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♪♪ good morning. good to see you. i'm yasmin vossoughian here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. it is the top issue on voters' minds right about now ahead of tuesday's elections. it is the economy and we just got a final glimpse on where things stand on that front, the october jobs report out this morning showing more jobs added than experts expected. the unemployment ticked up as
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well. we have our team here to help us figure it out and how voters might interpret all of these numbers. we have four days left and fresh polling underscoring the edge republicans have on enthusiasm ahead of the final messaging blitz from democrats. hitting the airwaves this morning with four days left until election day. >> thank goodness that the republicans are finally at the table wanting to talk about crime. it's not something that we should only talk about during political season. >> they want a common purpose, a common mission and that's what we're doing. >> we have a stark choice between somebody is here with a career who served pennsylvania, compared to somebody who is here to use pennsylvania. >> we'll get to all of that coming up. and it's the looming political earthquake many have been waiting for, anticipating. 2022 is not even over yet, but the former president's inner circle is eyeing a 2024 announcement in the coming days,
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more on that reporting in moments. massive layoffs happening right now at twitter. it is the first part of elon musk's promised overhaul. how workers are finding out and what it means for the company and users like you ahead. let's start with midterms. it is a busy morning on the campaign trail, to say the least. four days left for candidates to make their final arguments, their final push to voters ahead of voting day. and that news, of course, coupled with donald trump and 2024. kristen welker is at the white house for us, blain alexandria, shaquille brewster. kristen, let me start with this one. i imagine the decision as to when the former president would actually announce a possible run for 2024 is going to be dependent on some of the midterm results. talk us through some of the reporting on this. what we know and when it could
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happen. >> reporter: that's absolutely right. and i think you framed it well, yasmin, if and when it does happen. it would be a political earthquake. two sources familiar with former president trump's thinking tell nbc news, my colleagues and i, that it is likely that he will make an official announcement sometime this month after the midterms. now these sources do caution, though, that the date could slide. and just to take a step back here, yasmin, the president -- the former president's been out on the campaign trail and he's been teasing this for quite some time and he really leaned into it overnight in iowa at an event for senator chuck grassley. take a listen to what he had to say. >> and now in order to make our country successful and safe and glorious, i will very, very, very probably do it again, okay? [ cheers and applause ] >> very, very, very probably. there you have it. now these sources caution that
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no official date has been nailed down. if and when it happens, you can expect the typical rollout that would accompany that type of an announcement. i do want to just take everyone back to the trump presidency, though, yasmin, and remind people that dates, ideas were floated kind of as trial balloons and then the former president would make a final decision himself as one of the sources said, he's his own man. he does his own thing. again, this timeline could slide. but one senator who is familiar with his thinking, yasmin, says that mr. trump will announce sooner rather than later. the senator saying mr. trump is, quote, ready to go and would be shocked if he doesn't run, this senator believes he is definitely going to do it. that just takes you inside the framing of how the former president is approaching this right now and i think you make another really important point. look, we have to see what happens on tuesday. all signs are pointing to the fact that gop candidates have a lot of momentum heading into
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this home stretch. of course, no poll is final until election day. so we all have to wait for the results, yasmin. >> i also can't help but wonder if the former president is -- what he's seeing in israel with benjamin netanyahu. >> reporter: look, they were incredibly close, the former prime minister saying that no one understood israel and the needs of israel like former president trump. it was a very unique partnership and you would have to imagine that the political comeback of netanyahu is featured predominantly in the mind of former president trump has he weighs and makes this final decision. >> kristen welker, thank you for jumping on this for us. blayne, let's look at georgia first and foremost. last day early voting there.
