something like $240 million, and this is a company that was already in some financial trouble, and their stock price dipped and had stock building up around the world because demand dropped, and this will hurt them financially. >> just the incredible empire that this artist has. i mean, just with adidas, $2 billion in sales? >> it's pretty remarkable. you know, all of it is based on the career he had as a musician which was incredibly successful, and he parlayed that into this business success, the brand success, but the comments he has been making so inflammatory and criticized so widely that brands are feeling like they cannot be associated with him or the kind of hate-filled things he has been saying, josé. >> stephanie gosk, great seeing you. thank you for being with us. that wraps up the hour for me.

i am josé diaz-balart, and you can reach me on twitter and instagram @jdbalart. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on a special two-hour edition of "andrea mitchell reports" live at dnc park in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, and the key state showdown, and john fetterman and mehmet oz hours away from the debate, and then we will show you the action-packed debate between ron desantis and charlie crist. and then king charles telling the new prime minister, sunak,

to start forming his government. good day, everybody. i am andrea mitchell live in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. tonight democrat, john fetterman, and republican, mehmet oz, facing off in their only debate for control of a seat in the senate. and fetterman's memo says the tv studio is oz's comfort zone. this guy is a media savvy performer that literally built his career and fortune by playing to the cameras as a daytime tv host. john is going to win this race even if he doesn't win the debate. joining me now is julia tau

russo, a former pennsylvania governor and dnc chair, and former democratic congresswoman, donna edwards of maryland. so you have written this for today about the fetterman campaign, and in the story, let me read in part from the story that the memo is reading as "the enquirer"'s top politico reporters wrote today. even before his stroke fedderman was not great at debates, and we will admit it's not john's format, and on the other hand, oz is a polished daytime tv host that knows his camera angles and how to craft those tv moments. julia, talk to me about the

debate. what are you expecting? >> yeah, it's not every day you have a campaign quoting reporting where you are criticizing their candidate, but they are trying to manage expectations for tonight. they are laying the ground work for both candidates' strengths and weaknesses here, and i spoke to the candidate last week and he echoed this, that it certainly is going to be a challenge. it carries more weight than you typically see in a senate race, and it's a state that is incredibly divided, so we know that, you know, something like a debate or the moments that come out of it, if they get replayed or put into campaign ads in the final weeks of the race, it could make a difference. >> governor, let's talk about

the debate. this is a campaign unlike any that either you or i have seen. i started covering pennsylvania senate races back in 1968 when the democrat lost unexpectedly, in fact, to a republican. what are you looking for tonight? >> i think fedderman's campaign is lowering the expectations, and part of what they say is true, oz, when he would do his tv show -- [ inaudible ], and the oz campaign has done a good job emphasizing the stroke, and people have a fairly low expectation for john, and i think john is going to pass, and john is going to do just fine, and he also is going to take the opportunity to hit the crime

issue. john fetterman lowered the crime rate, and i don't think dr. oz has had anything to do with the crime. >> let's talk about fetterman, because he will have a sympathy vote as well. he's been really going out and campaigning, and a lot of people have a lot of compassion for him. could oz say this too hard? he has been ridiculing fetterman, at least his campaign ads have, and that could be looked at the wrong way from a republican. >> yeah, especially early on they stumbled a bit in how they talked about this. i will say this is a completely legitimate and fair question to be asked. is his condition going to affect

his ability to be a senator, and democrats have tried hard to make it an out-of-bounds conversation, and i thought it was ridiculous. hopefully it doesn't get in his way, but he needs to be able to prove that he can effectively do the job, and hopefully they can get to the issues. if he does get lost in conversation or stumble, and i think they are trying to get ahead of that, it could be problematic for him. and i hope the campaign is about the issues and it's fair to ask whether or not his health will limit his ability to do his job. >> let's talk about the issues. the issues were initially abortion, and that was a motivating issue because here in pennsylvania the republican legislature repeatedly said they were in support of limiting an abortion and in support of an

abortion ban, and so that was a natural issue for democrats to try and rally women and men, but then inflation picking up and the democrats not jumping on that, some say nationally, quickly enough, and so have the republicans been effective in trying to eat away at what would normally be the democratic base here? >> well, i think in every one of these races, it depends on the state and the district. i think one of the strengths that fetterman has going into the debate in the closing couple weeks of the election is he has done some of the job, and he prides himself on running a campaign where he's not dr. oz, he's every man, and so going into the debate whether he had the stroke or not, people see

