morning to you, todd. we re coming we re putting our pumpkin carving skills to a test with a competition out there. that s the proper way to clean out a pumpkin. that s how it s done. our reigning champ, lawrence jones, will try to he defend his title. he won last year. we brought him in because of that. todd: what is that dance? i don t remember winning it. rachel: yeah, you did. he wins so much, he forgets. todd: what was your approach? i haven t done this before. what mental approach would you take in? i don t remember winning it. they told me i need to defend my belt. i didn t know about it. i remember doing the dance. they put it in the commercial now. [laughter] rachel: when you dance that well, you know. anyway, i m glad you got to see the power tool, cleaning it out. will: rachel s been talking about it all morning long. this is her jam. she wants to help the american people scoop out their pumpkins this holiday season. will: you re dressed like a duke boy. you
motorcade driving through the edinburgh airport. he will fly then to northern ireland to meet with leaders and receive condolences while mourners in london prepare for the arrival of the queen s coffin to that city this afternoon. with us we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post, david ignatius, and host of way too early and author of the big lie, jonathan lemire. a busy day, the report out of the new york times that we ll dig into about new subpoenas issued to a wide range of people in donald trump s orbit around the effort to overturn the 2020 election. right. you know, at first glance, surprising, after you think about it, not so much. there is a reason, of course, why we have all of these investigations moving forward and whether it s the records investigation or whether it s around january the 6th or because donald trump obviously broke the law, time and again. and you even have the most hard right lawyers saying what attorney general barr
this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening there is significant movement to report tonight in the effort to bring home americans brittney griner and paul whelan, both separately imprisoned in russia. late today, secretary of state antony blinken acknowledging there was a substantial proposal on the table to facilitate their release. griner, the wnba star detained since february, who has pleaded guilty to illegally possessing vape cartridges with cannabis oil whelan, a marine corps veteran, serving a 16-year sentence after being convicted of spying in 2020. both, the u.s. says, are wrongfully imprisoned blinken says the next step, a call with his russian counterpar sergey lavrov. believed to be on the table, a prisoner swap that could prove to be a bitter pill for the biden administration which has been under fire in its efforts to gain freedom for the americans. all this unfolding as griner told her story today inside a russian courtroom. andrea mitchell now
morning. we have major announcements, joe biden will hold a phone call with the president of china. the state department offers a deal to russia to get brittney griner and paul whelan release from jail in moscow. at what price? we have the host of way too early and the bureau chief of politico, and the author of the big lie. we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, and the former chairman of the republican national committee. good morning to you all. let s dive in after a year and a half of on and off negotiations. joe manchin has reached a deal with party leaders to pass a number of democratic agenda items through the reconciliation process. in a statement, he wrote in part, this bill will cut the inflation taxes that americans are paying. it will lower prescription drugs and health insurance. it will ensure that we invest in energy security and climate change innovations. he went on, it is time to put away the partisan swords and advance legislation that is in the b
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