bell and air conditioning and modern hospitals. it is not another world. so given that given how closely related the united states is to europe and has always been, you would imagine our leaders would notice when europe began to fall apart, especially when the signs were not subtle at all and they weren t. this summer, germans begin clearcutting ancient forests to heat their homes. in poland, families queued up for hours to buy coal just did one hundred and fifty years ago in the uk, the government projected that more than ten thousand britons will freeze to death, will die this winter for lack of heating fuel. freeze to death in england. that is not supposed to happen in a first world country. so europe is moving backward at high speed and it s not clear where it will end. so the question is why is this happening? and the answer for once is a very simple one to warm ukraine. that s why it s happening. a huge percentage of europe s energy came from russia. those imports h
zeldin is going to joioin us wih more on the state s insane zero bail laws that are now t putting y in the state in danger. and believe it or not, i know you might not. there is a chance a republican can actually win the governorship in a bluee state like new york .li we ll tell you why. but we begin with a new record for the biden administration this year. i guess it s tim.e to celebratei if you re pro open borders, because for the first time in us history, we have nowe now reported over two millioren illegal immigrant crossings at our southern border, breakin 2g by the way, last year s record high of one point seven million. in other wordsof, after vowing o address the root causes of mass illegal immigration well, i and appointing his vice president as border czargr, the crisis has become even worse than you can believe. nown , apparently, his only trip to the southern border, which really wasn t where thingss an are happening. just a quick trip through el quk paso just l
the electric car battery maker britishvolt has gone into administration after hopes of a last minute bid for the company faded. the collapse raises questions about uk hopes of building a home grown battery industry. the company, which had plans to build a gigafactory to make the uk start up had been expecting to build a new 5.8 billion or $4.7 billion factory in northumberland, as part of a long term vision to boost uk manufacturing. well, this promotional video shows what the factory with a capability to make 300,000 electric batteries a year would have looked like. the plan was to create 3,000 jobs at the plant. now, administrators have taken over the business and most of britishvolt s 300 staff are being made redundant. here s our business editor simonjack. so what went wrong? britishvolt was a start up company with no track record. their battery technology was only at the prototype stage. although there are expressions of interest from lotus and aston martin, they
senate majority leader chuck schumer was caught on a hot mic telling the president the senate race he s most concerned about, and also, willie, in that moment, he showed joe biden his socks. there s some political cartoon socks. there was a lot going on on the tarmac. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it s friday, october 28th. along with willie and me, we have former white house press secretary jen psaki, and jonathan lemire, and eugene robinson joins us along with presidential historian, jon meacham, his new book is titled and there was light, abraham lincoln and the american struggle. a great group this morning. joe is of but we have a lot to get to, willie. elon musk is officially in charge of twitter. the tesla ceo closed the deal last night, purchasing the social media giant for $44 billion after the deal closed, musk fired four executives, including the ceo and cfo, the head of legal policy, trust and safety who reportedly led the team who decided whether
arizona s democratic candidate for governor burglarized. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. good morning. good morning to you. john berman is off this morning. and police in phoenix are investigating this break in at katy hobbs campaign this week. this is coming amid reports of intimidation, where hobbs is currently the top election official. her campaign claims this is the person who broke in. cnn has blurred the face because police have not yet identified any suspects. hobbs campaign manager saying they ve faced death threats, blaming kari lake. and here is how lake responded. i m saddened that the hobbs and her camp would try to pin this on us. it s just defamatory and it s wrong. and it s so obvious what s happening. her own party is attacking her. she s trying to deflect her own abysmal campaign and the fact that, you know, nobody even knows where her campaign office is. the person who broke in probably didn t realize it was a campaign office.