people are throwing questions at him left and right. think about the number of hours he s gone just for these 90 minutes. i have dealt with this man when he was a senator, when he was a vice president, and when he was president. and i will tell you he s not the same person he was before, so let s not lower expectations. he s going to be prepared. the best he s ever going to be prepared, so what america needs to judge is this is joe biden at his very top. after previously attacking president biden for his mental acuity former house speaker kevin mccarthy is now warning against lowering expectations ahead of tonight s debate. we ll dig into those comments as both candidates gear up for their highly anticipated matchup. plus, donald trump continues to tease who he will pick for his running mate, telling his supporters the possibilities will show up at tonight s debate. but when will he finally make his choice? and also ahead, another significant abortion opinion was mistak
now live from gainesville, florida, nbc s jake gray and also our friend angie lassman at 30 rock. jay, i ll start with you. you ve covered a number of these storms. how are things looking now? we can see the rain is coming down as the storm is just a few hours from landfall. reporter: yeah, and jonathan, no question we re seeing the bands get a little tighter. we ve had the outer bands bringing rain like this and some stepped up winds over the last several hours. we know that s going to change dramatically as we move closer to landfall, and we won t get that break in the bands. it will be one steady rain here in gainesville. we re going to see hurricane force winds. a big concern obviously with the university of florida campus located here, those students don t have class. i mean that s pretty clear, but they re also being told to either get out of the area, and if you haven t done that at this point to shelter in place and make sure to ride this thing
wiscons wisconsin. before some reason it s in this bill. let s go right now to steve rattner at 30-rock. steve? congressman, i m also a little mystified about the hedge fund thing. this is a 500-page bill with tiny provisions including small taxes on large endowments. let me move onto another subject which is that you have been as leader of the freedom caucus, outspoken in your opposition to the national debt and voted against national debt increases. we have in front of us a proposal that would increase by its own calculations, the national debt, by a trillion and a and a half dollars over the next ten years. how can you support a bill that does that given all your past an situation to debt? well, i can tell you that it s not just past opposition. it s certainly ongoing opposition, and you re right with my record on being a deficit hawk. really, there are two issues working against each other.
fallon upstairs at 30 rock, david letterman a few blocks away doing their shows, but no one to laugh, no one to clap, no one to cheer. here s dave last night without an audience. we felt like we would be putting the audience at jeopardy if they had to sit through the show. and i said, he will hell, we ve been doing that for 30 years. i turned on the radio listening for the talk show closings, i had no luck. talk show closings. wait a minute, i hear people banging at the door of the theater demanding to come in. wait a minute, we don t want to miss this. the storm has stopped the presidential campaign so at least some good has come of it. all right. stop it. all right. that s fine. whoo! i m that guy. okay. power outages could wreak havoc on election day, but don t
there, too. same for cleveland. it will snow pretty good in buffalo today with lake enhancement. you re under a lake-effect snow warning, 6 to 10 . that s very isolated. from new england down to d.c., it will be warmer today than over the weekend. we have a big arctic air mass in the northern plains that will sweep across the country. today, high temperatures in minneapolis and chicago will struggle. we re 8 right now in minneapolis. this afternoon, it s going to be very cold. only 14 for your high. good news this weekend, no big rain or snows heading anywhere. temperatures are pretty chilly around the country. this is how we should be this time of year. for all your travel plans and holiday parties, the weather is not going to cause you any problems whatsoever. looking nice at 30 rock, too. you re watching morning joe on this friday. we re brewed by starbucks. i m burning out this useless telephone my hair is gone cheap cologne