Host begins right now. E msnb host begins right now. Good evening. Welcome to tonight Special Coverage. Im Rachel Maddow here at the msnbc mothership with my colleagues joy reid and Lawrence Odonnell and jen psaki and ari melber. I friends chris hayes and alex wagner and Stephanie Ruhle or are gonna be joining us later. Its going to be fun. Were less than a week out from the republican president ial caucuses in iowa. Theast eye or a public can debate is underway tonight with oddly a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five republican president ial candidates. Taking part in that debate. If you can, right now, name all five remaining republican president ial candidates at the top of your head without looking anything up, congratulations. And ill say you need to get out more. Two are debating tonight. Nikki haley and ron desantis. Also tonight, two miles away from that iowa debate, fox news conducted a live town hall with the front running republican candidate, who, of cours
host begins right now. e msnb host begins right now. good evening. welcome to tonight special coverage. i m rachel maddow here at the msnbc mothership with my colleagues joy reid and lawrence o donnell and jen psaki and ari melber. i friends chris hayes and alex wagner and stephanie ruhle or are gonna be joining us later. it s going to be fun. we re less than a week out from the republican presidential caucuses in iowa. theast eye or a public can debate is underway tonight with oddly a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five republican presidential candidates. taking part in that debate. if you can, right now, name all five remaining republican presidential candidates at the top of your head without looking anything up, congratulations. and i ll say you need to get out more. two are debating tonight. nikki haley and ron desantis. also tonight, two miles away from that iowa debate, fox news conducted a live town hall with the front running republican candida
with plans to lower healthcare and drug costs. president supporting democrat candidates including tina huizenga type governor s race. shoppers are hesitant revised retail sales number for september are flat. crime wave and major cities has many people living in fear the country. dan springer is live from the president s campaign stop in portland, oregon. was spoken to a lot of voters this weekend, their top concerns are high gas prices, runaway inflation and especially here homelessness but president joe biden spent almost all of his speech today talking about inflation reduction act lowering prescription drug prices in the future. he also took shots at republicans in congress. when it comes time to do something about inflation around the kitchen table, republicans in congress said no. they take control, their first aim is to get rid of the inflation reduction act and inflation will go up, not down. the democratic candidate for governor in oregon, she s trailing by slim
better than everything. retail politics, going to change peoples hands, is they tell you what their issue is and you respond to them with a policy that you look for to solving. now, donald trump connected with all of those people because he said your grievance in the world, you feel like you re forgotten, i m going to solve that for you. and for four, years he only think that he solved was a massive tax cut for corporate america. so the issue to do retail politics is offering any policy solutions. what s the solution? we ll get hunter, impeach joe biden. shut down the government, about the stock market tanks in the next six months. maybe to wax a little bit poetic about donald trump, something i m not prone to doing, he does strike an emotional chord but 70 people. he is really strongman rule, i will get rid of this media that annoys, you i ll get rid of your enemies. i will get rid of anything in politics, and i ll rule as a strongman. it s a comforting idea. well, anger is
instead, two senators holding their own party hostage. all this as congress has to act before midnight tomorrow to avert a government shutdown. chuck schumer says that he s got an agreement with republicans for a stopgap funding bill and they ll vote on that in the morning. and no pressure, but they have also got until october 18th to suspend the debt ceiling so the u.s. can pay its bills. the house voted to do just that tonight. but the bill is all but certain to fail in the senate. and let s remember what s at stake here. if congress doesn t act to raise the debt ceiling, social-security payments get hit. the stock market tanks, plummets. mortgage rates rise. and we could lose millions of jobs millions of jobs. all of that and the gop is willing to take the country to the brink to score political points. let s remember, mitch mcconnell is refusing to vote for some something that he has voted on