Puerto Rico's fragile recovery after Hurricane Maria will likely be tested by a new storm....Dorian is now projected to become a major hurricane before taking aim at the U.S. east coast.

Former Defense Secretary James Mattis is now giving his version of events for the first time since his tumultuous departure from the Trump administration.

And is the stage set? New 2020 polls out this morning suggest half the candidates won't qualify for the next presidential debate. Montana Governor Steve Bullock is one of them, and says he isn't sweating it.

On today's panel: Seung Min Kim with The Washington Post, Molly Ball with TIME, Catherine Lucey with The Wall Street Journal, and Franco Ordoñez with NPR

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