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breaking records when it comes to the number of early votes so far. what are folks there on the ground there telling you today four days out from the election? >> reporter: yeah, yasmin, quickly i want to touch on something that kristen said. she talked about the former president's appearance in iowa even as he's going back and holding these rallies. he's still continuing to repeat the lie that he won in 2020 and perhaps nowhere is that more targeted than right here in georgia and it's something to a degree that still lingers over the election today. when you talk about early voting turnout numbers, yes, they have certainly been record-breaking. we're talking about more than 2 million ballots cast. that's higher than what we saw in the entire early voting period back in 2018 and we still have this last day to do. i've talked to voters in a suburb of atlanta, every one of the people i talked to this morning tells me a different issue that's top of mind. some talk about inflation, others talk about crime. but they have different thoughts
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of gubernatorial candidates who they believe will solve those problems. here's a little bit of what i heard from some of those voters today. take a look. >> cost of everything is rising. i go to the grocery store, it costs me almost double than what it cost me a year ago. that's my top concern right now. >> i tell you, this is my number one fear of a shooting in one of my kids' schools. >> abortion rights, it's big for me. anything like that. the economy not so much and inflation not so much because i know this happens, it goes in ebbs and flows. >> reporter: so certainly a very interesting mix of opinions from people here in cobb county as to what they're looking for, what they're hearing from candidates. i have to share something that i heard from a voter the other day. i was actually at a rally that governor kemp was holding with former vice president mike pence. a woman told me that she was there as an observer. she tends to lean more democrat
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but she said that she wanted to hear what the two men had to say. and she said that she actually was there because she was proud of the role that georgia played when it came to pushing back against those false claims -- pushing back on the election validity and january 6th. she said that's something that at least has her wanting to hear what they have to say even if it doesn't necessarily convince her to give them their vote. >> that's interesting. the sound bites from those voters as well showing the breadth of cobb county and the difference of opinion there. let's move over to wisconsin. shaq brewster, talk to me. bernie sanders hitting the ground in wisconsin. you got ron johnson making some eyebrow-raising comments in his race. talk us through it. >> reporter: we're getting to the point where we are so close to the election, both sides are focused on complete turnout right now. i know you see some of the signs behind me, senator ron johnson and tim michels are going to be
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having a joint campaign event in just a couple of minutes or so here, but we're seeing comments -- we're seeing the escalation on the campaign trail. senator ron johnson stepping up his attacks against the lieutenant governor his opponent and also starting to point to stories that we've been seeing, one out of milwaukee where an election official there was fired and now likely charged for fraudulently -- requesting military ballots. and the republican party files a lawsuit against officials here. he's pointing at that to question the validity of the election coming up next week. i want you to listen to his comments, here's a response to my question on if he would accept the results of tuesday's election. >> i sure hope i can. but i can't predict what the democrats might have planned. it seems like there's a lot of attempt on the part of democrats to make it easier to cheat. we want to make it easy to vote.
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very hard to cheat. >> reporter: it depends on what you see. >> it has to. let's see how this plays out. >> reporter: let's see how this plays out. and part of that is how people participate. i want you to take a look inside of this event right now. this is, like i said, we're going to see both candidates together. they don't do this all the time. you see some of their supporters waiting here in green bay, but you're seeing interest on both sides of the campaign. mandela barnes was on msnbc yesterday talking about not those specific comments from ron johnson, but talking about the attacks from ron johnson. listen to what we heard from his opponent. >> i was greet bid a republican farmer who -- he was straight up with me. he told me he doesn't vote for democrats. he's a republican. but it was the threats to democracy that did it for him. he said there's no way that he could support someone who would try to undermine the constitution. >> reporter: having that threat to democracy be the center of
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his message. across wisconsin, more than 600,000 people have already cast a bolt and the goal for both sides is to get more people to the polls. >> ron johnson taking a page out of the kari lake book. fascinating what's resonating with voters across the country. with that, let's go to jesse kirsch who is actually in cincinnati, ohio. not cleveland. my mistake, jesse. sorry for that. jd vance, tim ryan, the final four day-stretch, dueling events today. talk to us. >> reporter: yeah, and i think we're seeing a different strategy here in ohio, yasmin, versus what shaq was just talking about in wisconsin. so the three words that you hear the most from democrat tim ryan here are jobs, workers and china. with china being tied in with jobs and workers. so he is very much focused on an economic message here and we see much of that from jd vance as well, the republican here. but his economic messaging is more tied to inflation, democratic spending, and trying
