i will be back next saturday at 10 am eastern. please do stay tuned, my name my friend alex witt has the latest. i, alex. i missed you last week. >> i say i missed you, i'm glad you are back together again, if you are trending on twitter, is not always the case? you are way to school for school. conversation at the end. thank you for bringing that for all of. us i will see you next saturday. >> thank you, alex, have a great show. >> very good to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with the new developments on investigations that are spreading like a wildfire over more and more facets of donald trump's professional and political activities. government intelligence officials are now searching through documents seized at mar-a-lago to assess the potential risk posed, if any of the materials may have been seen by unauthorized persons. the national security review

resumed after an appeals court blocked trump's attempts to prevent the intelligence community from even looking at the documents. also new today, trump's lawyers and justice department are facing two new deadline set by the special master doj has until monday to certify, they provided a full and accurate list of voting items seized at mar-a-lago, and the trump team has until friday to dispute the fbi's list trump claims his personal was among item the fbi seized he talked about the investigations and the political rally last night in north carolina we will have more on that in a moment and your reaction today of a lawsuit filed by new york's attorney general against trump, three of his children, his business partners, and organizations. his former lawyer michael cohen declaring the former president a threat to democracy. >> our democracy is in peril because of one man, anybody who that is not one of his supporters, he is willing to go after. he does not care if he burns

the country down and doing it. >> a new reports today indicate trump is embarking on another legal battle over executive privilege. his lawyers are arguing to limit the testimony of former white house aides appearing before the federal grand jury. investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election. of the house january six committee are preparing for a new public hearing scheduled for wednesday. report on what to expect there in minutes. nbc's ivan hillier is outside of trump tower in new york city for you. vaughn, good saturday for you my friend, what is trump saying as legal voters a mountain. >> right, alex. it's a twofold campaign for donald trump at this point. the rally in north carolina, it was the first part of this effort was for some candidates who he backed in the senate and editorial races around the country. last night, it was ted budd, the republican running for the u.s. senate. the second part of the campaign is what you lead off with, the numerous investigations. the federal and state levels

that are now mounting against him. take a listen to him last night. as he works in what is essentially the second aspect of this campaign to get the basic support around him to continue to dismiss, the climbing number of investigations that are surrounding him right now. take a listen. >> this is a gross prosecutorial misconduct, and it is coming in so many different forms, whether it's in atlanta, whether it's from washington d.c., whether it is january 6th. coming from many different forms, there has never been a period of time like this. >> alex, as we have seen him demonstrate from the mueller probe to the impeachment proceeding against him, yet again he is turning himself into a political martyr of the. when you are looking at the american electorate there is a subset of this population that continues to buy into his defenses this year you are

referring to the classified documents. refer to it as a quote document host. of course, so much of this will play out. right now in the court of public opinion but the days, weeks, and months i had it will play out in the court of law, alex. >> let me ask you about the new development regarding trump's embrace of qanon, what happened there? >> this is the situation that has developed over the last month. we are talking about a once more fringe elements of the qanon conspiracy movement. it started off as this anonymous poster online in 2017, suggesting themselves to be a government insider who is suggesting that donald trump would leave in mass arrest of not only democrats of other government officials, hollywood figures, other elites. donald trump, you stayed away from wholly embracing him and told us last month. not only posting qanon memes on his true social media post, but also the last rallies.

again last night as well, playing with what is identical to the qanon theme song. take a listen to part of that moment last night. >> now we are a nation in decline. we are a fielding nation, we are a nation that has the highest inflation in 50 years. and where the stock market finish the worst first half of the year since 1872. >> alex, there are people in the crowd that were holding up the point your fingers in the sky, in both of the situation in the last rally i was talking to a woman last night, she said she feels it is a sign that trump was giving a sleep indicator to the qanon movement there and for donald trump this is a dangerous, dangerous path he got pushed back one week ago yet he doubled down, the qanon movement is dangerous, it led to violence, it is very dry.

