From our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Just as day 988 of the Trump Administration was coming to a close, the democrats subpoenaed the white house in their impeachment inquiry. And then late tonight, the New York Times dropped another one, a story that says we may now hear from a second whistleblower from inside the Intelligence Community on the topic of trump and ukraine. The president s not going to like that. Michael schmidt and adam goldman write, quote, the official has nor direct information about the events than the first whistleblower, whose complaint that mr. Trump was using his power to get mr. Trump to investigate his political rivals touched off an impeachment inquiry. The second official is among those interviewed by the Intelligence CommunityInspector General to corroborate the allegations of the original whistleblower. This as democrats ramp up their impeachment inquiry as we watch. Oversight Committee ChairmanElijah Cummings along with the chairs of intel and Foreign Affairs subpoenaed the white house for documents related to the president s dealings with ukraine. Tonight they write, quote, we deeply regret that President Trump has put us and the nation in this position, but his actions have left us no choice but to issue this subpoena. Democrats gave acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney until october 18 to hand over documents. Also today, House Democrats asked that mike pence turn over any documents he might have about the president s attempts to get ukraine to investigate the bidens. This as nbc news is reporting that weeks before the whistleblowers complaint became public, quote, the cias top lawyer made what she considered to be a criminal referral to the Justice Department about the whistleblowers allegations that President Donald Trump abused his office in pressuring the ukrainian president , u. S. Officials familiar with the matter tell nbc news. And the wall street journal spoke to republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin, who said he was told by an american diplomat this is back in august that release of the military aid to ukraine that was approved by congress, lets not forget, whats contingent on an investigation that trump wanted. The journal reports it this way, quote, alarmed by that information, senator johnson said he raised the issue with mr. Trump the next day, august 31st, in a phone call, days before the senator was to meet with ukraines president. In the call, mr. Trump flatly rejected the notion that he directed aides to make military aid to ukraine contingent on a new probe by kiev, mr. Johnson said. Earlier today before departing for maryland, the president talked about the senate kind of as his ace in the hole. We have a great relationship in the senate. I have a 95 Approval Rating in the Republican Party. I believe the senate, and i havent spoken to that many senators, but i believe the senators look at this as a hoax. Its a witch hunt. Its a disgrace. So i think in the senate, i think they feel that the Republican Party has been treated very, very badly. Not all Senate Republicans are backing the president. Mitt romney posted this today, and we quote, by all appearances, the president s brazen and unprecedented appeal to china and to ukraine to investigate joe biden is wrong and appalling. Of course note here the difference between a tweet and a vote on the senate floor. Theyre extraordinary. Of course, many are still processing those Text Messages from former special envoy to ukraine kurt volker that he provided to lawmakers that could spell real trouble for the president the more and more we read through them. Peter baker of the New York Times sums up the importance of those Text Messages this way. The portrait that emerged from the texts and mr. Volkers own testimony depicted a team scrambling to satisfy a deeply suspicious president and his relentless personal lawyer, mr. Giuliani, who saw the United States relationship with ukraine as predicated on its willingness to look into former Vice President joe biden and other democrats. As we keep saying, its a lot. And here to lead off our discussion on a friday night, susan page, Washington Bureau chief for usa today. John allen, Nbc News National Political reporter. Former u. S. Attorney barbara mcquade, and the aforementioned peter baker, chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times. Peter, i hate to begin on a friday night with a process question, but i must. What will happen to everything under way if, indeed, a second whistleblower comes up and has to be processed and spoken to and heard from on the hill and perhaps has even more pointed evidence than the first . Well, its very interesting of course because this would serve to validate to some extent the first whistleblower as a witness to what happened. The president of course has spent a lot of time trying to discredit the whistleblower, saying his information is only secondhand, is hearsay. Never mind the fact that most of the things in the whistleblower complaint that weve all now seen has been actually verified by the white house itself and that rough transcript they released of the pope cahone cal president zelensky and other information thats been released. But having a second whistleblower, a second person saying, yeah, this troubled me and heres the information i have about what we learned at the time i think obviously would embolden the democrats to keep pushing forward. Theyre already moving at a breakneck speed. They