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to pin ryan to the national party and figures like joe biden, speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. ryan has told me he doesn't want the president campaigning with him here which obviously isn't something that you're necessarily going to expect from someone within their party with the president in the white house. so that's the kind of face-off we're seeing here. some of the other issues like abortion, immigration, tied in specifically with the opioid crisis are also issues that come up here, they also talk about threats to democracy, january 6th, those issues come up and both men want to paint each other as an extremist. but this race seems to be focusing mostly on economic issues, of course, in the heartland of this country. here's part of what tim ryan said earlier on morning joe. >> we need more love, we need more compassion and concern for each other and those people are looking for a place to go. >> we're bringing back the old
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school democrats who like the fact that i'm focused on the economic issues, that we're not focused on the culture war, that we're talking about manufacturing and building things again and trade and the economic instability in these regions, that we want to reinvest back into those communities. >> he's not talking about 2020 election results right there. he'll go there if you ask him to, but he is focused mostly on the economic issues. and we see much of that from advance as well. and that is a stark difference from what we've seen in the governor's race here. we've seen incumbent mike dewine, it appears to be coasting toward re-election victory up against the democrat. we caught up with whalely yesterday and i asked her about that. she believes that she can see voters coming to the polls specifically women motivated by the abortion issue. and you can see that may not be
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resonating. obviously polls are polls. we have to see what happened on election day itself. but clearly the "politico"s in this state are seeing the race very different. >> thank you. thank you, guys. final stretch, guys. ahead a marathon weekend in new york city. get your sugar. keep going all the way through tuesday. thank you, guys. let's turn to the breaking news on the economy. october delivering a better than expected jobs report, adding 261,000 jobs. about 60,000 over what most economists were predicting the unemployment rate did tick up 0.2 of a point, 3.7. right now the dow hovering around 440 or so. and on the heels of all of this news, watching those markets react to it, i want to bring in brian cheung standing by for us on set and host of public radio's "full disclosure", roben
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farzad. 260, that's pretty good when it comes to the biden administration and the actions they've taken so far to kind of slow this economy down and specifically the fed share. talk us through what you're seeing this morning. >> the labor market remains the bright spot that tells you we're not in a recession. inflation is the issue. 315,000 was the revised number that we saw of jobs added in the month of september. october coming in at 261,000. a bit slower than that pace we saw earlier in the year. i want to height the real important number that we want to pay attention to and that's that 3.7% unemployment rate. keep in mind, these are fluctuation that is we tend to see, not necessarily outside of the normal band of movement in that particular metric. of course, where did we see this? types of industries where we're watching jobs get added, leisure and hospitality, restaurants still adding jobs. interesting to see health care getting a big boost in the month
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of october, up 52,600 jobs. this is an industry specifically in nursing that's been particularly ravaged by the pandemic and in the postpandemic period. all this tells you the jobs market is still looking very healthy, a good thing for the administration, but we also have to talk about inflation and even though this isn't an inflation report, we get this, average hourly earnings, these are how much higher are people getting paid compared to a year ago, these are the year over year rates and it shows you, this being the above trend period that has led to a lot of the inflation here, it's ticked down to 4.7% in the month of october. it's good for americans to get higher wages, but in this environment, you have concern that if people are getting paid more, companies are going to pass those costs on, all these have really folded into the overall inflation story. but, again, 4.7%, ticking down a little bit, still not good when you think about inflation at 8% eroding americans' earnings. >> let's talk about some of
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these numbers, as i keep saying, four days out, the economy the number one issue here. there's the objective, right, measure of the economy, then there's the subjective measure of the economy. people's personal feelings when it comes to what's actually happening here. the objective seems as what the fed chair is doing, might possibly be working. we're beginning to see the fruits of that labor now. but the subjective is, go to the grocery store and how much are things costing. how much do you think this report is going to affect the vote come tuesday. >> you're burying the lead. you unveiled the economic steve kornacki and brian. brian, your wardrobe should not cost more than $50. you should go to jcpenney and get a nice wrinkle-free button down. but i digress. nobody cares about these numbers as you had that report from georgia all beforehand. it's about grocery, gas prices, it's about feeling retched in an
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inflationary way. this is the way of the world right now. we don't have an institutional memory about rampant inflation. there were people around in the early '80s and remember this. the fed may have to send us into this to break us from it. we can just grow a little less quickly and maybe abate the pricing pressures of wages. but that still remains a bit of a fantasy. >> roben farzad, as always, we can always depend on you with some humor here amidst all that is going on. by the way, that's robin's way of giving a nod to our roots.
