lawmakers on both parties are experiencing growing threats of violence and intimidation. condemn what produces the violence. why political disinformation and perceptions of election fraud may be fuelling this latest spike in threats. plus, the closing arguments. if we get people out to vote, we win. with nine days until election day, republicans are hoping the battle for congress hangs on trying to make voters reject the party in power. we re not going to just see a red wave. we re going to see a red tsunami. ot who is going to fight to actually make our democracy work for you? my guest this morning, democratic senator amy klobuchar of minnesota. and youth turn-out. democrats are worried that voters under 30 are not motivated and won t turn out in big numbers. joining me is garrett haake, marianne that sotomayor and kimberly atkins stohr, senior opinion writer of the boston globe. welcome to sunday. it s meet the press. the longest running show in televisi
probe of the capitol insurrection. key witnesses subpoenaed by the doj this week including two top aides of former vice president mike pence were asked specifically about the fake elector scheme and the role of trump s lawyers. and according to the washington post, justice department investigators in april received phone records of key officials and aides in the trump administration, including his former chief of staff, mark meadows. these are by far the most in-depth accounts of the federal investigation. until now we had virtually no sign this investigation had touched on the actions of the president himself. and it comes as the new york times reports new details on the so-called fake electors scheme, including previously undisclosed emails among trump advisers that show knowledge as the times puts it that a key element of their plan was of dubious legality and lived up to its billing as fake. let s go first to sunlen serfaty who is live for us on capitol hill wit
that we know of. take an amount from him that punishes him. take another amount that ensures that he never does this again. the real question is, will something like this verdict and up making people like alex jones and others, not do something like this again? $49 million award is coming, after sandy hook parents confronted alex jones on what his lies did to them. i can t describe the last night, or even the last nine and a half years that i and others have had to endure. because of the endangerment and the recklessness of alex jones. what was said about me, and sandy hook itself. it resonates from around the world. my life has been threatened. i fear for my life. i feel for my safety. joining me now, former fellow prosecutor, united states attorney, paul, from the database, who has been all over the story from the beginning. what is your response to this new, punitive damaging verdict that just came in? reporter: this is a smart award for the punitive damages. combi
it s called christ of the ozarks. christ of the ozarks was the subject of a huge a suspiciously huge fund-raising operation by gerald l.k. smith. he died in 1976, but that statue still stands 1 in arkansas toda. but gerald l.s. smith is about to have another moment in the public eye because what he really wanted to be remembered for, even more than that statue, was a nationwide movement that he tried to build, a movement that he named and that he led and that he promoted tirelessly and that he wanted to outlive him forever. the motive behind the term christian nationalist is easy to define and simple to interpret. we believe that the destiny of america in relationship to its governing authority must be kept in thein hands of our own peopl. we must never be goonchd by aliens. we must keep control of our own money m and our own blood. in other words, we must remain trueor to the declaration of independence. that is nationalism. woe believe that the spiritual symbol of our s
the question is whether or not these candidates want joe biden, the president, to try to help them out in these races. watch this. would you want president biden to come to arizona and campaign with you? hey, i ll welcome anybody to come to arizona, travel around the state at any time. as long as i m here. that s not an open invitation to president biden to come and campaign with you. martha: lack of enthusiasm there. the economy remains a top concern for many voters. most americans in this nbc poll say that the country is already in recession. that number is 68. then it combines 71% say that more spending under this new inflation reduction act is likely to make things worse or make no difference in their lives at all. we have insight this hour from karl rove as far as the election goes and how that plays in to the mid-terms. first, let s go to the white house with jared bernstein. happy monday to you. dow down about 700 points last time i checked. a lot of concern th