only have one witness so far, kurt volker, but look at how much theyve gotten out of that one moment of testimony. At this point, you know, theres a pretty good lesson that a Clinton Administration person told me the other day. He says when you get caught up in one of these president ial scandals, the facts only tend to get worse, not better. Susan page, Mueller Report comes and goes. Then we get this, which it was said at the time was so much better understandable to people. This was about a phone call using plain language that people could get. Well, look whats happened the last 48 hours. This is as dense and complicated as portions of the Mueller Report. And then we see the president s strategy, kind of Say Something patently outrageous, and then today double down on it still. You know, such a contrast, i think, in so many ways with the whole twoyear experience with the Mueller Investigation and its report. One difference is, you know, the president President Trump spent two or three years saying no collusion with russia, no collusion, no obstruction. And although some disagreed that was actually what the Mueller Report concluded, it pretty much carried the day. Now we have the president basically saying, yeah, i colluded. Yes. I spoke to ukraine. I was right to do so. I was talking about corruption. And this is something quite different. This is what has made has propelled this story with such velocity. You know, we havent even hit the twoweek mark yet on the ukraine story, and yet were at a point where i think the president s impeachment now seems increasingly likely. He said that himself today to reporters at the white house, that he thinks the democrats have the votes in the house to impeach him although you used the clip earlier that showed him counting on the Republican People in the senate to keep him in office. Yeah, exactly that. Hey, barb, what does it take for a cia inhouse lawyer to refer a criminal complaint up the ladder to doj . I have to believe that this cia general counsel was very alarmed by what she saw to take such serious steps as to alert the department of justice that a crime may have occurred by the president of the United States. I think that if i were in those shoes looking at that, it would take a very, very high level of allegedly, purportedly criminal behavior before i would make that call. So it suggests so me she had very serious concerns about these allegations. John allen, critique for us the democrats, the job they have done thus far. Well, brian, i think youve got to take this in parts. I mean as far as bringing forward this complaint, i think theyve done a pretty good job in making sure that the public is getting the basic news. Its not that difficult to understand whats going on here, in part because the president and the white house released the rough transcript that shows the president combining these two things, basically saying if you want the money, ukraine, id also like to see this investigation into joe biden. It is not a situation where youve got necessarily the greatest stars out front, but it is a situation where they have done a lot of this behind closed doors, and you dont have 35 lawmakers giving fiveminute question periods like youve had in some of the previous hearings. So to that extent, they are letting the facts get out there first. They are letting this pick up its own steam. They are letting the administration and the president sort of stumble over themselves and to that degree, i think theyve done what they need to do. Susan page, i want to just go back to your last mention of republicans in the senate, and i took pains a few minutes ago to point out, tweeting is the cheap seats. Anybody can say anything on twitter. But casting a vote on the senate floor and really standing up for your convictions is Something Else. But, susan, lets say some of these republicans in dicey races come back after this recess, after some dicey town hall meetings. Are we going to see them go to their leader with some kind of situational courage breaking out and say, boss, i dont know if i can be with you. This isnt selling across the land. Situational courage sounds like an oxymoron to me, but perhaps others should judge that. I dont actually see signs of that. Its always possible. We dont know how this will unfold. But so far, i think until Republican Voters abandon President Trump, republican elected officials by and large are not going to abandon President Trump. They already are not offering what seems like a very robust defense of what President Trump is alleged to have done. But they are attacking his attackers or in some cases just trying to avoid saying anything at all. Peter baker, i read from our friends over at Time Magazine tonight, this is about secretary of state mike pompeo. Nearly two dozen officials told time that in recent days pompeo has become increasingly loud and bullying and appears frequently distracted and impatient during state Department Policy meetings. Whats that about, you think . Well, look, hes under a lot of pressure obviously. He had to admit that he was on that telephone call with president zelensky even though he hadnt admitted to that earlier. That raises a lot of questions. What was the secretary of state doing on that call . Why hadnt he acknowledged it earlier . What was his role in supervising or coordinating with Rudy Giuliani and with the state Department Officials working with Rudy Giuliani including kurt volker and Gordon Sondland and so on. These are questions that remain