intensifies his nuclear rhetoric amid a faltering military campaign in ukraine. the biden administration says it has told russia privately exactly what the consequences would be for using a nuclear weapon. we ll have the very latest on that. plus, a head turning new revelation concerning the attack on the capitol. what a former adviser to the january 6th committee says about a phone call between the trump white house and a rioter while the attack was underway. also this morning, tropical storm ian has just strengthened into a category 1 hurricane as it continues its track toward cuba and florida. we re watching that. and it is just six weeks until voters decide the balance of power in congress. we ll tell you where things stand this morning and what s in play. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s monday, september 26th. we begin with the new polling from the new york times that shows 54% believe donald trump threatened american democracy when he left office. 51
as part of episode five of ultra, which just posted today, you can get ultra free and wherever you get your podcast, if you don t know how to get your podcast, ask a friend, you have an app on your phone that allows you to do it, even if you don t know it. you can listen with the lights, off the lights, on whatever you think. your call. all right that does it for us tonight, happy halloween, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. goo good evening rachel, so you might see on twitter, this picture of the two of us taken at 9:58 pm. when you are putting that thing on your head and i just want you to know, that i did not that i did not send a tweet until you actually appeared on tv that way, i didn t want to ruin it for anyone but thanks for taking it off, because that actually been wondering how that was attached. i don t have any children, i have dogs and every year i salute my dogs halloween costume and this year he won as a pirate ex
tv that way, i didn t want to ruin it for anyone but thanks for taking it off, because that actually been wondering how that was attached. i don t have any children, i have dogs and every year i salute my dogs halloween costume and this year he won as a pirate except for right now because i stole his costume because that s the amount of forethought i put into this every year stole is a strong word, borrowed. rachel, episode five, i haven t gone to episode five yet, once again monday came and went, because i have been just delighting in jon meacham s abraham lincoln biography, that we re gonna discuss at the end of this hour, and so i was just in it all day. i will be an episode five, tomorrow and i will be one of the lucky ones who has an episode five, to look for it to. instead of one of the lucky ones who s already listen to it. we ll start with the car chase, there s definitely evidence burning in a dark alley, is a surprise twist at the end that makes you exclaim,
my cholesterol is borderline. so i take garlique to help maintain healthy cholesterol safely and naturally. and it s odor free. i m taking charge of my cholesterol with garlique. it has been a big night, however you look at it, and they re still more to come, with that in mind, i will hand it over to don lemon. this is don lemon tonight. and we have two big stories to tell you about. president joe biden in a major primetime speech, did you see it? saying he s battling for the soul of america. that is the former president is battling americas institutions in court. we just heard from president biden speaking in philadelphia in a fiery 24-minute speech, calling out donald trump by name and warning that what he calls maga republicans are a threat to america, while making it clear that when he says maga republicans, he does not mean all republicans. too much of what is happening in our country today is not normal. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism t
respond. says why beat your head around it? it could be horrible stuff. i couldn t fathom this. how much can one family bear this much? how do you contain horror? if this happened to you, where would you put it? in a box? would you carry with you everywhere? an anchor? chain to your soul? the box is full of demons. would you live in dread of the day you knew you d have the pride open and look inside. i m box full of ghost of my past, to confront it goes like that you have to be ready. where would you put it off, would you wait till next year? i move from state to state, and that box followed me with me. it followed me. of course it did it was his past. inside a box. and now, here he was prying it open, will he ever be the same ones he looks in there? it s a story, it s a story of a family. and this case is the story of my family. here, more or less, is where the whole thing takes off, garvey montana, deep in the veteran valley, the town conceived