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from an mess nbc rolled headquarters, welcome in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with the big story of survival and recovery, mostly in florida that state hit hardest by hurricane ian. the total death toll from that storm is estimated 78 people. power outage numbers are down from reporting last hour, now it's -- over 21,000 in north carolina and just over 7000 in virginia without power. 1200 in south carolina. search and rescue operations are still underway, with the coast guard leading most efforts as 100 of thousands struggle with basic necessities like power, water, cell phone service. here is fema director demon chris just short time ago. >> we have well over 2 million people without power immediately following the storm

and the power companies there have done a numbing job of getting the majority people back online. i think where the difficulty comes in, jonathan, is that there are so many homes especially in fort myers beach, area that are completely devastated. they are house by house because they have to go to that debris to make sure they are looking for people who can hopefully still be alive in there and we can get to rescuing. >> president biden says he will visit florida on wednesday but tomorrow he and the first lady are reeling if is in puerto rico still reeling from tiana two weeks ago. -- 138,000 households remain without electricity. msnbc news reporter joining us from fort myers beach. we begin with you, liz. let's get the latest on the rescue recovery efforts what are you seeing and what are the numbers? >> alex, crews are working around the clock, still so many unaccounted for and in the county where we are, one of the hardest hit, you can see behind me the demolition crew that already came in from miami.

we are picking up all of rubble and starting to go through it. there is a building right now where we are standing up we will cross the street. it is not to go through, here. access is another big challenge as you mentioned. some only able to get access through topper or about. the only passage in sanibel island is completely destroyed. we are talking a cruise. we were there when some folks were coming into the island after being isolated in their home today. let's listen. we haven't had much water. >> we were trying to get by. we had a cover couple buckets of water. it was running on and off. >> every time it turns on we turn and fill up all of the buckets and topped with water. my mom works at a restaurant so she has food, she said for that. i know the neighbors you have kids didn't have food or water

and weren't prepared. they were not ready for that. so we went over and gave them some food, but i don't know really what's going on with fema. >> and these young people just four days ago, alex, we are on their first date. that was young woman came from miami, evacuated and went on her first date at david schuster's with the sky. they went back to their home on pine island to be with his family and rode out the storm there and then we're together for four days with no access out, limited cell service, but that's a bonding experience to say the least. they will be going on a second date. >> i think they've already passed the second date, liz, but okay. officially, i got it. thank you for that and the smile that brought to my face, i appreciate it. you've been talking to some survivors. you told us about that family who climbed into her attic to escape the floodwaters. what else are you hearing? >> alex, before i get into it

when we show you there was this mobile home community just down the street from where i was at earlier. he got an idea of what the structures look like. these are structures completely destroyed. there's another one at the end that you can't see on the camera but the owner already came by and took stuff out of the mobile home. most of the stuff in there they had a throwaway but he's trying to rescue whatever you can. earlier today i spoke to other families down the street where the structures were not destroyed but the water did flood. that's where we got the family that escape by going into the attic, there was a home across the street where the owners evacuated. they had not returned, they returned after staying in a hotel and they showed us what it looked like after they went inside. you may be thinking, what would it looks like after it has been flooded by what happened here? these are the images inside of the home. >> there's the water running.

>> at the water -- >> everything is covered in mud. >> and oil! >> you've already been cleaning? >> we have been emptying. we haven't started any cleaning, yet. shattered the glass and killed all my trees, all my bushes. when we got here, all of the refrigerators were laying down and we had refrigerators there, a refrigerator there. we have two in the apartments. then, the mattress is -- >> one of the bedroom. >> the mattress had floated off the bed. you can smell -- >> it's awful. >> the humidity and here. >> there is oil in this mud. >> so you lost most of your stuff? >> everything. everything. i don't know, we may bulldoze down. i don't now. >> again, that was from water

damage as you can see. this was a home that looked okay from the outside, but the flooding you can see flood damage cost inside. as i'm speaking to you you can see vehicles. these are vehicles that are leaving fort myers beach, guy on the other side of this bridge. this is as far as we can go. the search and rescue efforts are happening in there and we just want to mention that every tanner 15 minutes you see caravans drive out. we don't know if these are residents being evacuated -- the small part of the search and rescue efforts taking place as we speak. >> thank you for that perspective, that's pretty heartbreaking going inside that leaders home. i have chief as well. thank you. >> let's bring in tara cal again, -- southwest florida's npr mpps station. tara, welcome. you are more than just a reporter on the story this is been your home for decades.

