good morning, i'm license riser at msnbc headquarters in new york. new urgency around a series of major stories this hour, including president biden's alarming warning of, quote, nuclear armageddon. his closed-door remarks about vladimir putin and why he says the world is at the highest risk of that happening since the 1962 cuban missile crisis. also this morning, does former president trump have more white house documents? the justice department suspects he does. that's according to people familiar with the matter who tell nbc news that a top doj official raised that concern to trump's lawyers as first reported by the "new york times." what we know ahead. plus a blunt shift in federal drug policy. thousands of people with federal convictions for marijuana possession were just pardoned by president trump -- president biden, rather. is this just a first step.

we want to get to the september jobs report. the unemployment rate dropped to 3.5%. what does this mean for future interest rate hikes? meanwhile, the markets are reacting, the dow down around 400 points and it comes as americans face a convergence of economic pressures from rising prices at the gas pump, rent and mortgage rates up, and inflation burning a hole in our wallets. we could hear from president biden as he heads to maryland. we'll watch to see if he stops to comment on this report. with me now brian cheung, josh letterman, also joins us, host of public radio's "full disclosure" and "politico" chief chief correspondent. the biggest jobs gains were in leisure, hospitality, health care. >> i think the big takeway is

that the labor market still appears to be chugging along. americans have options out there. with the unemployment rate a 3.5%, by the way, multidecade lows on that front, you're not seeing the traditional recessionary dynamics in this labor market where you might even see contractions in the number of jobs. we got 263,000 jobs created in the month of september. that is a slower pace than what we saw in august when 315,000 jobs were added. but it does show you that there are still options out there. the question is whether or not that story remains true through the end of this year. there are concerns from the federal reserve the nation's economic steward that perhaps the higher borrowing costs cut put some americans out of work. that's not happening yet as validated by this morning's numbers. >> the next rate decision is scheduled for november. officials have emphasized their watching this data closely. how will this reverberate there

as they look to tame inflation. >> when you're in the late stage of the economic cycle, the growth cycle, that we've come back roaring out of this pandemic, if you were to accost a man on the street and say the unemployment rate is too low at 3.5%, people would be like, what are you talking about? we should try to keep it as low as possible. we're well below what economists call the natural rate of unemployment and it's getting so much that it's stoking inflation. people have leverage to demand wage increases, to switch jobs. it's hurting the hospitality sector where restaurants are closing because they can't hire enough servers. the fed in this job of micromanaging the economy wants it not too hot and not too cold. i worry, how many hikes do you need for the economy to fall into a full recession where the fed has to consider cutting rates again. it's kind of surreal to my mind.

>> ben, labor secretary marty walsh addressed the report on msnbc, here's what he said. >> the participation rate dropped a little bit, but it was high last month. i'm not concerned about that when you look at the long-term impact. i feel good where the economy is headed as far as people going back to work. >> is this a good report for the white house? >> it is on the headline. 263,000 is a good number. so that's positive. low unemployment rate is obviously good for the white house. unfortunately, some of that was some people leaving the labor force. you would rather see unemployment go down because more people are coming back into the labor force. it's less good economically for the white house as it impacts the fed as robin was talking about, the next rate hike in november still going to be 75 basis points, another half point hike at the end of the year because they're not seeing the

slowing they want to see either. and the amount of hiring or wage gains which is around 5% a year above the fed's 2% target. it just means more tightening from the fed and the risk of going too far, too fast, cutting too much and tipping us into recession which is a real concern, not as much for the midterms since we're coming up on those, but for 2024 and biden or whomever's re-election campaign -- or election campaign, you don't want a big recession caused by the fed hitting right there. and there's a good chance that the fed does go too far too fast and tip us into recession. >> that said, president biden should be leaving any minute for maryland. he's going to discuss the economy later. what message is he trying to put forward, especially with this report that shows good news, but also good news it could be interpreted as bad news? >> right, well, this is not a campaign event. it's an official event. but it certainly features a lot of reminders of the things that democrats want voters to be