unanswered and you can imagine the House Democrats are going to want to ask him about that. Theyve already clashed with him about their requests for testimony and documents. He said that they were trying to brutalize state department employees, but they have made clear they dont plan to accept no for an answer. So theres a real, you know, collision here between the executive and legislative branches with mike pompeo right there in the middle of it. Hey, barb, last night on this broadcast, we quoted a superb legal thinker, longtime fed named barbara mcquade. I want to read it back to you. This habit of committing crimes in plain sight is intriguing. Trump is practically daring us to call him out for soliciting foreign influence into our election, which is a crime. I accept the dare. This is a crime. Barb, youve always been careful to keep politics out of law. But as a matter of law and tactics, what do you think the democrats could do that you dont see them doing right now . Well, i think they just need to stay on course. One of the things that i think a mistake they made with regard to the Mueller Report and the Mueller Investigation is moving so very slowly and i think lost all momentum in terms of calling witnesses and subpoenaing records and allowing the Trump Administration to really stonewall and refuse to comply with those subpoenas. I think keeping the pressure on, demanding witnesses, demanding documents and not taking no for an answer, when they get stonewalled, go to court and demand those things because just as we saw in u. S. Versus nixon, any sort of privilege will yield when were looking at criminal investigations. So i think they need to be relentless to get to the facts here. John, by our unofficial count, Rudy Giuliani is five for five if youre counting up his appearances over five week nights. Tonight with his fifth. Weve prepared for you a modest sampler of this week in roudy. They bought joe bidens office. Wake up, democrats. I prosecuted corruption. Democrats and republicans. I can smell this. Why do you think theyre silencing me . Because im not making any points . Take a little valium. Calm down, little babies. Do you have any more texts . Yeah, i do. Many more. Okay. Theres another subpoena. I also have video recordings. Go look at my tweets. Are you getting at all a feeling that all of this is becoming a blur to the American People . No, no. I think americans in general cant follow most of this, okay . Of course they can. I can follow it. I want to give you another example of what we can do with this lawsuit. Hes unbelievable. Whats your mission . To disrupt the world. All right, rudy. Great to see you tonight. Oh, my god, such phonies. John allen, you can start basically anywhere. Whats going on here . What are we seeing, and how long will it go on . Well, i mean Rudy Giuliani is clearly flailing. Hes in the midst of, you know, what you would say is a massive scheme between elements of the federal government and the president s personal lawyer to get a government to involve itself in an american election. If the president was interested in getting rid of corruption in the american government, its an odd place to start with somebody who doesnt actually hold an office. Rudy giuliani has been traveling the world, coordinating oddly with the state department. Weve got reports of him, you know, dropping off dossiers at the state department potentially and goes on television talking about how hes being silenced, which is a very odd place to talk about being silenced. Im not sure what hes trying to do other than rally some support to himself in a Public Relations sense. I know the yankees were on television tonight. It might be time for him to take in some television instead of going on. He did go to the yankee game tonight, i hasten to add, along with Alan Dershowitz there in his usual seats. Hey, peter, of what we know thats going to happen next week, anything you can share with us . Obviously at this pace, you want to get a good laugh out of the guy upstairs, tell him your plans for tomorrow. It was just yesterday after all the president invited china to look into joe biden. Yeah. Brian, i cant tell you whats going to happen an hour from now. One of the things weve learned so far as susan said, the velocity of this particular matter has been so extraordinary, even for the trump era, that just when you think youve got your hands on it, suddenly Something Else comes up. I think next week one of the things people are going to look for will be testify by yovanovitch. She was the ambassador to ukraine who was ousted by the Trump Administration. The president called her bad news in his phone call with the president of ukraine, doesnt seem to actually know much about her except he said he was told bad things about her, cant name her. He was told she was antitrump and that was enough to get her removed. Shes a career public servant, a career diplomat, well respected by people in the russian community. Ill be interested to see what she had to say. Was her ouster related to objecting to or in some way forestalling Rudy Giulianis, you know, mission to the ukraine to try to put pressure on the government there. We dont know. Wed like to hear her say. Shell do it behind closed doors but like with kurt volker, i presume well get some information pretty quickly after shes done. Our thanks. Susan page, jonathan allen, barbara mcquade, peter baker, much obliged. Coming up for us, this latest case against the president started with a phone call, something everyone could understand. As we said, its gotten suddenly complex. 