i spoke with folks were qanon followers, not only should there be individuals who are in congress who should be prosecuted for treason, but they should be sent to guantánamo bay and be executed. these are wild conspiracy theories, alex. but they are serious, dangerous, and there is a proof -- true following of americans behind them. donald trump right now is overtly embracing them over the past month and including last night at the rally. >> i have to tell you, downright scary. vaughn heller, thank you for that. joining me now, peter baker the msnbc political analyst and -- there is also co-author of the new book, the divider, it is out now, we are happy about that. also joining me, lisa rubin, legal analyst for the rachel magic show. also happy to have rachel -- lisa with. us we are also going to go to the new york fraud charges. first, judge raymond dearie, the special master reviewing the mar-a-lago documents is already putting heat on the trump team. he said that friday deadline to donald trump to prove his

claims that the fbi planted evidence will carrying out the search warrant in mar-a-lago. here is donald trump describing the investigation this week. take a listen. >> what you have, they go into rooms, they won't let anyone near, or they won't even let them in the same building. did they drop anything into those piles? or, did they do it later? there is no chain of custody with them. >> wouldn't that be on videotape potentially? >> no, i don't think so, they are in a room. >> knowing in that same interview, trump said that he can declassify any document by simply thinking about it. the special master is also -- also asking trump to prove that, lisa. do you think this is what trump's attorneys expected the judge to do? ms. judge calling trump's bluff? or do you expect trump's attorney to bring illegitimate evidence to the table? >> i don't expect trump's lawyer to bring illegitimate evidence to the table. alex, because if they had not,

they would put in any number of the briefs that the issues so far. in both the district of florida where the judge candidates, or the -- where they recently are arguing about whether or the not the department of justice could resume interview classified documents. here is what i think they are thinking to themselves right now, whoa is us that we ever asked for this man. they thought judge dearie would be c -- deeply suspicious of the fbi, based on experience as he had as a -- and reviewing one of the applications having to do with carter cage. they were wrong about that, they were also wrong about one other thing, i was wrong about it too, when i am wrong, i say i am wrong. judge dearie does not have a reputation of being particularly fast. this guy is suddenly writing and acting like he is running out of time, the trump lawyers are not happy about it, alex. >> he is focusing exclusively on this right now. peter, based off what lisa said and what you know as well, you think the trump team is regretting that the even

suggested the special master? is this backfiring on them? >> i mean, they should be regretting it, i suppose. this is not what they wanted. at least i said, they wanted someone that will help to slow down the process, they wanted someone to take their time, not someone who would call their bluff and say, fine, if you declassified, and prove. it blossom when that will assess the aggressive schedule and getting this done. the whole purpose of the special master is to dumb up the work. to stop the investigation in its traps for as much as possible, it's a consistent strategy we have seen throughout the years both in business and politics, it is devastating to be working here. >> as we look, peter, to the new york civil fraud charges, they're having a slew of ongoing investigations for donald trump for the doj investigations on january six, to the mar-a-lago documents, to the election interference in georgia. the former president for and the latest charges as just another political vendetta. skeptics say that trump has

repeated -- repeatedly scooted accountability over the years, to your point, often the lead tactics to do so. why would this time be any different? is this truly a reckoning for donald trump? or do you expect it to be another drawn out legal battle with pretty much no to little consequential results? >> well, people lost a lot of money betting that donald trump would be held accountable by this court, that quote, this investigation, that investigation. he had shot over the years he has a remarkable capacity for skirting up to the line, saying just, you know, on one side enough that the other side can't prove that he violated a law. just enough to satisfy a court on a reasonable doubt. this new suit will be different, it's a civil suit, therefore not a criminal suit, does not require a proof of standard of beyond a reasonable doubt, just a bit of the evidence a 51% standard, if you will, in a conventional sense. it is on issues that, you know,

soon to be pretty well documented, right? they spent a lot of times finding 200 examples where he basically, you know, created false evaluations of property. this is in keeping with everything we have seen with trump throughout his career, he has always tried to bend reality to meet whatever he decided should be in order to surface interest. in this case, he is saying my apartment is 11,000 square feet. it's 30,000 square feet. it's not with this, it's worth ten times. that we saw that, and we documented in the new book, the divider. time and time again, he is trying to force the country to accept facts as he defines them, not as they actually are. from the first day of his presidency when he says the crowds are larger than any in history, when that was not the case, all the way to the end when he said the election was stolen, again, that was not the case. he has time and time again trying to force the country to accept his reality. a lot of the reporters supporters -- due respect. it this is coming to a court, we will see what the judge

