decision and his message on hillary clinton. and tragedy in oklahoma, this morning the woman accused of crashing into a crowd of people at the oklahoma state homecoming parade makes her first court appearance. it's 5:30 on the east co, 2:30 out west and this is "way too early." ♪ good morning. it's monday, october 26th, i'm jonathan capehart. we're less than 100 days from the iowa caucuses. two polls show ben carson opening up a big lead over donald trump. the billionaire took the gloves off against the neurosurgeon. >> we have a breaking story. donald trump has fallen to second place behind ben carson.

[ booing ] we informed ben, but he was sleeping. ben carson is super low energy, right? it's super. he's super low. super low energy. >> but trump gained the most attention for his comments in florida on saturday, where he appeared to question carson's religious denomination. carson is a member of the seventh day adventist church. >> i don't have to say it. i'm presbyterian. can you believe it? nobody believes it. i'm presbyterian. i'm presbyterian. boy, that's down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. i mean, seventh day adventist, i don't know about. i just don't know about. >> some conservatives claim the seventh day adventists are not christian. were you trying to send a dog whistle to them because ben carson is beating you among evangelicals in iowa?

>> not at all. nationwide i'm beating ben with the evangelicals but no, not at all. i just don't know about that particular religion. >> ben carson asked for an apology. will you goive to had im? >> i didn't say anything bad about it. i just don't know about it. i would certainly give an apology if i said something bad about it but i didn't. all i said was i don't know about it. >> and for his part, carson chose not to respond to trump in kind while defending his low key demeanor. >> you know, everybody has their own personality, and if he liked to do that, that's fine. that's not who i am. and i don't get into the mud pit and i'm not going to be talking about people. i will tell you in terms of energy, i'm not sure that there's anybody else running who has spent 18 or 20 hours intently operating on somebody. >> do you think that people mistaken your soft spokenness with lack of energy? >> i think so. i have plenty of energy, but you

know, i am soft spoken. i do have a tendency to be relaxed. i wasn't always like that. there was a time when i was you know, very volatile, but you know, i changed. >> when was that? >> as a teenager. i would go after people with rocks and bricks and baseball bats and hammers and of course, many people know the story when i was 14 and tried to stab someone. and you know, fortunately you know, my life has been changed and i'm a very different person now. >> it was a rocky weekend for the presidential campaign of jeb bush. on friday, bush's campaign revealed it is cutting its payroll by 40%, slashing its budget and downsizing its miami headquarters with some senior staffers working on a volunteer basis. one anonymous bush fund-raiser told "the washington post" "it feels very much like a death spiral and it breaks my heart. i don't know anyone who wants to reinvest now."

back on the trail this weekend, bush addressed the "adjustments" his campaign is making. >> the falling apart, he may not even -- blah, blah, blah. you know what they're saying out there. taes' my answer, blah, blah, blah. watch it. president cain was winning the republican primary in 2007. senator clinton was up by 25% gins an unknown guy named barack obama eight years ago. i think president giuliani was leading the field for a brief time more or less this same time, and so you look at the race, october is not when you elect people. it's february. >> and bush's trouble comes amaid new reporting on his father's frustration with the republican primary. former president george h.w. bush has been participating in the regular conference call, jeb bush holds for top supporter answer according to the "new york times" he's been baffled by

the dominance of donald trump in recent months with friends quoting him as saying "i'm getting old at just the right time." it appears jeb bush shares his frustration with raw comments about the state of the race at a town hall in south carolina saturday morning. >> if this election is about how we're going to fight to get nothing done, then i don't want any part of it. i don't want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock back so dominant that people literally are in decline in their lives. that is not my motivation. i good a lot of really cool things that i could do other than sit around being miserable listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them. that is a joke. elect trump if you want that. >> and speaking of trump, trump pulled no punches this weekend in going after bush. >> here's a guy wants to run our country and he can't even run his own campaign. so bush has no money. he's cutting, he's meeting today

with mommy and daddy, and they're working on their campaign. they're working. >> i thought jeb was going to be the front-runner. obvious he wills' no longer the front-runner. i probably won't talk about him so much anymore. let's turn to the democrats and saturday night's jefferson jackson dinner featuring the three remaining presidential candidates for the party. hillary clinton held a rally that featured remarks from her husband and musical performance by katy perry that drew thousands. bernie sanders held an outdoor rally with his supporters and a march to the event and martin o'malley served as his own musical entertainment before headed inside the dinner venue. once inside sanders and clinton drew some of their sharpest contrasts in the campaign. sanders repeatedly compared his record with clinton's without ever once mentioning her name. >> and let me be clear about the current trade deal that we are debating in congress, the

transpacific partnership. that agreement is not now nor has it ever been the gold standard of trade agreements. and if you agree with me about the urgent need to address climate change, then you know immediately what to do about the keystone pipeline. it gives me no joy to tell you that much of what i predicted about iraq turned out to be right. doesn't give me any joy at all. but that was a tough vote. i came to that fork in the road and i took the right road, even though it was not popular at that time. >> and when it was clinton's turn to speak, she trumpeted president obama's economic success and didn't mention her main opponent by name, but did make several thinly veiled references throughout. >> i'm not running for my

husband's third term and i'm not running for barack obama's third term. i'm running for my first term and i'm running as a proud democrat. i know and you know it's not enough just to rail against the republicans or the billionaires. we actually have to win this election in order to rebuild the middle class and make a positive difference in people's lives. i've been told to stop shouting about ending gun violence. well, i haven't been shouting but sometimes when a woman speaks out, some people think it's shouting. >> vice president biden was not in attendance. in an interview last night on "60 minutes" he spoke about the motivations behind that decision, his announcement speech in the rose garden and his relationship with the

democratic front-runner. >> is it that you think you couldn't win or that you didn't want to run? >> couldn't win. i'll be very blunt. if i thought we could have put together the campaign that our supporters deserved and our contributors deserved, i would have gone out and done it. >> why did it take you to tuesday to if igthat out? >> because it took that long for us to decide as a family. look, dealing with the loss of bo, any parent listening who has lost a child knows that you can't -- it doesn't follow schedules of primaries and caucuses and contributors and the like. it just -- and everybody grieves at a different pace. >> you didn't mention hillary clinton at all during your speech but you sure did seem to be referring to her. you said "i don't think we should look at republicans as our enemies." was that a reference to the comment she made --