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On the subject of delaying that military aid, quote, some ukrainian officials surmised that there may have been a technical budgetary reason for the holdup. Others thought it could be that the u. S. Is halting foreign aid in general, and some thought it was a personal decision of mr. President trump. Text messages the House Intel Committee released late last night indicate the latter was the case. In texts with the aforementioned kurt volker about trying to set up that meeting between trump and the president of ukraine, our u. S. Ambassador to the eu, Gordon Sondland, a trump donor and appointee, writes, quote, i think potus really wants the deliverable, noting that a meeting without some sort of concession from ukraine would be unlikely. That meeting did not take place. The acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor, career diplomat, raised his concerns about that to sondland. He questioned the reasons for the holdup in the aid, asking sondland in a text, quote, are we now saying that Security Assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations . For more, we welcome to the broadcast p. J. Crowley, a veteran of the state department serving as assistant secretary for Public Affairs and spokesman there under thensecretary of state Hillary Clinton. Also happens to be the author of red Line AmericanForeign Policy in a time of fractured politics and failing state. Mr. Crowley, you know the phrase, if you see something, Say Something. Had you been on that trip, would you have said something . Of course. I think what we have here is, among other things, a process failure. You talked about process in your question to peter at the beginning of the show. National Security Policy depends on a reliable process where a president is presented with options that have potential benefits and pitfalls. In this particular case, what surprised me about the texts most of all is this is not a whimsical comment by the president on a call with the president of ukraine. This was, in fact, the white house policy to try to leverage, you know, military aid to ukraine in return for a political favor, and there were plenty of meetings leading up to the call, and there was plenty of action in the aftermath to try to get what the president wanted. I dont mean for this question to sound trite, but how does it feel to you to see all this, an unsavory side of a place you proudly worked in for a long time aired in public in this way . Well, if you want to see the glass as half full, then youre looking at people like bill taylor, marie yovanovitch, who were trying to serve the National Interest. If you see the glass as potentially entirely empty, youre seeing a president who every president wants to get reelected, but president s normally get reelected by advancing the National Interest. In this case, mr. Trump has turned, you know, this upside down and hes converted Foreign Policy in the service of his reelection campaign. You know, thats very distressing, and i think were going to see, as you indicated, more voices expressing their concerns about this. Secretary pompeo has accused the democrats of bullying his people. Do you think that is masking a deepdown fear that his people and in this case meaning a lot of career folks who are loyal to the United States and not any Current State Department or president are going to go before congress and tell the truth . Well, i think this is the height of hypocrisy. I mean on the one hand, pompeo says, i wont let the congress bully my people. On the other hand, we now know he was on the call where the president of the United States trashes his own ambassador to the president of ukraine. And evidently the president or the secretary of state, you know, offered no objection. Brian, a year ago, there was an oped in the New York Times where a white house insider was saying, there are adults in the room who are trying to create boundaries into how far the president can stray. A year later, i think what were seeing is that there are no adults in the room. And the fact that a potentially illegal activity can become the policy of the United States of america through some sort of process, i think just tells us how not only has the process broken down, but now the president of the United States cannot differentiate the National Interest from his personal interest. Its exactly why we asked for you on this broadcast tonight, to hear you say that. P. J. Crowley, thank you so much for stopping by the 11th hour this evening. Coming up for us, Robert Mueller warned us about it, and the new threat to our elections is indeed here. Well talk about that with an expert after this. Our committee issued a report and unsight saying on russian active measures are growing with frequency and intensity, and these groups pose a significant threat to the United States and our allies in upcoming elections. Would you agree with that . Yes. In fact, one of the other areas that we have to look at are many more companies not companies. Many more countries are developing capability to replicate what the russians have done. The New York Times reports that indeed iranian hackers have targeted the trump reelection campaign. Quote, microsoft said hackers with apparent backing from u irans government had made more than 2,700 attempts to identify the email accounts of current and former United States officials, journalists covering political