thinks. >> in this regard, some, the impact of a conviction could be detrimental to the trump family business. your jury -- is looking to recover 200 and $50 million, also block the former president, as well as his three eldest children from serving as executives in and you knew your company, and barr the trump or from getting loans from any new york registered financial institution for five years. i mean, considering the potential impacts, do you think the trump family might settle, or will this go to trial? >> that's a really good interesting question, alex. as peter has noted, they have evaded responsibility again and again. that having been said, one of the downsides of having a 220-page complaint with as much evidence embedded in it as this one does, it has a former trial lawyer like me scratch my head, thinking, how do you try this case in a streamlined way before your jury? or, are you putting all of your

cards on the table in the hopes that the trump organization, former president trump, and his adult children come to the table and reach a settlement with you on terms that are favorable enough for you to claim victory? that is a strategy that the new york attorney generals office, have used voice before. once with respect to the trump foundation, which was the family's charity, and another with respect to trump university. i do think that it is likely that what the attorney general wants is a settlement, whether that comes to fruition, i don't know. and certainly they amassed enough evidence here that they are willing and able to prove it in a court of law. >> how about this scenario, lisa. let's say donald trump wanted to fight it, could his kids take a different path? could they settle on their own? >> they certainly could, but some of the same patterns that we see with the children are all mixed up in misrepresentations by the former president. for example, alex, there are statement of financial

conditions that are certified by the former president, and one of the children might attach that statement of financial condition to an application for a loan. it's hard to see how soon the adult children could accept responsibility and subtle with this without implicating their father. >> peter, this quick do you next reporting over the years much reporting over the years which includes exposing donald trump's exaggerations and lies, and the latest allegations from laetitia james say that, in part, he stated the value of mar-a-lago was ten times what the actual worth, was in the exaggerated evaluation of his of the state and is also building on park avenue, new york, and you live into this with the first comment and the trump organization and his family are charged with partaking in the alleged fraud, and so help us understand why it seems so many people can get caught up in the schemes, does it seem to be a part of a bigger trend? >> look, he told us this himself in his first

autobiography, the art of the deal, but he said that he believes in truthful hyperbole and at the truthful part is suspected sale east. as idea is that it's okay to exaggerate, it's okay to say that a building is 76 stories, or 66 stories, what have you, because it's part of selling the public on this idea of grandeur, of exceptionalism, and that has been his trademark throughout business. at some point, it may come up to -- but the fence that they will say in this case, it's a not harm anybody and these lenders had every ability to audit if they want, to their decided to give them loans anyway, they were not anyway harmed but it does go to a pattern of deception and reality bending and lying that it's been part and parcel of this president for years and years. i think the question of whether or not there is accountability for it, as lisa reilly pointed out, whose charitable

foundation was set down by the new york attorney generals office, and the trump university was forced to pay $25 million to plaintiffs for alleged fraud. and he has been forced to account for that. but nothing on the scale, and this is a big scale that goes to the heart of his identity as a master statesman. >> and this is one quarter billion dollars if you look at it this way. lisa rubin, thank you so much, my friend and peter, we will talk to you about your new book in just a moment. this breaking news to share everyone, hurricane fiona making landfall in nova scotia today, looking at power to hundreds of thousands. the region is getting hit with 85 mile per hour winds, storm surges as well, heavy rains, and some new concerns on the u.s. gulf coast is tropical storm in to batter florida as a major hurricane next week. nbc's magazine estes following fiona flores and halifax, and we will begin with you,

meteorologist bill karen. so tell us about the concern over this tropical storm in. what is the latest on that? >> there's been a lot of changes overnight, and even this morning, the biggest thing is that we are mostly focus on the florida peninsula over the past couple days. we're talking about the area goes north to south, not so much the panhandle. it appears to be switching. we're turning last with the storms. and hear the latest from the hurricane center. it's a tropical storm, it's only gonna grow from here, i probably only has three or four days to get stronger and stronger and stronger. it may weaken a little bit before it makes landfall sometimes when the winds 18 timeframe, maybe in the -- just about south of jamaica, not affecting any land areas. let me take you out from the next two days, the hurricane center the strength pretty rapidly, but by the time we get into monday morning, we will start with a category two hurricane approaching western cuba or cause mel, and sometime

