On capitol hill. Well have much more on that. Also ahead, the latest out of The Middle East. President biden is pushing for a ceasefire to address the humanitarian crisis in gaza. Well show you former president Donald Trumps outburst during his Civil Fraud Trial in new york. First, willie, lets go to the latest on the tragedy unfolding in maine. At least 15 people are dead this morning, up to 50 may be injured in the community of lewiston, located 30 miles north of portland, maine. Police s gunman entered two separate locations. First, a Bowling Alley, where he fatally shot seven people before moving on to a nearby bar. Some of the victims may have been injured in stampedes as crowds raced to escape as the shooting started. Officials fear many teenagers could be among those killed and injured as the Bowling Alley was hosting its youth night. Police have identified now a 40yearold male as a Person Of Interest in connection with these shootings. Hes still at large, considered Armed And Dangerous with an arstyle rifle. Police say theyve located the mans vehicle in the neighboring town of lisbon, but he was not in it. Residents in the area have been urged to shelter in place. According to a bulletin from Law Enforcement officials, the man was a Military Firearms Instructor with about 20 Years Experience of military service. Noted the man recently reported Mental Health issues to include Hearing Voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard base in a nearby town of saco. He was reported to have been committed to a Mental Health facility for two weeks this summer and released. The white house says President Biden, Vice President harris have been briefed on the active situation. Biden spoke to maines governor, the states congressional representatives last night, and offered the full support of the federal government. In response to the shooting, maines commissioner of Public Safety sought to assure the public, theyre committed to apprehending the Person Of Interest. We have literally hundreds of Police Officers working around the state of maine to investigate this case, to locate mr. Carr, who, again, is a Person Of Interest and a Person Of Interest only, and well continue to gather information so that we can bring the suspect to justice and, ultimately, seek prosecution down the road. Lets get right to the ground in lewiston, maine. Thats where we find nbcs emma barnett. Emma, whats the latest there . Reporter yeah, hey, willie. So im standing right in front of the Bowling Alley where the gunman went in about around 6 30 p. M. Last night, and it has been eerily quiet here in lewiston. I got here around 12 30 a. M. , and the only people that i have really seen out and about for the most part have been members of the media. I took a drive to the Reunification Center. The only people there that i saw were media and a couple cars which i assume belong to the families who are inside. I asked the Police Officer how many Family Members are waiting to hear from loved ones and hoping and prays that they are still alive. He was not able to give me that kind of information. Something else that we just learned is that Lisbon School districts are going to be closed. As you mentioned in the intro, lisbon is where that vehicle was found. The School Districts are closed. The town offices are closed. A lot of people are still sheltering in place. I did meet one woman earlier who she took a nap and woke up around midnight and saw everything that was happening in this town. She lives 4 miles away. She came here to see what the scene was like and what was going on, and she described it as being shocked. She was shocked and devastated and just absolutely horrified. This is a small town where things like this, no one ever expects to happen until they happen. It is just absolutely horrific and tragic. Emma, can you give us a sense of the geography of these shootings here there in lewiston . O separate locations. Were looking at a m right now. First, the Bowling Alley, and then south to th bar where they were having a corn hole night, apparently, and shot up those two places. Just about how this played out last night just before 7 00, according to police. Reporter yeah, so the details are still unraveling. I also want to mention in the Bowling Alley, there was a youth it seems to have been a youth night, which makes this even more tragic. We dont know for sure yet, but people fear that there are young people among the victims. And the hospital that a lot of these victims were transported to is just down the road about a mile and a half from here. People were also taken to boston and another hospital in maine, as well. These details are still emerging and still coming to the surface. Okay. Nbcs emma barnett live in lewiston, maine, for us. Well let you get back out and do some reporting and well talk later. Mika, News Conference at 10 30 a. M. As of right now, where they may be able to provide more information. The headline is this Person Of Interest is still on the loose and obviously Armed And Dangerous. This is very much unfolding right now in maine, in