immigration tool rather than a public health tool. how can you make an argument that one nationality might bring covid and another nationality would not? how can it be used to get some nationals and not others? it could bring the numbers down but it will continue to be fought in court. >> thank you so much. it's great seeing you. >> thank you. it will be the houston astros against the philadelphia phillies for this year's world series titles. the astros with back-to-back sweeps this season to take the american league championship. the phillies who entered the postseason as a wild card but have gone a tear defeating the padres taking the national legal championship. game one of the world series begins on friday in houston. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm "jose diaz-balart reports." you can always reach me on twitter, on instagram at

jdbalart. thank you for the privilege of your time. lindsey reiser picks up with more news right now. good morning. i'm lindsey reiser in new york. breaking news in the united kingdom, the country's third prime minister in seven weeks has officially been decided. >> rishi sunak is, therefore, elected as the lead of the conservative party. >> you heard it there, rishi sunak, britain's former finance minister will take over for liz truss who resigned last week after 44 days on the job. we'll talk about the latest twist in this political turmoil. does the u.s. have a triple-demic on the horizon with the covid, the flu and respiratory viruses on the rise. >> you're seeing a tidal wave of -- sweeping across this country right now.

but we start with crunch time before the midterm elections. two critical states begin early voting today. with 15 days to go, polling shows historic levels of voter enthusiasm with 70% of registered voters expressing high interest in this election. that's the highest number we've ever seen at this point in a midterm election. but which party has the edge? starting us off this morning priscilla thompson in houston, and ali vitali is north of miami, national political correspondent steve kornacki is at the big morning, and charlie sykes, and adrienne elrod. priscilla, early voting the gets under way in texas. you're at a polling site right now just outside of houston. what are you hearing from folks you're talking to? >> yeah, lindsay, i'll set the

scene for you here. there are a couple of congressional races in south texas that are really big for us here and then there's also the governor's race which everyone is talking about because you have governor greg abbott running against beto o'rourke and to give you some context, in 2018 when both of these men were on the ballot here in the county, beto o'rourke beat ted cruz by about 12 points here and governor greg abbott narrowly won the governorship by less than 500 votes in this country. so this is a county that was once red but has been trending blue over the past several years. but what is interesting here today as we've been talking to voters, it feels like a bit more of a toss-up. everyone here who has talked about the economy as their number one issue in this election has told me that they're supporting the current governor, greg abbott. they've mentioned things like the border as being an issue and

also what's going on in schools and they feel like governor greg abbott is the better candidate for them. as for what i'm hearing from the folks who are supporting beto o'rourke, we're hearing about abortion issues and access to abortion, lgbtq issues as being a priority, and something that i've heard from supporters on both sides is that they just want a candidate who aligns with their values and their beliefs and the direction that they feel like the state should be heading. and i want to play a little bit of some of the conversations that we've had with voters so far this morning. take a listen. >> i really wanted to show my support and vote against things like republicans overturning roe v. wade and trying to use inflation as some sort of scare tactic to scare voters away from democrats. >> i want to make sure that our freedoms stay secure and that we continue to do what's best for the people of america. >> reporter: and so far

statewide polling has continuously shown abbott in the lead here, but both candidates are out today, beto o'rourke is up in the dallas-fort worth area, governor greg abbott out in the san antonio area continuing to make their pitch to voters in these crucial final days before election day, lindsey? >> tonight is the first and only debate between governor ron desantis and his democratic challenger charlie crist. what are you watching there? >> reporter: this is a race where it's ron desantis' to lose. there's pretty big margins between these candidates. florida typically a state of tighter margins when it gets to election day, but nevertheless, ron desantis is running with the advantage in the polls. he's put up tens of millions of dollars on the airwaves compared to krist, but to me it's a mark shift from the way i saw him win

this office when i was here in 2018. look no further than the ads that he was putting on the airwaves then versus now. watch. >> then mr. trump said, you're fired. i love that part. >> if you want to know who ron desantis really is, when i was diagnosed with cancer and i was facing the battle for my life, he was the dad who took care of my children when i couldn't. >> reporter: so you're watching there, lindsey, the way he ran fully in trump's image in 2018, coming onto the national scene because of the way that he stuck close to the former president in that election versus now that he has years of governing experience under his belt, trying to show people the more human version of ron desantis, elevated out of the partisan politics, but nevertheless, he's had a very conservative record in this state, leading on many of the culture war issues that

