welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. today on the program, election day in america is almost upon us. we are going to bring it. at stake, control of congress. it s a choice. between two vastly different visions for america. will the democrats lose their slim majority? i will talk to bill maher about what tuesday s results will mean for the next two years. then the u.n. s annual climate conference began today in egypt. a damning new report tells us the world won t come close to meeting its temperature target for the end of the century. but in all the gloom, there is some good news about climate action. i will talk to an expert. and left wing populism beat out right wing populism in brazil last week, but can lula succeed in getting the economy to grow and bringing the country back together when he comes to power? we ll explore. first, here s my take. as an immigrant to america who has traveled a great deal around the
today on the program, election day in america is almost upon us. we are going to bring it. at stake, control of congress. it s a choice. between two vastly different visions for america. will the democrats lose their slim majority? i will talk to bill maher about what tuesday s results will mean for the next two years. then the u.n. s annual climate conference began today in egypt. a damning new report tells us the world won t come close to meeting its temperature target for the end of the century. but in all the gloom, there is some good news about climate action. i will talk to an expert. and left wing populism beat out right wing populism in brazil last week, but can lula succeed in getting the economy to grow and bringing the country back together when he comes to power? we ll explore. first, here s my take. as an immigrant to america who has traveled a great deal around the world, i ve always been certain that america was the best place for people hike me.
supporters worst impulses. it s flailing around about the classified documents he stole as a judge prepares to make a decision on trump s request for a special master to decide if he can get the stolen property back or decide what happens to it next. we begin with the battle for the soul of the nation. topic of tonight s primetime speech by president biden. he ll deliver that speech in about an hour in front of independence hall in philadelphia one week after calling his predecessor s vision for america semifascist. biden will make the case that the fate of america s democracy is at stake. here s some of what he plans to say, that maga forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an america where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. for a long time we ve reassured ourselves that american democracy is guaranteed but it is not. we have to defend it. protect it. stand up for it. each
pbs, rick stengel, an msnbc political analyst and gordon chang, newsweek columnist. yammish, what do we know about this call between president biden and president xi jinping? we know the president for a long time has called china the u.s. s main competitor and said there is this really tug of war between democracy and autocracy this is really a high-stakes call and also a call president biden is welcoming because he has said diplomacy is the thing america should be known for. he s said over and over again that america is back. there s a lot going on there. we should also note that hanging over this call is the potential trip between house speaker nancy pelosi and taiwan. there s a lot of criticism coming from china, based on reporting, that says she should not take this trip and it could set off a sort of crisis. others are saying, if she cancels that trip, the u.s. would look week, including to nations like japan. there s a lot going on the domestic front and the nationa
His wife killed someone with her car and the damage to the car was enough that she wanted another car. And so the story of that bribe car in the indictment has just become very very dark. We will get to that later in this hour tonight. But it is mentioned in the indictment that there was a car accident but it doesnt say in the indictment that she actually killed someone. We have now learned all of that just today. That story, the more we learn about it the more we hear the details, it gets more depressing and distressing. I cant imagine that it gets worse from here. This is bad is any such story has been. Well get to that later in the hour. It is a gruesome chapter. In their life. I will be watching, lawrence. Thank you, alex. Thank you. Today the day after a judge issued a gag order directly to donald trump, who was sitting right in front of the judge, in a new york courtroom, donald trump decided to leave that courtroom and leave town. Thats how well that gag order worked. New York S