lewiston, maine, and surrounding towns. This Person Of Interest, this robert card, 40 years old, Reading Associated press and nbc news reporting, he is a Firearmed Instruct E believed to be in the army reserve, assigned to a Training Facility in saco, maine. There is a document that Circumstance Lat circulated between the military saying that he was treated for Mental Illness in the summer. He has been Hearing Voices and being told to shoot up a Military Base. The Maine Medical Center is reacting to this like it is a war zone. They have a Mass Casualty mass Shooter Event in the er. Theyre coordinating with local hospitals to figure out how to take in patients. To some reports, there were up to 50 injured. Theres an order for residents and Business Owners to stay inside, to not go outside from lewiston to lisbon, maine, as a vehicle of interest was found. They dont know if this man has fle in some other way. Maybe hes received help. Who knows. The governor of maine, janet mills, echoed instructions to shelter in place. Shes been briefed on the situation and will remain in close contact with Public Safety officials. Joe biden spoke by phone with the governor and offered federal support in the wake of this horrific attack, again, in lewiston, maine. Schools are closed today, and everybody is told to shelter place until they know where this man is. Just for the record, willie, maine doesnt require permits to carry guns. I go to maine. Ive been going to maine for 56 years. It has a longstanding culture of gunownership, hunting and sports shooting. I cant imagine Something Like this happening in maine, but thats what we say everywhere where there is one of these Mass Shootings, which is an epidemic. The shootings in maine is exceedingly rare. If you look at the Portland Press herald, great reporting on this, detailing that, as well. Bates college is right there in lewiston, smack in the middle between the two Shooting Sites. Obviously, that school is locked down. Yo imagine the terror of those students along with the members of the community. There is concern, willie, a lot of young people may be victims here. At one of the locations, they were having a teen night or something. The Bowling Alleys youth night. Horrifying. It is. Lets go to Nbc News National Security analyst clint watts. Clint, the Person Of Interest, as theyre calling him as of right now, is still out there. The man who they believe perpetrated the shootings with an arstyle rifle at two separate locations. From your experience, how to you approach this . They found the vehicle they believe he was in. They havent found him. Theyve locked down the town of lisbon. Thats where they found the car. Where do you begin to track this person down . Willie, last night, it was the worstcase scenario, and you knew it right away. Looking at the image of the shooter, he seems to be someone who knows how to handle a weapon. When youre Law Enforcement, youve seen him go through and shoot and kill multiple people, the way hes holding the weapon, the equipment, youre looking at extra magazines taped together it looks like, highcapacity scopes, cargo pants. This is somebody who knows what theyre doing. You can tell by the way theyre standing and holding the weapon. Imagine youre Law Enforcement. Youre trying to track this down. In lewiston, there are not a lot of Law Enforcement. It is a vast area. Just a couple months ago, we were talking about a prison break, remember, in pennsylvania. That was an individual who didnt really have much. You know, escaped from a prison, was just on the loose, was trying to find gear. Thats not the case in this scenario. We have large rural areas, somebody who has some Military Experience, knows how to use the weapon and has already used it multiple times at multiple locations. This is a really dangerous situation for Law Enforcement. Like we had seen earlier this morning, a lot of Law Enforcement, fbi, atf rushing to the scene. Youll have state police rushing to the scene, but theyre moving from behind. Theres not that many Law Enforcement officers in this town to cover that vast an area that quickly while also dealing with multiple trauma scenes. Were covering Breaking News, a Mass Shooting in lewiston, maine. Were talking about 15 or 16 dead. Were trying to get the numbers right. Many, many, many more injured. Again, willie, clint was talking about how experienced this suspect was with the cargo pants and ammunition all over him. He was able to wreak as much terror on this town as possible. The challenge for authorities and the different Law Enforcement organizations that are coming together, trying to track him down, but also to lockdown and make safe, for example, the Health Facilities that are trying to take care of the victims, the many, many victims. The hospital in the area is also on lockdown with police circulating it and circulating the halls because who knows where he might go next. When we talk about up to 50 people injured, we know sadly, from our experience with all these Mass Shootings with ar15s, those are very, very serious injuries. Theres a