went to d.c. to get some answers, and what happened when i spoke to dems on the hill may surprise you. and jackie. the artist formerly known as kanye west has everyone talking about his interview with tucker. he s not holding back on his faith and the bullying happening in hollywood right now to silence him and conservatives. but first, backlash building tonight over president biden s end of the word world rhetoric about putin using nuclear weapons after he ran from reporters who asked about it. he made these comments off camera earlier this week. quote: think about it, we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. he went on to say he is not joking when he talks about potential use of tactical and nuclear weapons. then yesterday he went after putin again, this time over high gas prices in an a awkward speech about the economy. let me start off with two words, made in america. [cheers and applause] made in america. that s n
welcome to the show, i m mehdi hasan. we hire less than five weeks away from the midterms. where democrats are not only looking to hang on to the majority, they re trying to hang on to control of the senate. and back in the spotlight is the quote, unquote, latino vote. which could be crucial for dams in especially in tight rates furch both states with large latino populations that went for biden in 2020. but for democrats, a worrying trend is playing out. she feels very upset with the current leadership of democrats because she feels that taxes are higher and the money is just not enough to get by. so she s voted democrat her whole life, she says. and now she s not happy with the economy. and that s why she thinking about since the 2020 election, especially, we have been inundated with think pieces about the latino vote and how it shifting to the right. becoming more republican. becoming even more trumpy. and yes, kind of astonishingly, trump did gro
rhetoric is escalating ahead of the midterms. we ll tell you about an alarming spike in talk of civil war online. and by some republican lawmakers. and later? our reveal of the day s biggest mystery. why conservatives are suddenly freaking out over scooby-doo. and frankly? why i m not surprised. all of that in more is coming up. and, a good saturday morning to you. i am katie fang. breaking overnight! vladimir putin s military facing yet another critical setback on the battlefield. a massive explosion causing major damage to a bridge connecting crimea to russia. part of the bridge collapsed into the sea, compromising the main supply route for the russian military. and it happened one day after putin s 70th birthday. we ve got kyle perry, he is live now in kyiv. cal, good morning. what can you tell us? he catie good morning. it s hard to understate what a moment this is and how important this bridges to russia s military effort. we ve been talking so much about the ukrainian
we have another hour of velshi, right now. good morning to you, i m ali velshi. is this saturday october 8th day 227 of russia s war in ukraine. breaking news this morning out of crimea. an explosion has crippled the bridge. this is a remarkable development. take a look at this bridge. look at the multitude of fires across it. it has collapsed part of the bridge into the sea. russians think the truck bomb exploded. it set fire to several oil tankers that were traveling on the bridge by rail. now, here is the important part. you probably never heard about this. it is new. it is the only bridge connecting mainland russia and crimea. this is a pet project for vladimir putin belt after russia s illegal annexation of crimea in 2014. north of crimea, on the battlefield front, ukraine continues to regain its land in the northeast, and east. this week the captured about 2000 square kilometers in the south near the area of kherson. it is the blue areas over here. ukraine has now captu
times that donald trump may have committed to cutting a deal to trade white house documents as an exchange for fbi files related to his 2016 campaign russia investigation. we ll have more on that report in just a few minutes. also not this, our women are taking to the streets in washington d.c. and several states and cities as we count down 31 base so the midterms. the women s march is holding hundreds of events today and support of reproductive rights, will have a lot of reports for that for you. also overseas, a new setback for russian president vladimir putin. and after celebrating his 70th birthday, a massive explosion rocked a key bridge that links russia and crimea and ukraine officials refer to that attack as, quote a sick burn, no one has claimed responsibility. and new fallout from president biden s warning about the risk of nuclear armageddon. russia s top of using nuclear weapons as a responsible. and there s no way to use, to use them without unintended conseque