hi, everyone, i'm kate snow. >> i'm aaron gilchrist, and "nbc news daily" starts right now. today, thursday october 20th, 2022. breaking news, quitting amid chaos. british prime minister liz truss resigning after 44 days on the job. >> i recognize though that given the situation i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative

party. >> how she lost power so fast, and the drama surrounding who will replace her. >> c deliberations are set to get under way in the sexual misconduct trial of kevin spacey and the potenti punishment he could face if found liable. and ready for a union? the push to organize is moving into an unusual place, the strip clubs that are ready to make history. and out for blood, and the research of who is getting bitten by the bug. it is me, i'm the one. and we begin this hour with the political bombshell coming out of the united kingdom. >> the prime minister of the u.k. suddenly announced her resignation after liz truss has been embroiled in turmoil since her term started. >> now, 44 days later, she is stepping down after losing support of her party, and this is making her the shortest

serving prime minister. >> and molly, i wanted to play you a little bit of what she said outside of parliament yesterday. then we will talk about it on the other side. >> why is she still here? >> mr. speaker -- mr. speaker, i am a fighter, and not a quitter. >> i am a fighter and not a quitter, but holly, what happened over the 24 hours that followed. >> and that is right, and it is a dramatic 24 hours and dramatic as you noted a dramatic six weeks since she took office, and in the last 24 hour, it is clear that she no longer commanded the support of her party, and senior members of the conservative party, and conservative mps publicly undermining her, and pressuring her, and i want to bring back a couple of weeks when she and the economic

policies and the big tax cuts that favored the wealthiest brits and the markets rapidly rejected that, and the pound tanked and mortgage rates spiked and we saw inflation hit 10%, and all of those were real effects for british people, and not only unpopular in the party, but incredibly unpopular across the country. >> and while we are watching it play o across the u.s., but what are the people in the u.k. saying about this chaos? >> i mean, of course, it is the only thing that people are talking about as you might imagine, and while liz truss came in speaking so strongly about the growth, what people are worried about is the energy crisis and the cost of the living crisis, and take a listen to a couple of people. >> it is not good for the country at all, and it is very difficult to see who is going to be the next leader. there is no obvious choice. >> the people in this country are worrying about how to pay

the fuel bills and buy food, and we haven't even got a prime minister now. >> that last woman, that is what people here are talking most about how they are going to pay the bills and not about the growth of the economy. guys, quick, what we will see in the next week, the conservative party is going to put together a short list voted on by the party member, and we will have a new conservative party member at least by the current plan by next friday. >> thank you, molly. president biden is visiting two of the biggest cities in the key battleground state before the midterm election. >> he was in pittsburgh speaking about the key infrastructure law he puts into place when he first came into office. >> well, there is a bridge that he wants to highlight the quick construction of in the

pittsburgh area, but pennsylvania is a state that is on everybody's mind with the major race playing out there, and the democratic candidate john fetterman sitting in the front row for president biden's remarks as he tries to make the case of what the democrats have done to bring back manufacturing, to invest in the economy as so many voters have on their minds and other economic concerns like those gas prices and inflation, and the president's low approval ratings in many of the states making it harder for them to be on the ground in the state, and in the last few states, let's see president biden where he stopped for sandwiches and he has been disclosed that he as been asked by the candidates in georgia and in new mexico, raphael warnock in georgia and the senators in nevada, excuse me not new

mexico, have asked him to come to campaign for him, and he wants to make it happen if he can work it in the schedule. >> and the president is also planning to hold a fund-raising event with the senate candidate john fetterman in philadelphia tonight, and what is the message to voters about fetterman? >> well, certainly fetterman is seen as someone who is a real champion for the working class in pennsylvania which is a contrast that president biden and the democrats have been trying to draw withmemet oz. >> i have said that we will build from the bottom up, and not the top-down. so it is not about rebuilding the infrastructure, but it is about the middle-class, and that is something that john knows a lot about and talks a lot about. >> it is not a campaign event, but clearly, he is trying to say

that the democrats have delivered on the tangible economic results and that more is coming if they elect more democrats like john fetterman to come to washington. kate and aaron. >> thank you. and now, more news of kevin spacey's sexual misconduct trial is now in the hands of the jury. the closing arguments wrapped up moments ago, and he is being sued for $40 million claiming that he had made unwanted sexual advance at him when he was 14 years old. the nbc news correspondent ron allen is joining us from outside of the courthouse. ron, i know that you walked out of the courthouse, and talk about the closing arguments there, and what we can expect going forward. >> well, both of the sides painted a stark different version of what happened and what did not happen. kevin spacey's attorney said that their star witness is of all things a floor plan, because the victim says that he is attacked and spacy came on to

him in an apartment, and he had gone to watch tv because he was bored at the party, and the floor plan says that he was living in an apartment at the time that was a studio and it did not have a bedroom, and spacy's side is saying that he is making up the entire story, and it never happen and there was never a party, and the two were never al lope together, and it is a complete fabrication, because he was jealous of spacey's success and not coming out as gay, and calling him a fraud. so, that is their version of it. on the other side of thing, he told his story in an emotional way, and maybe not getting the facts and details right, but it happened when he was 14 years old and also evidence that he told other people along the way at different points when this happened in late '80s to

recently back in 2017 when an article appeared in buzzfeed news. so again, two very different versions of what happened in court today. >> and now the jury gets to decide how this is all going to turn out. ron allen for us in lower manhattan. thank you, ron. controversy growing around the rapper formerly known as kayne west. we have the story that the anti-defamation league is speaking out, and what is he saying? >> yes, strong language from ceo jonathan greenblatt of adidas saying that the words constituted hate speech, and they need to end that relationship, and he took it a step further this morning on "morning joe" and listen to

sound bite. >> adidas is a company that had history of the third reich in the 30s and the 40s and for this company to be monetizing kayne west, and for them to be making money, every member of the board should have stood up and said enough. >> so adidas has said that they have placed the partnership under review, and co-manage the product with everything else going on. >> has ye, as he is known, has he tried to walk back what he said? >> well, like everything ye, it is a complicated mix of yes and no, and complicated like going on chris cuomo and a 20-minute verbal brawl, and piers morgan where they said it was a reluctant apology to people who had nothing to do with the

trauma that he went through, and