are at play within the republican party right now. crist has been trying to hit him on those issues, talking about the way he's put forward the "don't say gay" bill, but also trying to tag him with the more radical aspects of the republican party right now actually talking about things like health care. but nevertheless the only time these two are going to meet on the debate stage tonight and voters i talk to say they're tuned in, if not to the debate aspect, to the race overall. >> steve, we know, overall, this level of interest is really high. so let's talk about the numbers. we've got this new poll out, one of the top lines is really just the sheer amount of interest, but also the amount of polarization. take us through it. >> i mean, the polarization is right here. you can see, this is the generic ballot. this is likely voters. we have republicans at 48, democrats at 47, advantage there of a point for republicans. one of the things that puts republicans in the lead here, you mention overall extremely

high interest for this midterm election. 70% of voters, that's 7 out of 10, place their level of interest in this midterm election at the highest level. as you say, that's the most we've seen at this point in a midterm in our polling ever. but it's not quite equally distributed. 78% of republicans put themselves in the highest interest. it's 69%. bit of an enthusiasm gap there. notably, that's a change from this summer. over the summer, democrats had some things going their way politically. you had that supreme court decision overturning roe v. wade that really seemed to fire democrats over the summer. there really wasn't much of an enthusiasm gap to speak of in our polling. now we take it, nine-point enthusiasm gap there, favoring the republicans. so i think that has been a change here. you just take a look in terms of the battleground here, we're looking at the u.s. senate. 50/50 now. democrats control it with kamala

harris' tiebreaker. republicans need a net gain of one seat to get back the senate. take a look here. these are the democratic-held seats, the most vulnerable. republicans are trying to make gains. if you take a look at the polling average, republicans do have the lead in one of them, slightly, in nevada. if republicans could get that seat and hold all the seats they currently have, that would be enough for them to get the senate. i think also notably, there's been a little bit of movement in the polling in georgia over the last week or two. the democrat still leads there, but his margin over herschel walker down to a point. mark kelly leads, but it's 2 1/2 points. republicans very much in striking distance in these states where they're trying to flip democratic seats. these are democratic-held -- examine, republican-held seats that the democrats are targeting. this one looms really large. this is pennsylvania.

it's a republican seat right now. pat toomey has it. he's retiring. this is the only republican-held seat as you can see where democrats currently lead in the polling. john fetterman on an average of 1.3 points over mehmet oz. if republicans were to get nevada and democrats were to get pennsylvania, that would be huge for democrats because it would cancel out the loss of nevada. if everything on this board went the way the polling is showing, that would be enough for democrats to old onto the senate. but what makes them nervous in pennsylvania right now is the trendline in this race. over the summer, august 1st, fetterman was leading in the polling average by nearly nine points. come all the way down to barely a point right now. fetterman and oz are going to be debating. that's tomorrow night. that's going to be a significant event in that campaign. and you can see with republicans leading there in nevada, getting close in a couple others, you can see how important that pennsylvania race is for

democrats if they're going to hang on to the senate. >> so let's talk about the house now. specifically one race in particular, dave wasserman now says, sean patrick maloney's seat has moved from lean democrat to toss-up. how many red flags should that send to democrats? >> the bottom line, there are a lot of tight races across the country and just because you're the chair, that does not make you exempt from having a competitive race. we know that new york in particular, i think, in presidential years is a blue state, but there's a lot of areas including maloney's district that is a purplish-type of seat. this is not a surprise. a lot of this has to do with the fact that, you know, as steve laid out, where democrats are on the generic ballot. i think congressman maloney ultimately will prevail. but overall, look, lindsey, i think you have to look at the big picture here. typically the party in power in

control of the white house has a bad midterm cycle. the fact that we're talking about democrats being able to hold on to the senate and having a -- either holding on to the house or having a small loss in the house speaks volumes about where the democratic party is and where democratic voters are and independent voters. roe being on the ballot, you know, in all of these other circumstances, the republican party that has not -- on the right side of american families, this, again, speaks volumes about where we are as a country, where the democratic party will end up, how it will work out in the midterms. and, again, these races are tight. we've seen some really bad midterms in the last -- in the past few cycles when democrats have had control of the white house, 2010, where we lost a lot of seats. and republicans have seen the same thing. i don't think you're going to see that this time around. >> my colleague ali velshi sat