campaigns and accounts associated with the president ial campaign. It was not clear what information, if any, had been taken in the attack on the Trump Campaign. Tonight the Campaign Says it has no indication that any infrastructure was hit. With us tonight, the man to see on these matters, malcolm nance, a veteran of naval intelligence, special ops, and Homeland Security with 35 years working in counterterrorism and intelligence, and is our analyst in this area. His forthcoming book is the plot to betray america how team trump embraced our enemies, compromised our security, and how we can fix it. Malcolm, what is the lesson in this . The lesson in this is that the 2016 election opened the floodgates for all types of nonstate and state actors to try to influence the United States elections. And with the president and many of his followers not believing that there is an intrinsic cyberthreat in this world that will attempt to influence our electoral process, everyones going to try it. So a sublesson of that, im guessing, in a democracy, when we have a boisterous debate on this or any other network and moscow mitch is a name that is hatched because of the Senate Majority leaders unwillingness for the longest time to get funding approved to harden our elections, people can hear us when we say that. People can see our coverage in a free society. In a, as they say, a malign actor would be foolish not to try it. You know, ten years ago, the United States had a mindset in which the defense of the nation on all sides was paramount, and that no one would ever be allowed to come after the United States on any platform, anywhere in the world, even if we werent the greatest in cyber you know, cyber hygiene. That has since changed. And as you say, the world can hear us. When the world believes the United States will no longer defend itself, you know, malignant players such as iran, north korea, china, you know, could be anybody as far away as zimbabwe understands that americas information sphere can be weaponized against itself and that you can go after individuals or organizations or entire countries and have the ability to change their mindset or to hack their mindset. So apparently iran is Touching Base on this and are trying to get the basic steps to rudime rudimently attack individuals around a campaign or carry out a false flag operation. Dan coats once said that what kept him up at night was the rumored russian ability to turn off the power in new england in the middle of winter. Tell the folks watching tonight at the risk of scaring them to death before bed on a friday evening, how bad could it get . What could someone do . It could get very bad. You know, granted this report in the New York Times was about very rudimentary things, right . About spearfishing, people cook clicking on the wrong link and downloading malware into their computer. But thats the first step in going after turning off, oh, a hydroelectric plant or shorting out a substation and plunging a Million People into darkness. These are infrastructure attacks which are very hard to do because we have such a large civilian infrastructure, which is not protected at a governmental level the way many other countries around the world are. So, you know, when you turn off power, you kill people. You know, respirators go off until the batteries come on or until, you know, generators come on. It can be very difficult. People lose their airconditioning. So these are the sort of things that are the far end of the black operations in cyberwarfare. Iran, for example, destroyed every computer in aramco, the Saudi Arabian oil company a few years ago using malicious malware and knocking down their systems. That was not as bad as if they say shut off, you know, wichita, kansas, from having any electricity. All of these are within the realm of that. And if we are not defending ourselves, our opponents will figure out ways to use it. Whats your 60second answer to the question, can our Election Integrity be saved . I would love to answer that in a positive, brian. But our Election Integrity can be saved if we start to believe that we have a problem. 40 of this nation do not believe at all that there was an attempt to corrupt the american election, which influenced the election of donald trump. If you dont believe youre under attack even though the bullets are flying around you, then you will not take precautions. And this nation will be perpetually in danger. The american experiment will remain in danger if we dont take precautions, and that starts with belief. Malcolm nance, thank you for joining us on a friday night. We appreciate it very much. And coming up for us as we continue, as some republicans speak out, we have two reporters talking to sources on the inside of gop strategy sessions. Well talk about that when we come back. All this talk of the president about corruption comes from the most corrupt president weve had in modern history. Hes the definition of corruption. Hes indicted himself by his own statements. This is not about me. Its not about my son. Theres not a shred theres anything done thats been wrong. This guy like all bullies is a coward. He does not want to run against me. After the story had spooled out for one week, thats the most forceful response we have heard yet from president ial candidate joe biden. His campaign has been plagued by trumps accusations of conflict of interest, straightup malfeasance relating to joe biden, his sons dealing in ukraine when biden was Vice President , claims