will see you again tomorrow. and now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. i was wondering if you remember where you were the last time that kevin mccarthy flamed out as a candidate for speaker of the house i bet you are going to tell me. i am going to tell you, you are on the show. let s see if this video refreshes your memory. watch it. this was something kevin mccarthy planned to say on fox news, including the word on trustable un-trustable when kevin mccarthy said some stupid stuff on tv that just killed that killed his candidacy for the speaker of the house. and here we are seven years later! seven years later, and the man is still struggling, alex. houston still has a problem. houston very much still has a problem. and struggling is a euphemism, lawrence. it is going to be a long night for mr. mccarthy. we will be watching tomorrow. thanks, alex. thanks, lawrence. we have breaking news about the
we ll get to that, but the big story this morning. oh, yeah. what happened on the football field last night. buffalo bills safety damar hamlin suffering cardiac arrest and collapsing on the football field. just 24 years old now in the hospital in critical condition. get you updates on that, of course. also, house republican leader kevin mccarthy s bid to be speaker plagued with uncertainty still this morning. the concessions he has made may not be enough to win him the support he needs to become speaker. if you can believe it. kaitlan? yeah. once the new congress is sworn in, the republican majority in the house is promising a wave of investigations. partisan gridlock, could stall president biden s agenda. big questions about what that will look like as well. uh-huh. our big story this morning, we re going to start with buffalo bills player damar hamlin. hospitalized in critical condition after collapsing and suffering cardiac arrest on the field monday night. wha
really demonstrates that we have to calm things down. we have to decide that we are going to be more respectful as an american society, that it s okay to disagree. san francisco s district attorney makes a plea for decency in the national discourse following the politically motivated attack on nancy pelosi s husband and now we re learning more about what the suspect had planned for the speaker of the house. meanwhile, that disturbing attack is becoming a punch line for more and more republicans. the latest coming from the far right nominee for governor of arizona. and also ahead, affirmative action goes before the supreme court with justices hearing arguments in two cases tied to college admissions. good morning, and welcome to way too early, tuesday, november 1st. we are exactly one week from election day. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. the man accused of breaking into nancy pelosi s home and brutally attacking her husband has been set wit
tomorrow. we are one week away from the midterms. president joe biden heads back on the campaign trail this afternoon in a last-minute attempt to win over voters. we ll get live reports from two key battleground states, pennsylvania and georgia, in just a moment. ambassador ahead, a key government witness in the seditious conspiracy trial of the founder of the oath keepers testified he believed the january 6th attack on the capitol could start a new american revolution. we ll have these details for you straight ahead. and we ll be joined by a member of the january 6th select committee congressman adam kinzinger. willie? let s begin with new details on the assault on house speaker nancy pelosi s 82-year-old husband at the couple s san francisco home. the suspect scheduled to be appearing in court later today. david depape is being charged with a number of felonies including attempted murder as well as federal crimes that include the attempted kidnapping of a federal offici
for one of their own, the late john paul stevens. the end of the court s term is just weeks away. the whole host of consequential decisions to ter comes to an end. is this the end of roe v. wade. of law and life. at the services the judges call themself as happy family. beneath the surface, there is much more to the story. they re not only not getting along with each other. they don t like each other. it is a court at war with itself. and in the center stands chief justice john roberts. john roberts is someone who is used to winning. he s very much a just dicial conservative. not a fan of roe v. wade. but the set is keenly aware abolishing roe could tear america apart. cared more about preserving the legitimacy of the supreme court. which meant saving roe. he wasn t going to let go. months earlier. abortion justice. oral arguments in the case of dobbs versus jackson women s health center. at issue, a mississippi law that would limit but not eli