and thank you so much for joining us tonight. you can follow me on facebook, instagram, twitter and the tiktok on jake tapper. our coverage continues with the strong laura coats and the mighty alisyn camerota as ahead off on this thirsty thursday to do what i do best, sit at my kitchen table and drink. i feel like we have to step it up with the superlatives. i lifted his car one time and i m strong. one time. i don t need a sue perlative. i m just i don t need hype girls. i don t need hype girls. you are just you. you have no power here. good-bye. we re keeping the conversation going tonight. apparently i m strong and you re mighty. i love that. i m laura coats in washington, d.c. i m alisyn camerota in new york. one team here with me. and the other team, the right one, in washington, d.c. here with me. we will look at two key states that people have heard a lot about and one that we haven t been hearing enough about and frankly it is flying under the radar,
with a controversial stop in taiwan, not ruled out, not confirmed. a live report from kentucky where a deadly flood is deaf stath rural areas. this is by far the worst flooding disaster, at least of my lifetime, in kentucky. it has wiped out what we believe are hundreds of homes. we have half of some of our counties under water. we will lose double digit lives. in pete we trust. i will be joined by our legendary justice correspondent pete williams as we pay tribute to his remarkable career here to nbc news before he heads off for new adventures. we begin with the economy and the white house. joining me now are kristin welker and cnbc senior economics reporter steve leaseman. the white house trying to control the narrative on this economy. inflation continues to be a major drag on their messaging. reporter: you are right. they are trying to put the focus on the fact that the labor market is strong, that the unemployment rate is low. but it is a complicated argument t
Dont yet know what the fate of Mark Meadows Motion to remove to Federal Court will be. Its very easy to look at this through a vacuum but remember, theres already a moment now to say can i get some of these cases into Federal Court. This is all considering and assuming thats not going to happen because without mark meadows or others it would be, you know, not 19 people. But this is going to be a very interesting hearing to get the room, the temperature of whats happening there. And also what is the preparation like right now for fani willis. Is she really ready to go . And are those Defense Counsels who asked for an earlier trial date, were they calling a bluff or will their bluff now be called . And we will find out fairly soon. Sara, its interesting because we know that as all of this is unfolding right now a federal judge could rule at any moment now whether to allow the former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows to move his case from a state court in georgia to a federal trial.
this has been going on for years now. even a certain point, you know, democratic activists got over complaining about gore versus bush and moved on. but, like, this is really going such a strong way, and they re going to lose and keep losing because people want to look forward. the greatest example of that is kemp in georgia. you know, stacey abrams, again, she helped organize that state. kemp, though, fared better than herschel walker for quite a few reasons, but one was he told donald trump he lost. and there are a lot of people in those suburbs that were, like, okay, heraffensperger were not deniers. so you get the vote. you can tell donald trump no and say he s wrong when he s wrong and still win. kemp proved that in georgia. two republican speakers are weighing in about where the
was corrupt and four years later i am supposed to accept the 2020 election was safe and fair? and it s ludicrous. i hear what you are saying. there is often questions about what went into voting. but not to this level. when it was gore versus bush at some point the adjudication was done. the country accepted that it was george bush. i mean, the best person that put this perfectly said you could run the best campaign. you can become the nominee and you can still have the election stolen and that was said by hillary clinton in 2019. it makes me think that you can an appointed question election, right? for me, pennsylvania was at january 6th, major election denier. and as a young republican, i don t want to be in a republican party that is run by people who deny the election. there is no evidence of fraud. there was no evidence that the