Good morning and welcome to morning, Joe.

It is Monday, September 13th, and we're following a number of developing stories on this Monday morning,

including a growing number of Republican governors come out against President Biden's sweeping new vaccine mandates. But the president is hitting

back at critics, threatening legal challenges, essentially saying, bring it on. Plus,

Senators Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders at odds over Democrats' $3.5 trillion budget resolution.

But another top Democrat now says the price tag

doesn't need to be so high. And California's gubernatorial recall election is in the final stretch

with voters heading to the polls tomorrow. Can Governor Gavin Newsom hang on to his job?

We'll be following that.

But we're going to begin with the bid for tennis history that came up just short last night at the U.S. Open.

There it is.

Daniel Medvedev makes his own history.

Wow, top-ranked Novak Djokovic failed to complete the calendar year grand slam,

falling in straight sets to first time major champ

daniel medvedev in yesterday's u.s open final medvedev denied jokovitch what would have been the

first calendar year grand slam for the men's tournament since 1969.

Djokovic remains tied with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal with 20 career majors.

So let's bring in right now, veteran sports columnist, Mike, Mike, everybody was there to see

history be made to see Jogovic get his 21st career grand Sam.

But you know, really from the beginning,

and this is to take nothing away from Medvedev. Nothing to take anything. I can say his name

perfectly off here, by the way. Nothing to take any way away from him. But it was almost like

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