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the oath keepers founder stewart rhodes is testifying in his own defense. the evidence laid out so far. oprah gave dr. oz his start in television. with days until the midterms, she says she will vote for fetterman. will that make a difference? that conversation is coming up. ? thaton cversation is coming up
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company's payroll of 7,500 people after he finalized his acquisition late last week. jacob ward is joining us now along with ben collins as well. jake, let's kind of start with the logistics here of how this all kind of went down. what we know. >> we know at this hour, yasmin, that a lot of people had their breakfast coffee spoiled by the constant refreshing to see whether or not they had received an email from the company telling them that they had been laid off. the numbers really could be unbelievable. we've seen all across twitter people announcing on the very platform they used to work for, that they had been fired and now there is, of course, this big lawsuit. in the united states, if you have more than 100 employees at a company, you have to give 60 days notice before you lay them off. that does not seem to have been the case here. it's not clear whether we're in violation of what's called the warn act. but we know that four employees
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here in san francisco and one in massachusetts have now filed the class action lawsuit. i'm sure many, many more people will join that and so we have tremendous blood on the floor at twitter hq and a big lawsuit following up on the heels of that. >> any severance package here that we know of? >> we don't know about this. i know ben has been speaking to twitter employees and can perhaps speak to that as well. it's not clear what that's going to look like, but living this moment by moment right now. >> you've been talking to a lot of folks employed by twitter. what does the separation look like? >> the most important thing that twitter employees what to stress is the company is a nightmare right now and you cannot work there. and the website is built on sticks and it might fall apart. it's a house of cards. if it falls apart by tuesday, we're in trouble in terms of getting election information out there. the other thing they're warning me about, to regular people, this is the thing, these people have lost their jobs and this is
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what they're worried about right now. on tuesday -- on monday, we'll start on monday. on monday, anybody can maybe buy a verification badge. >> for $8. >> you could go and pose as anybody, an election official, public figure, whatever, and there's -- they've cut the moderation staff so severely that there's no way they're going to catch up in time for these lags. using twitter as a trusted source on tuesday is going to be a nightmare. some people who are still there are warning about it. they talk to elon who is deeply out of his depth objectively, and they don't know what's going to happen next week during the united states elections. >> so who is the person, what is the entity that helps identify that twitter will no longer be a viable source that we have looked to for so long going forward. we're in the age of misinformation. the timing could not be worse for all this stuff.
