faced before in this country. it is the most important election of our lives because the losers of this election might not just be candidates. we might actually lose democracy and this election. and then maybe you will be relieved of ever hearing again that this was the most important election of your life because the election will not matter in the future because america lost democracy in 2022. in the 2020 election, we did not know before we voted that democracy itself was at stake. there was some rumblings about republicans in some states thinking about how to deliver their electoral votes to donald trump even if he came in second in that state. but there were no legal mechanisms for them to do that. those scenarios were always legally impossible in 2020. but the republicans running for office now want to create legal processes for stealing elections. let me say that again. because that sentence has never been an element of american politics before in our history. republica
the cap on the $2,000 cap on prescription drugs for seniors, gone. tax credits to lower energy bills, gone. corporate minimum tax, gone. president biden making a case why democrats should remain in power next year. we enter the final stretch of the campaign. meanwhile, the majority leader in the senate is caught on a hot mike giving a blunt assessment of several key races. and elon musk now owns twitter. let that sink in. the billionaire brings a meme to life and already showing top executives the door. good morning. welcome to way too early on this friday, october 28th. thank you for starting your day with us. joe biden is promoting efforts to bring more jobs and manufacturing across the country upstate new york. in syracuse yesterday, biden showcased a major investment by micro chip manufacturing company micron. touting the $100,000,000,002 decade commitment. the deal is set to bring 50,000 jobs to the state which will pay an average of $100,000 a year. the president
steve: we start with fox news alert vladimir putin picture they are threatening to use nuclear weapons declaring he s not bluffing which meansu are bluffing. steve: the threat as hunter biden heading to address the leaders gathered in new york. ainsley: that is right. jacqui heinrich from downtown new york city, good morning to you, jackie. good morning, ainsley, steve, brian. the head at the summit was food shortages from the war in ukraine but that statement that speaks putin a threatening use of nuclear weapons and partial mobilization of the country s reserve troops. the first of its kind since world war ii. putin basically claimed nuclear threats of its own and framed a statement as a defensive move accusing the rest of nuclear blackmail and saying the last encourage ukraine to show the russian controlled nuclear plant in southeast ukraine. he accused the west also trying to divide and destroy his country. speak with those who tried to blackmail us with nuc
capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, also with us, frank figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the fbi. he is also an msnbc national security analyst. ryan, what do we know and not know about the attack at this hour? reporter: well, the biggest open question right now, jose, is motive. there doesn t appear to be a lot of clear answers right now as to why paul pelosi was targeted inside his san francisco home early this morning. we do know that the attack was violent, and it was enough for him to be rushed to the hospital. he is in the hospital now and the spokesperson for pelosi s office says that he is receiving excellent care and is expected to make a full recovery. the speaker herself, though, was not in san francisco at the time. and of course, jose, this comes against the backdrop of an increasing number of threats directed at members of congress and their families. capitol police put out a report over the summer that said there s bee
water starting to come up. they are expecting a nine-foot tide here around noon. flood stage in this area is around seven feet. the roads right now look pretty good, very little rain, very little wind at the moment but they re expecting all of that to change. the big concern here is that tide and the storm surge. those two things together. the storm surge and that landfall for ian is meant to come around the same time as that tide. depending upon where it hits, that could really push a lot more water into charleston, charleston county. charleston is now at its highest level of alert. they are warning anyone at lower levels to watch what is going on, seek higher ground if necessary. they are already starting to shut down roads in charleston itself. so they are prepared for whatever ian has. it s just not clear how big a punch it s going to take here in south carolina. back to you. all you can do now is wait. mig ed marquez in charlton, we ll come back to you shortly. let go