Ticket because, quote, the alternative is simply untenable. And remember the american soldier who dashed over the dmz into north korea . What we are learning about a plea deal for travis king, and history will have to wait at least one more day. The setback for spacex ahead of a launch that would send astronauts on the farthest mission from earth in five decades. We are live on floridas space coast with an update. Msnbc reporters have the latest development. We start with the fight over georgias election rules. Msnbc correspondent lisa rubin is with me. Lisa, explain what this is all about and how it could complicate things in november. Chris, this is a lawsuit against the Georgia State Election Board. Its a fivemember board that makes rules essentially for the conduct and administration of elections in georgia. The suit is over two rules in particular that affect novembers elections, both of which allow for local county election Board Members to do a reasonable inquiry on one hand or
toss-up race in the rematch for governor is leaning red. john: congenial affair, don t you think? can the the democrats send senator warnock back to washington, we ll find out. and a george-based political reporter is on the ground tracking the mood in the closing hours. sandra: america reports rolls into a second hour here on a friday afternoon. i m sandra smith in new york. john: good to be with you another 60 minutes. counting down to election day, one last weekend to campaign and get out the vote. sandra: democrats in new hampshire trying to hold on to a seat they cannot afford to lose there. john: hassan bringing in back-up, as her republican challenger don bolduc picks up steam, and one person absent from the granite state, president biden. sandra: ari fleischer standing by, and daron shaw. john: hillary vaughn is in durham, new hampshire. who is on the guest list? elizabeth warren was just here at the university of new hampshire rallying college stude
good evening, brett. parts of the president s pitch pitches an actual fairy tale as he tries to make the case that today s economic report is not too cold and is not too hot, but rather just right. new york times media reports, they call it the goldilocks report. i have my shock waiting for the wolf. talking about a strong october jobs report and saying 261,000 jobs created while comments by republican leadership servant sure team to say that they are rooting for a recession as the u.s. economy grows and adds jobs even as gas prices continue to come down. president biden is trusting the federal reserve to address inflation by raising rates, but officials admitted this week that they don t know what will happen next. i am wondering, has a window for a soft landing narrowed? do you still think it s possible? has it narrowed? yes. is it still possible, yes. the president is not ignoring higher prices. we know that folks are still struggling with inflation, it s o
Senator Lindsey Graham whether or not there is an investigation ongoing into the Donald Trump Campaign and those contacts that allegedly occurred with russian officials during the president ial election. Since they have not confirmed the existence of an investigation, they have not even confirmed with senators, so in a private meeting between graham and whitehouse on march 2nd, james comey would not tell these two senators whether or not there was an investigation ongoing, even though they sit on a judiciary subcommittee investigating the issue of russia. Comey according to Sheldon Whitehouse said he would confirm whether or not that investigation is occurring by this hearing that theyre having tomorrow in this Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee exploring russias meddling in the election. Eastern yoeuropean elections as
committee and the top democrat mark warner told me going into the briefing theres no evidence whatsoever even though he met with james comey last week. One other s
garland s speech where he talks about how the department is completely committed to going after every january 6th perpetrator at any level, whether they were present or otherwise criminally responsible, and that is to address, i think, a concern that people had that not only were some people not being held accountable, ultimately, but they weren t even being scrutinized, a little inside baseball, if you re on the public information office s e-mail list like i am and i m sure your producers are, eight minutes before merrick garland gave that address today, we received an e-mail that contained an advance excerpt from the speech. often an entire speech is embargoed and e-mailed to press so they can have a chance to, and there was only one paragraph sent out, and it was that paragraph about the commitment to hold anyone accountable at any level whether they were present or not, which seems to me in context not to be mere boilerplate, but to try to send a message to everyone without saying