i spent an extraordinary 12 months in american politics. twice impeached president is facing multiple criminal investigations, civil and praise across jurisdictions. it s antisemitic in some cases and the platform. as the conservative supreme court and the 50 real constitutional right to an abortion. we get all that and more tonight but we begin at the end of this year with historic results with the midterm election or democrats came to see in the senate and republicans managed to have defeat from the victory and historically the elections had been a disaster for a first term president in the party in power. as and as nbc noted democratic presidents in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 40 have seats in five senate seats so watergate i look even worse for the party. democratic presidents in the first midterm at cnn part of those an average of 44 house seats and six senate seats. many political observers had a bloodbath on the level of 1994 republican
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. whatever the results of next tuesday s midterm elections, there is no denying that these midterm elections are taking place with the very real specter of political violence and the prevalence of disinformation as a political weapon, unmatched in modern political times. large swaths of the gop have been swallowed up completely by the disinformation about the integrity of our very election systems, and many on the right have normalized conversations around political violence to the point in which polls show it is accepted by many as a useful tool to achieving the right s political aims. now, this says all sorts of things about the weakness of our democracy right now. more importantly, it says a whole lot of things about the weakness of the gop as a governing party. now, a party interested in governing would be desperate to debate policy and have those debates and win those debates ridded in data and a shared set of facts. there s none
hello, welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are are olivia utley, who s assistant comment editor at the daily telegraph, and the broadcasterjohn stapleton. a warm welcome to you both once again. thanks very much for being with us. a glimpse of the front pages. and we begin with the times and that breaking news of mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union, has died at the age of 91. the telegraph follows the story, saying gorbachev s reforms set in train a series of events that led to the collapse of soviet communism, and helped to end the cold war. the metro s front page the world mourns a true man of peace the world mourns a true man of peace. back here in the uk, the i newspaper carries a plea from small businesses to whoever becomes prime minister save us from 400% energy hikes, is its headline. as the summer season turns to autumn, the mirror says households back an urgent freeze in energy bills. the ft focu
800,000 still without power. hundreds of thousands are now homeless. it s just destroyed and it s ruined. you have to start all over again. as hurricanes worsen, are there some areas where americans shouldn t rebuild? i ll speak to fema administrator deanne criswell and florida senators rick scott and marco rubio. upping the ante, ukraine takes back a key city one day after vladimir putin illegally annexs four regions of ukraine and again threatens to go nuclear. there are no checks on mr. putin. can the west keep the russian leader under control? plus, the road to 218, with the democrats majority threat earned in congress, virginia becomes a battleground for one of the most competitive house races in the country. if you look across the spectrum in the country, this is road to 218. i spent time in a district that could prove decisive? hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is picking up the pieces after a devastating storm. the number
on the u.s. capitol. instead, for 187 minutes, between leaving the ellipse and telling the mob to go home, the 45th president of the united states first argued with secret service agents who refused to take him to the capitol. then after returning to the white house, sat in a small, private dining room off the oval office, transfixed by the violence he saw playing out on fox news. which showed the capitol under siege. trump learned just 11 minutes after returning that the protest had turned violent, but he did not make any calls to intervene. failing to reach out to the secretary of defense, the attorney general, or the department of homeland security. instead, he demanded a list of senators phone numbers, calling and encouraging them to delay or object to the certification of the electoral college count. while the president s official call log from the white house that afternoon is empty, trump placed at least two other calls that day. not to the military or the police but