and lots of questions to answer. so, let s get started. a big week in politics as we raced towards the midterm elections with early voting already underway, and many high stakes races across the country. the national don t say gay bill, a federal abortion ban and cats was for the future for the super wealthy. with the gop agenda could look like if the gop takes back control of congress. plus, debbie waterman schultz joins us to talk about the january six subpoena of former president donald. trump how they plan to hold on accountable as he continues to hint at a another white house run. likely been seeing a lot of political ads talking about rising crime across the country. is it really as big of an eight issuers candidates claim? the notion of an unsafe america s dominating campaigns in the home stretch. all that and more is coming right up. right up and a good sunday morning to you all. i am sam stein, men in for katie faye. just 16 days away from election day. a stretch of
president joe biden will finally hear directly from the families of brittney griner and paul whelan two families being unfairly detained in russia. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper and start in our politics lead with stark moves by two republican governors. ron desantis and texas governor greg abbott sending planes and buses full of migrants to two specific places, selected, it seems to get a reaction. the liberal enclave of martha s vineyard in massachusetts and outside vice president kamala harris official residence in washington, d.c. volunteers say the migrants seem to be mostly from venezuela. you can see some standing outside the naval observatory in the nation s capital earlier today. the immigrants were dropped off by two buses by texas. no heads-up was given to leaders of washington, d.c. that they were coming. in addition, overnight florida governor ron desantis shipped two plane fulls of immigrants to martha s vineyard. it is a vacation destination for many
From heightened nation-state aggression to the procession of crippling zero-days, the past year has seen a dramatic escalation of high-profile cyber attacks. And
in a much more nuanced way than perhaps the politicians might expect, where some of the progressives like karen bass withing in los angeles and now brandon johnson in chicago. i think it s signals that there s room for democrats to create a nuanced position in response to crime attacks, but they have to really work at it. you see how expensive a lot of these races have been. it s a very, very tough road because republicans are putting a lot of money behind it. without question. the defund police message, which was once a message for brandon johnson is no longer he was moving away from that, but we should also want every city is not the same. so there s nuance and all of this, but the reason he won in chicago was a coalition of black and brown voters as well, not just the white liberals. so there are some lessons in all of these no doubt, but each election, as we know is a different one. we have to learn lessons going forward, not necessarily backwards results certainly going to be a di
that he has been weak on crime because he supported sentencing and pardons. and that is the attendant governor this is been a weak spot for his record. what is less known to me, at least, is what the futterman response to that attack out has been. you mentioned that some voters were impressed by it, but this is actual deflections an explanation? and why were they impressed by it? so, fetterman a great point you bring up because doctor oz really has been honing in on crime attacks, especially in campaign ads. and government kind of pivot when you get less on that particular asset aspect of his record. he would rather talk about his record on gun violence and addressing that issue, his time as a mayor and having to face the expected gun violence firsthand. and he talks about reducing the particular aspect of crime.