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♪♪ fresh polling is shedding new light on where things stand in the final days to next week's midterms. quinnipiac showing republicans are more motivated to vote than democrats. the gop has been deploying some of its biggest names across the country to boost turnout, but likely the biggest and most important could be donald trump. he is set to visit pennsylvania tomorrow in his final push for mehmet oz and doug mastriano and it's going to be a showdown of presidents and former presidents because joe biden and barack obama are also going to be in the state at the same time to boost democrats as well. in that critical pennsylvania senate race between fetterman and oz, today we saw a last-minute endorsement. >> i said it was up to the citizens of pennsylvania and, of course, i will tell y'all this, if i lived in pennsylvania, i would already cast my vote for
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john fetterman for many reasons. >> joining me now, david wasserman, senior editor with cook political report, brendan buck, and alaina beverly. welcome to you all, guys. the kind of major oprah endorsement when it comes to john fetterman. new poll out today showing fetterman up six points. of course, polling is polling and it's really going to come down to election day. oz, of course, being someone who is essentially, quote/unquote, discovered by oprah winfrey back in the day saying he respects her decision. how much traction do you think oprah's endorsement of fetterman is going to have in pennsylvania? >> i think this is going to be an important oprah bounce. i worked for president barack
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obama in the early primary states when she both endorsed him and showed up with him on the campaign back in 2007 and what she does is a couple of things in the minds of voters. first, she has both a level of trust and intimacy with her audience, right? they are a diverse audience including women over the age of 55 who have read her books, read her magazine, interacted with her media in some fashion who trust her. she also proves viability. so for people -- she did this for barack obama, for people who are thinking, he's good, but there's a razor-slim race right now, we're not sure if he can actually win, she helps to crystalize in the minds of the voters that this is a winner. this is what she's going to do for fetterman. he has been slightly leading in the polls, but this -- what she does now is proves to them that, yeah, he can win. as you mentioned, she was the one who helped to create dr. oz. if you -- in the minds of the
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voter, if the person who knows you best, like barack obama's side, if the person who knows you the best wants to go with the other guy, that should cause you to question. >> that says something. let's talk about the trump effect here and there's two things going on here now with some of the latest reporting when it comes to the possibility of the former president announcing running for president in 2024 in the coming weeks and some of this could be buoyed by the results we're going to get from the midterm election. some of the major outstanding endorsements, some of which were in pennsylvania, ohio, as well, arizona, the people he's been stumping with the most. how much do you think -- we know what's on the line for oz and mastriano. how much is on the line for the former president, especially in the state of pennsylvania ahead of his appearance there tomorrow? >> one thing we know about donald trump is, he doesn't take the blame very often. if his candidate loses, whether it's in pennsylvania or in georgia, i don't think he's going to have any
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self-reflection. he'll talk all day about candidates that he chose who did win. i think it is -- it certainly cuts both ways to have donald trump showing up in your state right before the election. at this point in a campaign, it's all about turnout, it's all about motivation, it's about make sure people who are going to vote for you come out and do it. obviously, there's still risk, though, having donald trump there. dr. oz i don't think tried to make it a feature of his general election campaign. he had to get close to him in the primary. but since then, he's been trying to run as an outsider, independent. donald trump turns off a lot of people in areas that are going to be important for republicans to do well. i assume they can't not have him come to the state at this point. but i assume that they've got a little concern about him showing up as well. >> let's talk issues here as well. specifically some of the issues that republicans are pushing most. some of the conversation around crime specifically, republicans are pushing this to the top of mind for many voters because
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specifically and historically, voters have looked more towards republican party in solving issues on crime versus democrats wanting to instill fear in voters ahead of the elections. he's some anecdotes from the "new york times" that i want to read for you. a 49-year-old nurse has been pleading with her parents to move out of philadelphia especially after a delivery driver was shot and killed a few blocks from their home. in wisconsin, a 66-year-old woman already knows what she wants for christmas this year, a ring doorbell camera which she hopes will assuage her gnawing fears of break-ins near milwaukee. how do you see the issue on crime playing out here? >> well, first of all, the biggest last-minute boost for john fetterman is not oprah's endorsement, it's dr. oz campaigning alongside donald trump and doug mastriano, appearing in a rally there. it fires up democratic voters
