series, there s all these people who are trying to influence decisionmakers in government, influence makers are coming to tv. there s more ads now for enterprise software on the world series in d.c. and for defense contractors than there are for snacks or beer. it s all because they re trying to target that washington audience, it s the rare time that a causal audience you can sign somebody who might sign up for a fighter jet. let s switch gears for a moment and talk about jeff sessions possibly returning to alabama for a senate seat run. what do you think of his chances? what do you think of the fact that he would go back? well, we heard the headline earlier on the show. but this is what we re hearing about the idea of the former attorney general going presiden trump, trolled by president trump online and in person. we re told if he were to run president trump would attack him, that he could well lose his
announcer: axios one big thing is sponsored by bp. all right. a very special edition of this part of the show, joining us here on set way look at axios a.m., the cofounder mike allen. what is the one big thing special edition? trick or treat a little early? the axios one big thing is the gop s worst nightmare. there s a scenario that republicans think is increasingly likely, and that is that they get shutout on election went 20. nancy pelosi keeps the house, you lose the senate and president trump loses the white house. why are they so worried about this? we ve seen on the house the house republican retirements. one a surprise, walden from oregon, top republican on the house committee, very powerful leaving because the reason so
and as acting chief of staff, after being pressed again for a yes or no answer, he added quote this, when the president doesn t have confidence in someone, you ll know it. switching gears, president trump attended an annual gathering of the international association of chiefs of police in chicago yesterday where he compared the city s violence to afghanistan. it s embarrassing to us as a nation, all over the world, they re talking about chicago. afghanistan is a safe place by comparison. it s true. now, trump has often spoken against chicago s high crime rate but yesterday he focused on the city s superintendent of police eddie johnson who snubbed the president s appearance at the convention. since eddie johnson has been police chief, more than 1,500 people have been murdered in chicago. and 13,067 people have been shot. chicago has the toughest gun laws in the united states.
espionage. okay, so the house is expected to hold the first vote on the impeachment inquiry this thursday and the senior congressional source tells nbc news, according to house speaker nancy pelosi, the democratic resolution is expected to lay out the next steps in the investigation. including establishing terms for public hearing, authorizing the disclosure of deposition transcripts, due process rights to the white house, and more. in a letter to the caucus yesterday, speaker pelosi said we are taking this step to eliminate any doubt as to whether the trump administration may withhold documents, prevent witness testimony, disregard duly authorized subpoenas or continue obstructing the house of representatives. the house intelligence committee adam schiff released a statement saying the committee would conduct the open hearings adding quote the american people will hear firsthand about the president s misconduct. the white house and republican lawmakers argue that the planned vote
overnight. winter storm warning is up for 3.5 million people. it is snowing in many areas of colorado. it will continue during the day today. denver will have about four to six inches of snow and the snow tonight goes into kansas. by the time we go to wednesday and thursday, we will get some snow in areas of missouri and in areas of northern illinois. milwaukee, you could be trick or treating in the snowstorm come thursday. so the forecast for today, the east coast, it is kind of cloudy, there s hit and miss a little bit of rain but a lot better than the rest of the country and we will give you the halloween forecast coming up, it looks like a soaker, for many areas of the east, and i mentioned that possibility of snow in milwaukee, maybe even chicago, too. what s better trick or treating in the rain or the snow? the snow. the know. absolutely. we had it here one year. it can be fun. about eight years ago or so, i feel we had a halloween snowstorm in the new york area. ri