tuesday morning the category three. that will bring it up to a major have -- hurricane status. notice that cone of uncertainty, don't focus on the centerline, because what has changed dramatically in the last 12 or 24 hours if that miami is no longer in the cone of uncertainty. which of the florida keys are expected to hit with the brunt of the storm. it is almost out of the cone in the same breath. because now shifted, it includes tallahassee, panama city, and later today, that cohn shift over it includes areas like pensacola. the trend has been to the west. so let me show you some examples of, this and we do think it will be approaching land at least category 2 to category four. somewhere and a very serious category, it's too early to tell with intensification, still four days away. the current path from the black line from hurricane center, that will bring tropical foreign -- storm force winds to the western half of florida, and this will shift more to the west, and that would take some of the stronger winds away from miami, west palm beach, jupiter, all the way up to the space

coast. and so, again there is still a lot to be decided. this was last night's run of our computers. the -- head right over florida, the gfs models of the, coast and since then the new american model is off the coast, and it is much further to the west, and it's heading over to pensacola or panama city, and we'll see if the new year model doesn't come in for two more hours. we will see if that also shifts west. a lot of our computer lines that shifted west too. notice that all of those lines have trended towards the big bend area of florida, appalachia, tallahassee, some of those other areas near tampa. it's good news for the sun, and people in miami are saying, it's better for us, and south florida, but everyone in the west coast is off towards the panhandle and being like, oh boy, here we go again. the panhandles have been mailed so much over the past couple of years. >> and make a good point about the space coast, nasa has canceling a pre-tempted measure the the scheduled launch of the rocket and so we're keeping an eye on. that and we'll send you to nbc

's maggie vespa and halifax, nova scotia. what are the conditions like? now they don't look as bad as you've seen. >> so, alex you can see the definitely calm here in halifax, people are feeling like they dodged a bullet frankly, and given what they were expecting overnight, and with the predictions could be, because it didn't quite hit here as hard as it did further north along canada's atlantic coast. we've seen video tracking at this morning coming in from areas like prince edward island in sydney where homes were swept off of their foundation. hundreds of thousands of people without power, up and down canada's atlantic coast. also, south from coverage knocked out in large swath of the region. this is after the storm, fiona, dropping two inches of rain in some areas, winds overnight clocking over to 94 miles per hour at their peak, and feeling lucky, it's much worse than other parts of the region. and listen to part of what we

heard earlier today. >> right now we're looking at 80% the provinces without power. south and service went down around 7 am, and it appears to be back now in the next half an hour. so hopefully that will stay, and a lot of people are trying to get in contact with other parts of the province and the fear of the unknown is still out there for some people. >> we were like 45, meters maybe six meters raised, and the waves of the wind was carrying them straight towards us, and we were being pushed forward, it makes a big splash, but the wind just plows into your face so you're getting all that water. >> we do want to, not no reports of any injuries at this, point which is obviously good news, and we're expecting in update from local officials here in the next hour or so. and you just heard from -- at the end, there he was on the boat on his watch from 9 pm on, stay out there overnight, and, alex he said that my friends

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>> right now preparations are underway for the next and possibly final january six committee public hearing set for wednesday afternoon. nbc's aly -- joining us on capitol hill, ali, welcome, a few details in a lot of anticipation for what more the house panel can expose friends investigation into the capitol attack. what are you learning about? >> yes, alex the bar of expectations that the committee knows is much higher in this next and member say likely last public hearing now that it's been almost two months since the last hearing.

they're trying to break through this new cycle dominated by headlines about the former president. while members haven't released the theme of this next hearing, they're saying that what we learned will put more meat on the bones of the storylines that we've already heard presented in past hearings. they say that they've have much more information about communication movements from the secret service on january six than before the august break in hearings. they say that they also could be presenting more information about trump ally roger stone and his role in the capitol attack, but alex, as the committee tries to wrap up its work, more doors are opening two more information they could help their investigation, and as you, know as we learn this, week supreme court justice clarence thomas's wife ginni thomas reached a deal with the committee for a voluntary interview and i asked chairman benny thompson what we can expect, and if we could hear parts of a testimony in wednesdays hearing, and she said that there's no rush to speak with her until wednesday,

and the members know how significant her testimony would be. listen what so lofgren said about learning from ginni thomas. >> i'm looking forward to all of the information that she can provide us, and once again, this is a legislative committee, not a civil investigation, we do have have a strong interest and what doctor eastman did. he took the fifth amendment before the committee all day. i think you took the fifth amendment because he must believe he has criminal culpability, and she had extensive communication with doc resign. >> and so as the committee wraps up their investigation, it will really be interesting to see how much new information we learn on wednesday, as the committee prepares to release a report of the findings and recommendations before the end of the year, alex. >> a couple days to find, out thank you so much ali rothe.

