i can t remember the exact quote, but remember when churchill said britain needs an ass kicker. churchill said many wonderful things. those particular phrases i don t remember. you re the historian, not me. everybody attributes everything to churchill, and then like the greatest churchill quotes ever, he didn t say. all the things churchill said but didn t say, i m laying claim to them. take them. tim ryan took that one, though, and i think he owned it quite well. it is a close race that could determine the balance of power in washington. the democratic nominee, congressman ryan will join us in just a moment. but first, nbc steve kornacki is standing by at the big board to break down where things stand with the midterms less than a month away. we are at go time. the rage is here, and i m a little nervous. he s pissed off, look at him. he s trying to hide it. i know. we re following the latest from ukraine as russia escalates attacks on civilian areas. g7 leade
walker paid for her abortion. it comes as walker doubles down on his defense. and what a dramatic cut in it oil production overseas could mean for the price we pay at the pump here at home. good morning. welcome to way too early on this thursday, october 6th. thank you for starting your day with us. one week after hurricane ian made land fall in florida, president biden is warning the more is coming. the president visited the battered state yesterday, just days after surveying storm damage in puerto rico. in florida, the president and governor ron desantis put politics aside as they met with residents in the ft. myers area. we were very fortunate to have good coordination with white house and with fema. i think one thing that you re seeing in this response, we are cutting through the bureaucracy. we re cutting through the red tape. and that s from local government, state government, all the way up to the president. so we appreciate the team effort. i think he s done a
between the u.s. and saudi arabia hitting new lows over the opec decision to cut oil production. there is more bad economic news with only 26 days before the midterms. for the second straight day we received worse than expected inflation numbers and that has the white house scribbling for an explanation. jacqui heinrich starts us off from the north lawn. there is no timeline on when the consequences for the saudis that the president biden talked about might come. he might want to consult with congress and they are out of session until after the midterms but officials here are starting to paint a bit clearer of a picture of what it all might look like. the white house getting vocal about how seriously the president is considering calls from congress to scale back arms sales to saudi arabia after opec plus rejected white house please and slashed production. that is going to be on the table, that will be an option the president looks at. the spate and the scale, the size, th
bat told the select committee that she was scared and nervous about what could happen on january 6th when her former boss, mark meadows, acknowledged that things could get bad on that day. key moments from this hearing. hutchison said the president was upset, that the elapse where he was about to speak on january 6th wasn t completely full and that he did not want the secret service because he said the people some of whom were armed are not there to harm him. she also testified that the president desperately wanted to go to the capitol and that she said kevin mccarthy at one point called her up and told him not to come. when the president was told by the secret service that he was not going, she was told that he had a very dramatic response inside the beast. listen. it had very strong, very angry response to that. tony described him as being irate. the president said something to the effect of, i m the f-ing president. take me to the capitol now. to which bobby reresponde
International monetary funds Chief Economist Pierre Olivier gourinchas. The imf and the world bank are having their annual meeting in marrakech and later today, Finance Ministers from the 620 and Central Bank Governors will be meeting to discuss the health of the Global Economy. According to the imf, Global Growth remains dampened by Supply Chain Disruptions linked to the covid 19 pandemic and russias war in ukraine, persistently high inflation, and spiralling borrowing costs. Heres our economics editor faisal islam. The message from the imf for the 190 Finance Ministers and central governor business in marrakesh is that the World Economy they hope had turned a corner after three years of rolling your clinical crisis. Well, it is limping forward rather than sprinting forward now with geopolitical crisis. Slowdowns in very specific countries like china that they had not expected. There is an additional worry about this new higher for longer Interest Rate world that might affect the bank