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
wallace. i was happy to be in with for her. tonight, bill maher makes his debut live tonight a week out from the midterms. we re going talk about everything you want to hear bill maher talk about and maybe some of the thing you don t, which is why bill maher makes for a good guest. paul pelosi, a defendant in the attack, arained. we begin with election day. we are one week out, and we have the continuation of what sounds like an american trend line, because early voting is smashing records. that means it s big interest. it is left, right, center or something else? we ll get into it. let me start with the most important number we have, it s not a poll or a prediction testimonies a fact in america one week out that 25 million people have cast their ballots early. that continues the trend i ve told you about, outpacing trend by over 3 million vote, and those midterms for the first election since trump came into office. you can remember the mood and energy then and how many peopl
nancy pelosi, well, she s got protection when she s in d.c. apparently her house doesn t have a lot of protection, but my god. that s a joke about an 82-year-old man having his home broken into, and beat over the head. the campaign responded her remarks do not need clarifying. she s standing by the joke. and we have ted cruz, a prominent united states senator amplifying that conspiracy theory, we should point out in the fbi affidavit, mr. depape confesses to this being politically motivated. he describes what he wanted to do and why he wanted to do it, debunking in his own words, the conspiracy theory. i want to bring in former congressman david jolly. my focus is on the people who could actually do something about this. we have social media, which seems to have no guardrails, twitter is owned by elon musk, and he was one of the first to
apparently her house doesn t have a lot of protection, but [ laughter ] i really want to be clear about this, i m not america s hall monitor, chai. i m going to just cover what s happening, but we also have to be very clear. you re talking about not some random talk radio host, you re walk you re talking about someone running to be the chief executive. fresh off people say, when is it too soon? fresh off what the authorities call an attempted murder, what will be resolved in court. both her leadership, her approach to that there, as well as the crowd immediately leaning into ha ha ha, attempted murder. what do you see there, and it is relevant to part of this midterm? well, since i m no longer a young person, i can make the following reference. i remember when republicans sounded like the waltons. they now sound like the