>> good evening and welcome to politicsnation. tonight's lead moving forward. the people of florida and the carolinas are staring down a new beginning. but one that none of them want. millions of americans will awake tomorrow to their first

full week after the devastation left by hurricane ian. along our southeast coast. tomorrow, president biden and the first lady will tote -- puerto rico still recovering from hurricane fiona, and before making their way to florida on wednesday. to think the states first responders. tonight, hundreds of thousands of floridians are still without power, while the death toll from ian stands at 78 people confirmed dead. the head of fema, telling msnbc that she expects the economic cost of the recovery to require billions of dollars, and the impact of this storm to be nationwide. we are bringing the latest updates of just how much hurricane ian has impacted lives even beyond the

southeast. but our political life is also being recalibrated. again, our supreme court begins its next session tomorrow. now with justice ketanji brown jackson fully instated, and the court primed to hear more impactful cases with major implications for civil rights. also, in federal court this week, the founder and four members of the far-right oath keepers group, produces to sedition trials for their participation in january 6th begins tomorrow. in the highest prosecution of its insurrectionist yet. of course, it comes as republican politicians led by donald trump are elevating their extreme rhetoric ahead of midterm elections, and of course the tightening web of investigations into trump's activities. we will ask the progressive

caucus in congress, which he thinks the consequence should be for political language in this -- we begin the night with the challenges facing the people of florida, and the charities racing to help them. joining me now, the one and only jeff jose andrés, founder of the world century kitchen. chef andré's, you are chief of charity work, but chef andré's, it's always good to see you. i wish it was not under these circumstances. describe for us what the food picture looks like in florida right now, particularly for people that have been already food insecure before the storm hit, let's put it that way. >> well, it is obviously one more hurricane that has had big

devastation. i'm speaking to you from pine island. you see all of the noise, all of the trucks, the firefighters, rescue teams, medics, the national guard landing with helicopters right behind me. they are bringing water, taking people out of the island. we have been here for the last four days, bringing hot food, bringing a lot of water in the early hours. it is very important, and in a place like this island obviously, because the bridge has disconnected the island from the mainland. this morning i was in my or beach, the destruction there, you see in the images. it's huge. we are also helping to bring food there, i think we are

bring in 50 or 60,000 meals, many restaurant partners food drives. we have our own kitchens, another one -- in the end, you see everybody in the community doing what they have done to bring relief to search and rescue teams to take care of the people it's beyond. it's great to see the government, the nonprofits, the mayors, we have a lot of volunteers that are helping us reach -- it takes a village to take care of the village. >> chef andré, the government will spend the next week in crisis management. he and the first lady went to florida on wednesday, the island is still recovering from hurricane ian. in both cases, your

organization has been on the ground after these disasters. it appears to me, after these storms, after the natural disasters, this kind of need for charitable intervention will grow. what are your thoughts about that? >> i think that it is great news that the president is visiting puerto rico. from puerto rico to here, to florida, the situation in puerto rico, thank god was not as bad as maria. but many people in the communities, in puerto rico, they thoroughly recovered five years later from maria. and so it is very hard when another hurricane -- that's what happened when you're in the middle of the emergency. the situation that we are facing right now, not only in

the states, in puerto rico, and now florida. remember that that is how south carolina was hit, to alaska, my eye typhoon. we were in the kitchen with every one of them. remember that hurricanes are going to be happening more often, and they're being hitting multiple countries like we saw with fiona. obviously, we need to have a plan to end hunger, to end poverty. at the same time, we need to have the best plan to be very quick next to the people in emergencies. one in a very strange way, to take care of everybody that is hungry. making sure that nobody goes to bed without food. this is very important, because in a way, we are building stronger communities, and in a way, when hurricane hits, you know the problems are not just compounded. it's very important that we have all of homeland security and fema here. having the national guard is beautiful, is beautiful to see

everybody. but again, -- >> you're right in that -- right on that point, apart from donations, what are your organization's greatest needs right now? that somebody watching this program right now could help you with? >> we are very blessed, because the american people and many other people around the world are supporting us so that we can do what we do. there are many ways to help. you can go to the kitchen dot org, and see what we do, see different ways that you can contribute. obviously, every dollar count, but many people assigned as volunteers. it's many ways that many of us can help our communities. in this moment, in one of the worst hurricanes that we have ever seen, with a lot of death and unfortunate-ness, and a lot of destruction. i always tell you in these moments, the best of humanity shows up. and so we need to keep that

good moment of good will to keep helping americans better, and helping people believe that if we all work together with the people, we can overcome every situation. even after the devastation of the hurricane. >> i know that you believe that, you and i have worked together, and i know that you live this and believe that. thank you, chef andré's, live in florida, thank you for all of the work that you do as well. joining me now is congresswoman formula -- who is a democrat of the state of washington. she chairs the progressive caucus. thank you for being here with us, congresswoman. let me say this, before we get to the congressional response for florida. i want to start off with politics. by the time i am back in this chair next week, we will have less than a month before midterm elections. will your party keep the house, and how? >> reverend, it is great to see