thinking about as they try to frame that economic argument. if you take a look at this volvo facility where president biden will be speaking, you can see some of the engines that are here. they make parts for trucks. the president will be using his remarks here to try to drive a focus as to what he sees as the benefits of pieces of economic legislation that he's been able to pass as the white house says that the president will be trying to draw contrast with republicans who want to repeal that law. he says that is something that would really start to undermine the manufacturing boom that the president has been touting as they have been trying to get inflation under control. and so the president, as he comes here -- it's always a gamble when you're the white house and you schedule a major economic speech on the day that you have a major economic indicator like the jobs report coming out because it could be bad and then you have to sort of explain it away. today certainly will be an

opportunity for president biden to talk about the fact that unemployment has fallen to 3.5% looking at full employment and to be able to frame some of the economic challenges that americans are dealing with high costs in the broader framework of a strong economy that he says democrats have set america up for as they head into these midterm elections, lindsey. >> ben, on the high costs that josh was just talking about, we have the fallout from opec's decision, gas prices rising, inflation is a constant pain point right now. what options remain on the table to deal with all of this? >> yeah, there aren't a lot at the white house's disposal. i mean, on oil and gas, and gas prices, of course, they could tap the strategic reserve. they would rather not do that since we've done it a lot. that could put some downward pressure on prices if we see a spike. it's good politically for democrats and the white house that this -- or this -- production doesn't go into effect in november.

it won't hit the midterms that much. there's not a lot they can do between now and the midterms to deal with inflation. that's the fed's job. and while gas prices have gone down broadly, inflation is still around 8%, depending how you measure it which is high and outpacing wage gains. that's why inflation and the economy are at the top or near the top and people are very sour about an economy that is at 3.5% unemployment which seems strange but isn't when you think about what people are paying and not getting pay increases to match that. not much they can do between now and then. just wait for the fed and see what it does. >> taking a look at a 30,000-foot view of the world here, the international monetary fund is lowering its protections for growth next year. they're warning that things are going to get worse before they get better. what about this that keeps you up at night? >> you see the wto, the imf actually trying to -- guys, can

you please chill. you're killing us here. the strong dollar is strong for us. we can visit turkey and eat, but it makes life very difficult for other countries. it makes life difficult for emerging markets and it makes it much more likely that you see the sort of systemic imbalances that would expedite an international slowdown. as i've said before, we're all connected. we can't act on an island by ourselves. it's just a reminder that the fed is not the be all, end all. there are other forces that we have to be mindful of. >> ben, while people might not be maybe planning an overseas vacation to live like a king there, there are people who want to just buy a home and the housing market is incredibly challenging. we've got the number of homes hitting the market, down 19% compared to last year. we've got these rising interest

rates. for folk who is want to do this, when could we get a stable housing market? >> it's a really good question. now i've just got -- living like a king on my mind. thank you for that. it's going to take a bit of time because these interest rate hikes are going to continue to percolate through the system. we're going to get more of them. mortgage rates are going to continue to go up and we don't have enough supply on the market, as you said. that's a chronic problem that the administration is trying to deal with. if you got a lot of cash to put down, you can do it now but you'll be paying a higher interest rate. you may wait out the cycle until the fed is back in cutting mode and mortgage rates go back down again and hang on to rent for a bit if you're looking to buy this first house. this is not the best time to be doing it, i wouldn't think. >> and those rents aren't going down any time soon either. >> that's true. >> thank you all so much. coming up, the highest threat of nuclear armageddon in 60 years.