first off, what is the situation there today? what are you seeing? >> so, today people are actually starting to get evacuated off of pine island. this is now the first time the coast guard is able to get people off of the islands. they've been completely cut off from resources because the bridge there was destroyed. people are now getting access to the u.s. coast guard to get to the mainland and have access resources. officials are really stressing that we are still in the search and rescue process of this. it's a very early stage, even a few days after the storm of assessment. very critical infrastructure damage is happening in an around southwest florida, bridges out, electricity, people still do not have water. access to clean water. some people are telling me that they are staying in their cars, so they can try to charge devices. i was actually on sanibel when people were being transported by boat to the merino there.

they were telling me that there was no plan. i am growlers with speaking with was with her boyfriend. it was a three story home and -- so much floodwater, stormwater, getting into that home. when i spoke with her she was covered in gray mud. they had no idea what the plan was. the only plan they had was to survive at that point. >> yeah, i bet. i know you have been through a lot of hurricanes over the years. i'm curious how this one compares to your experience? one of the challenges? how hard is it to report on a storm in your own neighborhood? >> to actually go downtown to fort myers, sanibel, to try to get to sanibel to the area where i actually live and seeing a completely underwater, popping up to recognize in places that i feel like i could recognize like the back of your hand. it is difficult, i am a community reporter i really

love to do deep dives about what people are doing for the community and see the community completely torn apart in a place i've been for 27 years, jumping up to recognize it is -- i don't think of process that too much at. i haven't been home yet, still, we will work around the clock at the station. you are probably going to see some people behind me. we are providing as much coverage as we can because radio is a lot of what people are relying on at this point. it is our mission, what we do, but it's very difficult to hear these stories and feel so deeply for these people. as we try to be as disconnected as we can, how can you when it's affecting everyone including us at the station. >> incredibly admiral efforts there. do you know the status of your home? >> i believe in may have gotten some water damage, but i think that it should be okay by alarm. i am very fortunate to be able to say i know many are --

some of the scenes fort myers beach, town square completely gone. homes completely destroyed. the were destroyed we are using quite often because it is quite literally what it is, not recognizably more at all. >> completely wiped off the mat map, i think the expression we use yesterday on the show. what about officials who say they priests these assets to respond? what are you seeing on that? what are you hearing about the actual response to the storm? >> so the response the storm, people are trying to get water, ferrying people to shelter locations. it does seem that there is more of a concerted effort to -- especially fort myers beach, sanibel, can tina, pine island to bring people back to mainland so they have access to resources. we are getting a lot more reports of there being food, water distribution, even more gas stations are now coming online. again, it goes very quickly.

the community, though, is rallying together. as well there are churches providing resources, food, water to people. more shelters are opening, but they're also gonna tolerate dating to certain degrees. they are providing transportation to and from shelters, so people have somewhere they can go. >> colin, -- stay safe and keep on doing that work. it is so important. thank you so much. >> hurricane ian is expected to be one of the costliest hurricane to ever hit the u.s.. its price tag right now is estimated at 67 billion dollars and rising. that puts it in company with the historic deadly storms like katrina, harvey, maria, and sandy. joining me now is jeff masters, meteorologist and -- climate connections in hurricane scientists at the national oceanic and atmosphere association. hurricane hunters.

