Shes ahead of donald trump by 3 1 2 points nationally according to the fivethirtyeight polling average. 46 to 48 to 45 . Four more electoral votes than she needs to win the white house. Even if trump were to win every single tossup state as nbc now defines it, hed still fall short of the magic number, 270. For trump there are signs that fbi director james comeys october surprise, the widely condemned and criticized letter announcing new emails belonging to a laptop of a clinton aide was not the turning point trump had hoped for. New polling out of wisconsin shows that 50 of voters were bothered by the use of a letter. In later polling it was back down to 48 , below where it had been before the comey letter. Today president obama weighed in on the controversy in first time interview with now this news. I do think that there is a norm that when their investigations, we dont operate on innuendo, we dont operate on incomplete information. We dont operate on leaks. We operate based on concr
Identified the 32yearold woman killed in the crash as Heather Heyer, a paralegal from virginia. I think its clear a terrorist attack with a car used as a weapon. Our hearts are grieving right now. As the Community Comes together, Virginia Governor Terry Mcauliffe spoke about the violent demonstrations. My message is, hatred, bigotry language has got to stop. We, unfortunately, had many individuals come to our beautiful state, a vast majority were with weapons. Theres no place for it in this country. Maya rodriguez has been on this story from the very beginning, is live right now in charlottesville, virginia. Maya, what more do we know about the commotion at the press conference just moments ago . Reporter right, so jason kesler, whos one of the organizers of the unite the right rally, decided to have a News Conference just about 2 00 this afternoon at city hall just down the road from here. When he showed up, there was a large crowd there. He approached the podium, began saying a few w
Ive got these calendars, these beautiful, creepy calendars. Give me a can of water. My god, it is classic saturday night live. Welcome to morning joe on this monday, october 1st. We made it to october. Donny deutsch is with us and we also have National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc and cohost and executive producer of show times the circus John Heilemann, former aide to the george w. Bush white house and state departments elise jordan. Nbc news chief White House Correspondent hallie jackson, former u. S. Attorney and msnbc contributor Barbara Mcquaid and former assistant director of the fbis Counterintelligence Division frank figlusi. Mika has this morning off. John heilemann, lets start with you. Theres so much that happened this weekend. We could talk about, of course, the fbi investigation, the debate over how wide that fbi investigation is going to be. Democrats complaining the president saying you do whatever you want to do, of course, kanye wearing a make America Great a