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a dire new warning from president biden that we're now at the highest risk of nuclear armageddon, his words, since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. the president making those remarks last night at a reception for the democratic senatorial campaign committee. he told the audience that it's the first time since 1962 that there's been a, quote, direct threat of nuclear weapons being used, if in fact things continue down the path they are going. vladimir putin reiterated the nuclear threat he made at the

start of russia's invasion of ukraine. joining me from moscow is keir simmons. what are you hearing on the ground? >> reporter: nobody likes the idea of a nuclear war or the use of a low-grade nuclear weapon. it doesn't whether you're american or russians. so out on the streets of moscow today when we asked people whether they were fearful of the nuclear threat that are now being made, there was i think in many ways a sense of disbelief. people are saying i don't believe it's going to happen. i don't think this will happen, i don't believe that president putin would do this. saying think think it's muscle talk if you like and they think it's posturing. now, there is a lot of tension here in moscow now. i mean, we've just arrived back here after some months. i was stopped at the airport,

questioned for an hour, my phone was gone through, now here on the streets, there are billboards with pictures of military heroes along the streets. so there's certainly more tension here and i suppose that is to be expected, given some of the rhetoric that we've been hearing from the kremlin. we did, though, too, speak today to a russian expert on russia's military doctrine who is very clear that there are limits to the ways in which russia might be able to fire a nuclear weapon, an existential threat, to put it simply, is the -- the circumstances where that would be allowed. but these are difficult times and it's hard to see where president putin goes from here. his back is against the wall in ukraine and he is a leader who has shown himself oftentimes when he's in a corner to look to

escalate. >> keir, what about putin's inner circle? any suggestions here that there's maybe some growing division? >> there's certainly division. there's always been division within president putin's inner circle. there are those who have watched -- think he kind of uses that. he thinks that's useful. the defense minister is facing huge amounts of criticism, both on russia public television and according to reports privately within president putin's inner circle, citing multiple sources that president putin was privately confronted by members of his own inner circle about the conflict in ukraine. that very likely was not a direct confrontation towards president putin, but more would have been -- some in his inner circle questioning the role of his defense minister. what i think was interesting, notable, from what president biden said was that he's trying to figure out what the off-ramp

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this morning, a new question in the justice department's investigation. is president trump still holding on to more white house documents, even after the fbi's research at mar-a-lago? the justice department seems to think so. nbc news has confirmed that the justice department suspects trump may still possess documents he took from the white house. that's according to people familiar with the matter and was first reported in the "new york times." i want to bring in ken dilanian and lisa ruben. first to you, ken. the big question is, does the doj has concrete evidence that trump still has materials or just suspicions? >> that's the big question. i'm not seeing any answers right now in front of us. there are a couple of possibilities. one is that they do have witness testimony, other kinds of evidence that strongly lead them to believe that the trump side

is concealing the fact that they still have some documents and the other is, it's more of a matter of inference. the national archives has been clear that they don't think the trump administration turned over all the documents that they expect should be there in their possession. remember, the law requires that all presidential reports go to the national archives. you can't take anything with you, when you leave the white house. the justice department has also point you had out that the fbi seized 48 empty envelopes marked classified during that raid on mar-a-lago. so there are a lot of inferences, there also may be some evidence. we'll have to wait and see. another big question is, what can the doj do about this. can they take legal action to get these documents back? that remains to be seen. >> does this hint at anything potentially about the trajectory of the investigation? another search, another warrant? >> it could be, lindsey, certainly. i think it hints that this investigation is going to be a long time and one of the things that people were curious about is, who else might have

presidential records? for example, we know the justice department has sued peter in a navarro. now that we know that the justice department believes president trump himself has additional white house documents, it could lead to another search or a warrant. but the fact that they approached the legal team and said, this is our suspicion, shows that the justice department is taking steps to try and resolve it first with a group of people who represents a former president, even though in the past, they've shown they might not be able to be trusted. >> that's important there. in its initial reporting, the "new york times" -- i want to pop it up here, it says outreach from the doj prompted a rift among trump's lawyers. one camp counseling a cooperating approach that would include bringing in an outside

firm to conduct further searches. the more combat camp, the people briefed on the matter said, won out. how much could that approach backfire on them? >> i don't think it's a helpful one. we knew that they were at war with the legal team. we didn't know why, and now we do thanks to the "new york times." i think his instincts were right. hear the department of justice out. clearly the fact that they're approaching the trump team shows that they might want to give the trump team another way out, at least as to remaining documents. >> lisa, just tuesday trump filed an emergency request asking the supreme court to intervene here in this case. could something like today, the revelations that we're learning, could that damage that effort? >> i don't know that that effort was ever going to be successful because one of the things that they wanted was to restore the special master's review solely as to the documents.