also known as noah, there. you've been writing about extreme weather for decades, how does the force and destruction of hurricane ian compare with fast storms you've observed? >> it is right up there. i mean, this is going to be one of the all-time most famous and tragic hurricanes of all-time. it is the fifth strongest hurricane ever to hit the continental u.s.. unfortunately we've been seeing a lot of these lately. we've seen six, five, four hurricanes hit the u.s. just in the fast past -- years. >> some, certainly not all of the damage on florida's coast was as bad is her can damage caused by charlie -- is not because the structures haven't been rebuilt? to withstand more powerful storms? a lot of money is being spent on that, as you know, but as sea levels are rising is it worth the expense to defend beaches like this? he's implementing stronger building codes the answer or is it just a stopgap for arising

proper problem? >> we have to lend strong building codes. florida has a strong building code that needs to be adopted along hurricane alley, because it really does prevent wind damage. like you are saying, water damage is another matter. if you have a house that survived the winds but gets flooded inside, it's going to get totaled. we should not be building any more structures on barrier islands. they are too vulnerable. sea level rise is making them even harder to defend, so you really have to reconsider how you deploy infrastructure on the coast. >> you tweeted, jeff, that sea level rise in fort myers, florida has been just over a foot over the past 100 years. much of instruction came not from wind, as you're saying, but the storm surge and all of the inland flooding. explain how those two things are connected? >> so, global warming heats up the oceans and causes them to rise. we could anticipate that

several billion dollars of damage from this hurricane is going to be due to the fact that the ceos are higher because of global warming. we have to anticipate that the images are going to continue to increase with this factor, so we need to do our utmost to stop this from happening. i, east of burning so many false of fuels to heating up the planet. we have to adapt to stop building someone on the coast and returning inland. >> do you think that the warmer shuns, more heat that's been trapped by fossil, feels that that could get added fuel to you? >> absolutely. hurricanes or heat engine subtract heat from the oceans and convert it to the kinetic power of winds. we are seeing worldwide increase in these numbers are very strong storms and it's only going to increase in the future. moreover, we are seeing an increase in rapidly intensifying storms that we saw the in. they are very strong right before landfall and it's a very dangerous situation. you had an unprepared

population. >> let me play for you a clip from florida governor ron desantis, taken from someone he said last december. it's what he had to say when a reporter use the term global warming relating to climate problems. >> when i found is when people start talking about things like global warming, they typically use that as a pretext to do a bunch of left-wing things that they would want to do anyways. we are not doing any left-wing stuff, what we are doing, though is just reacting to the fact that it's okay we are a flood-prone state. >> jeff, you think there's a way to separate politics from dealing with climate change in a serious and effective, realistic way? >> climate change has become politicized as part of the culture wars, so to a degree we employed using the term to describe what's going on. it's going to be effective, let's go ahead and do it. >> sea levels are rising, storms are getting more intense, we have to deal with it whatever we want to call it.

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saga of the missing trump white house records. reporting overnight for the washington post says that the national archives has told the house oversight committee it has not yet recovered all of the records from trump administration officials. in a letter provided the post, the acting archivist told a committee that the archives has been unable to obtain federal

records related to non official messaging accounts that were not copied or forwarded into their official electronic messaging accounts. this has acquired, under the presidential act records act. join me now is msnbc news digital justice reporter riley and -- reuben of the rachel reuben show. thanks to you about being for being here. the article says it will control solid with the doj -- trump is himself not named in this letter, how imaging is this new development and what will recovery action look like? >> we have reaction let's take a second. the recovery action will look like and what it has looked like so far against peter navarro. last week there was news at the department justice had action against peter navarro, not in terms of the criminal case that has been brought against navarro for contempt in respect to the january 6th subpoena, it

is a post that he had a private messaging account and his attorney essentially try to leverage that account and say that if we give this over to you would be an interested in giving navarro i'm unity. department justice said, now, we are entitled to those. those are presidential records. peter navarro is the first step. i'm curious to see if the department of justice initiated those kinds of lawsuits against others, we certainly know from cnn's reporting and others that mark meadows is another person that has outstanding records. you over call, alex, that he turned over some of his text to the january six committee and one point started stopped cooperating. that those tax another slack it are things that aren't only the january six committee believes they're intended to, but the constitute presidential records on the presidential records act and nor is eager to have its hands on that. >> i don't can push back -- the mar-a-lago documents.