you, as always. it's great to hear those words i think president biden has shown what it means to put people over politics with all of the aid that the federal government has been giving. in terms of your question, i think that that is ultimately what it comes down to. i believe that we will hold the house, and we will add seats in the senate. we will reject a lot of the outrageous, extreme maga republicans that are running. these are not liz cheney republicans, these are people that want -- who agree that the election was a big lie, that joe biden is not the president. they want to strip rights away from us, and freedoms that we have for over half a century. they are not interested in moving forward, or putting people over politics. i think democrats have shown that we will do that, i am traveling across the country for the month of october. many states across the country,

pennsylvania, michigan, minnesota, elsewhere. and i believe, reverend al, that people will understand what is at stake. not only what we need for working people and people -- poor people, people that are most vulnerable, to be able to have an opportunity, and they see what we have done in these last couple of years. and also to push back on the fascism that is at our doorstep. >> let me ask you this. you have been the target of violent harassment in your personal life. i know how that feels, i was stabbed once leading a march. i ask you as somebody who understands the feeling of targeting. and our man was charged with felony stalking you, three months ago. when he showed up outside your home, making threats, telling you to go back to india, but he would kill you, you released voicemails of harassments

saying things similar things. threats to lawmakers have surged that since the insurrection. i would appreciate your thoughts on this past week, in which donald trump referred to mitch mcconnell's wife as co-coach how, and one of your house colleagues told supporters that democrats wanted them dead. congresswoman, how do you react to this? >> it is disgusting, reverend, this is not disconnected, and this is the point that i've been trying to make, even with what happened to me. there is a direct connection between donald trump and his four years of the presidency, where he actively fueled and sparked racism and hatred, and racism, and immigration. that has always been in our country in different ways, but it is a completely different thing when you have a president of the united states, actually encouraging it, asking for my kind of violence, promoting, it

and using tools of the federal government to make sure that it is being promoted. that is connected to the big lie, that is connected to january 6th, in the most violent insurrection in the united states capitol since the year -- that is contributing to the ongoing violence, with the guy showing up to my door, the things being said about elaine chao, and it is absolutely pursuit of violence for political reasons. because if you humiliate, if you undermine, if you vilify somebody, make somebody hate them, it is more likely that they will be violent against them, and that there will be a massive division and risk in the country. that is what these extremist republicans are trying to do. >> congresswoman, when i saw you with us this weekend, with hurricane ian. i thought about your statement, the region of the country which enjoyed its own weather

disaster these past two summers. hundreds of people have died, as the northwest has seen -- as head of the progressive caucus, where should congressional democrats next push on climate? if you are able to keep the house next month, where should that next push be? >> that's right, i come from washington state, and just two weeks ago, because of a fire, we have had more and more fires here. we have the most unhealthy air in the country during the second week of september. we have consistently seen our roads buckling, our wires falling from the extreme heat, people dying, and the reality is that what we did with the inflation reduction act, 356 billion dollars that we are putting towards addressing climate change is the biggest investment ever in the history of our country. and there is still more to do.

and so if we can get a couple more votes in the senate, keep the house, then we have the opportunity to go not only just to the 40% that president biden has said we will get to by 2030, and then the inflation reduction act will get us there. but how do we get to 50%? reverent, how do we make sure that the environmental justice component of this is front and center? because you know what we are seeing in mississippi, with water, you know what we are seeing across the country with the hurricanes. it's folks of color and poor people that are most disproportionately affected. and so the focus on environmental justice is critical, and we have to work towards resilience the -- that really lifts that up. it says, let's plan for these disasters. as chef andré's was saying, let's make sure that we were planning for the disasters, and when they happen, we are as ready as we can be. let's try to prevent as much as

we can. that is the thing that we need to get to. >> congresswoman congresswoman -- and telemundo find the democrats have given ground with latino voters over the last ten years. 54% of latino voters say that they prefer democrats to control congress going into the midterms versus 33% who want republicans in charge. still, that 21-point difference is less than half of what it was in october of 2012, when it was 42 points. that number has shrunk with every cycle since then. are you concerned that democrats do not have the report with key groups that they need to be successful next month? >> there has certainly been a softening --

