all of you for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. we re one week from the midterms. morning joe starts now. it s sad to see we are in a point in history where people belief it s okay to express their political sentiments through violence, and so i think it really demonstrates that we have to calm things down. we have to decide that we are going to be more respectful as an american society, that it s okay to disagree. san francisco s district attorney makes a plea for decency and discourse following the politically motivated attack on nancy pelosi s husband, and now we are learning more about what the suspect had planned for the speaker of the house. also this morning, president biden is hitting the campaign trail again as we are now one week away from election day. we ll tell you where he s headed today, and why. meanwhile a member of the group who tried to overturn the elections expresses remorse for his actions. and we ll have the latest from
a good person has enough empathy and compassion, and just common decency, and it just seems like there are bad people in positions of power seeking positions of power, and that s sort of at the heart of a lot of this. i mean, yes, there s a disinformation atmosphere in our communications space, and there are a lot of complications on social media, everything but a good person doesn t make that joke. let me ask david jolly, you know, as someone who s many congress, and has watched politics for a while, i mean, am i wrong? were people this bad back then or are we just getting bad people? look, i think our politics are on a journey. i agree with mike. you saw kind of in the late 80s