rishi sunak has appeared before mps in parliament on his first full day as prime minister, and announced yet more unravelling of liz truss s plans. the government s economic statement due to be delivered on monday has now been pushed back by almost three weeks to november the 17th. the delay did not trouble the financial markets. in fact, the pound rose again against the dollar and is currently trading at $1.16 up around 1.2% although that s also being driven a weakening dollar. the ban on fracking in england is back in place after it was briefly lifted by the former prime minister, and the decision on whether to link a rise in pensions with inflation is up for discussion again. rishi sunak had to defend his decision to reappoint suella braverman as home secretary, less than a week after she was forced to leave the role for a data breach. let s hear their exchange. he asked about the home secretary. the home secretary made an error ofjudgment, but she recognised that, she
circle. and i didn t do it, be if it did happen, there s nothing to be ashamed after. that was a short lived defense. to a report that he paid for a former girlfriend s abortion. we re going to go through his evolving denials on that developing story. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, october 7th. we have pulitzer prize winning columnist from the washington post, eugene robinson. ed luce is with us. officer at princeton university, eddie glaude jr., and jonathan lemire is with us this morning. mika, we were going to get into the news i just saw ed there. i saw a little smirk on ed s face. and i just have to talk about it. you know, ed, we have an expression, we ve always had an expression when people have congratulated me for anything i ve done, i go, well, i m the tallest building in schenectady. your headline, i love this, america is history s most successful failing state, i would define what you re describing here, i m an upstate new york guy
classified documents into there s a new special counsel to investigate the handling of classified material after the president s lawyers return a document stored in his garage next to his corvette. by the way my corvettes in a locked garage. okay, it s not like you re sitting out in the street. tonight jamie raskin on what it means for the president. what it means for the special counsel investigating trump s coup. then what i find is voters have elected george santos. a freshman republican bucking leadership in calling for george santos to resign. he joins me live. it s a national joke, he s an international joke, but this jokes gotta go. another new candidate in senator elizabeth warren in adores isn t a senate race for the incumbent hasn t announced retirement. what s happening in the california senate. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. there s two special councils for the second time in as many minds attorn
counsel to investigate the handling of classified material after the president s lawyers return a document stored in his garage next to his corvette. by the way my corvettes in a locked garage. okay, it s not like you re sitting out in the street. tonight jamie raskin on what it means for the president. what it means for the special counsel investigating trump s coup. then what i find is voters have elected george santos. a freshman republican bucking leadership in calling for george santos to resign. he joins me live. it s a national joke, he s an international joke, but this jokes gotta go. another new candidate in senator elizabeth warren in adores isn t a senate race for the incumbent hasn t announced retirement. what s happening in the california senate. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. there s two special councils for the second time in as many minds attorney general merrick garland appointed independent inv
doing important things always does. melanie, i hope you weren t up all night following these twists and turns. getting this bill out of the senate, they ran into some head winds and rocks along the shore in the name of senator kyrsten sinema. how did it play out? as chuck schumer put it, it was a bump on the road. there was some drama before this bill got to the finish line. senator kyrsten sinema was concerned about the 15% corporate minimum tax, impacting small businesses. so she joined in on a republican amendment to address that issue. but it also included an extension of the state and local tax deduction. schumer was told some democrats would not vote for the final bill if those changes were in there. so behind the scenes, democrats were scrambling to come one a solution to prevent this deal from falling apart. they came up with letting sinema support that amendment and added in a different way to pay for the changes. that is the reality of a 50-50 senate. they needed