today, more protests are happening across russia with dozens of arrests, as lattimer pond's mobilization of 300,000 reservist troops is underway. putin is also renewing his nuclear threats, warning russia will use all of the means at his disposal if the territorial integrity of his country is threatened, adding, quote it is not a bluff. back with me is peter baker, msnbc political analyst and chief white house correspondent of the new york times, coauthored the new, book the divider. trump in the white house, 2017 to 2021. peter, before we get to the new, book i wanted on the, book criminalizing which he coauthored on vladimir putin. how do you assess putin's latest news of this, for how concerned are you about putin's threats to actually use nuclear weapons. is that irrational thought on his part? >> no, but it is from his point of view. so what we can say to be rational is a different calculation in moscow. but he rattles a nuclear saber whenever he's feeling weak whenever he's feeling jeopardy

or when things aren't going well, we want to look tough. we talk to people the white house, they will tell you that they do not have any indication from intelligence sources that anything is being moved. and equipment is being moved or preparations are being made or there's tangible sign of preparations to use these weapons doesn't mean they would necessarily know, that but they think rhetoric is just rhetoric now hoping anyway just rhetoric. it is a sign of his understanding that he is losing this war. texaco up to hundred thousand, or perhaps even more, russians to fight when he is trying to hide his own country, that they were even at a, war i think indicates just how badly things are going for him. you saw that today. is a line of cars at the russian border, a man trying to leave the country because they don't fight this war. it's 2000 cars along. eight miles from the border and people do not want to be caught in a war against slavic brothers in ukraine.

they don't feel like ukraine instantly think deserve this. so i think it's a sign of weakness that will possibly generate more opposition within the country among people who otherwise have been kind of complacent. >> and let's turn now to the dividers that might have been eager to do for quite some time. now offers a wealth of details from your reporting. first, up the revelation, trump was much closer to pulling out of nato and publicly realized. you realize, trump had been briefed early in his tenure about article five anomie troll defense and nato worked. you mean, if russia attacked lithuania, we would go to war with russia. he responded. that's crazy. and his approach to nato peter, wanted to shoot down iranian missiles that were being connected in their test launches, how close to trump come to nuclear war. >> we don't know for sure, that's kind of factual, you can say definitively, but there's no question is on staff and advisers were worried about that. what about stumbling into a

conflict escalate. particularly an instance of north korea when he was threatening fire and fury, people like john kelly, the white house chief of staff, we're worried about his bombastic rhetoric that they could leave someplace dangerous that he and others to try to convince trump to try diplomacy. that's where you end up with some of the love affair is that he ultimately has with kim jong-un, a lot of staffers but bad in his own way, but better them a potential war. on around, he was told again and again some of the things he wanted to do or not legal. they would be a war crime, that the united states did not have the authority to strike some of the places the trump kept saying that he wanted to strike. time and time, again is advisory trying to explains the reality of a world in which president trump of course had no experience as a politician. not one day in office, either in politics or in the military we came in. so it was a really dangerous and brought time in a view of a lot of his advisers.

nato is a great example. imagine people that are nato, where you would be today in terms of the ukraine and russia. that would be a very different story. >> the book really goes into detail, to your, point about the eternal white house resistance to trump. that it was quite intense, and one of the more surprising revelations for me is that secretary of state mike pompeo privately working in some of trump's policy. it's also revealed that after the 2020 election, pompeo was so alarmed by the rise of conspiracy theories that he told general mark milley but the chairman of the joint chiefs, the crazies have taken over. how widespread was the feeling that it's better to play an insider and try to rein in the track record then leave, and for those who stayed, remain silent about their concerns, how should their actions be viewed. >> that's a consistent theme throughout our interviews. we conducted three injured interviews all after he left office. we can hold anything back all wasn't office, but we decided that there was so much that we didn't know who when we were