likelihood medical officials would tell you the death toll could rise, 15 or 16 right now. Clint, would the fbi will on the ground already . Who else could they call in . Lewiston is a town of about 37,000 people, the second largest town in the state of maine, but still only 37,000. They dont have the capacity for a widescale manhunt here. Who else would be on the ground this morning . Yeah, the fbi is absolutely going to move to the scene very quickly. Evidence Response Teams likely s. W. A. T. Have already been deployed. Boston is the field office that would cover that. There are resident agencies throughout maine. Portland and augusta being the main ones. Those agencies will send people. Were still talking about a small number of agents. Separately, i imagine theyre going to need extra security. That brings up the situation with, as mika noted the top of the hour, you know, the army reserve base. Is there anybody who can come do physical security or be immediately called up to try to protect specific locations . I think the key thing we dont really understand about this case yet is why these two targets. Weve not heard. There is some indication late last night that Law Enforcement did know potentially why he went to these two locations, but are there any other locations that this person has talked about or considered, or somebody around that neighborhood that knows him or where he works thinks he might attack or use as a target. Clint the last part is the outdoor training. Is he someone who has done a lot of survivalist training . Has he gone out and done a lot of camping and hiking . That would make the search even more difficult at this point with so few people on the scene. Thats what im wondering about. Clint, if you could help us with youve been up all night but in terms of when this broke, when they started looking for him. Lewiston is 90 minutes north of the border. Having done that drive a lot, is there any possibility he has been able to leave the state, gotten assistance or in terms of where his car was found . Is there anything we can glean about where he may be . So far, ive not heard anything. Late last night, Jim Cavanaugh and i were on, frank, as well, and wed not heard of anything. There was a potential he had another automobile, but that was not confirmed. Separately, it is a place where, you know, he did this attack, there is a reaction time to the two scenes. He has a lot of lead time if he were to have another car. He could move quite some distance, but it is not clear at all where the individual went. As of last night, i have not seen any evidence theyve really tracked any strong leads on his whereabouts. That may have changed, but i have not seen anything so far. All right. National security analyst clint watts, were going to be in touch with you and many others throughout the morning on this. Were starting to get accounts of what it was like to be in the Bowling Alley or the restaurant. This is from the Associated Press. A young man, brandon, putting on his bowling shoes, said, i had my back turned to the door. As soon as i turned, saw it was not a balloon that popped, it was a man holding a weapon, i booked it. He scrambled down the length of the Bowling Alley, dove in where the pins are, and hid up there and survived because of that and was sent to a Reunification Center later. He said, ive been barefoot for five hours because i was putting on my bowling shoes. We have a lot of questions to address the next four hours. This man is still on the run. The suspect so far identified as 40yearold robert card, who is described as a Firearms Instructor, which is why he was able, potentially, to wreak so much damage and murder across the area of, not just lewiston, maine, but wherever else he might be. Still ahead on morning joe, we will continue to follow any and all developments out of the state of maine as a massive manhunt continues for this Person Of Interest in this deadly mass shotting. Up to 50 people injured. The type of weapon used, these injuries will be difficult. Well be checking in with local hospitals, as well, to figure out how theyre locking them town and dealing with the injuries and potentially more deaths as this story unfolds, this Breaking News unfolds. Plus, major news out of washington. Mike johnson is the new Speaker Of The House. Three weeks after republicans removed kevin mccarthy, it was a long battle, well tell you more about the new leader of the lower chamber. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Now, theres skyrizi. Things are looking up, ive got Symptom Relief. Control of my crohns means everything to me. Control is everything to me. Feel significant Symptom Relief at 4 weeks with skyrizi, including less Abdominal Pain and fewer bowel movements. Skyrizi is the first il23 inhibitor that can deliver remission and visibly improve damage of the intestinal lining. And the majority of people experienced longlasting remission at one year. 