him as himself and as them, and i think that's a strength that he has. he understands their lives, and he comes from their lives, and i think that he will use that effectively going into and coming out of this debate. it's not a surprise to me that people are concerned, obviously, about the cost of bread and eggs and gasoline. i think the case that fetterman has to make, and we have to care about all of these things, and in pennsylvania it's job and the economy, and it's also abortion rights. whatever it takes to get that narrow slice of voters, that will give him the lead in the end. >> governor rendell, a few weeks ago you predicted democrats could avoid a red wave in both of the states, in the state-wide contests, and are you still confident? it has narrowed in the last couple of weeks. >> well, in no poll since the

primary has john been behind. i saw in a poll yesterday that had his lead at five, and no poll has him behind. if he does well tonight -- he doesn't have to win, but if he establishes he can handle the job, and remember, dwight eisenhower served his second term as president after having a stroke and was a successful president, and if john can establish that he is okay, and i think he will, and if he can answer the crime problem from his own experiences, and he has an exceptional record, and if he can do those things i think he can win, and shapiro will win by 15 points, but i think john can pull through. >> yeah, josh shapiro, he has

been the victim of anti-semitic attacks, from the republican campaign, and it's just been extraordinary and that may well be motivating voters. we don't know which way that cuts. julie, what are you hearing from voters? how big of an issue is fetterman's health? is it backfiring on the republican in the governor's race, the attacks? >> it's interesting, because when i talk to voters, republicans, democrats, undecided voters, in terms of the senate race they don't bring up the stroke much at all and when i bring it up it's not always something that seems to have a big impact on, you know, how they are making their decision. i am curious to see how tonight changes that, if at all. it will be the first time most voters will see the governor on the stage and speaking with the remaining challenges he has

after the stroke. i think as we spoke to this earlier, the polls show the economy, inflation and for some democrats, abortion, are really the issues i hear the most about when i'm talking to voters. i think, you know, in the governor's race, it's a very different situation there. and doug has not really tried to do much outreach as the former governor said, you know, and i think that's why you seed such a lead for shapiro there. >> yeah, and i think we expect to hear and see the president here one more time, and he has been coming to pennsylvania, and we may be seeing barack obama here. there will be a big effort to rally voters here and bring democratic voters back as they get closer to the election.

i am not sure that you are going to see donald trump, even though he has endorsed -- he strongly endorsed mastriano and mehmet oz as well, and the lieutenant governor is fetterman, so thank you for coming. thanks to all of you for starting us off. joining us now, democratic congresswoman, madeline dean, that represents the fourth district outside of philadelphia, a county critical to any voter tonnout here, and she's on the judicial committee. congresswoman, it's great to see you. you said you have been urging voters to simplify issues, pick

one issue that matters to them and hold the candidates to the account, and the economy is one that democrats do not have an accounts, and how do you change that? >> i am delighted to be with you. you are right, the economy is going to be one of the top issues of this election cycle, and historically it has been. what i say about that is if you want to know who's working to improve our economy, it's the democrats. take a look at the bills we have passed and this administration signed into law. it's we who are dealing with inflation at a little more than 8%. but we have to actually understand that we're the ones doing something about it, doing many things about it. also, to understand, inflation didn't just come about as a

result of joe biden being elected or democrats in control of the house. inflation is global, and in fact, the u.s. inflation rate is less than great britain, for example, at more than 10%, and more than 100 other countries who are struggling with inflation higher than our own, including the entire eu. it's multifactored, and certainly covid and the global shutdown and the supply chain challenges, and the democrats and the president did something to ease that, and it's caused by the horrific war in ukraine, and democrats are saying we must stand up and support ukraine all the time, and bipartisan, mostly we have stood for the support of ukraine, and i would beware of republicans running for office who suggest we should stop supporting ukraine, and we have

driven action, and that's what democrats do, we take action. >> has the white house and the national party not focused on the economy and on the achievements of the biden administration and the democratic congress soon enough? >> well, i think i hear from my constituents they are relieved by the packages we have passed. consider what we did with the enhanced child tax credit and the enhanced and reduced rate for the american rescue -- excuse me, the aca, getting millions more people into our health care system, reducing their costs, and the inflation reduction act. think of that. how is it, republicans, most of them, could not bring themselves to vote for lower prescription drug prices. let me give you one example so tangible to my constituents, seniors will not pay more than $35 a month for insulin, and not

