the scarborough. sho, beijing claims it is a chinese territory and has controlled it for the past decade backed by coast guard ships and fishing boats in the south, trying to see that most security experts considered to be proxies of the chinese navy. manila in turn has insisted its fishermen at the right to continue to access those waters and a recent months a back up. it's warnings with action. philippine coast guard divers covered and underwater cable. no more at 300 major floating barrier, the china place to prevent the philippine fishing vessels from accessing the scarborough show. a gesture that underscores manila is growing defiance. beijing's claims to the prime fishing grounds. the tiny mid ocean i'd crop seized by china in 2012 has become a global geo political flash point, trying to claim to lagoon as part of its southern terr

and by the way, things are looking right now, making the lloyd republican women for progress. megan, we appreciate you talking with us. thank you. with the high seeds of southeast asia are a busy place with the philippines in china moving around an area known as the scarborough. sho, beijing claims it is a chinese territory and has controlled it for the past decade. backed by coast guard ships and fishing boats in the south, trying to see that most security experts considered to be proxies of the chinese navy manila in turn, as assistant, it's fishermen have the right to continue to access those waters. and the recent months i backed up, it's warnings with action. philippine coast guard divers covered the underwater cable. no more at 300 major floating barrier, the china place to prevent the philippine fishing vessels from accessing the scarborough show. a gesture that underscores manila is growing defiance. beijing's claims to the prime fishing grounds. the tiny mid ocean of crop seized by china in 2012 has become a global geo political flash point, trying to claim to lagoon as part

. >>> plus defense secretary lloyd austin confronts republican senator tommy tuberville over his blockade of military promotions a day after the senator claimed that his stunt is not causing any harm to national security. >>> and also ahead we'll have a recap of the ukrainian president's return to washington where he pressed lawmakers for more military aid. >>> good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this friday, september 22nd. we made it. i'm jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. we'll begin this morning with what appears to be a stunning rebuke to house speaker kevin mccarthy. for the second time just this week alone, house republicans defeated a procedural vote on a key military funding bill preventing the legislation from moving forward in the house. hard line conservatives bucked their party over concerns for overall spending, aid for ukraine, and more. despite leadership including many of their wish list items in that latest proposal. yesterday's failure setoff alarm bells throughout capitol hill. any bill to fund the government will need bipartisan supp

house republicans tried to sweeten the bill with one proposal to cut lloyd austin's salary to a singleollar. >>> seven republican candidates faced off wednesday night in what could be little more than a battle for second place. the frontrunner in the polls was absent donald trump held an event in michigan former governor chris christie spoke out during the debate. >> donald trump should be here to answer for that, but he is not. i want to tell you, donald, i know you are watching. you can't help yourself. you are not here tonight not because of polls and not because of your indictments. you are not here because you're afraid of being on the stage and defending your record. you are ducking these things you keep doing that and no one up here will call you donald trump anymore. we'll call you donald duck >> thomas joins us now thomas, i wasn't going to start here, but let's start here chris christie doing his best to speak out on donald trump. he is the most vocal within the republican camp. outside of the jabs of his absence, all of the candidates steered clear of criticizing donald trum

ukraine since the war with russia broke out last year human and they've rise lloyd duncan, of all, they said the republicans may very well fall back on their promises force. there's a possibility, i mean we saw that with donald trump's president's right. he said he, you know, he about that he was actually gonna see more friendly relations with russia. and ultimately, you never did that back to you did some very provocative things against russia like backing out of the intermediates res, nuclear missile treaty of 1987, which of course the russians viewed as a very hospital act. so both parties are very inclined to make promises that they don't keep and we're seeing that now, mccarthy is been saying for a while he was going to give a blank check to ukraine. and yet every time the 8 packages couldn't come up before congress. republicans a right behind it and support it. so i'd like to see for someone to stand up against this, this aid. but we'll see, we'll see if the republicans really are a bona fide in, in, in, in what they're claiming. it looks like israel sp and benjamin netanyahu didn't receive the warmes

lloyd. she's the founder and executive director of republican women for progress. but again, it's good to have you with this specially friday, right before the weekend. you were listening to what the ukrainian lawmaker was saying, let me get to just a quick thought from you about what you think ukrainians should be thinking about your party right now. uh, honestly right now. nothing good. um, i think it's, it's, it's very challenging to see a publican party that can be so supportive of some words and so and supportive of others. and what they're forgetting is that they're catching so many innocent people and their political crosshairs for political points. but i think, you know, if i were to give advice to some fun, i'm out of the, out of the industry of giving advice. but if i were to give advice to someone and ukraine that we're concerned about this. take a step back. listen to the debates, what is set on the debate stage is not going to probably come to fruition that is kind of a lot of pop up and circumstance. so don't be too alarmed, but really, really, you kn

