right now, the stage is set for what could be an historic election if democrats can defy trends. if you ignore the fear mongering, if you ignore the cynicism, if you vote, then we will keep this country moving forward. and you look at all the polling data. if y all show up and vote, democracy s sustained. not a joke. as donald trump uses his campaign rallies to road test a likely run in 2024 and ron desantis. let s see. there it is. trump at 71. ron disanctimonious at 10%. this hour, we ll have reports from five states. pennsylvania, georgia, wisconsin, nevada, and arizona. and check in on critical governors races across the country. we ll also take a closer look at fears over intimidation tactics at polling places and concerns over online misinformation already spiking after mass firings at twitter. good day. i m andrea mitchell at msnbc election headquarters in new york. president biden is spending his final days of the campaign defending normally safe democrati
[crowd chanting u.s.a.] all right, we got to do a show. all right. we re broadcasting live from beautiful west palm beach in the free state of florida, and in just 12 days, you ll decide the future of our great republic. tonight in just a moment we ll be joined by governor ron desantis, florida s first la lady, casey desantis will be with us. any marco rubio fans in the house? marco rubio will be here. senator rick scott will be here. rick scott fans here? all right. both desantis and rubio are poised for massive election day. governor desantis is up by a whopping 14 points in a university of north florida poll. the same poll shows senator rubio up by seven points over democrat/radical/socialist/lef tist leftist. tonight, momentum is absolutely for the republicans. we start with a lot of good news tonight. it s not unique to florida. new poll by rasmussen out today, yesterday, hershel walker was up by two points. as of today, rasmussen has herschel up by five. in north caro
details from our west coast newsroom tonight. good evening, jonathan. good evening, bret. speaker pelosi s office just released that statement confirming what they called the successful surgery on 82-year-old paul pelosi and saying his doctors at san francisco general hospital expect a full recovery following the violent attack. it was 2:27 this morning when police were alerted to an incident at the pelosi home in san francisco officers apparently arriving so quickly that the assault on mr. pelosi was happening as they got if there. our officers observed ms. pelosi and the suspect both holding a hammer. the suspect pulled the hammer away from ms. pelosi and violently assaulted him with it. our officers immediately tackled the suspect, disharmd him. took him into custody. it s not clear from the police chief s comments who was initially holding the hammer. whether the suspect brought it into the house or whether mr. pelosi had, perhaps, grabbed it for self-defense. polic
chair. we were in that much danger, and we didn t know it. what were you be willing to give me today to move past the police investigation? it was january, 2009. brenda konstantin and her husband brian rodgers, and their three teenagers, two boys, and a girl spent the new year s holiday the way they always had. a trip out of town and then back to their home. amid class suburb in the capital city, ottawa. it s a very family oriented community, lots of young families. lots of kids. but as you say? in a town which is very safe, but it didn t seem particularly safe. there s never a lot of crime. in january, when brian and brenda got into their home on friday evening. the family house in orleans seemed exactly as they left it. but bryan did notice something odd. the digital clock in the room, on the left side of the bread, was blinking. i thought it was unusual but did not think much of it. and then you went ahead and just continued? carried on our lives.
tonight, what we know about the damage, the loss of life and the rescue efforts plus the daunting prospect of rebuilding in an era of climate catastrophe. and as ian regains hurricane status, what we know about preparations beyond florida. senator raphael warnock of georgia. and what we are learning about what ginni thomas told the january six committee. did you speak with your husband when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. more than 24 hours after hurricane ian slammed into florida s west coast, it s not clear it will go down as one of the most destructive storms in the state s history. he came ashore just shy of a category five hurricane bringing 150 mile per hour winds, more than a foot of rain in some areas over just 12 to 24-hour period. that is a one in 1000 rain moment. we also saw record storm surge bringing the water level up 12 feet in some parts of the state. tonight people are coming to grips in florida with widespread