now impacting the federal investigation into classified materials. seized from mar-a-lago last month. a trump appointed florida judge ruling in favor this week on his legal team s request for an independent, special master to review just what the fbi retrieved. and now that relationship between the judge and maga is under a spotlight. while the justice department prepares to appeal the decision. of, course we will be looking at all of that. along with the investigations impact on midterms less than eight weeks away. that is tonight on politicsnation. plus, as memorials for queen elizabeth continue and england this weekend, i will talk to a block british civil rights activists. about what the queens deaf means for a black countries, that gained independence from britain while she was on the throne. what is her legacy to the black and what does the future of britain literally look like? i will ask that shortly. but first, let s go to london, england for a quick update on the
cast nationwide, with voters taking a leap. states for democracy, bodily autonomy, extraordinarily high. one of many reasons that president biden is picking up the pace of the campaign trail, doing what he can to boost democrat chances across four key states. moments ago, the president wrapped up a speech for candidates in pennsylvania, including senate candidate john fetterman. he and former president barack obama are reuniting tonight, making their first biden and obama joint appearance before the midterms. three days until one of the most important elections, one of the most important elections of our lifetime. it s going to shape the outcome will shape our country for decades to come, and the power push if the all come is in your hands. this hour, president obama will speak. we ll take a speech live, so stay with us. we will, on the other side of the state, former president trump with dr. mehmet oz, that rally in pennsylvania, doug mastriano, starts in about an
for too long marijuana possession has been used as a weapon against underserved community. whenever you look at the challenge that we face with crime in our society, it is the wrong signal, 30 days before the election. the pardons are about marijuana. expunging criminal records for people out of jail. no one is left serving time in federal prison solely for marijuana possession right now. but this is also about much more than marijuana. as some critics did seed on old tropes that stigmatize, sean hannitiy attacking as a hail mary jane. and you just heard that from a republican governor, mr. hutchinson, linking personal marijuana use to what he sees as general crime in society. that is actually the whole point, though. marijuana is no longer a crime at all in much of our society across 19 states here. some liberal. some less so. and the scare tactics about pot as a dangerous drug on par with heroin or crack have truly lost their punch in today s society. you know we re div
so we ll get to our top story this morning. willie. it s front page of all the newspapers, pictures of president biden and governor ron desantis together one week after hurricane ian made landfall in florida, president biden warning more storms will come. the president visited florida yesterday, just days after surveying storm damage in puerto rico. in florida, president biden and governor ron desantis temporarily put politics aid aside as they met with residents in the fort myers area. we were fortunate to have good coordination with the white house and fema. one of the things you re seeing in this response, we are cutting through the bureaucracy, we are cutting through the red tape, and that s from local government, state government, all the way up to the president, so we appreciate the team effort. i think he s done a good job. look, i called him i think even before he called me when i heard the storm was on its way, we worked hand and glove. we have very different
also military analyst retired general mark hertling. and philip mudd. good evening gentlemen. appreciate you joining us. let s start with alex. what are you learning tonight about this mission and how it went down? well don, this was a remarkable and complex mission. we ve got a lot of the details from a senior administration official who spoke to reporters shortly before president biden spoke with the nation. now this was months in the making. it was back in april when president biden s first briefed on the fact that the war was believed to be, not just in afghanistan, but in the afghan capital of kabul. in that city. living there he was told that members, his wife, his daughter, his grandchildren. now the intelligence community believes that he never left the house. that it was only as family members who went out. that is wife and daughter use what this administration called a terrorism trade craft to make sure that they weren t tracked or detect it. now they failed on