biden spoke directly to the americans and puerto rico well at fema headquarters earlier this week, watch. what we are seeing the devastating images and florida i want to be clear, to the people of puerto rico, we are not gone away. i am committed to you, and the recovery of the island. we will stand by you for however long it takes to get it done. president biden says that he plans to visit both florida and puerto rico and conditions allow. so when we come together to help those in need in florida, and the carolinas, please do not forget our fellow americans in puerto rico, they need our help, our empathy, and the resources of the federal government. we are going to start the second hour of ayman now with an update on the aftermath of hurricane in. let s go straight to nbc s god vinegars who joins us from fort myers. it is our live report from florida, tell us what you are seeing as the day concludes what is happening there on the ground. amen, authorities have been wor
daily beast reporting the georgia republican senator and antichoice candidate herschel walker paid for his then girlfriend s abortion in 2009. the daily beast has now reported that that woman is also the mother of one of her four children. we re going to have more reporting on that later in the show. republicans however continue to shop and recent polling says that he is in a tight race with the democratic incumbent, senator raphael warnock. there is one october surprise that could change the course of the midterm elections, and it s coming from over 70,000 miles away. in saudi arabia, opec plus, the alliance of oil producing nations led by saudi arabia and russia, announced a 2 million barrels per day cut in oil production yesterday. opec plus decision could lead to a potential spike in gas prices, just 33 days before the midterms. today, president joe biden had a one word reaction to opec plus s decision, disappointment. what is your reaction to the opec plus decision?
producing countries to increase their oil output. ali she hobby, a study analyst, told the new york times that it is certainly not a hostile, anti biden act. it has nothing to do with biden, it is to keep the price in unacceptable band. and quote. okay. so how should we analyze this set of facts? the summer, saudi arabia paid former president donald trump to host a tournament at his golf courses, which is a move much criticized as so called sports washing, attempting to launder its reputation on human rights abuses with people who don t care about that sort of thing. people like the former president, who bragged to reporter bob woodward that he, quote, saved mohammed bin salman, after a saudi death squad had washington post reporter killed and dismembered with a bunch of. his words, as quoted in woodward s book called rage, i saved his ass, i was able to get congress to leave him alone. i was able to get them to stop. and quote. those were trump s actual words about helping a
ayman al zawahri, al qaeda s leader and a former deputy to osama bin laden on 9/11, was killed by a cia drone strike in kabul. the administration has not confirmed al zawahri was the target ahead of the president s re, ma. the senior administration official said there were no civilian casualties in the mission. al zawahri has been on the run for year, and his history of violence extends well beyond his role in planning 9/11. the egyptian doctor was at one point arrested in connection with the assassination of egyptian president anwar sadat and was indicted in 1999 for the 1997 bombings of the u.s. embassies in tanzania. joining me now is chief white house correspondent kristen welker. what do we know about what the president is going to announce, and any details about that operation? reporter: the details are still coming in. what we do know is that the president is going to announce that ayman al zawahri was killed over the weekend in a counterterrorism operation. the pres
have no predictions about that hearing, and i m just gonna sit back and experience it. it feels like it s gonna be a big deal. the fact that they booked it for prime time is a really hard ask of all the tv networks to get them to give you that time. it implies that they think they ve got something that they really expect and want millions of americans to watch. and so, i think you can have those expectations, but in terms of what we are gonna learn, we are going to lay out, or what they might sum up from what we ve previously learned from them, i m with you. i just want to see it happen. you know, the best we have is a little suggestion from adam kinzinger, about what to expect. and i will show that tonight, just like everyone else has. that s all we got. and they ve been pretty reliable about delivering really important hearings. and so, we have every right to expect that. yeah, i mean, tonight, adam schiff just told me that we will get tape testimony from witnesses we