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Effectively, and on a youth bowling night, there may be Young Students at the Bowling Alley. Up to 16 dead and 50 injured. You wonder why this man, this suspect at large, described as a Firearms Instructor who was heavily, heavily armed and is still on the run. There is a massive search under way. We are on this, and we will jump back into this as every piece of information comes in. We have other big news to cover this morning. After three weeks of dysfunction and chaos on capitol hill, the house finally has a new speaker this morning. House lawmakers elected congressman mike johnson of louisiana as the 56th Speaker Of The House. Hes a conservative ally of former President Donald Trump and a lowranking member of the gop leadership team. After 22 days of disarray, Republican House members demonstrated remarkable unity with all 220 voting for johnson. Shortly after the vote, the new speaker made this pledge. I want to make this commitment to you, to my colleagues here and on the other side of the aisle, as well, my office is going to be known for trust and transparency and accountability. For good stewardship of the peoples treasure. For the honesty, integrity that is incumbent upon us, all of us, here in the peoples house. Speaker johnson will immediately have to work within his party and with the Biden White House to figure out how to fund the government before money runs out on November 17th and deliver critical aid packages to ukraine and israel. As for Speaker Johnson himself, he is arguably the most idealogical conservative person to serve as speaker since Newt Gingrich in the 1990s. Johnson is an outspoken opponent of abortion and lgbtq rights. The 51yearold also played an instrumental role in the gops efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He led the amicus brief signed by 100 republicans backing a texas lawsuit, seeking to invalidate the 2020 Election Results in four swing states won by President Biden. Theew york times called johnson, quote, the most important architect of the Electoral College objections. Ahead of yesterdays vote, Democratic Caucus chair pete aguilar of california called out johnson for his previous efforts to overturn the 2020 Election Results. This has been about one thing. This has been about who can appease donald trump. House republicans have put their names behind someone who has been called the most important architect of the Electoral College objections. Yeah, right. He spearheaded thats fair. We know how you feel. Yeah, youve made that clear. Damn right someone in the chamber yells. Meanwhile, donald trump congratulated the speaker posting, quote, maga mike johnson. Adding that johnson will be, quote, a great speaker. Lets bring in the white house editor for politico, sam stein. Congressional investigations reporter for the washington post, Jackie Alemany. And founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, charlie sykes. Willie, this is going to be interesting, this Election Denier as Speaker Of The House. Charlie sykes, look who celebrated the loudest yesterday. It was donald trump. It was matt gaetz. Somehow, they got moderates, the new york moderates who have been holding some of the power here, mike lawler, for example, they all got on board with mike johnson. The truth is, as someone put it to me yesterday, he is jim jordan with a jacket and a better haircut, which is to say, he is fullthroated in supporting the overturning of the election, conservative on abortion and lgbtq rights. What is your assessment of where the party landed . No question who the winners are. Matt gaetz may be loathed by his colleagues, but he got his way. He blew it up. He managed to torpedo kevin mccarthy, to block steve scalise, tom emmer, and eventually got his candidate. Mike johnson is described as jim jordan in drag. This is a full maga speaker. Theyre describing him as one of the chief architects of the overturning of the elections. It understates his role. He is a full throated believer in kraken level conspiracies about dominion, about hugo chavez. If he had gotten his way, tens of millions of votes would have been thrown out. He is a he may be a personable individual, but he is a pure ideologue. But it is extraordinary, as we look back on this chaos, that matt gaetz and a handful of other members of the caucus, of the people that john mccain called the wacko birds, john boehner called them legislative terrorists, ben wittes calls them the craze slavering jackal caucus, ultimately, they got their way. Yeah. All of the normies caved in. For a brief five minutes, it looked like the moderates were going to hold the line, but, ultimately, the squishes did what squishes always do. The fact that it was unanimous is also extraordinary. That was my question to you, Jackie Alemany. What happened here . What changed when you had people like ken buck and others saying, i will not support someone who is an Election Denier, full stop. Exactly. Yesterday, he got the votes he needed. It was really remarkable turn of events, to see someone with perhaps the lowest name id in all of American History become speaker in a matter of less than 24 hours with a full support of his conference. I