Your ideas for reducing moneys influence in politics. To do that this morning, we are setting up our phone lines a bit differently. If you are someone who has made a political contribution in this or previous elections, want to hear from you. 2027488000. If you have never made a political contribution, your number 2027488001. You can catch up with us on social media this morning on twitter cspanwj. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Toery good Tuesday Morning you. It is anyones guess how much money will be spent one campaign 2016 is over, but as of the end senate forhe responsive politics had numbers on how much had been spent on this campaign so far in terms of candidate fundraising. Well over 1 billion has been raised by candidates and the super pacs supporting them. 619 million by the candidates themselves. Superillion by supporting the various by super pacs. We will get into the various numbers this morning on washington journal but that massive fundraising and how it electionng up
Im jim rosenfield. Youre looking at snow in colorado. One of the ingredients that will combine to make our spring snowstorm. Nbc 10s meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is here. Glenn. It looks likely. The storm is going to develop along the midatlantic coast. Its going to be a noreaster. Here we are. It could start off as light rain, but the track is pretty classic as far as a winter storm is concerned. It gets colder and we have a chance of the snow sticking. The timeline could start in the morning. Its all snow. 6 00 to midnight. Thats the chance of it starting to stick once we lose the daylight hours. Well talk more of the potential with the rest of the sevenday in a few minutes. New at 11 00, police shot a man police say pulled a gun on them. Nbc 10s Randy Gyllenhaal live at Temple University hospital. Any word on that mans condition . Reporter police say this suspect is expected to survive. He was shot by a Philadelphia Police officer and rushed here to temple hospital. Were t
Clear signal i think there is a little bit of different calculation and mcconnell will take their vote does it happen in the next 45 days or does it happen in the lame duck . I dont know if they can get it done the next 45 days. The confirmation after donald trump loses would be one of the most i can imagine but also completely within mcconnells ability. Thats where i am right now. I think the future is unwritten and anyone tells you they know whats going to happen is wrong. We are utterly in unchartered territory. Yes, we have been in unchartered territory since Justice Scalia died and the republicans reacted the way they did to that. That broke everything in terms of how these things work that humility you just expressed there in terms of the future being unwritten is a smartest thing i have heard anybody says. You did such a great job on the breaking news. Thank you. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has left us at the age of 87. Well talk about the course of her life and her career. Well talk wi
Going away, were learning to live with it. As i told him, i said were not learning to live with it, were living to die with it because hes doing nothing. And, folks, theres a dark winter ahead. Experts say well lose nearly 200,000 lives nationwide in the next few months if we dont step up. Because he cares more about the stock market than you, because he refuses to follow science. Its estimated these are the facts. His own people tell him f we wear these masks over the next few months, we could same question we could save 100,000 lives. The president knew back at the end of january how deadly this virus was. And he hid it from the country. But heres what he did. Remember when he decided he was going to convince bob woodward what a smart guy he was . Yeah, smart guy. Stable genius. But folks, heres what he did. He went on record as saying that he knew how dangerous it was, knew seven times dangerous than the flu. But what did he do . Did he tell you . Did he tell us . Did he warn the Am
Ballot in arkansas, california, hawaii, kansas, kentucky, new york, North Carolina, oklahoma, pennsylvania, and tennessee. The last day to request a mailin ballot. Early voting starts today in washington, d. C. , and parts of kansas. And if you plan to vote by mail in wisconsin, better get moving. The u. S. Supreme court has rejected democrats effort there to allow absentee ballots counted up to six days after the election because of the pandemic. A lower court did extend that deadline for counting but that ruling was blocked by a federal Appeals Court and now up held by the high court, meaning bottom line here, absentee ballots must now be received by 8 00 p. M. On november 3rd. This decision is a win for republicans and it could impact the tally in this key battleground state. Wisconsin was one of three rust belt states that gave President Trump the white house back in 2016. Up until now, the court has been issuing stays or vacating stays, but it hasnt written opinions. This is a 35p