down with six voters in michigan and asked what they're the most concerned about. let's listen. >> the biggest issue in michigan is abortion. i'm hearing that from, like i said, other parents, from the women that i work with. >> i'm not picking on anybody on this abortion issue, that's a luxury for this to be number one. for suburban moms that might be the biggest city. but in the inner city, it's about jobs. >> do you see a connection about what we're hearing here and the widening enthusiasm gap that steve just talked about? >> yeah, i do. i think that we're talking about other midterm elections. this does have the feel of 2010/2014 where the republican base is fired up. and the reality is, democrats ought to be alarmed by polls involving congressman maloney, the fact that they might lose the governorship of oregon, the

fact that many of these races are competitive and i think that, you know, people shouldn't be in denial about all of that. we might -- would like to think that this -- that this is a referendum on democracy, but for a lot of voters, it's about the economy, it's about crime, education, it is about the border. abortion is a massively important issue. but it may not be enough to overcome inflation and these other concerns that are out there. and, you know, the reality is, for the biden administration, if this is a referendum on the economy, democrats will suffer some significant defeats. on the other hand if in the next couple of weeks they can make this into a choice election, pointing out what a republican majority would mean, not just for democracy, but for social security, medicare, for abortion, they might be able to dent this. in a wave election, sometimes the details don't matter and

there are a lot of surprises and races flip that you don't even see on the radar screen at this point. >> all right. robust discussion to start us off. my thanks to all of you. next monday, listen to all six episodes of our newest podcast, the revolution with steve kornacki. steve is going to recount the 1994 republican takeover of congress, including the influence of newt gingrich that changed both parties forever. right now on your screen, you can scan that qr code, listen to the trailer, and follow the revolution with steve kornacki now wherever you get your podcasts. coming up, flu season is here. covid cases are climbing and hospitals are grappling with a surge of respiratory viruses among children. are we on the verge of a triple-demic. plus the trump

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incoming british prime minister rishi sunak spoke moments ago about the task he faces as he's set to become the

uk's third prime minister in seven weeks. sunak will be the first prime minister of color in british history and the youngest in more than a century and he'll take the helm at a time of political and economic chaos. molly hunter is now with us from london. what's next for rishi sunak? >> reporter: a very, very big job, lindsey. i want to play sound for you right away. we just heard from new incoming prime minister rishi sunak just moments ago. he delivered a very short statement on camera. i think we've got that sound for you. i want to share it with our audience and i'll talk to you on the back end. >> i am humbled and honored to have the support of my parliamentary colleagues and to be elected as leader of the conservative and unionist party. it's the greatest privilege of my life to be able to serve the party i love and give back to the country i owe so much to.

>> now he went on to say, i will make it my utmost priority to bring my party and our country together. what we've seen in the last four days was not a general election. this was a leadership contest within the ruling party within the conservative ruling party, excuse me. rishi sunak was the only candidate to get over 100 fellow members of parliament to support him. he has a mandate within his own party. what we don't know is weather he has that mandate within conservative parties in the country. and we know when you look at this devices country right now, the majority of people in the uk support the opposition, the labor party. as far as what happens next, we're not going to see rishi sunak likely walk through number 10 today. of course, outgoing prime minister liz truss has to go to buckingham palace to meet with king charles and resign. we just saw her take the job

from queen elizabeth just 6 1/2 weeks ago in the queen's final appearance. we will see liz truss meet with king charles after that. rishi sunak will then meet with king charles. we do not expect that today. it could happen later today. we do not have exact timings. sometime within the next 24 hours. and the king will ask rishi sunak to form a government. we will start to see cabinet appointments. we're watching ben wallace and jeremy hunt. both of those busy day jobs with the war and ukraine and inflation over 10%. people are very, very worried about the financial and economic stability. >> sunak has his work cut out for him. molly hunter, thank you. u.s. and ukrainian officials have disputed new russian claims that ukraine plans to use a dirty bomb on its own territory and blame russia.