he still has until september 16th, though dairy has suggested he could expedite the schedule. what do you think of the blind extension which pretty much appears to be a response to concerns by attorneys that jerry could release his conclusions -- yes and no, alex. so, one of the things that the trump lawyers wanted to do was push the deadlines for some of the initial steps in judge jerry special master of you. they succeeded in getting some of those initial steps delayed. that has everything to do with some of the minutiae of the special master review, including which fender is going to put documents up on electronic platforms for review. however, judge dearie certainly could expedite his review after the target to get to him. the spreadsheet, the all-important spreadsheets that has their impeding understandings of what documents are privileged, attorney-client privilege, executive privilege, and which

documents constitute presidential records versus personal records. judge dearie owes his answer to judge cannon no later than december 16th. he was willing to work like the wind, we now know it doesn't help jim warns teen is still in the district. he certainly is free to do so. >> we have new updates on the timeline for the next public january six committee hearing that was late this week due to hurricane ian. here's chairman thompson. >> well the hearing will keep it flooded for the november 8th election. it won't be next week, but for all intents and purposes expected to be going on here. we're not really looking at witnesses before the committee in the next hearing. we still have significant information that we have not shown to the public that is available to us. >> so ryan thompson has said this committee will not observe the simple quiet period before

the midterms and may even release a report before then. what is your analysis of this timeline? could any of this, the timing, be perceived or seized upon as political? >> certainly anything the tunic between now and the election will be criticize as political, but in reality there on a party that titled line in terms of how they can get the information out. the final report is not going to come out before the election, certainly, but some information they have gathered in the months since their last report or the last hearing could come in the next hearing. one thing i think will be interesting is the oath keepers trial ongoing now, which last five or six weeks. that trial just tomorrow the open arguments are set to begin and, of course the january six committee has a lot of information about the oath keepers. they spoke to a number of people who were so associate with the oath keepers including stewart rhodes, the head of the

oath keepers. the founder of the oath keepers missed one of these individuals own trial. that would really is thumbing a stick in the spikes, that we also to speak if they've done something to put out about that. the oath keepers are essentially saying that there's too much public division -- a couple of them wanted this hearing delayed previously, so that is information we know we could not see until possibly down the line after this trial wrap up. this northern one around the time that they have to issue this final hearing which could certainly complicate that secondary oath keepers trial, alex. >> let me ask about this other development with ginni thomas, concerning activists and wife of clarence thomas who voluntarily appeared before the committee on thursday, ryan. what we learn about her testimony and why was the committee interested in hearing about from her in the first place? >> we have very limited statement from her, but i think what you can kind of recognize is that this is something that

you are going to see the committee be more aggressive about than just the justice department at this point. based on the face it seems that there be more potential, but there's not a ton out there that you would necessarily think -- it would be a heavy lift for doj to support this, so far i think the role she played behind the scenes would be one that comes up quicker on the investigation. you don't see any indication that she is any sort of target in terms of criminal investigation this far in the investigation. all black routines, especially in this time in -- the space of a supreme court justice and the doj would certainly be checking everything on the open up and making sure that they are dotting their eyes and crossing their t's and double checking their math before they went down the path potentially of a criminal investigation. >> you're absolutely right. to that point, talk about scrutiny has been surrounding

her because of her husband's role in the supreme court. without opening statements to the committee she said, i can guarantee that my husband has never spoken to me about pending case of the court. it's nine cloud rule in our home. it's awful full-able for anyone who knows my husband i think i could influence his jurisprudence. the main is independent and stubborn, strong character traits of independent and integrity. is that enough lisa, to reassure those that are pulling for clarence thomas to recuse himself from january six related cases? one of his wife for someone who still believes that the january six election was stolen. >> let's take jenny thomas on her word, that justice thomas does not discuss pending cases with her. it is the other part of that statement, alex, the troubles me. she says she trump guarantees that -- the part that you didn't quote is where she said she generally doesn't discuss political activities with him. the lawyer and me says, of,

that we're generally is doing a lot of work as andrew rison said on twitter, what does that mean, generally? she occasionally talk to him about political activities? which specific political activities? one might have danny thompson discussed with justice in a way that might have affected his views even if she insists that he stubborn as knocks and impenetrable in terms of jurisprudence. >> isa reuben, ryan riley, many thanks to both of you. as the death toll climbs, we are inside the strike zone of hurricane ian. how the search for survivors is going and who needs the most help and who is making sure that they actually got it.