think that johnson benefitted from a number of things, primarily the fact that he has no national profile. Even his colleagues didnt have time to properly vet him, as one lawmaker told me. He didnt have time to go through his votes from the period of tuesday night, when tom emmer stormed out of the conference, dropping out as speaker, and when mike johnson then became the speaker, designate to votes the next morning. He benefitted from fatigue. If lawmakers are being honest, you know, when i spoke to ken buck yesterday, he said that he supported mike johnson. He tried to draw a distinction between his opposition to jim jordan and mike johnson, saying, making this argument that jordan was actively involved in encouraging the rioters to storm the u. S. Capitol. He was in the white house, in touch with trump in these efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and mike johnson was involved in the lawyerly aspects of the fight and, therefore, it wasnt as harmful. But when i asked buck why he didnt ask johnson in the house gop Conference Meeting, as he had with other candidates, whether he was opposed whether he still believed the 2020 election was stolen, buck simply said it was a really long day. There were 12 other things going on. He just didnt get to the question, but he was hopeful that johnson would answer it appropriately. I asked johnson right after he gave his Press Conference, his First Press Conference as house gop speaker, whether or not he believed the 2020 election was stolen. He simply said his position was wellknown and he wasnt going to be talking about issues yesterday. Wow. Wow. Sam stein, big picture, how do how does Mitch Mcconnell work with him . What to you see in terms of actual Government Running Policy being created, laws passing . What do you see coming in the future given his extreme stances and how he works with other republicans who perhaps dont carry those same beliefs . Its a great question. Theres a couple things that have to come to head, right . One is funding the government. We have a matter of weeks until the current resolution runs out. Theyve got to get it funded, and you have to wonder if hes going to get he being johnson gets a little bit of runway to handle that. The other is this supplemental foreign aid package that was introduced. 106 billion, ukraine, israel, border aid, humanitarian aid, all that is going to be packaged together. You know, does he get any leeway to push that forward . If so, maybe they can get it done, but its pared back. Mitch mcconnell has to figure out how much pressure he puts on him, as well. Its a great unknown. Keep in mind, there is nothing there is no template by which we can really judge mike johnson here. Hes never done this before. His legislative record is very sparse. Hes only before a fourterm member of congress. He doesnt have the Leadership Experience that anyone who also ran for the post has. This is all sort of on the fly, experimental governance. He is second in line for the presidency, and people are googling him right now to figure out whats going on. Im just completely uncertain, as everyone else is, about how these next couple weeks go, but there are several major things that do have to happen. Charlie, the idea that Mike Johnsons colleagues, republican colleagues, the moderates, didnt have time to vet him properly because this was moving so quickly doesnt pass the laugh test. It wasnt moving quickly, number one. And all you have to do is google him to find out he was an architect in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election that was slapped down by the Supreme Court ultimately with that amicus brief in the texas lawsuit. Right. Speak to the donald trump of it all. For the talk of his perhaps waning influence, he was able to take out emmer when he wanted to, when he decided he wasnt the right guy because he wasnt a Strong Enough supporter. The end of the day, he looked at mike johnson, did donald trump, and say, he did all that stuff on my behalf around the 2020 election. Congress, hes the guy. In case there was no doubt that donald trump is sitting in a courtroom in new york but he is still the Apex Predator of the Republican Party, tom emmer is not the speaker because he refused to go along with Donald Trumps coup attempts. Mike johnson, this Fifth String Speaker nobody knows anything about, is, in fact, second in line to the presidency because of the role he played in trying to get donald trump to overthrow the election. This is not rocket science. This is now a full maga house. Whether it was exhaustion or a lack of courage or a lack of imagination, you know, you have the entire Republican Party basically now lining up behind a Super Uber Trumpy speaker. Wow. Which seems to be the story of the last seven years, isnt it . It seems to be the story of 2023. It seems to be the story of 2024. The bulwarks charlie sykes, politicos sam stein, and the washington posts Jackie Alemany, thank you. Major news out of washington. We have an Election Denier as Speaker Of The House, but were also following this Breaking News out of maine, if