so their actual records can be assessed. for only understandable focus on trump s nickel problems and controversies and rhetoric, it was his substance handling of the covid pandemic that impacted so many laughs and dragged him down in the eyes of mary and americans who concluded he found the task when faced with that all-important leadership test. as for trump, he said at the time he did not see the emergency as his test of a lifetime. was there a moment in all of this, the last two months, where you say to yourself, a, this is the leadership test of a lifetime. no. no. no hesitation. that is a small part of one of trump s new for the interviews with bob woodward, conducted across the upper of the pandemic and through the campaign. wilbert secured more time with trump than any other writer. 20 and others across that stretch, trump sometimes making the calls, something he apparently not regret. the former president is so when woodward, we should note, over publishing the
we catch you again tomorrow, now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex, and i know i have to submit my washington, d.c. diary to you. i ve been spending the week here. as you know, on wednesday it is a pretty big day at the white house. i was there pretty much the whole day. today, house of representatives, the senate, wandering the halls a little bit. talking to some people i know there. but the most indescribably, most exciting event of this entire week was it 5 pm, when i went to a middle school girls basketball game, which was the best basketball game of its kind that i ve ever seen. takes its place among soft six championship games that i ve watched as a young man. i mean, alex, why don t you tell me what middle school? is a public school over there. i don t want any goal to fall upon the school. but why did you tell me that the thing about washington is the girls basketball. go to the girls basketball g
a little bit. talking to some people i know there. but the most indescribably, most exciting event of this entire week was it 5 pm, when i went to a middle school girls basketball game, which was the best basketball game of its kind that i ve ever seen. takes its place among soft six championship games that i ve watched as a young man. i mean, alex, why don t you tell me what middle school? is a public school over there. i don t want any goal to fall upon the school. but why did you tell me that the thing about washington is the girls basketball. go to the girls basketball games. i ll tell, you because i grew up in washington, d. c., and went to public schools in washington, d. c.. i was never get enough to play on the girls basketball team. it is a bit of a sore spot i would say, although i know the quality and class of those players. i was the least valuable player in my high school basketball team. i could never make one of these teams here, it s just amazing.
Menendez. We begin this hour with Breaking News from capitol hill. At any moment, we expect the senate to begin to pick on the house bill to avert a government shutdown. However, we have Breaking News about why we have yet to the process began. Nbc news now reporting one senator is holding up the bill, concerned about a to a current. The house passed the 45day stopgap Funding Measure with bipartisan support earlier today, the bill includes money for Disaster Relief, keeps the government open until november 17th, but the bill does not include aid to ukraine. The house vote was a uturn for House Speaker kevin mccarthy, who ditched demands from hard on republicans and relied on votes from democrats to get a continuing resolution over the line. But the bill does not include further aid to ukraine. And that is a problem for democratic senator Michael Bennet. Nbc news says he is reportedly holding out this senate vote on the cr, citing concerns over the lack of funding for ukraine. This is w
which may well be his signature achievement. the white house is also dealing with an escalating situation at the southern border, the biden administration employing fema to take care of hundreds of migrant teens and children who are arriving in such large numbers, there aren t facilities to shelter them. so almost 4,000 kids are being kept in border patrol facilities and even jail cells designed for adults. we re going to go live to the border in a moment. there is also breaking news involving a lingering mystery of an insurrection at the capitol. two men have been charged in the assault of capitol police officer brian sicknick, who died a day after the riot. the men were caught on video spraying officer sicknick with an unknown substance, possibly bear spray. much more on that in a moment as well, and why the mystery may have just deepened. as we await the president, we want to get to the latest reporting on that relief rollout as those checks begin to land in bank account