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in florida as the recovery from the destruction of the devastating hurricane sets in.

the toll stands at 78 from that storm with the number expected to rise. power is beginning to be restored as these numbers show, 78,000 customers in florida. 19,000 in north carolina, 7900 in virginia, and 1200 in south carolina. joining me now is jared moscow, it's florida's former emergency management director and the -- 23rd congressional district. welcome, glad to have you talk here about this. i know you saw oversaw the emergency response division. gauge for us the severity of hurricane ian. how does it compare to the other storms you have responded to? >> yeah, looks good to be with you. i mean. the severity is significant because of the size of the storm and the size of the eye wall in addition to the strength. years ago we had the category five storm in the panhandle, everybody will number the pictures of what mexico beach looked like.

i've toured a lot of this area, and he looked a lot like mexico beach except the size of it is 100 times bigger. so, the devastation along those barrier islands in the county is just utter devastation. somewhere tween 85 to 90% of the structures are either gone or will have to be damn out because they are devastation from both the surge and the eyewall wins. >> it's been a few days, give me a sense of how the community seems to be holding up based on what you've seen on the ground there? >> they are still in shock. this is the shock phase. >> obviously folks that have evacuated one come back to their home and see what a salvageable. that hasn't happened yet. especially on the islands, they are probably anxious about that. they are staying in the shelter, staying with loved ones, so there are thousands of people have been displaced trying to

figure out how they're going to live where you but insurance coverage. there are folks with loved ones that they can't get a hold of. it is clearly the number one issue. kids have been displaced. their schools are going to be closed. that's a huge mental health impact. i saw that after hurricane michael, a family's couch surfing from home to home with friends and it had a huge impact on families and children. >> all of that is coming down the line. right now, we are still unfortunately in the shock phase. >> jarred, how much rebuilding do expect to be done. let's talk specifically about this barrier islands where the wind is bad, but you can get the flooding in the storm surge on those high winds and there is nothing to protect them from it. should this places be rebuilt? >> those will be a question for the local government along with the state. we have built back after

hurricane andrew, after hurricane michael, we have built back after charlie and jean, all the storms. we have always built back after these catastrophic events in florida. the question is just building back stronger. so, we can withstand these offense. these events are not isolated, they will continue. it is about floyd on the east coast has some of the strongest building codes. maybe ringing that other areas of florida, elevating the houses, obviously on the coast so we can mitigate this damage. listen, we are a long ways away from trying to figure out whether we should rebuild. we are still having search and rescue going on and we have families that survived the storm but lost everything that they have ever worked for in their lives. once we get past that phase in the cleanup phase, which is going to take months and months but could be as long as a year at some of these islands. as far as rebuilding, we are a long ways away from that. >> jared moscow it's, there

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part of russian territory forever. while accusing the u.s. of trying to weaken and destroy the country. >> president zelenskyy vowing there will be even more ukrainian flags hoisted in the donbas within the week. >> zelenskyy saying that this latest win is a clear sign of russia's claims are a farce. saturday, the russian defense ministry announcing the withdrawal of troops from -- to more advantages positions, pointing to ukrainian superiority in forces and means. ukrainian military says 5000 russian troops were encircled, claiming they could either surrender trying to escape or die. >> we are very encouraged by what we're seeing right now. we think ukrainians have done great work. >> as ukrainian soldiers tossed -- off the roof top the sign of the battle momentum, and reaching extremists.