volodymyr zelenskyy denied any plans for a false flag attack and they called it a pretext for russian escalation. this comes as ukrainian forces have continued to advance on the southern city of kherson. and more than 1 million ukrainian households don't have power this morning as russia continues attacking critical energy infrastructure. matt bradley is with us from kyiv. what's the latest? >> actually, lindsay, we were down at at a hospital today near where i'm standing in the capital of kyiv. this hospital has been going without regular electricity for the past week and it really was a sad sight to see. they were relying on generators, they were delaying in some cases surgeries in order to find more reliable electricity. they didn't want to start an operation and have it cut out in the middle because the power went out and they also showed me a demonstration of how they were using a hand pump in certain cases in order to resuscitate

some patients if the power went out and they didn't have the machinery available and the batteries weren't working. this has knock-on effects and this has been russia has been pummeling the electrical infrastructure for the past two weeks. it's affecting civilians across the country. we have been meeting with families who have described the difficulty, some of them have escaped from other parts of the country and russia's bombardments have somehow found them here. you were mentioning that threat of a dirty bomb. this is something that a lot of folks here are going to be taking with kind of a grain of salt. they're not going to be expecting that ukraine is going to be threatening their own people with a dirty bomb. but they see all of this, it's all of a piece with the desperation that the russians are showing as they fail on the front lines. lindsey? >> thank you.

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this morning, jury selection is set to begin in the criminal tax fraud trial for the trump organization. they paid executives with off the books perks like luxury cars and private school tuition to help avoid paying taxes. allen weisselberg has pleaded guilty to multiple charges and is expected to be the prosecution's star witness. former president trump has not been personally charged in the case and has called it a hoax. the company maintains it did nothing wrong. let's bring in tom winter who is outside the courthouse. what can we expect from the opening days of this trial? >> it's going to start off the way most trials too, the way most jury selection does which is a bunch of people in a room and going through a list of

people to see if they're qualified. we're talking to a month or a little bit more of testimony. a lot of people might not be able to commit to that amount of time. once they get through that group of people which is expected to start -- has already started here, then they'll start to be able to actually go into whether or not those people are able to be unbiased and look at this trial kind of with a clean mind and judge the evidence. that evidence here is to include the testimony of the trump organization's cfo, allen weisselberg who will testify to the very things he was charged with and the trump organization was charged with criminally in this case which is the type of tax fraud and accounting fraud, the things that you mentioned there off the top, the type of perks that weisselberg received. that testimony is part of his plea agreement which he came to earlier this year in return for a reduced sentence. as part of that plea agreement, he's not going to cooperate

against the former president of the united states. that's going to make it difficult for there to be any advancement beyond this, that's according to legal expert that is have looked at this and looked at the plea. so just how much trump will be a factor himself in this trial remains to be seen. one of the challenges with this is that as weisselberg takes to the stand and talks about the conduct that the trump organization is alleged to have been involved in, it's going to be for the trump administration to attack that testimony. the worse it could look for the trump organization or other individuals in the trump organization. all of this going on the backdrop of another case, same courthouse behind me, the civilian suit by new york's attorney general which is seeking a quarter of a billion, with a "b," dollars from the trump organization and trump personally as well as members of his family if they're able to succeed in that case, that's a civil case, again, the trump

organization and the trump family denying any sort of wrongdoing there. but that's going after a larger part of his business in a pattern and practice they say of fraud that spans throughout the country. so that case is going to be something that we'll have to watch further down the line. the max penalty here for the trump organization if convicted is shy of $1.6 million of fines and that's it. lindsey? >> tom winter, thank you. former president trump has yet to formally respond to the subpoena the january 6th committee sent him friday. it calls for him to testify by november 14th and liz cheney says the committee would consider in-person testimony but with limits. >> he's not going to turn this into a circus. this isn't going to be a debate against joe biden. this is far too serious a set of issues. we're proceeding with that set

out. >> let's bring in capitol hill correspondent garrett haake. what's the next step? >> reporter: the ball is very much in former president trump's court as it pertains to his testimony. a subpoena came out friday. it's not clear yet whether it has actually been served to former president trump's legal team. but the dates on it as you point out are public. testimony after the election, document production, and there is a lot of -- lengthy list of documents that the committee is asking for due on november 4th. that's quite soon. so the committee is taking a little bit of a hands-off approach saying that they're kind of waiting to see what donald trump does, the comments from liz cheney have been taken to mean that they're not closing the door on something like a live testimony, but they want him for a long deposition. we're talking hours and hours and hours. not the typical hour and a half committee hearing format that we've been seeing from the committee. while they wait on trump, the committee's other work continues. they are still conducting additional interviews, they're