they're not looking to blocking the justice department. what they really want is for ray dearie to resume his review of the records so they can get access to them to and that's part of the delay, delay, delay strategy that is endemic to the trump team, but they're looking for a preview as to any criminal case that the department of justice might bring. they stood up in court before judge dearie and said, we don't have our own index, we don't have our own list. they want to know what are the classified documents that the department of justice has found? what are those 103 records? i don't think the court is going to entertain that very seriously, but this certainly isn't helpful, lindsey. >> if lisa thinks -- she doesn't know if that would be successful, when can we expect to hear from the supreme court on this? >> well, it's -- they've requested an emergency action here so it could be rather soon. and the answer could be that they don't -- that they decided not to take the case, especially now that the 11th circuit has

created this expedited schedule to hear an appeal which if they win that, the special master goes away. so it remains to be scene. but it's very likely -- it's possible the supreme court decides not to even hear this request by the trump side. >> okay. ken dilanian, thank you so much. lisa ruben always good to see you. appreciate it. meanwhile, this morning the legal scrutiny surrounding hunter biden could soon be coming to a head. "the washington post" reports they could be charging him with tax crimes and a false statement relate today a gun purchase. hunter biden acknowledged that he was the subject of a federal investigation into his taxes. the justice department is not commenting to nbc news and while agents may believe there is enough evidence to charge, that decision is ultimately up to the u.s. attorney for delaware, david wies, a trump appointee.

the counsel for hunter biden said, it is regrettable that law enforcement agents appear to be violating the law to prejudice a case against a person who is a target simply because of his family name. more denials ask forceful pushback this morning from embattled georgia senate candidate hershel walker. the antiabortion republican and former football star appeared at an event in georgia yesterday hours after the "daily beast" published its second story from a former girlfriend who said he paid for her abortion. the two have a child together. here's part of what walker said about it when pressed at an event by my colleague about prior comments he made about the story and his family's assertion that he's lying. >> this here, the abortion thing is false. it's a lie. and that's what i said.

i said anything happened with my ex-wife or what christian was talking about, i don't know, but as i said, if anything happened, it's nothing to be ashamed of because my wife and i have been the best of friends with her husband and wife. i said nothing about if it did happen because i said that's a lie. >> nbc news is not independently confirmed the "daily beast" stories. walker does not appear to have any events on his schedule today. joining us right now, washington correspondent for "the atlanta journal-constitution." in your reporting, you point out the reactions from republicans ranges from some who don't believe the abortion reports, some who believe and don't care and some who are generally conflicted. where do you see the majority of independent voters falling? >> i think the majority of independent voters, those who were perhaps inclined to support hershel walker, they want more information.

they want a more forceful denial. they want, you know, him to address it more directly and i think those independent voters who are more swingy, they're left inclined, i think this is further turning them off. but we're talking about a relatively small group of voters. most voters in georgia have made up their mind and they weren't going to vote for hershel walker, you know, no matter what, or they were going to vote for hershel walker no matter what. >> charlie, walker has been defiant and senator raphael warnock doesn't seem to want to talk about this at all. this is as far as he would go yesterday. >> what we're hearing about my opponent is disturbing. and i think the people of georgia have a real choice about who they think is ready to represent them in the united states senate. >> and warnock pivoted to talking about abortion rights. what do you think about senator warnock's handling of this so

