not a lot. donald trump wasn t going to honor his predecessor when he launched his car spreading the racist birther lie at the 44th president of the united states duly elected twice was not born in this country. that was far from normal but what we saw today said a lot about the office of the presidency, the people we elect to hold it and the peaceful transfer of power to one president to the next. i ve always described the presidency as a relay race. you take the baton from someone. you run your leg as hard and as well as you can and then you hand it off to someone else. knowing that your work will be incomplete. the portraits hanging in the white house chronicle the runners in that race. each of us tasked with trying to bring the country we love closer to its highest aspirations. now, just imagine someone else speaking in that manner. let s be honest. can t. that s what a normal presidency is supposed to be about and today we saw a former president not afraid to make fu
venezuela, one of the filthyest oil producers on the planet and he is about to make some history for a move to further cripple us as a nation economically. biden set to tap into our rapidly vanishing oil reserve. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. saudi arabia leads opec+ and the biden white house has been pressuring them to do more to help us while president biden s policies have suffocated our own oil production at home. well, if we didn t know it before, we know it now. they are not interested if helping the united states. we re so addicted to foreign oil, it is a business plan for them to hurt us. and the tough words from the president calling opec s decision short sighted. that from his administration. speaking of finding your words, the white house press secretary is blaming russia. opec s decision to cut production quotas is short sighted. it is clear that opec+ is aligning with russia with today s announcement. harris: they don t have to love
and right to privacy. president biden lays out the threats from maga republicans when one of several speeches in the final six days until the midterm elections. we ll look at what the white house and democrats have planned for the final days of the campaign. plus, republican congresswoman liz cheney is crossing party lines, making good on her promise to help defeat election denying members of the gop. also ahead, the man accused of trying to kill nancy pelosi s husband makes his first appearance in court as more disturbing information is coming out about that attack. we re also following alarming developments in the war with ukraine. there is new reporting this morning on high-level talks inside the russian military about using a tactical nuclear weapon. and good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, november 2nd. joe is back. along with joe, willie and me we have the host of msnbc s politics nation and president of the national action network re
bid tomorrow too. it says the pair will fight it out to be the candidate to take on rishi sunak. meanwhile, the mail claims sunak the former chancellor has been forced to deny links to the former number 10 adviser dominic cummings. the express concentrates on sunak s successor as chancellor, nadhim zahawi. they quote him as saying he s being smeared over tax . the ft says senior conservative party figures are planning to thin out the field of leadership candidates rapidly, to stop the campaign becoming ugly. the guardian says the tory rivals as scrambling to get enough supporters to stay in the contest; the mirror leads with something completely different the crisis over ambulance crews being stuck outside a&es, while the daily star is all about the heatwave, claiming britain will be hotter than hawaii tomorrow. asi as i say, welcome back to both. we will start with the guardian s front page that tory rivals are scrambling for support is because the all important 1922
bye. victor blackwell, vicky lawrence. thank you, everyone for joining us. this is don lemon tonight. president joe biden in a major prime time speech, did you see it? saying he is battling for the soul of america. that is the former president is battling america s institutions in court, and we just heard from president biden speaking in philadelphia in a fiery 24 minute speech calling out donald trump by name and warning that what he calls maga republicans are a threat to america, while making it clear that when he says maga republicans, he doesn t mean all republicans. too much of what s happening in our country today is not normal. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. now, i want to be very clear [ applause ] very clear upfront. not every republican, not even a majority of republicans are maga republicans. not every republican embraces their extreme ideology. i know because i ve been able