If it's Friday, President Biden bashes MAGA Republicans and the former president for being

enemies of democracy. It was a prime time speech with echoes of 2020, why it matters for 2022,

perhaps 2024 in just a moment. Plus, the pandemic learning loss. Two years of COVID erases

decades of reading and math progress for America's children.

That story and where classrooms need to go from here.

And later, the triple-digit forecast.

Excessive heat, blackout warnings, and health dangers.

Across Western states this weekend, we're going to get into who's impacted the most.

Thank you. going to get into who's impacted the most. Happy Friday and welcome to meet the press now. I'm Chuck Todd.

So the calendar claims we're heading into Labor Day weekend 2022, but things are starting to feel an awful like the dog days of 2020. It's like we're reliving a meme. Joe Biden and Donald Trump front and center. There are dire warnings about the future of our democracy at the fore. By the way, Tony Fauci was warning about a flu uptick in the next couple of months, plus with COVID, so again, keeping with our It's Always 2020 approach, at an official White House address last night at Philadelphia's Independence Hall, mere feet from where the Constitution was drafted and signed, President Biden accused his predecessor, Donald John Trump, and his MAGA Republican aggoltes of ignoring our founding documents and undermining the sanctity of American elections.

Magy Republicans do not respect the Constitution.

They do not believe in the rule of law.

They do not recognize the will of the people.

They refused to accept the results of a free election.

They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th, brutally attacking

law enforcement, not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger at the throat of our democracy,

but they look at them as patriots, and they see their mag

of failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation

for the 2022 and 2024 elections.

President Biden's remarks were long planned, but the former president is giving those words new resonance.

In the past week, Mr. Trump once again called for a redo of the 2020 election, based on his delusions over the Hunter Biden investigation.

Just yesterday, he said he would issue pardons and a government apology to all of the rioters who stormed the Capitol on January 6th if he becomes president

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