recording in realtime because it was worth going back and figure out what happened. one of the things that we heard again and again and again, people who around trump, not a true believers, for the people who went to work for, who are otherwise statute republicans or what have you, they were concerned about this very thing that you talk about. when should they stop working for him. i will point of the trade-off to heart. they did not like some of the things that he was, doing but they did worry that if they, left they would not be there to stop the things that they considered to be reckless or legal. it happened again and again. you're seeing the images of general, nearly a great example. use fake veteran to be the chairman of the joint chief of staff, he wanted the job, but he came to be very alarmed by trump's attempts to use the military for his own political purposes, so much so that he wrote a letter of -- resignation, and it's extraordinary documents and he was accused of doing grave and irreparable harm in the country, we are in the international order, of not a green, not subscribing to the values that

america fought for in world war ii. it's extraordinary document and i think it tells a lot about with people around trump and where their heads were. >> and among the people who tried to battle from within the white house was the former white house chief of staff, four star general, john kelly. can you reveal that trump was so unstable that kelly bought himself a book about the presidents mental health to try to understand it better. an expert from your book also said that kelly began discouraging people from joining the white house staff, warning that they would have quote, the stink on them for the rest of their career. what was the tipping point for john kelly. why did he stay for as long as he did? >> that's a great question. john kelly is not a particularly political person, even secretary phone security for a few months when trump happen to be white house chief of staff, and he was so alarmed that almost every moment, and trump knew very little about anything that he was so volatile, so willing to believe

that conspiracy theories, and that he randomly took orders were issued pronouncements that had no basis and colleague are very disenchanted very quickly. he told people is the worst effing job he ever had in his life, and he said, i'm not sure what america back in the morning, but he did come back each morning because he did convince himself that it was better for him to be there that not. if you want, there somebody else coming along would let trump do anything he wanted them to do. and he didn't believe he was disobeying orders, but he was trying to steer a president in the direction that would be wiser, safer, more rational. he was concerned about donald trump's mental ability, which is why he bought that book and he told his staff, he thought it was a pretty good guy to understanding trump's narcissism and his other issues basically. >> and can i ask you something people would ask you more about the book. he's a chance to score more about the divider. >> it's a great question.

i would've been surprised, we haven't talked very much about covid in the last few, days obviously such a big part of this presidency, and there are so many really good reporting by some of our colleagues and competitors over the years, and maybe that's saturated things, but there are some examples of the president united states, they're trying to push the scientists in the health care bureaucracy to do things that they thought were dangerous, they thought were justified, the politics of course we're driving the response to this pandemic, and he calls out secretary azar, and rallies in the car, why he's not permitting hydroxychloroquine to be used as a treatment for covid. as we know, now it is of course not an effective treatment. the fda did bowed to the pressure from trump to discover that was not more harmful than good and reverse itself. they're all kinds of examples in this book that i think i with people knowing about.

and the most interestingly, it was his own wife, juanita, trump who told chris christie, the former governor of new jersey, that she was concerned that the president was not taking it seriously enough and that she told christie that she had raided her own husband on air force one saying that you are blowing this. she begged chrissy to come talk sense it to the president, and that tells you the level of alarm not only in the staff, but in his own family. >> and i don't know last time i called a 652-page book eight page turner, but this is. i'm only on page 2:32, so the questions i asked you are like that, i've got this book a couple days ago. i have 400 more pages to go. please come back and answer more questions about the latter 400 if you will. but well done to you peter, into your wife susan, such talent and i appreciate you coming on to talk about your friendship. >> thank, you i won't spoil the ending for you, but it is a fast read. >> i'll do it after the show! thank you. all right everyone, nearly a

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when the river blended in during the hurricane and rose up and also collapse on the opposite end here as well. one of the things that the private company says that it is a factor in getting power restored quickly if the fact that some of the utility crews that are out here working are having difficulty to access infrastructure that needs repairing because there is still so much debris, you have roadways that have been damaged, and puerto rico's power grid has had problems for quite awhile. it'll probably before hurricane, maria they got worse after hurricane maria, a private company came in and they were supposed to repair a lot of that. they had been involved in the governance power company, for the last year or so. a lot of people have said even prior to this that they felt like that prior company was not doing what it was supposed to, or working quickly enough to restore the power grid here. and this is really adding to all of that frustration. there are layers to why they have these issues here, but

what all of these reasons might be explanations for the people here alex, they have really not been an excuse and we've had people who have not had power or running water for days and they've literally gone to the side of the highway to collect water just running off of the mountain because that is the only option that they have. they're incredibly, incredibly sick of this. >> at the tell, you my mind always goes to the people with critical medical needs, they need to have power to keep their devices powered, up to keep them alive, and that is always just one aspect of all this, it is absolutely a disastrous and clear pictures emerging of what is at stake of the midterm elections and what that looks like with republicans in the house next. s in the house next. ♪ i'm way ahead of schedule with my trusty team ♪ ♪ there's heather on the hedges ♪ ♪ and kenny on the koi ♪ ♪ and your truck's been demolished by the peterson boy ♪ ♪ yes -- ♪ wait, what was that?