senate, the republicans who control the house are passing a number of extreme bills that will not make it through the senate. one of them takes the salary of the secretary of defense as lloyd austin down to $1.00. that's because the republicans don't like a number of social policies. they believe the pentagon is pursuing. and then there is the ongoing effort, an inquiry into the impeachment of president joe biden. there was a hearing on that just today. barton will leave a number of those things together and talk about how that threat is one that his administration needs to take on. and of course, that's one she will take on in his campaign to regain the presidency. in 2024, we'll jump, we'll be back to at 10 pizza listening to that speech as when the president begins and will speak to you after that. so jump to time being thanks a lot to be too late to, you know, a us soldier has apparently landed back in a minute. your base and text itself to be spelled by north korea. a private traverse king cause comes to nation for the us army, our street just across the demilitarized zone from southridge, not getting and being serving 82 months in itself, create a present for so befo

in part to contentious proposals by republicans include agan amendment introduced by georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene that reduces defense secretary lloyd austin's annual salary to just $1. meanwhile "the washington post" has new reporting on a plot a group of house republicans to remove kevin mccarthy as speaker, and that could come as early as next week. according to the newspaper some far-right members of the party are considering tom emer of minnesota as a possible replacement for mccarthy because they think he will be more responsive to their concerns and will better deliver the hard line results they so desire. now, the minnesota congressman is a member of mccarthy' leadership team and dismissed the idea in a statement to "the post" saying, quote, i fully support speaker mccarthy. he knows that and i know that. i have zero interest in palace intrigue, end of discussion. republican congressman matt gaetz of florida who's emerge as a real thorn in mccarth's side he's threatened on the house floor to bring a motion that could threaten mccarthy's removal. gaetz could move as early as sunday triggering a 48-hour process to hold a vote

republican congressmen is only increasing. we are talking about such amendments to the budget as, for example, reducing the salary of the secretary of defense of the united states, lloyd austin, to one dollar a year. does this mean that some congressmen want the shutdown to happen and could it benefit anyone? in general, far-right republicans already put forward amendments that demand a reduction in salaries. up to one dollar a year to almost all white house administration officials. in general , such an amendment actually requires the dismissal of the relevant official. as for the amendment that you mentioned, regarding the reduction of the salary for the secretary of defense of the united states of america, to the amount of one dollar, it has already passed the vote in the house of representatives and was supported. it was part of the defense budget of the united states of america and was proposed by congresswoman, far-right republican marjorie grien. but such a step was in fact... a political step on her part and the congresswoman herself stated that she did not even plan to vote for the defense budget of the united states of america and in fact such a step for her

republican party, they are showing true colors when it comes to the military as well. yesterday, weaponizing funding of the united states defense department with a vote to cut the salary of defense secretary lloyd1. a measure that is not expected to go any further, but it is still a striking signal of the republican party's priorities in this day and age. joining our conversation this hour, retired u.s. marine corps colonel amy mcgrath, executive producer of "the circus" john hielman and ben rhodes. amy, i will start with you. i want to talk about this attack on general milley and his response. what went through your mind when you heard it? how do you think the rest of the military is viewing these comments about the chairman of the joint chiefs? >> what went through my mind when i saw general milley's response was, i was proud. he stood up and said what we all believe, which is, we don't take an oath to one man. we don't take an oath to a political party. we take an oath to the constitution. i thought that was really important. he said he would never turn his back on the constitution. those members in the military will not turn their backs on the constitution. i think we are in a very dangerou

today, one day after that interview, the maga republican house voted to cut the salary of secretary of defense lloyd austin, who is also black, to $1. this initiative, pushed by none other than marjorie taylor greene, who accused lloyd of jeopardizing national security, presumably, by being too woke. if greene wants to play this rhetorical game, within the party blocking top military appointments being the one jeopardizing national security? i would also note, as someone who covers the politics for two decades, particularly the wake of the run up to the iraq war. it goes without saying, if a democrat tried something like this, republicans would call for them to be tried for treason. it is not hyperbole, which will get to in a second. not to be over done, lauren boebert, who has a feud, i guess, with marjorie taylor greene, or kind of competition, he pulled a stunt of their own today. which proposed was they keep the seller of another pentagon official, sean skelly, explicitly because skelly is trans. >> i rise today to offer my amendment that utilizes the rule to reduce the salary of sean kelly. ass

