rolling. we re rolling. okay, we re going, guys? yeah. okay, so let s say i want to talk about something that we sort of touched on this morning. and you might hate this, but i really want you to think about it. if you are killed, if this does happen, what message do you leave behind to the russian people? oh, come on, daniel. no. no way. it s like you re making movie for the case of my death. like, again, i m ready to answer your question, but please let it be another movie, movie number two. let s make a thriller out of this movie, and in the case i would be killed, let s make a boring movie of memory. alexei navalny is stepping back into another showdown with the kremlin. what to do with navalny presents a conundrum for the kremlin. let him go and risk looking weak, or lock him up, knowing it could turn him into a political martyr . are you not scared, alexei? what do you expect in moscow? unexpectedly, vladimir putin has a genuine challenger, a hand
and all of that. but we have to keep going down and concentrate on all the rest of them. and at the end of this hour, we are going to be joined by a guest i have been trying to get for a full three years now. the three year campaign to get jen o malley dillon succeeded. succeeded she was, of course, joe biden s presidential campaign manager. i will never forget that it was jen o malley dillon who gave press briefings the day after election night, saying, joe biden has this won, which i then communicated to everyone with complete confidence. and then on saturday, when joe biden was officially called by the networks, all my friends thought i was wicked smart because just listen to o malley dillon, i remember that moment too, it was the opposite of what triggering is. i guess reassuring is the world. yeah, exactly! she spoke with such confidence, such normalcy, such intelligence. it was actually an incredibly important role she played in what was a chaotic moment, as s
this midterm election cycle has been unlike any other. historically the party of the sitting president intends to lose seats during midterm elections. and that would appear to be bad news for democrats. who only have a slim majority in congress. but the relative factors at play this year and that has made the outcome of this election cycle very difficult to protect as the supreme court s aggressive decision to overturn roe v. wade for months ago created a sudden radical intangible change to reproductive rights and health care access and the unpopularity of that decision has helped democrats gain a political advantage. the january six committee and its public findings hat could also factor into november s elections and even though the committee has presented plenty of documentary evidence and testimony from witnesses about the central role that donald trump played in spreading the big lie implementing a coup it has not really effective support for the republican party. that is
you prefer the soviet style prt of the democratic party s internal elections, where votes from merely a formality. all the really big decisions, the meaningful ones, are made thars in advance by donors. oh, of course, everyone sif y on board. that s what they do. but ifou prefe you prefer democy to oligarchy, if you prefer real debates about issues thatet actually matter, it s pretty. refreshing to see it . yes, it s a little chaotic, buti this is what it s supposed to be now. we re going to give you a lotth more detail on what s happening in just a minute and throughout the week. but first, t firs a quick overviewe big to frame the big points. kevi kevin mccarthy of californo was going to be speaker. he was g wants to be speaker. in fact, he wants that job, more than anything else in his life. and he was going to get it. ause but then a group ofd that kevin twenty republican members stopped him. now they stopped becausepresent they decided that kevin mccarthy is not conser
if you think being subpoenaed by the january 6th committee was the worst part of donald trump s week, think again. we will walk you through these growing legal troubles and the one that can hurt him the most. plus, we have the highlights and the low lights from last night s georgia senate debate between raphael warnock and herschel walker. including the moment walker tipped off one of the moderators for using a prop. we will tell you all about it. and, later, debunking a new, ridiculous gop math. schools supposedly living out what are boxes for kids who identify as captain dogs. and reese s when colin s been on the stories for months, he is here to turn it on its head. all of that and more is coming up. and a good saturday morning to you, i am katie fang. which is 24 days ago would until the midterms were just got what will likely be our only debate between the candidates in the united states senate race that could determine control of the u.s. senate. last night republ