sifting through mountains of evidence provided to them by the secret service and their starting to work on their final product, a report that is due by the end of this year on the causes, the effects, really, the whole gamut of january 6th-related issues. a little bit of quiet behind-the-scenes work likely this week for the committee as they wait and see how the former president wants to respond. they're not interested in negotiating with him in public. they want a lawyerly answer to a legally binding subpoena. >> lawyerly answer, the technical term. thank you. >> reporter: that's right. next anti-semitic incidents in the u.s. reached an all-time high in 2021. i'm going to speak with the head of the organization next about the growing attacks and one chilling message seen this weekend in los angeles. right now, a growing triple threat, a flu, covid and respiratory viruses overwhelming viruses. next, what you need to know about a potential triple-demic as doctors sound the alarm. >> this is unprecedented.

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those concerns. >> reporter: good morning. the cdc is warning that flu cases are on the rise across much of the country, most notably, perhaps, right here in the south. part of the concern is that we're seeing more cases much earlier in the season than usual and experts say that could mean a long winter ahead. after two years of pandemic precautions, flu season is back with a dangerous vengeance. overwhelming hospitals and stretching medical resources. >> you're seeing a tidal wave of -- sweeping across the country right now. >> reporter: in northern virginia, one high school canceled all weekend activities after nearly half the student bod body came down with flu-like symptoms. the school paper suggesting a recent crowded school dance could have been a superspreader event. across a number of states, particularly in the south, confirmed flu cases are higher than usual for this early in the season. officials are urging people to get their flu vaccines early before the end of october.

experts are predicting a rough few months ahead. >> it could be a really bad sign for the winter. >> reporter: young children have been hit by a respiratory illness known as rsv. in the last two weeks, cases have tripled already surpassing last year's peak. >> because of the last two years was stay at home and a lot of virtual activities, many children have not been exposed leaving our youngest ones, those under the age of 2, with the highest vulnerability. >> reporter: pediatric hospital beds are nearing capacity. at connecticut children's hospital, employees are using temporary units to house sick patients. >> i think this is unprecedented. we've never seen this before and it's creating challenges. >> reporter: this child's parents knew something was wrong when their daughter was struggling to breathe. >> her chest was doing a lot of up and down rapid movements.

>> reporter: she was diagnosed with rsv. she spent four days in the hospital. >> we were terrified, especially when she needed to go on oxygen. >> reporter: the rise in rsv along with an increase in covid cases and now the flu have experts fearing a triple-demic could be on the horizon. >> experts say that the best defense is to get both the flu shot and the covid booster at the same time, but right now only about 5% of eligible americans have gotten the latest covid booster shot. back to you. >> thanks to blayne alexander for that reporting. let's bring in dr. natalie azar. this is a lot more people, especially when we're tired of sort of this news. but what should we take away from it? what do we need to know about all of this? >> i think this is the theme for this is really that covid-19 and the pandemic disrupted so much in our lives. but it really also disrupted this predictability and the

seasonality of so many other respiratory illnesses. there's an expectation that we'll have a certain number of cases every year, as was pointed out by dr. patel, all the mitigation efforts that we did in the last couple of years, you know, meant that there was just not that much exposure to these typical respiratory pathogens and everyone is getting sick at the same time. there's no evidence that rsv has become more virulent or the flu is more virulent, but if we're seeing them all spiking at the same time, not only does it make individuals who are typically vulnerable even more so, but the concern definitely here is overwhelming hospital capacity, certainly the pediatric hospitals have seen that and i'm concerned about the adult wards as the season progresses. >> what about the flu too? we've been hearing, get the flu shot. this is going to be a worse than normal season. >> yeah, and, you know, a couple of weeks ago we were saying, look, we follow what happens in the southern hemisphere and they

started early and peaked more quickly. i got my flu shot at the end of september. i wait until the end of october. as i saw the numbers come in, i got a little more concerned. it takes two weeks after your inoculation to build up those antibodies and i think i really want to stress for folks 65 and older, there's a high-dose vaccine that enhances the immune response. if you're listening, talk to your doctor about getting that high-dose shot if you're over 65. >> let's talk about symptoms. sometimes you wake up and you have a sore throat. what should people watch out for? >> if you have a mild flu or covid or rsv or any of the other virus that is can cause a cold-like syndrome, a runny nose, cough, low-grade fever, that's typical of a virus and all three are viruses. however, the treatments are vastly different. treatment for covid, treatment for flu and treatment, if you will, for rsv. there's no direct antiviral therapy.