these are registered voters who have not been contacted by a party. i believe that what democrats need to do, and we have been late to the game, i've been complaining about this with asian americans, with african americans, with latinos, with indigenous folks. we are not doing the kind of outreach that we need to do in order to actually tell people what we are doing. if you look at the numbers from the latinas, 68% of latinos believe that there should be people with abortion care. over 80% believe in addressing -- they like the i.r.a., they believe in addressing sensible gun reform. they agree with what democrats have been delivering on for the last two years. but we have got to talk to them, and we can't think of this as a monolith. there are lots of different kinds of latino voters, lots of different kinds of asian american voters, republicans are also putting a lot of money

towards asian american voters. democrats need to do the same, and it talk to these voters, and let them know what we have done. i believe we will get them back. >> i think too many times, people think that people already know what you haven't told them, and need to tell them your positions. and then they can make the connections as to whether they agree and in many cases, the majority of them do. congresswoman jayapal, thank you for being with us, as always. after the break, how we can all rise up and help prevent more storms like hurricane ian, later the supreme court takes up voting rights again when its new term begins tomorrow. the case could gut what is left of the voting rights act. we'll tell you about, it stay tuned. ta tuned. assembled. for more on the new boss, here's patrick mahomes. incredible - meatballs, fresh mozzarella and pepperon-

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let's turn to a political panel for the analysis on today's top stories. we are joined by doug jones, the former democratic senator from the state of alabama, and

michael steele, former chairman of the rnc and msnbc political panelist. michael, let's start with you. with the mounting questions over florida governor ron desantis preparedness for hurricane ian, and whether he gained the hardest hit areas in his state enough noticed for evacuation. charlie crist spoke to these concerns on msnbc a few hours ago, take a listen. >> in fact, he actually had a gap where he went to a football game on friday before the storm, was not heard of for almost 20 hours, some of the most critical time within which you could warn citizens about the storm. more citizens they were in the cone of ian, and start talking about evacuating. >> governor desantis michael, has been quite hands-on when it comes to the movement of

migrants across the country to prove a political point, shouldn't be showing the same dedication towards saving lives ahead of a hurricane? >> absolutely. i think that is part of the challenge for the things like storms like this occurring. it's particularly if you are going to throw stones at others, and be critical of how they are governing the situation and crisis in their state, when it is your turn, you have to step up. now the questions are beginning to come out about how prepared the governor's team was, the governor himself was, in making every community across the affected areas, affected regions, who were advised to evacuate. and yes, you had the show of all personnel and armor, and material, and things like that being moved. but you still have to have the question of how effectively you are moving people out.

some of, that the governor will explain people didn't want to leave. they wanted to evacuate their homes, but even in those situations, you have to have more in place emergency personnel who are prepared to move in. because folks who say i want to stay, that changes a lot when you work out of the window of the second floor, and sea water just outside the window. there's going to be a lot of accounting on that over the next few days and weeks, reverent. >> doug, in two days, the supreme court will hear a case that could literally gut what is left of the voting rights act. bloomberg reports the justices will consider with the alabama violating the law by drawing its congressional map in a way that ensures the state will have just one black majority district for the next decade. this is in a state that is 27%

black, the high court has already temporarily blocked the ruling in february, and it would've ensured a second heavily blacked district for the november election. what impact could this case really have? >> reverend, i have to tell you, i'm very worried for the last gasp of the voting rights act. the majority of the supreme court, including the chief justice, has not been friends to the voting rights it is been chipped away at, some would call it shredded. and i am concerned about this. the three judge panel, which included two trump judges did an amazing job of going through the evidence and sifting through, and seeing this, and how it would impact black voters in alabama. clearly, there should not be a minority or majority black district, or at least one that gives people an opportunity, as you said. kind of more black voters per district, that's where the population demands.

if they rule otherwise, then section two of the voting rights act will be nothing, and we will see nothing but racial gerrymandering from this point on. >> and i don't understand why there is not more being said about this, why there is no outrage about this, nobody screaming but myself. this is the -- the argument is on tuesday. >> it's tuesday morning. >> let me stick with you on another point, donald trump held a rally in suburban detroit last night. as of late, he has been ratcheting up his rhetoric towards elected officials. how do you explain marjorie taylor greene, who is in his corner, pandering some of the same incendiary lines. listen to this. >> we are all targets now for daring to push back against the regime. it does not stop at a weaponized legal system.