far, charlie? >> i think he's handling it about right. when your opponent is digging a hole, you don't interrupt them, but this is something you leave to third parties. what's really extraordinary about this, though, is, is not whether or not people actually believe hershel walker's denials. what i think is extraordinary are the number of republicans that know that he's lying, believe that he, in fact, did pay for an abortion, and don't care. and i think that has really been part of the republican politics in particular, how aggressive they are in saying, look, i don't care whether he aborted a child, i don't care whether or not he may have abused his wife, i don't care whether he is lying about it, all we really care about is winning control of the united states senate. this has always been a factor, but i think what you're seeing now is, is how raw it is. all of these reports about republicans sticking by him, i

think are an indication of this. the big question is, you know, what will those -- what will those independent voters do, those swing voters, and i think that raphael warnock is probably better off not inserting himself into a story that ought to be about hershel walker. >> not everybody is sticking by walker. jeff duncan has been speaking out. he's out with a cnn op-ed saying the gop should never have bet on hershel walker. he writes, if we want the american public to take us seriously, we need to nominate candidates they should take seriously. charlie, this is the second highest-ranking republican elected official in georgia. how significant is it for him to be speaking out like this. >> first of all, i want to congratulate him for doing that.

i applaud it. it was a great piece. i linked to it in my newsletter. he's not running for re-election again and jeff duncan is like liz cheney, kind of an outlier in republican politics these day. it speaks volumes to the fact that he is a little bit outside the mainstream of what the organized republican party is standing for. i applaud him speaking out, but i think it would be naive to think you're going to see any sort of significant break among elected republicans who after six years of donald trump have become used to ignoring these kind of scandals and reports of flawed character. >> there's been a lot of reporting on how much the walker camp has raised since those stories broke, but your paper had some interesting perspective on this says hershel walker on wednesday reported raising more than $12 million in campaign cash over the past three months.

less than half of what his democratic opponent, senator warnock, raked in for the same reporting period. what does this spending tell you about what the final days could look like? >> reverend warnock has proven to be a very formidable fund raiser. he's got way more money in his campaign account to spend. he's been on tv, he's flooding the airwaves now and a lot of the ads are directly attacking hershel walker. yes, hershel walker does -- he has a lot of money too, not as much money as warnock. hershel walker also has those outside republican groups who have not abandoned him and are still poised to spend money on his behalf. just in general, georgia's airwaves are being inundated and a lot of the ads are coming from warnock and he's hoping to put the weight of all that money he raised into really getting his

messaging out and reminding people, you know, in his -- from his perspective who he believes hershel walker is and why his campaign believes he's the wrong person to represent georgia in the senate. >> thank you both. up next, as cleanup and rebuilding efforts after hurricane ian are accelerating, we're learning more about the storm's victims. why was ian so deadly? first, a massive shift in federal drug policy with president biden pardoning thousands of people convicted of marijuana possession. but is this just a first step? the growing push for decriminalization. ! 12 irresistible subs... like #9 the champ. rotisserie style chicken. double monterey cheddar. the champ is truly made for a champ. gee, thanks chuck. who said anything about you? it's subway's biggest refresh yet.

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its impact. >> the president said on the campaign trail that no one should be in president for marijuana-related offenses and he's trying to follow up after political pressure on the issue with this new move and asking states to examine their own laws. but he did stop short of full decriminalization. >> so many lives have been up ended due to marijuana. >> reporter: no one should be behind bars for using marijuana. >> criminal records for marijuana possession have led to needless barriers to employment, housing, educational opportunities. >> reporter: and with that, the president moved to clear some 6,500 federal convictions for pot possession, plus thousands more in the district of columbia that won't affect the millions more with state-level convictions and the administration says there are no individuals currently in federal prison solely for marijuana. he also ordered an expedited

