released. we will have the key takeaways and how the facts compare with a largely fictitious claims from of the former president. then, we will kevin mccarthy be speaker of the house in 2023? the republican body entering the new year divided. pressure to expel a freshman member over his lies, and clinging onto loyalties to a certain florida resident. and new concerns of tripledemic illnesses, with covid hospitalizations on the rise again, as the year ends, as a special early edition of the 11th hour gets underway this friday night. good evening, i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. how much did you pay in federal taxes in 2020? i bet you paid a fair bit of your income. i know i did. we now know the former president of the united states, a self proclaimed billionaire, played zero dollars in federal income taxes in 2020. in fact, donald j trump claimed a refund of more than $5 million. that is part of what we learned this morning from the house ways and means committee, whi
jdbalart@msnbc. yasmin vossoughian picks up with more news right now. good to see you. it is thursday morning. i m yasmin vossoughian live for you here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we got a lot to get to this morning. right now a jolt of good news on the economic front. 12 days out from the midterms which could very well be decided by how voters feel about the economy. the gdp grew more than expected and how the white house is responding to that. new urgency and new questions in two of the most consequential races of the midterms. first in georgia, a new allegation against herschel walker. the antiabortion republican denying a claim from another former girlfriend who came forward anonymous saying he drove her to get an abortion decades ago. i am a registered independent and i voted for donald trump in both elections. i do not believe that herschel walker is fit to be a u.s. senator. walker is firing back, calling the allegation a lie and saying he s done w
full court press to try to get their economic message out in the 11th hour. there are still questions over how big of a campaign footprint president biden will make in the next 12 days. over house republicans weighing impeachment hearings if they retake the majority. former presidents obama and trump set to kick off a tour of dueling campaign rallies to try to help turnout ahead of election day. an update on the tripledemic fears, with rsv, covid and the flu surging at hospitals. good day. the white house is feeling a sense of urgency to remind voters of their legislative victories, as republican optimism over retaking the house and senate grows by the day. the administration s immediate answer, get cabinet officials into battleground states to try to help candidates. mike memoli has been covering the story and joins us from syracuse, new york, ahead of the president s event there this afternoon. you write this is about reinforcing the president s economic message. it i
pasture is charlie crist. with me senior data reporter harry eton. i want to start with you. polls came out in pennsylvania and wisconsin, two crucial senate races. what do they so? i want to note if i can make that sound you made with the paperwork right there i might have a future in movie being a sound effect guy. look. okay. choice for u.s. senate in pennsylvania john fetterman, democrat. we had him up by six points. wisconsin had ron johnson, republican of wisconsin up by one. we call that no clear leader. well with the marge s of error. both results within margin of error. vast majority in polls so fetterman anywhere between a two to seven point advantage. what s the difference between these two races? the difference between these would two rhe races? in pennsylvania favorable minus, unfavorable john fetterman, positive 0.2. look at mehmet ozs favorability rates how far under water, minus 17 points. now, joe biden at minus ten points but mehmet oz below. driving
so the first and most important thing people can do is go out and get vaccinated. that will keep people, kids, adults, everybody out of the hospital at very high rates. that is probably the most important thing. and then we know how to manage rsv. most children, most adults, relatively mild. small somebody of kids that get sick from it, we can take care of it. we need to make sure the beds are open for children which is why it is important to protect yourself from influenza and covid as well. are we going to be seeing makeshift hospitals or wards for children this winter? i hope not. we re seeing a lot of rsv right now. my hope is that turns around. what worries me is if we then add in influenza and covid on top of that, that s where we can get into trouble, but we don t have to. we can t control everything, but there are things we can control. the two most important things now are going out and getting the influenza shot, the flu shot and getting the new updated covid sh