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there. by the way, i think this race is going to be decided by a poll or two in either direction and the reason why this race has closed over the past month or two is not john fetterman's lingering speech issues, it's the issue of crime and dr. has been going up on attack against fetterman's record, atop the board of pardons in pennsylvania, attacking his push for more clemency, and dr. -- and that's been enough for oz to portray fetterman as soft on crime. in addition, some of the positions he's held in the past that were to the left, like suggesting a moratorium on fracking. that's what's moved the race towards a dead heat. >> i want to stick with crime if we can. we're looking at the governor's race here which is close as well, between hochul and zeldin. and zeldin is pushing crime here in new york state. and specifically when it comes to more suburban areas here in
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new york. i know that jen psaki was out in westchester county and had an interesting conversation when it comes to crime ahead of the elections. let's take a listen to that and then we'll talk. >> why do you think the issue of bill reform is one that people are talking about or is resonating. >> because it's scary. and you have the fearmongers who are sitting here and saying if you don't put those people -- and i say it that way for a reason -- in jail, they're coming for you. >> by those people? >> if you look at every single advertisement, they're always people of color. >> this was a bit of what i was talking about a little bit earlier, this isn't necessarily -- doesn't seem to be necessarily kind of this organic concern for a rising crime across the country. it is more manufactured, republicans understanding the mind-set of voters. >> well, i think crime is a real issue and i think statistics back up that it is a real issue.
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whether republicans have been able to seize on it and make it a bigger issue, certainly, that's politics. but i don't think you should say that crime isn't an issue and i think that's actually what has gotten democrats like kathy hochul in trouble. people are concerned. if you say you're not, that shows you don't get it. there's -- >> maybe i wasn't clear on my question. i was saying that crime is not necessarily an issue. it's a matter of how big of an issue is -- is your number one issue, are you making it the first thing that you're leading with in your campaign? and lee zeldin is doing just that. >> he's doing it because it's working. we're playing politics here, right? republicans have seen this work. in all the time i've been doing politics, i've never seen a more devastating attack than republicans talking about democrats wanting to defund the police. i know that's maybe not exactly the frame that we're talking about at this point. but that hits so hard. this whole campaign has come
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down to an issue where, this is new york, you should not be in this era having a republican having a viable chance and you do because this is a real issue and it's passionate and people care about it. and people vote on the economy and they vote if they're feeling scared. fear is a powerful motivator in politics. >> thank you. house speaker nancy pelosi's husband, paul, is spending his first morning back at home since he was brutally attacked by an intruder. he was released from the hospital yesterday. as we're learning more details, including what police saw when they first arrived here. and we could learn even more today when another court hearing will be held for the suspect, david depape. what are we hearing from the pelosi family and what might we expect from the hearing later today? >> reporter: well, this time
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last week paul pelosi had just been admitted to the hospital having suffered injuries to his hands, his arm, his skull, fractured. he was released from the hospital yesterday afternoon, arriving back here to his home in san francisco. the pelosi family releasing a statement, let me read you a portion of what they had to say. they say the pelosi family is thankful for the beautiful outpouring of love, support and prayers from around the world. paul is grateful to the 911 operator, emergency responders, icu staff and the entire zsfgh medical staff for their excellent life-saving treatment. paul remains under doctor's care as he continues to progress on a long recovery process. meanwhile, we are expecting another court proceeding here in san francisco later today. we're told it's going to be a
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largely procedural proceeding. it's expected we'll get further court dates. still no word on those federal charges that have been filed when the suspect, david depape is expected to be arraigned on those charges. >> we have heard stunning evidence in the conspiracy trial of stewart rhodes including tapes of him bragging that he would have killed speaker pelosi on january 6th. what is rhodes saying know that he's taking the stand himself? we've got if latest from outside the courtroom. and today is the deadline for former president trump to turn over documents to january 6th investigators. will he comply? what happens if he doesn't? we'll be right back. 'll be righ. liquid. can it one up whatever they're doing? for sure. seriously? one up the power of liquid, one up the toughest stains. any further questions? uh uh! one up the power of liquid with tide pods ultra oxi.