distinguishing between them is obviously of utmost importance. if you're sick, you stay at home. if you feel like you're getting -- we talked about especially with parents of young ones. if your child is not eating well, irritability, wheezing, cough, nasal flaring, please be evaluated. you can test for all three. but it has to be done in the health provider's office for rsv as well as flu. you can't do home tests for those. so i know pediatricians' offices are busy and usually we do flu, covid and strep and this year i think they're going -- this season they're probably doing a lot more rsv swabs. again, symptom-wise, warning signs, as i mentioned, if you're sick, you stay home. if it's mild you treat with fever reducers and hydration and things like that. appreciate your time. thank you. police in beverly hills,

california, are looking into fliers. it's one of multiple anti-semitic incidents in the los angeles area this weekend. one that you may have seen that's getting a lot of attention is this image seen here from a tweet from the anti-defamation league. it shows members that it says are from an anti-semitic group draping signs above an overpass in los angeles that wrote kanye is right about the jews and honk if you know. they're referring to recent remarks made by kanye and they condemned the display saying hate has no place in los angeles or elsewhere and these attempts will not divide us. joining us now is jonathan greenblatt. thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> in condemning this display, the adl is asking adidas to drop their partnership with west after he said this on a podcast.

one second. we're working on it. >> i could say anti-semitic things and adidas can't drop me. now what? now what? >> in a letter the adl says we urge adidas to reconsider supporting the ye product line and issue a statement making clear that the adidas company and community has no tolerance whatsoever for anti-semitism. and we know -- have you heard from anyone from adidas? >> there's no doubt that kanye west is unhinged and doubling down on them again and again is having a real-world impact. he's normalizing anti-semitism. as you said, in a time when anti-semitic acts are at

historic levels and fanning the flames and giving aid and comfort to white supremacists in the picture. i know that group. i'm not going to repeat their name. but they're a well-known racist anti-semitic organization and their tactic of hanging banners is nothing new. but the fact that they're invoking kanye west, one of the most popular entertainers in america shows how white supremacist hate groups are leveraging his anti-jewish racism across society. we've seen public figures like amy schumer and khloe kardashian all speak out and denounce this rhetoric, but it is stunning, it is shocking and stunning that adidas, a company with a history that goes back to nazi germany

has not been able to condemn the worst display of anti-jewish hate we've seen in a long time. >> jonathan, it's disturbing. i want to talk about the real-world impacts here by these remarks and others. let's talk about the uptick that your group is seeing in incidents right now and the real-world impacts of this vitriol. >> look, i mean, we saw last year a record number of acts of harassment, vandalism and violence targeted jewish people. i heard from people in los angeles over the weekend who saw the sign on the overpass. i heard from an elderly woman who received an anti-semitic flier in a plastic bag in her mailbox with ashes inside of it. and it said, covid is a jewish plot. i mean, whether it's claiming the jews are responsible for covid, claiming that jews have too much power, claiming that

jews are this or that, these age-old myths that interim -- are used to intimidate and terrorize people are inexcusable which is why we've said adidas needs to drop kanye, needs to make a clear statement, so we've launched this hashtag, run away from hate. it shouldn't be so hard. >> ye has a large reach and following. are you optimistic here that because so many people are speaking out and denouncing these comments that hopefully they won't stick? >> well, look, i mean, i think as you said, i mean, he has a huge platform. he had 31 million followers on twitter. he has an extraordinary legion of fans and yet he finds himself keeping company now with some of the worst elements of society from the nation of islam to the

alt-right, to white supremacists. these are the people who are defending ye's hateful conspiracies, the fact that he's naming the jews. if he really wants -- his cohort to be white supremacists in the nation of islam, god bless him. but i think most americans, people of good faith, jewish, non-jewish, black and white, people from all walks of life are repulsed by this racism and hate, they want nothing to do with it. again, whether it's the people i mention who have spoken out, gap breaking with him, vogue breaking with him, i hope all people of good faith and companies >> onsorry we had to have you on for this. we are following breaking news of a school shooting in st. louis, missouri.

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