pay more than $2,000 a year, and medicare and medicaid will be able to renegotiate drug pricing, and these capping of drug pricing and costs for seniors and others at a time of also saving revenues in this country, and we should not have medicare over paying for prescription drugs. we have to also say, we completely acknowledge the pain. i filled up my car just yesterday, and it's painful to see those numbers rack up. what did the president do? many things. including something i urged him to do more than a year ago, which is send out some of the strategic reserve oil, you know, barrels of oil, millions of barrels that we have strategically reserved for just such a purpose, a time of very

difficult economic times for american families, and that's what that the administration has been doing. >> you mentioned ukraine aid and what kevin mccarthy and other republicans have said about cutting off aid, and that's an issue the president focused on in the last couple of days, and now you have 30 progressive democrats in your caucus that wrote a letter calling for negotiations with russia between the u.s. and russia for a cease-fire, which is absolutely contradictory to the u.s. position, the nato position, which is that there should be no talks about ukraine without ukraine, without ukraine at the table undercuts the white house's position, and the political leverage over the republicans who are talking about cutting off aid, which the president correctly said would have been wrong with ronald reagan -- should they apologize

and retact it a little last night -- >> i apologize there's construction here and i hope it's not interfering. let me start with your first point, what mccarthy said about potentially cutting off aid to ukraine, and to me that's a damaging statement, and he wants to be leader of the house, and ukraine has shown its strength against a superpower that putin would like to be as he marches in, and how could a leader like mccarthy suggest that, and does it signal to putin, hey, if we get in support we'll stop supporting ukraine, so your failed attempts of taking over a democracy might be aided. i think that's the worst case.

as to the letter, as you know, i am a member of that caucus and i did not choose to be on that letter. we have a state department and a global initiative around ukraine in terms of just universal support for ukraine in its fight to protect its democracy. we have to do that to protect democracies abroad, and here. putin is weakened, and ukraine is strong and we have to continue that. it will be up to ukraine to decide how we will end this war. >> was it a mistake, the letter? >> it was their letter. i am not going to judge it. i will just stand on what i believe, we must stand strong with ukraine. >> madeline dean, good luck out there on the campaign trail. thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us today,

congresswoman. >> thank you for having me. we have breaking news from capitol hill. hope hicks, the long time aide close to trump during the campaign and in the white house as the communications director is set to sit for a deposition today with the january 6th committee. this development comes days after the committee officially subpoenaed mr. trump announced at their most recent hearing. we will wait to see what we get out of there. the plea for freedom. the urgent appeal to free griner rejected by a judge today. her former coach joining us next. this is a special edition of "andrea mitchell reports" live on msnbc. stay with us. they have a high-risk factor. such as heart disease, diabetes, being overweight, asthma, or smoking.

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britty griner's appeal for leniency, and she faces eight more years in jail for bringing a vape cartridge. she was seen in court from behind bars on a tv screen from the detention center where she has been held since february. griner apologizing for what she called a mistake she made and pleading for clemency. >> i really hope that the court

will adjust the sentence because it has been very, very stressful and very traumatic to my mental and psyche being away from my family and not being able to communicate. >> joining me now is brittney griner's former olympic coach, and friend to brittney griner and her wife. also joining us, the founder and president of national. your reaction to the court decision today on her appeal? >> everyone in brittany's camp

prepared us all the chances of her sentence being reduced or her being released were slim to none, and so we were not surprised. just continue to do what we have been doing, just keep praying. keep praying. i mean, hopefully god comes through, and i am a firm believer on your worst days he does his best work, and we need his best work right now. >> you saw her at least, as much as we could tell, from behind bars, just incredible. how did she look to you? we heard from her lawyers that when they spoke to her and saw her on her birthday last week when she turned 32, she's strong but this is obviously a huge blow to her now.

>> you see some hopelessness. you hear the hopelessness in her voice. you know, you hear her trying to be strong, probably trying to be strong for her wife and her family, but when you are locked up, and not just abroad, but when you are locked up in russia, you know, there are -- there are levels, you know. this is the highest level of, to me, captivity. i am just hoping -- i know that our president, our best president, secretary blinken, i know everybody is doing everything in their power. i pray the russians open up their hearts to see britney as a person, a person that made a mistake, an honest mistake, and i just don't think one should pay nine years of their life for that type of mistake.