>> that wasn't a reference to hillary. that was a reference to all of washington. >> she called republicans enemies in the debate. >> well, i think she was being more humorous than she was direct about that. and i don't take it that that's her view but i do know it's the view of many people. for example when i made the statement, there were two big articles saying why is biden so naive? these people are our enemy, from serious people. they're not my enemy. how in god's name can we govern this country if we view the opposition as an enemy? >> the woman accused of driving into a crowd at the oklahoma state university homecoming practice parade is scheduled to be arraigned today. 25-year-old adacia chambers is charged with four counts of second-degree murder, arrested and charged with driving under the influence after authorities say she plowed through a crowd of parade goers saturday. four people, including a 2-year-old boy, were killed. 47 others were injured in the

crash. the results of chambers' toxicology tests are pending but her lawyer doesn't believe she was under the influence of alcohol. >> during that entire interview, i was not satisfied at all that i was communicating with a competent individual. i am not a psychiatrist nor am i psychologist. however, i have represented i'm currently representing tefrl with mental illnesses, and in my opinion, miss chambers suffers from a mental illness. >> as of last night, 17 people were still in the hospital following saturday's crash. five of them in critical condition. breaking overnight at least five people are dead and 18 more have been hospitalized after a whale watching boat sank off the coast of van cure island. this as reported amateur video of the craft according to canadian officials the 65 foot long vessel made a distress call last night. there were some clouds, light wind and rain but nothing too bad in the area.

major search and rescue effort began quickly for survivors and one person is still missing. the boat's operator said in a statement their team is heartbroken and their hearts go out to the families and friends of those involved. the cause of the sinking remains unknown and is currently under investigation. still ahead on "way too early" new jersey governor and presidential candidate chris christie breaks a cardinal rule while riding amtrak. now his office is apologizing. we'll explain the mishap. plus the remnants of what was supposed to be the strongest hurricane ever now on the move after doing this to texas. bill karins is tracking it all and will join us with the latest.

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struck a tentative deal with general motors averting a potential strike. steve sedgwick joins us live from london. what do we know about the deal? >> not a huge deal. wage gains, job commitments and road map for the entry level workers to go into more senior hourly rates as well. this will affect over 52,000 united autoworker employees who were employed by gm as well and averts what could have been a costly strike, could have cost as much as $1.2 billion in revenue, around $133 million in profits affect gm every week and a potential issue for jobs down the line. gm is making big commitments to the tune of $5.4 billion to giving more jobs and more facilities back to the united states. >> steve, it's been close to, the federal export/import bank has been closed since july but a rare congressional move is

giving the bank new hope. that wha's that about? >> this is called a discharge petition and rarely goes through successfully but the house looks like it's got 218 signatures including 42 republicans to get it back again. it could be important for the united states and united states job as well. it funds potential buyers of goods such as caterpillar and others and funds exporting goods to the rest of the world and seen as a bone of contention that the politicians have not been able to get the renewal of that charter from its expiry june 30th. for three months companies haven't gotten financing. this could be news for exporters and indeed to ramp up financing for the export sector. >> all right, steve sedgwick, thanks very much. time for me to play monday morning quarterback with bill karins. >> ooh, got my popcorn. >> and ea look back at nfl sunday. >> on the run, needs the 26, he's got his receiver, it was caught. it's a touchdown!

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of the flag when the green flag dropped. harvick who sealed a spot in the next round of the chase for the sprint cup crashed on purpose to eliminate some of his competition. now pending official results later today, four drivers including dale earnhardt jr. and matt ken seth were eliminated as the chase field was cut down to just eight drivers. >> even if he did it, how can you prove it? >> i don't know, that's why you've got tape. >> you can't get inside the guy's mind. he may have done it. >> you can't but if you see the car do this. >> kevin harvick already has a lot of enemies, too. we'll go over our nascar notes later. >> okay, great. study hall. what's the blue stuff on the green? >> the blue stuff on the green is flood watches. texas and louisiana over the weekend got hit the hardest by the rains. we have a lot of pictures that came out of the region and this is a sink hole that opened up, with swallowed up this vehicle. we didn't see a lot of water in

homes but waiting for the waters to succeed. lot of flooding will continue down along the gulf shores area, gulfport down to panama city and towards pensacola where the watches are up. it's not as heavy as the last couple of days, three to six inches of rain along the drive along i-10. lot of rain mississippi and alabama, some trying to push toward atlanta. memphis to tennessee all of the areas from nashville will get wet. anywhere between one to three inches, highest total pensacola and panama city and this storm will be with us the next two to three days but breaks into two pieces t will spread northward in the days ahead. st. louis, chicago, rainy day for you on tuesday and some rain to the mid-atlantic and timely to new england for a rainy wednesday. lot of the eastern half of the country will get soaked what was a piece of the remnants of that powerful hurricane that hit

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e. by the way carson is so low. he is lower energy than bush. i don't know what is going on. we're going to talk about the fact that for the first time in 1 hyundais, i had a poll that said that i am in second place in iowa. don't worry only in iowa. the rest we're killing. i think halloween is come canning. we have the senator john and political writer for the times and