far right republican marjorie taylor greene passed an amendment to the defense bill to produce u.s. secretary lloydn's salary to one dollar. the president of the self-declared nagorno-karabakh republic says the government of the contested region will dissolve itself by jan. 1st. the announcement comes just days after azerbaijan carried out a military blitz to seize the territory which is mostly made up of ethnic armenians. over 30,000 people in nagorno-karabakh have fled to armenia in recent days, that's more than half of the region's population. on wednesday, azerbaijan arrested the former head of the nagorno-karabakh government as he was trying to cross into armenia. burkina faso's military rulers leaders say the country's security and intelligence services thwarted a coup attempt by rogue officers. burkina faso is currently ruled by interim president ibrahim traore, an army captain who himself seized power a year ago following a military coup. the junta vowed to hold democratic elections by july next year. earlier this week, hundreds of people took to the streets in the capital to show their sup

defense echo tory lloyd austin saying he welcomes the confirmation of general charles q brown as the next joint chiefs chair. the nation's highest military officer after a holdup led by republicang chair general mark milley who is the subject of a new profile in the atlantic. headline, is the patriot how general mark milley projected the constitution from donald trump. that says a lot. a lot has been written about milley and the former president over the years. this one from the atlantic has plenty of new details. joining me now is the former defense secretary william cohen. thank you so much for joining us. this article post general milley telling friends if donald trump wins back the white house, quote, he will start throwing people in jail and i would be at the top of the list. the piece also says quote, at one point during the presidency trump proposed calling back to active duty to retired flag officers who would be critical. so they can be court marshaled. so, what goes through your mind when you hear all of this? >> i think we have a lot to fear with a possible reelection. donald trump is the founding father's worst nightmare. man who has no moral character, no general u

republicans will hold their first biden impeachment inquiry tomorrow. impeachment hearing tomorrow afternoon. and today they adopted an amendment from marjorie taylor greene to cut defense secretary lloyd $1. joining me now is hakeem jeffries of new york. leader jeffries thank you so much for being here. i do want to start with that last element because it doesn't seem that house republicans are taking this entirely seriously if their plan is to cut the defense secretary's salary to a dollar. are the negotiations on the other side in your view serious or at this point is it just for show? >> well, good evening, joy. great to be with you. and you are absolutely correct, it's just for show. these are not serious individuals. but they are being led by individuals like marjorie taylor greene who is driving the house of representatives toward a government shutdown that would betowards the government shutdown, which will be reckless, and hurt the american people. we are wasting time, doing things that have no shot of becoming a law, by cutting the defense secretary's salary to $1 per year. they are also engaging for the impeachment inquiry, it is the bipartisan bill. they are moving the bipa

republicans are trying to appease the hard right. they've added some amendments, i'm sure you know this, to the four individual spending bills. one, for example, would reduce the salary of defense secretary lloyd, of course, the first black man to hold that post. so given what kind of activity there is, do you see anything at this point that could avert a shutdown? >> no, chris, and thanks for asking about that. i'm really afraid for the american people that we're going to see a shutdown, right? we're going to see this affect people's lives on an everyday basis. it's going to affect travel with the faa. it's going to affect people's social security. it's going to affect people's benefits under wic. it's going to affect senior citizens, our veterans. it's going to affect health care because they're fighting amongst themselves. the speaker tried yesterday to are try to blame joe biden. my deep concern with that, of course, is anyone who has studied civics knows the executive branch doesn't run the legislative branch, which is congress. if that's what they think, we're in deeper trouble than i even thought at the beginning of this. i'm deeply concerned. i think we're going to be shut down. i thin

of defense lloyd austin, secretary of state tony blinken, have managed to pull together nato, the european union, the 50 nations of the contact group to support ukraine, but the republicansa shameful situation. >> tim, i've made a pledge to abandon nostalgia but i do have to quote mccain on -- i think he called him a two-bit thug, murderer, dictator. and i only point that out because i'm sure that's what mcconnell and mccarthy and all the republicans who aren't marjorie taylor greene and the one playing footsie in the movie theater actually think about putin. but i think what we've learned from the romney book and the romney reporting is that for some reason none of them will speak the truth. they see putin the way you and i do. they just don't exist in a world where they can articulate the truth. and i think that is as grave of a risk to ukraine as putin. >> maybe not as grave but it's certainly one of the gravest risks to ukraine right now, is the republican party. and we don't have to do nostalgia or compliment the republican party of the auts or 2010s to say it would be kind of crazy to go back to then, john mccain's republican party and say we will be in a moment wh