that we want to be sure to point out are unsubstantiated. The Washington Post reporting this week and we quote some of joe bidens supporters are voicing growing concern that his campaign is not prepared to weather the dual political rip currents suddenly reshaping the 2020 race. An onslaught of attacks on his family from President Trump and a tightened contest for the democratic nomination. With us to talk about it tonight, we welcome back to the broadcast jackie alemany, political reporter for the Washington Post, author of the papers morning newsletter, power up, and melanie za know na is back with us. She covers congress for politico. Welcome to you both. Jackie, you cant argue trump got to tell bidens story this week. He just took it over, and that was the response five days deep into the story with trump arguing corruption, straightup corruption every day. And you talk to democrats, and they whisper the same thing. It feels like stronger together, part deux. Corporate campaign, a dread not about as nimble as a battleship. What are you hearing in. Thats exactly right, brian. My colleague who has been following the Biden Campaign closely wrote that sharp piece that you just excerpted, where advisers expressed concern that the Biden Campaign is not equipped to handle the amount of disinformation that the Trump Campaign has been pushing out, not just on twitter, not just from the president s mouth, but also on ads, a big ad buy around the country, along with republican allies, conservative radio, and a lot of these conspiracy theories and disinformation thats being peddled on the rightwing media that has been breaking into the mainstream media. And a lot of democrats are concerned that biden has waited too long to come out forcefully. You know, at the same time, the democrats also, you know, this has raised questions for them about whether or not biden has sort of these allegations of improprieties plague him. Michael bennet came out and said last week that at the end of the day, you know, he doesnt believe that Vice President s or, you know, people who are serving in office should have foreign interests. And so it sort of raised this question. There might not be any impropriety. These allegations are baseless that the president has been pushing forward. But there is the appearance of impropriety, and i spoke with a few people who have spoken with the president recently. And the president believes that regardless that this has, you know, triggered an impeachment inquiry for him, he believes its finished joe bidens campaign and going to plague him a la Hillary Clinton for the rest of the 2020 primary. Yeah, its tough words, but its tough out there generally. Hey, melanie, maggie and annie over at the New York Times, i was reminded, wrote this piece last june, but it bears repeating a bit. Late at night, using his old personal cell phone number, President Trump has been calling former advisers who have not heard from him in years, eager to discuss his standing in the polls against the Top Democrats in the field specially, wait for it, joe biden, whom he describes in those conversations as too old and not as popular as people think. Mr. Biden seems to have gotten into the president s head, at least for now. Melanie is there still evidence of a certain amount of obsession, good or bad . Yes, absolutely. Hes been in these calls with foreign leaders as recently as this summer bringing up the bidens and asking them to investigate. What i think is really crucial to point out is that today the president has really tried to frame this debate as hes just trying to root out corruption. He said it had nothing to do with politics, that he doesnt even view joe biden as a rival. He said he thinks someone else is going to get the democratic nomination, so there cant possibly be any impropriety here because he doesnt view biden as a political rival. But thats absolutely nonsense. Joe biden has obviously consumed a lot of his thoughts and his time. Theres reporting he absolutely thinks biden could be the biggest threat to his candidacy. I think the one thing joe biden can do here is try to make that argument to voters and say he views me as the biggest threat. And i think thats part of bidens argument to voters right now. Its sort of the electability question of, im the best one to beat biden or to beat the president in the general election. Both of our guests have agreed to stay with us as we just fit in a break here. Coming up, some good news for the sanders camp after a difficult week. More on that when we continue. These folks, they dont have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps. Com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the Amazing Services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps. Com tv and never go to the post office again hello, everybody. Were in las vegas. I just got out of the hospital a few hours ago, and im feeling so much better. I just want to thank all of you for the love and warm wishes that you sent to me. See you soon on the campaign trail. Thank you all so much. It really made a difference. So heres the state of play. Bernie sanders doctor today confirming the senator suffered a heart attack earlier this week while campaigning in las vegas. Actually, after keeping the media in the dark for three days, the campaign in its press release tried to call it a myocardial infarction, but thats a heart attack. Bernie sanders is 78 years old, and after first asking to sit down during a Campaign Event the other night