conserative party said sunack won the race and prime minister. the first person of color ever to hold that position. he will succeed liz truss after 44 days in office because of a revolt over her economic policies. former prime minister boris johnson thought about a comeback but ended up pulling out of a race. nbc news correspondent and associate editor at the financial times. what can we expect him to take over as prime minister? reporter: jose, this has been a very fast moving forward days since liz truss stepped down. it will be a fast moving 24 hours. what we expect, and you mentioned in your in tree, not only the first person of color to walk through 10 downing, also the youngest prime minister in two centuries, really a historic day. so what we expect, and we can t confirm exact timing is liz truss, who is still prime minister technically, will have to go to king charles to resign. then we expect him to be asked to form a government. then what happens? he walks into
florida and texas where two controversial incumbents are leading in the polls. great britain has a new prime minister again. after boris johnson failed to meet the threshold to run for a comeback. despite rushing back from the caribbean vacation. i ll talk to brittney griner s russian lawyer on the eve of greiner s appeal of her nine-year prison sentence. good day. our poll reveals democrats are fired up, but republicans are even more enthusiastic about their efforts to take over the house and senate. joining me now, steve kornacki, our research partner, washington post political correspondent, ashley parker. there is so much to dig through here. let s start by where likely voters are leaning with two weeks to go. two weeks, one day, and early voting underway in a number of places. here you can see the generic ballot. this is among likely voters here in our new poll. 48% for the republicans. 47% for the democrats. a one-point advantage there for republicans. so obviou
cannon made regarding the mar-a-lago search. she told d.o.j. she would not honor the request to get access to the 100 classified documents so it could continue its investigation. which it says has national security implications. the court does not find it appropriate to accept the government s conclusions on these important and disputed issues without further review by a neutral third party. and that there are ongoing factual and legal disputes. she also cited media links as part of her basis for rejecting d.o.j. s request. now if you re asking, with the ongoing and factual legal disputes, we will discuss that. a special master was appointed, raymond dearie, a former chief judge of the eastern district of new york and the only candidate that the sides agreed on. who is he? and why would both sides want him? and joins me is julie ainsley who is covering the justice department, national reporter for the washington post, carol leonig, executive ron line director for the new yo
becomes live. the conversation is going to be driven by the people that i met. across the state of pennsylvania where abortion rights is on the ballot this year. the viewpoints may anger some out there but we are taking what we heard from these americans to a panel of advocates, as well as legal and medical experts. let s talk about abortion rights, coming up shortly. i hope you will stay with us for. i will start with a brand-new nbc news poll which found voter interest in the upcoming midterms has reached an all-time high. 70% of all registered voters expressing just that in the upcoming election. either a nine or ten on a ten-point scale. that is the highest percentage ever in a survey for a midterm election with less than three weeks to go let s get out to the campaign trail on the key battleground state of pennsylvania. jewels, it s good to talk to you. the senate and governor s race there, two other races driving voter interest. what are you seeing on the ground? th
not every republican is a maga republican. maga republicans, the extreme right and trumpys. if this is how they have to motivate their base, we are in for dark, dark days. [cheers] it s my time. why not me for the breakthrough at the u.s. open. i m back back in the n new new york nek groove. we hope you had a wonderful weekend. thanks for waking up with us. a little rainy out there. 57 degrees today. summer is not officially over until september 21st. brian: no, today. ainsley: everyone goes back to school up here in the northeast today usually. steve: they do. if you are sending your kids off to school today, good morning, we will start you for the new school season. it feels like back to school here on the set though because do you know who is back? ed is back. ed has been gone for a little while. carley: ed, i haven t seen him this morning he is back? where is ed back there, brian? steve: he is downstairs. carley: ever so glad you are back. he had hea