i do think that there's more to it than just -- more to it than what she's been sentenced for. i mean, she is a political pawn and we must do something for brittany and her family, and the rest of our prisoners wrongly detained in other countries. >> reverend al, national security adviser, jake sullivan today releasing a statement reading in part, we are aware of the news out of russia that brittney griner will continue to be wrongly detained under intolerable circumstances. today president biden has been very clear she should be released immediately. now there's a decision. do you think now that the appeal is over, the process is over legally, do you think the talks will move? we hear, reverend al, there were

talks finally after months of nothing, and now do you think the russians may get serious? >> well, it is said that our hope is that the talks will get serious in conversations that we have had with the state department and once or twice i raised it with the president when he met with civil rights leaders, and everybody has said they will do everything they can, and also families of others that have been detained abroad, and i think the real question is that russia has to deal with the crime does not meet the time, and we are talking about even by russian standards, she has been given an absolutely disproportionate amount of time. and you are talking about somebody that came and played basketball for a russian team. some of her team members came to court for her. so she's not trying to take a

position against russia or policy or get involved in the politics. she has been wanting to serve russia, and that ought to really say something to the russian authorities as they negotiate with the u.s. we're very concerned about her mental and spiritual, having to sit there for eight more years for a simple mistake, something they showed that the doctors showed she was doing something because of her pain and athletic condition, so this is not one where we want to name call or rally against anybody, but this is something where the crime doesn't meet the time, and this is somebody that against our wishes, or some, went and played and stood by that country and we hope russia would reciprocate with a level of justice.

>> reverend al, thank you so much, and thank you both for your time today. our spotlight on suburban voters today, what they are saying are the biggest issues for them in the pennsylvania senate race. you are watching a special edition of "andrea mitchell reports." we are live from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. >> safety. >> gas prices, and i am a teacher but i have five other jobs. jobs ♪ what will you change? ♪ will you make something better? ♪ will you create something entirely new? ♪ our dell technologies advisors provide you with the tools and expertise you need to do incredible things. because we believe there's an innovator in all of us.

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decide the balance of power in the united states senate, and this morning we are hearing from pennsylvania women about the issues that are driving them to the polls two weeks from today. of course, there's early voting as well. joining me now, nbc's darsha in pennsylvania. you have talked to many, and what are the most important issues? >> reporter: andrea, both candidates, oz and fetterman have worked to earn the votes of suburban women, and we talked to moms at a dance studio and a

gymnastic studio, and here's what we learned. as election season tumbles toward the finish line, in suburban philadelphia, many are flying and falling with abandon, but their moms worry about what happens when nobody is there to catch them. >> inflation affects how you parent and what you can do with your kids. >> and the new battleground, and once republican stronghold, they helped put biden in the white house in 2020, and now they are up for grabs with the economy and time top of mind. >> safety not only in education, but in life. >> republican, dr. oz, stoking fears about crime. >> the crime and drugs are creating lawlessness in the southeast of pennsylvania. >> and democrat, john fetterman,

hanging his hopes on abortion access. >> for the women, it's a choice that belongs to you and should have always belonged to you. >> reporter: how big of a factor is abortion in terms of what you do with your vote? >> i am pro choice, and it's not the top issue but it is an issue for me. >> what do you look for in a candidate? >> it's social issues and having somebody that is a true leader and not pandering to her base. >> she is waiting for tonight's debate to make a decision, and many we talked to were still undecided. >> i just want to make my best decision, because i did not make the best decision years ago, so -- >> what do you mean for that? >> i voted for the wrong person. >> who did you vote for? >> trump. >> trump, one reason why democrats need to win big in places like montgomery county, to balance house losses in former union democrats in places

like northeastern pennsylvania. and we met a mom at a dance studio and she's part of that shift. >> you were registered as a democrat? >> i am a registered democrat. >> now? >> uh-huh. >> but you are interested in more conservative candidates at this point? >> yes, i am. >> similar issues have parents' heads spinning here, and they have different results. >> i think fetterman will be more of the same, and not a tough on crime politician, which is what we need right now. >> for the women, the outcome of the election is personal. >> definitely the economy, and gas prices, and food prices, and i am single and i am a teacher but i have five other jobs. >> five other jobs? >> yeah. what is your message to washington to people on both sides of the aisle, what do you

want them to know about how life is right now? >> don't forget about us. >> andrea, these are two pretty different counties and i was expecting to hear different concerns and issues between the two, but it was interesting, the same things came up over and over again, and inflation, the economy, and concerns about crime and public safety, and a lot of persuadable voters have been waiting for this debate and they all say they could make up their minds tonight, andrea. >> it the only debate not only in the senate race, but there's no debate in the governor's race, so this is the only state-wide debate, period, and people i talk to are really excited about it and will all be watching. thank you very much to you. joining me now is rich fitzgerald, the allegheny county executive, the leading democrat here. mr. fitzgerald, thank you for being with us. what are you seeing so far in terms of early voting here in allegheny county, so you

democrats, you have to come out of allegheny county with what kind of a margin? >> probably 75/25 on the mail-in, and 60/40 on the turnout votes. it's running a little more than 50% than what it was two years ago, which we think was the benchmark, and the result on who is returning them, is 6-1, democratic over republican. >> our poll also showed republicans were more enthusiastic, and you have to come out with a big margin out here and in philadelphia, the two urban areas, and do better than break even in the color counties outside philadelphia? >> no question, and that's why president biden was here a week ago. >> you were with him?