i am not going to mince words with you all. democrats want republicans dead, and they have already started the killings. >> she was referring to the incident in north dakota, in which a man fatally struck a teenager with his suv. local officials say that they did not uncover any evidence to support the claim that the murder had anything to do with politics, or that the victim was republican. meanwhile, the new york times reports that lawmakers confront a rise in threats and intimidation, and fear worse. why aren't more republicans willing to condemn this violent language? hasn't it gone too far, doug? >> it has done too far. it's gone way too far. i grew up in the jim crow politics, where we had public officials left and right who were giving these dog whistles that people took to mean it is

okay to do violence. that is exactly what we are hearing. i think those comments are basically unhinged, and they also overlook basic facts. where was she on january 6th? that was not democrats -- beating police officers with flags, it was not democrats calling my office threatening me by killing me. that is not democrats that are doing these kinds of things. it incites violence, and it's gone too far. we need to understand that words have meaning, and they have consequences that could be death. >> michael, in a new book out tuesday, new york times reporter maggie haberman writes about an awkward interaction during a reception at the white house, when the newly elected president donald trump turned to a row of racially diverse democratic staffers, and asked them to retrieve food, assuming

they wear the wait staff. according to the book obtained by rolling stone. it is been two years since trump's presidency ended, and we continue to get more insider accounts of the casual racism and inappropriate behavior that he displayed in office. why can't republicans find a way to separate themselves from him? >> because they don't want to. it's not complicated. they are very comfortable in that space. there will be no you and our cries from this reporting. they don't see it as problematic, and in fact, their base leans more into that. it's just how they view it. they experience the same thing for me, it's been the same for many of us from time to time, but now it is much more out in the open, it is much more regarded as normal. and it's accepted. and so trump sees black

staffers and think that they are wait staff. surprised? no. shocked? no. do you think they're going to do anything about it? no. i think this relates back to the discussion that you are just having with the senator about the voting rights act. and the fact that the supreme court is going to be dealing with a very important affirmative action case in this upcoming session. and so you're going to see those two pillars, they were once supported very strongly by the republican party. they were taken out by the republican majority on the court. without a little bit -- no more of a peep. not even a peep from republicans inside of the party. >> and these are trump judges. i might just add for the record, that you, not just you, michael steele, but many of the viewers, affirmative action started under richard nixon, written by a black undersecretary.

and affirmative action was not a consent and a radical proposal at all. that is the facts. certainly in the rewrite of history, and we have forgotten arthur fletcher, who was the under secretary of labor who wrote affirmative action under richard nixon. michael steele, doug jones, thank you both very much for being with us. after the break, it's a new first of its kind. monument honoring the contributions of black veterans in america. why the location of the monument is also significant, after the break. but first, a look at today's top news stories with my colleague richard louis. >> the confirmed death toll from hurricane ian is 85. 81 reported in florida, four in north carolina so far. that toll is expected to rise as search and continues. over 800,000 people are still without power in florida, and roughly 20,000 in north

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politicsnation. like veterans recently got some long overdue recognition for their service to the country. the african americans veterans monument was unveiled last saturday in buffalo new york. to honor black veterans and active duty military service members who served in the army, the navy, in the air force, the marines and the coast guard. both past and present. as african americans have gotten every military conflict in u.s. history, even as they were denied the rights and benefits granted to their white counterparts. joining me now is robbyn hodges,

vice president and vice chairwoman of the board of directors of the african american veterans monument. thank you for joining me tonight, miss hodges. let me ask you this, a monument like this is the first of its kind. the date is also significant as this event came two days after the anniversary of the preliminary emancipation proclamation, the document was issued by president abraham lincoln on september 22nd 1862, that set a date for the end of slavery. first of, all congratulations on finally being able to see this project coming to fruition. but talk to me about what this monument intends to represent. how does it tell the story of the contributions african americans have made to the u.s. military? >> thank you so much, reverend sharpton, for having me on your show. african american veterans have,

as you, said a serve this country since the revolutionary war. visitors come to this monument and will experience a shared history that includes significant achievements of african american veterans and all branches of the armed forces. this monument is intended to honor and all the sacrifice and resilience that african americans have given to this nation while serving during war and peace time. >> now, this project has been six years in the making. it was commissioned in 2014 by the erie county chapter of the links, which is a black woman -led organization that serves the buffalo community to affect health, education and welfare. after this project was announced in 2016, organizations throughout the buffalo community have helped fund it. walk me through the preparation

that went into this project, and how you feel to see this vision finally come to life. >> i am ecstatic. it's been a lot of work, we've experienced a lot of challenges, a lot of roadblocks. but, as you mentioned, the funding for this project was mostly state and local funding. some of our big organizations and corporations gave a lot toward this initiative and they know that this was a long awaited process. and that this has been quite a difficult challenge. but we made it, we finally made it. >> african americans have gotten ever u.s., war even during times when they were denied basic rights available to white americans. what aspects of the african american veteran experience do you think are not discussed

enough in our history books? >> i think it's not discussed enough that the first casualty in the american revolution was a black man, was christmas attics. there's not enough history that's been disclosed to our children, even myself, throughout this whole process. i've learned so much about the role that african americans played throughout all of the 12 conflicts that african americans have served in. it was the african americans that sacrificed in spite of having to fight on two fronts. both against the enemy and then returning home, against segregation and discrimination and racism. that we still answered the call. >> i think a part of the most meaningful dialogue on this that i had was when an older

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