joining us this hour. happy halloween. t my costume is perfect. i know.os thank you. nailed it. i defy anyone to ever surpass my childless old white lesbian costume.as i know it s my greatest n contribution to our culture. if you ever want to buy one, i recommend just xeroxing a photo of this screen. anyway, happy halloween. his name is jair bolsonaro. and he just did something nobod has ever done before. jair bolsonaro is the very trumpy, very, very far right president of brazil.ry and in brazil, if you are lucky enough to get elected president, and you run for re-election, you win re-election. y no brazilian president running for re-election has ever lost. before jair bolsonaro. it was close, but he lost this weekend. first brazilian president to ever lose a bid for re-election. now, i mentioned that he s trumpy. i one of the ways in which he is trumpy is that he s had a hard core base of supporters who thought everything he did was great, but everybody else thought he was
really demonstrates that we have to calm things down. we have to decide that we are going to be more respectful as an american society, that it s okay to disagree. san francisco s district attorney makes a plea for decency in the national discourse following the politically motivated attack on nancy pelosi s husband and now we re learning more about what the suspect had planned for the speaker of the house. meanwhile, that disturbing attack is becoming a punch line for more and more republicans. the latest coming from the far right nominee for governor of arizona. and also ahead, affirmative action goes before the supreme court with justices hearing arguments in two cases tied to college admissions. good morning, and welcome to way too early, tuesday, november 1st. we are exactly one week from election day. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. the man accused of breaking into nancy pelosi s home and brutally attacking her husband has been set wit
critical races stand this morning. plus in a couple hours, the man accused of attacking the husband of house speaker nancy pelosi is expected in court. the new details about what he was allegedly planning. also, right now, anguished families confronting the parkland shooter in court today. what they have said so far. and overseas, former israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu tried to return to power as israelis head to the polls for the fifth time in less than four years. we have a live report from jerusalem. and we begin this very busy hour with the intensifying midterm races now just seven days from election day. so far, more than 23 million people have already voted. both parties are looking for that crucial 11th-hour boost from party stars. today president biden will be in battleground florida stumping for democratic gubernatorial candidate charlie crist and val demings here in the south florida area. former president obama making a campaign push and in a few
all of you for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. we re one week from the midterms. morning joe starts now. it s sad to see we are in a point in history where people belief it s okay to express their political sentiments through violence, and so i think it really demonstrates that we have to calm things down. we have to decide that we are going to be more respectful as an american society, that it s okay to disagree. san francisco s district attorney makes a plea for decency and discourse following the politically motivated attack on nancy pelosi s husband, and now we are learning more about what the suspect had planned for the speaker of the house. also this morning, president biden is hitting the campaign trail again as we are now one week away from election day. we ll tell you where he s headed today, and why. meanwhile a member of the group who tried to overturn the elections expresses remorse for his actions. and we ll have the latest from
now you re going to hear about it. and you re going to hear about mine. first up, joe biden calling for unity. our politics has gotten so angry, so mean, so partisan. too often we see each other as enemies. let me remind you, this is the man that accused half the people in this country of being semi fascist. that s the guy that wants the cumbaya moment now that christmas is here and santa is watching. then there s his policies which have basically sent our economy in to the toilet. and the indications that we see would point to a recession sometimes in the first to three to six months of next year. the greater risk is that at some point in 2023, the economy will head towards recession. a recession is very much likely in the coming 12 to 18 months. while we re getting repeatedly warned about the coming recession, biden is on twitter bragging that gas prices are down a few cents, even though they re still up nearly a dollar from when he came in to office. tucker