>> yeah, we were with him and talking about infrastructure, and some of the success he had, and so then they went to philadelphia, so we have got a really strong top of the ticket obviously with attorney general shapiro who has high approval ratings and have done a great job, and a little battle with the senate race. >> we were talking just before you sat down, the governor's race doesn't seem to be that close, although i am always very nervous about and skeptical about any polling, because i think a lot of people don't tell pollsters really what they are thinking, especially some of those who have more controversial views, they might hold back a little bit, and this fetterman and oz race, you are nervous about it? >> yes, we are. a lot of things the administration and initiatives have happened is because you had a democratic majority in the house and senate, and it's a

thin majority, but this president has gotten the infrastructure through, and the chips and reduction act through, and the american rescue plan here, and a lot of things have helped us in southwestern pennsylvania, and we don't want to see that come to an end after november. >> what about the fetterman campaign has made you nervous? why is it so close? is it the health issue? >> i am sure that has contributed to it, and the thing i know about pennsylvania politics, we tend to respond to people that show up, and campaigns go out into the communities and it's not just what you see on tv and social media, but people that go to the events and they go to the halls and the community events and the county fairs and that type of thing, and it's limited for him to do that, and shapiro, he has been running as a state-wide candidate twice, and he went to all the different counties, and

he went to the counties that are not friendly sometimes when it comes to voting. >> this unusual memo from the fetterman campaign lowering expectations down to the floor, by saying not a good debater, and oz is a tv celebrity, and that's part of the strategy? >> that's part of the strategy, trying to lower expectations and get their message out. is there going to be an overwhelming sound bite that gets played again and again the next few days, or will it be around abortion, and it was a big issue when that ruling came out, and i think it will motivate a lot of swing voters in the election. >> thank you very much for your time. it's great to see you. >> looking forward to an exciting two weeks. >> in the great city of pittsburgh. we love it here.

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prime minister this morning. yes, again, and rishi sunak has been appointed by king charles after wanting to create his own government. the third prime minister is just the past seven weeks. sunak spoke earlier outside 10 downing street, the iconic address. >> trust is earned, and i will earn yours. i understand, too, that i have work to do to restore trust after all that has happened. >> sunak is the first person of color, the first british asian and the first hindu to lead the united kingdom, and his tenure begins after his country has a crisis of confidence and sky-high inflation, and liz

truss failed to tackle that in her days before resigning, and she made it worst, some would argue, with the trickle down economics. and joining us now live is keir simmons. first he has to create a cabinet. what kind of government is he going to lead? >> reporter: that's right, andrea, and cabinet is the first, and it's like déjà vu, and it feels like we have been here a couple times in the last eight weeks, and what is happening behind me is the political theater of lawmakers arriving at the historic house, 10 downing street behind me, going in to find out if they will be made as members of the governor, and breaking news,

james will be the leading foreign minister here, and that will be important news, of course, for the white house over there in the u.s. and then the new prime minister's job, first of all, is to try and heal the divisions. very, very difficult to do. his party is incredibly divided, and one of the ways he tried to do that today is by praising the past prime minister, liz truss. take a listen. >> i admired her restlessness to create change, but some mistakes were made. of ill will or bad intentions. quite the opposite, in fact. but mistakes, nonetheless. >> reporter: those sentiments did not prevent him from saying openly that mistakes were made. clearly, wanting to show that he is turning the page.

one page that the white house will be hoping that he doesn't turn, already we had president biden coming out with a statement that he has welcomed the new prime minister butless said he counts on britain's continuing support over the crisis in ukraine. the uk, a crucial ally for the u.s. on that issue. >> thanks very much, at 10 downing street. we will see what kind of cabinet emerges. the fight for florida. the reaction after last night's governor's debate and why voters are getting out early. you are waf ingwatching a spoes special edition of "andrea mitchell reports." we are live in pittsburgh. >> we need to get the vote out, get changes made. it has l-theanine to help me relax from daily stress. plus, shoden ashwagandha for quality sleep. so i can wake up refreshed.

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