for q a that was very rare he then was taken to the hospital with chest pains. Doctors quickly inserted two stents to clear up the blockage. He was released today, plans to return home to vermont soon, says hell be at the democratic debate later this month. Meanwhile, senator elizabeth warren, who has been surging in the polls, also surging in fundraising mpt fundraising, she announced she raked in almost 25 million. Jackie and melanie remain with us. Jackie, i dont know if you have recent reporting since his release from the hospital. This puts the Biden Campaign in im sorry the Bernie Campaign in a very tough spot. Yeah. Well, i just want to say its a really positive thing that hes out of the hospital. Absolutely. We hope for a full recovery from this. But, you know, this could be problematic for him, especially as the polls are tightening. We saw republicans weaponize Health Problems in the past election in 2016 after secretary clinton collapsed on the trail at one point in the general, i believe it was, during a 9 11 remembrance event. Conspiracy theories on the internet went wild. This is something that could be a problem for senator sanders. He has kept up a grueling schedule for someone his age. Embeds always talk about how its a struggle to keep up with him and never takes a day off. But when you look at elizabeth warren, who is creeping up in fundraising and in the polls and finally surpassing sanders in the polls, you wonder if voters will look at the two of them, would are ideologically pretty similar, and decide to make the calculus that maybe were better off with someone a bit younger. We also havent seen the way that the president is going to potentially attack sanders for this health problem. You know, it wouldnt be a surprise if we saw it on twitter crop up over the weekend. Yeah, thats true. Melanie, lets continue to talk about these democrats. First of all, our executive producer, colleen king, is obsessed with the vinyl backdrop banner behind biden today. They did make 15 million in the last quarter. Call joes house of vinyl and ask for the tenfoot version. Thats almost not enough to complete the picture right there. Go big or go home. So anyway, hopefully there will be a Conference Call and a staff meeting on the Biden Campaign about that particular backdrop. Im saying all that in jest obviously. The Biden Campaign and not to pound this home has within their grasp the ability to get better at all of the kind of weak points that democrats have been whispering and shouting about this week. Rapid reaction, get out in front of your own family story and tell it when youre being accused of corruption by the leader of the free world for five straight days, all of it. They should have the professionals around to remedy that. Right. And this also comes as warren is rising in the polls, and she posted a massive fundraising haul in the third quarter. And so this is not looking good for biden. Its raising serious questions about whether he is going to be equipped to balance both now a sort of general election battle, as he tries to combat these onslaught of gop attacks when it comes to the ukraine scandal, and he also has to keep his eyes on the prize, which is the primary debate. So i think the challenge for biden is going to be trying to strike that balance between the two, not having the fundraising is obviously a huge problem for him. Thats why some of his allies are actually considering launching a super pac that would independently sort of defend biden. Meanwhile, the dnc is not lifting a finger to help biden with some of these attacks related to ukraine, partly because they dont want to be seen as violating their pledge to stay neutral in the primary. But you have the gop with a massive war chest. Trump has 125 million that he just raked in, so this is a problem for the Biden Campaign. I want to thank you both. Again, its always at the end of a long week on a friday night after your hard work for joining us on this broadcast. Jackie alemany, and melanie zanona. Thanks for putting up with my version of the plague. Coming up, a rare History Lesson from the white house today when we continue. When you take align, you have the support of a probiotic and the gastroenterologists who developed it. Align naturally helps to soothe your occasional digestive upsets, 24 7. So, where you go, the pro goes. Go with align, the pros in digestive health. Last thing before we go here tonight. It doesnt happen every day. It happened today. We learned a Little American history from the president today. He was speaking in the east room at the white house to young black leadership conference, and heres what he told some of the young black leaders. Africanamericans built this nation. You built this nation. You know, youre just starting to get real credit for that, okay . I dont know if you know that. Youre just starting to get you built the nation. We all built it, but you were such a massive part of it, bigger than you were given credit for. The president s comments no doubt a great relief to scholars, museums, and africanamerican history departments in colleges and universities across our country, especially meaningful given that the peoples house was built in part by slave labor, often called americas original sin. That is our broadcast for this friday night and for this week. Thank you so very much for being here with us. Have a good weekend, and good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. 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