tonight with the context, the writer and broadcaster chris morris and leigh ann caldwell, longtime capitol hill correspondent and now an anchor for the washington post live. we re going to start with the latest from the war in ukraine. in a major speech today the russian president vladimir putin had a dire warning that the coming decade could be the most dangerous since the end of the second world war. president putin defended moscow s so called special military operation, saying the expansion of nato, and the west, were to blame. he accused western nations of trying to impose their politics, culture and way of life around the globe. translation: russia is not - challenging the elites of the west, russia is simply defending its right to exist and to develop freely. the west is not able to single handedly able to govern humanity but it is desperately trying to do it. most peoples of the world no longer want to put up with it. on the ground fierce fighting continues across
weapons. biden said this world faces a pos armageddon. it is not just the war in ukraine, north korea is texting badly again. is acting badly again, and sa saudi arabia threatening alliances and world security. joining us now former ambassador to the u.n., former governor of great state of south carolina, author of the new book if you want something done. ambassador nikki haley thank you for joining us, what do you make of what putin is saying and doing? i think putin is feeling desperate, i think you see it is he hit a low point he gets drones from iran and rockets from north korea, he lost the faith of his military and confidence of his people. and i think he is trying to buy time to figure out what he will do. what we have to do is make sure when we goes and adds the nuclear threats we don t go running for the hills and keep our foot on the gas. he said if he took ukraine that poland and the baltics were next, we don t need to be giving ukraine blank checks but to wo
there s too much political violence. there s too much intimidation. there are more than 300 election deniers on the republican tickets this year for state, federal, and local government. [ boos ] this is really serious stuff. if a republican nominee for governor in the state of wisconsin wins, here s what he said. he said, if i win, my party will never lose another election in wisconsin. he s either a prophet or he plans on doing something about election law. that s president joe biden in california last night. his latest stop in a jam-packed campaign schedule before the final days of the campaign. willie, you ve got these republican candidates that believe in american democracy only if they win. yeah. we ve played the laundry list of them. senator ron johnson was on yesterday talking to our own shaquille brewster inside the state of wisconsin. shaquille asked him simply if you lose will you honor the results? we ll have to see what happens. his words, i don t know what t
circle. and i didn t do it, be if it did happen, there s nothing to be ashamed after. that was a short lived defense. to a report that he paid for a former girlfriend s abortion. we re going to go through his evolving denials on that developing story. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, october 7th. we have pulitzer prize winning columnist from the washington post, eugene robinson. ed luce is with us. officer at princeton university, eddie glaude jr., and jonathan lemire is with us this morning. mika, we were going to get into the news i just saw ed there. i saw a little smirk on ed s face. and i just have to talk about it. you know, ed, we have an expression, we ve always had an expression when people have congratulated me for anything i ve done, i go, well, i m the tallest building in schenectady. your headline, i love this, america is history s most successful failing state, i would define what you re describing here, i m an upstate new york guy
inside the president s garage with his corvette. hence the new york post headline anybody vette this guy? we have a look at past cases involving classified information. let s begin the hour david spunt reports at the department of justice where he was yesterday when the news broke. david, hello. two special counsels investigating two presidents in a span of two months. welcome to the department of justice. it has been busy. robert hur is the latest special counsel on the job as of yesterday to specifically investigate these classified documents taken from the president s home in wilmington, delaware and his office at the penn biden center. jack smith, the appointed is neck deep and the president trump documents. attorney general garland who has lived in a pressure cooker the past six months was most recently with the president in mexico. they sat together and spoke multiple times on the trip. a source says the attorney general never spoke to the president about this inves