the mayor of chechnya lashing out on tammy telegram calling for more drastic measures, including the use of low yield nuclear weapons. adding everything would be good if it wasn't so bad. meanwhile, on saturday, a grim discovery. ukrainian officials say they found the bodies of 24 civilians including a pregnant woman. the ukrainians claim the convoy had been fired on by russian forces while trying to flee occupied kobe omsk. -- trying to enter russian controlled territory to the south. killing at least 30. ukraine's interior minister calling the attack a war crime, adding putin should pay for what he has done. >> meanwhile, ukrainian officials say the director of the zaporizhzhia power plant has been of detained, jeopardizing the safety of europe's largest nuclear plants. so far, no comment from russian officials. the eye a epa put out a

statement saying that the contact was well into the 40s. >> airman auckland, thank you for the report. let's bring in michael mcfaul former u.s. ambassador to russia and msnbc international affairs analyst. ambassador, it's good to have you here. give me a sense of what you have a hearing about vladimir putin in the defeat that he suffered less than 24 hours after his big, so-called, constant -- ceremonial speech. >> it's in the public now. you have this clip from mr. couture of, who is supposed to be loyal to mr. putin. he's not the only one, but he is one of the most prominent saying that you have to do more. we are losing, calling on the top generals to be fired and even worse, by the way, some things on the social media channels. there is a real internal division right now. i think it has been there for a long time, by the way. they've been losing for a long time. now it is spilling out into the open as putin continues to retrieve. >> give me a reality check on

those regions that putin attempted to annex. statistically, are they're even enough pro russian residents in those areas to uphold his version of control without having to resort to military rule because he has no governmental control in the region, right? >> well it's mixed. two of the places there in donbas, they've been de facto have there -- in charge since 2014. de facto and, in a very poor way. if you want to know how what annexed russia is going to look like in those places fortuna regions, look at what was there in donbas for years. there's been no economic growth, no reconstruction. it has been a disaster. i think people understand that living under putin's rule will be disastrous, just like it has been for the last eight years. the second you raise a great point, a lot of people have left. they've gone to russia, they've gone to ukraine. it will be very difficult to

hold that territory and we are seeing that. that is why they're losing on the battlefield the very territory that they just yesterday claimed was annexed. they have lost territory today and it seems like, if you believe president zelenskyy, they will be losing a lot more in the coming days and weeks. >> the fact that putin lost lineman, is of the scientists that neither the russians or ukrainians are in full control? it still evolving? >> right now the momentum is on the ukrainian side, so right now they push them all out of kharkiv with incredible victory. one of the large victories in europe in terms of handing over and probably going all the way back to world war ii. now they're making incremental progress involving the north in the south. don't forget they are still fighting in kherson, russia is in retreat and that is why mr. putin announced this partial mobilization of 300,000 soldiers that he needs to fortify his forces in this

region. >> this was very interesting on friday, when putin reference what he called the precedent set by the u.s. when it bombed hiroshima nagasaki 1945. a number of russian experts believe that he is laying out his rationale for potential use of nuclear weapons on the ukrainian battlefield. >> that is scary, that speech was scary. that day was tragic. let's be clear, this is the largest annexation in europe since world war ii. he has declared -- he has not succeeded, but he has declared that they are taking over territory the size of portugal. that is unprecedented. i think people need to understand how historic, tragically historic, that day was. second, yes he is the first leader since going back to the early 50s and maybe the cuban missile crisis when leaders were threatening to use nuclear weapons.

that is also breaking a taboo that has been in place for seven decades. now, i think two things are happening here. one, he is seeking to achieve a concrete military objective. he is seeking to deter the west from giving ukraine more sophisticated weapons and in that he is succeeding let's be honest. there are certain weapons systems that the long-range whistle missiles, for instance, the may 29th fighter aircraft with the west is determined not to give ukraine because they are fearing escalation. the second part though, i don't know. will he use them or not? . there would be no military objective. i want to be clear about that. the analogy of 1945 is completely untapped. the ukrainians will just fight harder, they will not -- that does not mean that putin may not believe that in that part, of course, nobody knows the truth for sure. >> the last question, quickly, because he is blaming the best for the sabotage of the nord stream pipelines. president biden is saying we don't yet know exactly what

