gun. welcome back to a brand new hour of fox news live. we re starting off with the wild video you just saw. a bus ride that started normal but turned to horror as a passenger and a drivers engage in a full-on gun battle leaving pass passengers ducking for cover. charles watson is live in atlanta with the latest. i think no one was killed luckily. is that right? yeah, that s right, arthel. nobody was killed in this crazy exchange of gun fire. a scary situation for innocent bystanders on the bus as the driver and another passenger engage in a wild gun fight earlier this month. i had a bad feeling from the time the young man got on the bus. you know what i m saying? it s an early feeling. my instincts was to hit the floor. this all unfolded on a transit system bus. you can see here in the video, the driver, appears to open fire on the passenger to his right who appears to have a gun in his hand. the passenger identify as amar e tobias. he got agitated because the driv
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
senate and a democratic white house, it s think it s a victory for republicans. i think it s a good first step. no, it s not the end-all but it s a good first step. i like the spending cuts, the claw backs, i like the fact that we have said that the student loans will be started to be paid back. we got the reigns in act for the executive branch. in a bipartisan fashion, this is a victory for the legislative branch and the fact that you ve got the student loans being paid back. even nancy pelosi said the president kid do that. you have the reigns act. this is an anarchy in a lot of ways. you have the president spending money whether it s a democrat or a democrat. these are legislative wins. you make a point here. here s the thing. the question of was it a win for the democrats or win for the republicans. i mean, those people in congress, they re there to do the job of the american people. it doesn t matter if you re a
but asking voters what they care about. the things that they hear, the circus when we are running around. the issues that shifted appreciably in the republicans favor. the economy and crime became the dominant issues. some of that had to do with republicans making the issue out of crime, and some the reality of inflation. a lot of interest rates rising, other things that have made the economy predominant after it kind of faded a little bit at the end of the summer, when it looked like things were getting better. those things have kind of all put republicans on the march. this data, the data in the polls, this is data that they look at politics in these closing days. where is the president spending money? as the other thing you see in the last couple of weeks, republicans feeling increasingly confident, whether they re right or wrong we don t know, but they ve been confident spending money to fight in the districts in places like california and new york, pittsburgh, joe biden won
well, i think it is until we get our fiscal house in order. get that house in order. did any of this change when he was hired to run trump s debt-busting government? not officially. even in his confirmation hearing under oath, he claimed he was still trying to address the debt. i believe as a matter of principle that the debt is a problem that must be addressed sooner rather than later. how does he justify working for a president spending money on things he can t pay for including the tax cuts which may or may not affect the recession. mulvaney was asked if the deficit would be mentioned and he said nobody cares. does he have low self-esteem? i m here to tell you, you re not nobody. you re somebody. you spent years caring or pretending to care along with paul ryan and the tea party. was it a lie? in the times this question has been raised, he says this is just adjusting to the beltway.