their fight with d.a. bragg, one republican tweeting the city is no longer safe if that s true, why aren t the d.a., the mayor or the police commissioner on the witness list state secrets, private leaked by an airman barely old enough to buy a beer as congress returns to the hill, full of fury over it all, what are they prepared to do about it attorneys for the family of a black teenager demanding justice for what they call a horrendous and unjust find shooting the 16-year-old victim recovering in the hospital after being shot in the head for doing nothing but showing up at the wrong address. we begin right here in new york where former president donald trump s congressional allies are taking their fight to manhattan d.a. alvin bragg s back yard with a field hearing they say is about crime. democrats call it a political stunt, an excuse for jim jordan and other republicans to undermine the prosecution of donald trump here in manhattan, the scales of justice are weighe
The special primetime hour of morning joe with two days until the midterm elections. Early voting has already started, and now it is a final sprint to the finish. Trying to take control of the house and senate, and the future of president agendas. The issues that are driving the vote, it abortion, crime, how much power trump republicans still wield over the gop. In many ways, democracy itself is on the ballot with Election Deniers in multiple states poised to could take control over the next president ial race is being determined. Were digging into all of it with reports from key battlegrounds with an allstar political panel. Along with joe, lori, and me, we have Nbc News National Correspondent and Executive Editor of the weekend. John heilemann, he is cohost of showtime, former u. S. Senator now on nbc news and msnbc news political analyst. Claire mccaskill, the host of the msnbc of politicsnation, and president at the National Action network. And former White House Press secretary je
that s politically advantageous, they would talk about things that the american public cares about, inflation, the border, the environment, all of the things that we know that the american public is more focused on that s not their goal. their goal every day is to see how do i piss off some member of the democratic party and that s the entirety of the goal i don t think they at all think they re going to influence bragg in this case. jake, if it s to tick off the democrats, are they being successful yeah, nominally i think democrats showed up to this hearing. they haven t showed up to other hearings on the border and they ve tried to be as uncooperative as possible with some of these hearings they ve done across the country. of course, they re going to anger democrats. they re going to do things on the oversight front that are going to tick them off at the end of the day, the real question for someone like jordan jordan is the most powerful chairman on capitol
news capitol hill correspondent garrett hayes with more, garrett? i think that for republicans, depending on whether they take both chambers or just one, they re going to run into some of the similar problems from the last problems that the democrats have had. if they only have to take the house, anything that the house republicans do is going to be basically a messaging bill. they might be most successful defining success on the oversight front. they ve already indicated that they re going to bring in folks like christopher wray, merrick garland, anthony fauci could be a making a return appearance to the hill. and perhaps even hunter biden will be a focus, a significant focus of how house republicans are running the investigation after destination. they re trying to be through and be a thorn in the side of joe biden. if the senate flips, you can see more robust efforts to try to rein in the biden administration on other issues, on spending, perhaps bigger fights over entitlement spe
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