review for how marijuana is classified. it's listed among the most dangerous schedule one drugs, along with lsd and heroin. it comes a month before the midterm elections where it's become an issue in some races. john fetterman says he spoke with biden last month about decriminalizing marijuana. it could come with some political risks. republicans have been attacking the president and other democrats on crime. five states will be voting on whether to legalize marijuana in november. 38 states and the district of columbia already allow medical marijuana use and it's fully legal in 19 states, including d.c. president biden calling on state governors to take action. >> this man's case is a rarity. most marijuana arrests and convictions happen at the state level and he says the states are where real reform has to happen

too. >> i appreciate president biden's call to the governors, to also implement pardons because the largest number of prisoners in the united states are in state prisons. >> reporter: president biden's moves also won't affect the marijuana black market. new challenges growing along with the trend toward decriminalizing marijuana nationwide. >> one really important note on marijuana convictions, according to a study from the aclu, while marijuana use is equal between black and white people, a black person is three times more likely to be arrested for possession than a white person. back to you. >> thank you for that reporting. it's been a week since hurricane ian hit florida and right now thousands are still in the dark and others still don't have access to clean water. the number of lives lost has ticked up to more than 130, making it the deadliest storm to hit florida in more than 90

years. sam brock is live from fort myers florida with more. sam, i see so much destruction still behind you, what are you hearing from people about the biggest challenges they're facing right now? >> i will say, lindsey, it is inspiring to talk to people on these street that is you're looking at behind me. you can see what the conditions look like. just piles, mounds and mounds of debris. this is their entire livelihood, shredded on their front lawns and yet the people i'm talking to are telling me that they're going to bounce back. they're going to get through this. this is significantly better, if you can believe that, than what these streets looked like five or six days ago. there's optimism involved there. we're standing here and watching as the ascpa is going door to door and finding out who has pets and distributing food to those residents. it's been spectacular to see what's evolving on the streets. 79,000 structures were searched for potential victims. what does that tell you? hundreds of thousands of people

were likely displaced. they need homes. and many of them have absolutely no idea where they're going right now. electricity is still an issue. a couple million folks have had their power restored, but in lee county where i am right now, 2 out of 10 customers still have no power. so the race is on to do that. there's a boil water notice system-wide that is still in effect. the biggest issue right now, where are these folks going to go? here's a sample of conversation we had with people right in this neighborhood. >> one week it was -- they were telling me where to go, what to do. >> what we need right now is, you know, some kind of housing temporary whether it's fema trailers or something. get us in there. what are they waiting on? >> these are obviously tough times. i want to do a little something to restore your faith in humanity. after this aired, i was reached out to by someone on facebook who wanted to specifically help

that couple and so we got them the number, she called them immediately and not only is she going to be donating money to the red cross, she's going to find that woman and her husband a place to live and make sure they have money available to buy the basic necessities, wire it if need be. there are still good people out there right now despite some of the things that we're seeing, despite utter destruction on the streets. that really tells you a lot. this brings out the best in people, even in the worst of times, lindsey. >> i like ending on that high note. also a reason why it's important for you and your crew to be down there. next up, the power of the black vote and what is top of mind for lots of students? >> if you're breathing, you're affected by climate chaos. if you're black and breathing, you're disproportionately affected by climate chaos. ate c.

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climate and energy programs and tackles environmental priorities. democrats hope the law might draw young black voters to the polls. when you think about voting for a politician, what's your checklist? >> at the top is always where their head is at with environmental policy. if they get elected, how are they going to affect my community, my community, black and brown people, minority people environmentally. >> reporter: for the students, change starts with them. why does this matter? >> the big thing is climate change and what problems it's causing in different parts of the world. this helps give us insight on what's going on. >> reporter: the fate of the oysters and the communities that call florida's gulf coast home might depend on the young scientists carrying the future in their hands.

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right now on "andrea mitchell reports," president biden making stunning comments overnight about the potential for nuclear armageddon. a live report from moscow. today's unemployment report shows a cooling off, but a still resilient jobs market with 263,000 new jobs added in september. the president attends a national manufacturing day event in suburban maryland this hour. the pressure over inflation, gas prices and the saudi oil production cuts has the white house scrambling one month until