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power. joining us now is ryan reilly. he's no longer on the stand. what did he say? >> reporter: he only had 45 minutes of testimony total and monday he gets cross-examined by prosecutors. he talked a little bit about how, you know, the heyday of the oath keepers was during the obama administration when they got a lot of members. there was a little bit in the 2019/2020 era. they have the most activity when a democrat is in power. so some of the chapters he said actually folded during the trump administration. what the prosecutor -- and they talked about the signal messages that rhodes had sent in the lead-up to the 2020 elections, talked about why they switched over to signal because a previous platform hay that had used had kicked the oath keepers
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off. the defense attorney is getting up to the -- building up to the moment around january 6th talking about some of the security operations that the oath keepers had done in different parts of the country. he talked a little bit about their work in ferguson in 2014 and 2015 when the oath keepers had a presence there and talking about the security operations that they had for some of the speakers at a number of january 6th events in the lead-up to the january 6th attack. >> ryan reilly for us. looking ahead, of course, until monday where he will be back on the stand. thank you. good to see you. everybody, the 10:00 a.m. deadline has come and gone for the former president to turn over documents to the january 6th committee. no signs that anything has in fact been provided. all of this after the committee issued a subpoena for trump that also compels him to testify later on this month after the midterm elections. i believe november 14th. scott wong is on capitol hill covering this for us. all right, it seems like no documents have been produced.
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not surprising to say the least. what happens now? >> that's a good question. we've seen no indication, yasmin, that any documents have arrived here on capitol hill from the president's team. the january 6th committee can now choose to extend the deadline or say that the president -- former president is out of compliance of this subpoena. but, you know, it's -- that remains an open question. you mentioned the other aspect of this subpoena, very important one, asking the president, himself, to come in and testify either in person or by video conference by that key date of november 14th. that just so happens to be an interesting date that's floating around washington, d.c., right now. numerous reports saying that could be the week that former president trump announces a potential 2024 bid.
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although nbc is told by its sources that nothing -- no date has been locked in at the moment. but a lot of moving parts clearly, you know, the other aspect of this -- you asked about what specific documents is being requested of the former president. they're asking basically for everything in the lead-up and on the day of the attack here in the capitol. notes, emails, text messages, any sort of messages on the encrypted signal app. they're after those. they want to hear about correspondences with lawmakers on capitol hill, luke john eastman and roger stone. so just -- they're looking for a range of documents, but, again, so far, we haven't seen any evidence that those have been produced. >> john eastman working on challenges to results in the midterm elections.
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candidates can't fund raise off the platform but can show up like wade herring. at the age of 63 maybe an unlikely tiktok celebrity. >> do you get recognized by people just on the streets off your tiktoks? >> i do get recognized. i have had moms tell me my 20-year-old child showed me your tiktok, now i know who you are. >> this fellow is being called the chelest dude in america. >> reporter: this video got herring more than a million views and the attention of college students who showed up to knock on doors for him but tiktok fame can cut both ways. mehmet oz mocked for his crudités video in pennsylvania. the risks are more serious than looking out of touch given the concerns of bytedance. a trump nominated fcc
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commissioner wanting to ban video. >> evidence suggests china is snooping on tiktok users. >> reporter: new research shows 12% of republican candidates in key races have tiktoks compared to 34% of democratic candidates. >> i have told them probably it is not worth it for them, those are republicans. i might make a different choice if i were a democrat and i were really counting on trying to motivate young people to vote for me. this cycle -- >> reporter: tiktok says it's confident they are on a path to an agreement with the government that will satisfy national security concerns and the company has pointed out they work to protect u.s. data with 100% of american traffic routed through oracle's secure infrastructure. it has policies against election misinformation. >> and the china ownership factor not a huge concern for you? >> i feel like you have to weigh the pluses and minuses and the plus of engagement is more important. >> reporter: the politics of tiktok a new midterm issue.
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