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josh, welcome. what is this gop plan entail and how does president biden reacting? >> it's being described as the commitment to america by house republicans, alex. republicans are really trying to hone in on two buckets of issues where they see democrats as particularly vulnerable and where polling suggests that they may be right. the first bucket looks the economic issues continuing concerns about recessions, about inflation, as well as of course the rising energy prices that have landed to gas prices being so much higher than they were a couple of years ago. the second bucket of issues has to do with matters of law and order, in terms of violence rates, and the situation at the border as well as support for law enforcement. we are also seeing from house republicans who exactly is making up their bring interest rate out as they are trying to lay out what they will do if

they win back the house in november. based on a strategy meeting the house republicans had on thursday ahead of the rollout of this plan, with folks folks like former host president -- who contract with america something republicans want to draw comparisons to right now. also kellyanne conway, the former white house adviser, part of the meeting -- who is a close ally of president trump but president biden making clear in appearance at a dnc fund-raiser on the same day that this plan was unveiled, he sees what house republicans are promising as -- take a listen. >> after opposing and obstruction everything we have tried to do to stop progress over the last two years, the house leader ken mccarthy unveiled the on the commitment to america. that a thin series of policy

goals. with little to no details that will publicly pursue if they regain control of the congress. >> alex, this comment from president biden really came as he was laying out what is going to be his message to democratic voters ahead of the midterms, which is so pivotal to whether president biden will have a congress -- over the next two years he once again hammered a maga republicans, something he has gotten criticism for republicans for, he said president biden is continuing to rail against republicans and also to flip the argument on law and order by saying any republicans who don't call out what happened on january 6th could not, themselves, claim to be supporters of what enforcement, alex. >> josh lederman, thank you for the perfect setup to the conversation now with adrienne albert, democratic specialist and former senior aide on the biden campaign, and kurt bardella the democratic

strategist and former gop -- welcome, drives. adrian, you first is president biden's term message and effective one. kenya's policy wins, the problem to get roe v. wade, is that drug not say keep democrats in control of congress? >> absolutely, alex first of all, president biden accomplish more in the first 20 months and of this than most presidents had ever accomplished, he has four major economic pieces of legislation that he passed that can run on cue for the bipartisan, the first black woman in the supreme court, lowered student loans. has had been a number of things that will benefit american families, i think we are seeing president biden do is go on the campaign trail and not just talk about what he did for american families but also what the republicans have not been he has had very little cooperation on a lot of these popular policies as president biden also mentioned, kevin

mccarthy, you know, his plan for america, whatever he is calling it, it's so thin on policy details that it's like he had to do something to coalesce his entire caucus, marjorie taylor greene says some of the more moderate members of his caucus, a hand for -- he had to try to do something to show they were all unified, but there is not a lot of policy details in that proposal. the bottom line, president biden had a lot to run on, get a lot of accomplishments, going out there, making the case of the american people, telling them why democrats are the right choice, but also making it clear that if republicans are uncharged, they will not be on the side of american families. >> okay, we get to the house committee leader kevin mccarthy rolling out this sweeping legislator agenda for the -- house if the voters put them back in power. do you agree, kurt, because i have a potential of -- which led to a landslide win for republican in 1994. >> yeah, it doesn't, what

really kevin mccarthy put four was the long on talking points but short on actual specific detail. there were things we were hearing regurgitated over and over again, it is really the rhetoric that people use as a substitute for actual democratic policy. -- to address inflation, to lower gas prices, to get infrastructure done, to pass -- to get the chips bill to make america pet it's evident and compete with china you look at the last seven days, it has been very interesting, it there was a massive contrast between the republicans and democrats. think about it democrats this week, what they do? in new york at the un climate, they were a new york and the un general assembly. president biden announced a massive commitment to address global security, global food and security. global mission, that put together public and private enterprises, along with public park partners to and address sweeping initiatives, health care concerns in america, to

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