happened there. here is marco rubio saying earlier today, let's watch. >>. >> flattery putin, i think before he doesn't include ministration could attack a nato distribution point. he's blaming the u.s., nato, our allies with supplying the weaponry that so effective. i think we need to think what is the response going to be if he attacks a train station on the border with poland. that will be a fork in the road for the alliance. that could come sooner rather than later in it's the one that i focus most on right now, i think that's really going to be the more immediate challenge. >> what your thought on north stream and the idea that russia is behind the attacks? >> again, i don't know. it needs to be investigated, just like everybody also said. i think center rubio is pointing to a very important other thing that the nato alliance and president biden worried about which is an attack on nato and that is why

president biden said very clearly that his response to annexation, not just one inch, i believe is what he said. one intimate attack on nato means that we will go to war with russia. i hope president putin heard that message loud and clear. >> we have heard your words loud and clear, for which i am very grateful michael mcfaul. thank you for joining me. >> a new poll is out about the one thing americans are really concerned about, the numbers on that, next. the next year on a has been in the sous vide and reports, the main hainan seat rhonda santas. that guy, charlie christ. guy, charlie christ subway series menu. the greatest sandwich roster ever assembled. tony, the new outlaw's got double pepper jack and juicy steak. let's get some more analysis on that, chuck. mmm. pepper jack. tender steak. very insightful, guys. the new subway series. what's your pick? (vo) with their verizon private 5g network, associated british ports can now precisely orchestrate nearly very insightful, guys. 600,000 vehicles passing through their uk port every year.

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divided government. women, black, hispanic americans are more concerned about republicans winning control of both chambers which could hinder economic recovery. america's 55 and older and white americans worry about democrats keeping the house and senate, again, resulting in the economy is getting worse. apparently it's all about the economy. joining me right now is a b barnes, political correspondent on the hill. amy, let's talk about the voter anger. it appears on inflation and economy are top of mind yet neither party seems have the edge on fixing it. what are you seeing? >> that's a thing. i think democrats, alex, are kind of concerned about having a split here. democrats are concerned about a return to the trump era if republicans take over both houses again. you have this kind of worry that keeps this perpetual worry about the economy and the lingering recession. i think that is definitely going to be in the hearts and

minds of voters today as they head to the polls in the next month or so. >> let's get to some of your recent articles, starting with this one where you listed the five scenarios that could help bolster president biden's approval ratings. democrats hold the senate, republicans just narrowly win the house and trump investigations deepen, gop culture wars backfire, democrats keep everything as in the house and senate. which one helped president biden the most? >> i think -- obviously democrats really want to hold the house but i don't think that's going to happen. when you talk to them personally, nobody thinks that will happen. they think they will win a bit more in the senate if you are looking at a snapshot today, they aren't as optimistic about the house. i think a lot of people say it's actually good if republicans take the house for biden, especially, because biden is actually going to go

after republicans and use them as a foil in a way. say, they're getting in the way of doing anything that will give him momentum going into 20 4:24 should he choose to run again. >> that's who we with whom he would beach ousting, clearly. even though president biden's approval numbers are -- whether he runs again in 2024. in another article which was reducing look at you left seven emirates who were likely to run if he bows out. that includes kamala harris, transportation secretary pete buttigieg, but you can governor gretchen whitmer, gavin newsom, central -- bernie sanders, as well as congresswoman aoc, alexandria ocasio-cortez. who is the front runner in this group? who would officials most likely support if not the president. i think the front runners obviously vice president kamala harris and people point to what she was able to do and what she

and biden are able to do, kind of lead up to the 2020 race. she appealed to a lot of southern women in particular, southern black women. i think they don't feel like they're going to let her down again. a lot of the past -- is in that same direction. i think even though there have been some concerns about the vice president throughout her tenure there, i think she will be the go-to person. i think a lot of people are kind of waiting to see what happens, will biden kind of throw his support behind her as a lot of people long anticipate that he will? if he doesn't run. or will he do what president obama did and kind of say, it's an open race. anyone who is qualified should run. >> let me tell you that is the question i get asked most when i'm out about, but if biden doesn't run. i say read your article, she'll

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