welcome to morning joe at 6:00 a.m. in the morning willie geist not with us today, trying to relive some of the more exciting mornings of the 70s yes, that s him on chopper 5 going across it is not. see the little chopper 4, i m sorry. get it right. in the 70s, we didn t really numbers didn t count channels didn t counfreelancersi and i were. you were just there. beautiful look at new york city over the morning. it s friday. yes thursday was a very rough day for elon musk. oh, i don t know about that $3 billion rocket exploded. i m going to question that framing. they get a lot of great data out of that. it exploded. but it was a planned explosion. no. it was they got what they wanted they got massive data. it was a step forward. it was an unscheduled disas disassembly, as they call it. i have had many of those. exploded. i ve had many of those. then he planned to make people pay for twitter verification his plan to do that bl
united states and around the world. it is wednesday, october 19th. i m christine romans. we should hopefully know the winners of the mid-term election. the latest cnn polling shows the economy and inflation are the top issues for voters. later today president biden will announce the sale of 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. that will happen in december. mr. biden s aim is to ease gas prices. the move fulfills the administration s decision back in march to release a total of 180 million barrels from the reserve over a six-month period. we get more now from cnn s phil mattingly. reporter: president biden and his top economic officials have for several months made trying to do something, anything to dampen skyrocketing gas prices a central priority, if not the top priority both politically and economically for the administration. over the course of the summer they had a pretty good run, three months of consecutive drops. a run that was put into qu
call it in the business. that is according to a justice department list that was apparently inadvertently posted publicly and reported by bloomberg news. that is we hear more secretly recorded audio from the 2020 oath keepers meeting far-right militia group on seditious conspiracy charges. watch this. the fight comes, let the fight come. let me then we will go kinetic back on them. i m going to set the best of myself for that. and there is this other defendant discovering discussing what weapons are legal to bring into washington d.c.. that is according to prosecutors. pepper spray is legal, tasers are legal, and stun guns are legal. and it s doesn t hurt to have a lead pipe right, no weapons, right, according to some people. right. the recordings are the first major piece of evidence prosecutors have used to try to establish how the oath keepers allegedly planned to oppose the peaceful transfer of power. what else will it take to make their case? and then there
amy coney barrett. chief roberts wrote an opinion ban on abortions 15 weeks after pregnancy, but stopped the precedence of roe vs. wade together. all three liberal justices were in dissent. sandra: nearly half the states are already prepared to ban or severely limit abortions. this ruling comes more than a month, you ll remember, after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by justice samuel alito, indicating the court was prepared to take this very step. that leak leading to weeks of protests outside the homes of some justices and even a threat on the life of justice brett kavanaugh. trace: begin with shannon bream, she is life at the supreme court. good to see you, trace and sandra. walk through this again. what happens here, with the 5-4 opinion, at least on the issue of not only upholding the mississippi law but journey turning roe, send this back to the states. many of them already have trigger laws on one end or the other that are kicking in almost immediately, some
because this is supposed to be the overall law of the land. it protects our individuality, freedom and civil society, in many ways we live in a post constitutional america, those who are waving the constitution today to january 6 committee have been mayor participants in its demise. let me ask you a question. let s say you go to a court of law. there is no judge. there is no jury. you don t have a lawyer. you can t call witnesses. you can t provid evidence, you have to watch. and watch. and let s say that jury chosen by. let s say the jury is chosen by nancy pelosi, and media in the back taking pictures, rolling cameras, taking notes, as scribes. for the prosecution. the prosecution being the jury. then reporting, we have new findings, new information has come out. not a perfect parallel but good enough, that is what is going on with this january 6 committee, nancy pelosi chose every member, they had to pass yore test her test, which was loyal tie to her, nancy pelosi has b