youre just joining us. At least 15 people are dead and up to 50 may be injured. That is the suspect, the Person Of Interest in this. Police say the gunman entered two locations last night, a Bowling Alley in lewiston, maine, where he fatally shot seven people, before moving on par. Some of the victims may have been injured in stampedes, as crowds raced to escape as the shooting unfolded. Officials fear that a lot of teenagers could be among those killed or injured, as the powell Bowling Alley was hosting the youth night. Willie pointing out this is four minutes from Bates College. This Person Of Interest, a 40yearold male, is still at large. He was Armed And Dangerous when he was last seen with an arstyle rifle, heavily armed. They located neighboring town of lisbon. The entire area is locked down. Schools are closed, and residents have been urged to shelter in place. A lot of questions about this suspect who, according to Law Enforcement officials, was a Military Firearms Instructor with 20 Years Experience of military service. He had many, many health problems, Mental Health problems, and was recently in a Mental Health facility as recently as this summer. The white house has been briefed on this. The governor of maine has been briefed on this. Well be hearing much more this morning, especially from local hospitals, which are also under lockdown and being protected right now because the suspect is still at large. Theyre dealing with up to 50 injured. With that type of weapon, these injuries could be quite serious. Well be continuing to follow this Breaking News throughout the morning. We have several other big stories, as well, to cover. Coming up, israel conducts an overnight raid in Northern Gaza as it prepares for a Ground Invasion that the u. S. Is urging the country try to delay. Well have the latest on the israelhamas war. 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Ask your doctor about skyrizi, the 1 dermatologistprescribed biologic in psoriasis. Learn how abbvie could help you save. Overnight, Israeli Forces conducted a raid in north herb gaza. They attacked Headquarters Targets and missile posts. The idf posted about the mission on social media, writing it was, quote, in preparation for the next stages of combat. Meanwhile, the white house is calling for a humanitarian pause in israels Military Campaign in an effort to get more aid into gaza. Hospitals warned theyll have to shut down if more fuel and supplies like water and medicine are not brought in. The United Nations warning itll have to curtail its efforts for palestinian refugees. Only a small number of aid trucks have entered gaza. Yesterday in a joint address with the australian Prime Minister In Washington, President Biden spoke about the war. Israel has the right, and i would add, responsibility to respond to the slaughter of their people, and we will ensure israel has what it needs to defend itself against these terrorists. Thats a guarantee. We also have to remember hamas does not remember, let me say it again, hamas does not represent the people on the gaza strip or anywhere else. Hamas is hiding behind Palestinian Civilians, and it is despicable and, not surprisingly, cowardly, as well. This also puts an added burden on israel while they go after hamas. That does not lessen the need to operate in the line with the laws of war. Israel has to do everything in its power, as difficult as it is, to protect innocent civilians, and it is difficult. I also want to take a moment to look ahead toward the future we seek. Israelis and Pl Palestinians equally deserve to live side by side in safety, dignity, and peace. Theres no going back to the status quo as it stood on october 6th. That means ensuring hamas can no longer terrorize israel and use Palestinian Civilians as human shields. It also means that when this crisis is over, there has to be a vision of what comes next. In our view, it has to be a twostate solution. It means a concentrated effort for all the parties, israelis, palestinians, regional partners, Global Leaders, to put us on a path of peace. Im convinced hamas attacked when it did, i have no proof, my instinct tells me, is because of the progress we were making toward reintegration for israel and overall. We cant leave that work behind. Richard haass is with us, president emeritus of the council on foreign relations. What do you make of what President Biden said, especially the last part, where he talks about the need for a vision of what comes next . Does anyone have an answer for that . Well, hes right. Yes. Whats the next part . Its also on the United States. Right. You cant just defeat hamas militarily. Im arguing you cant eliminate it. Lets put that aside. You need more than a military tool. You cant beat something with nothing. Theres got to be a palestinian partner. Itll never be hamas. Ultimately, itll be palestinians in the west bank. Israel has been undermining them. Theyve been undermining themselves. The United States has not made this a priority, lets be honest. What you have to do is stabilize the current situation. Avoid a wider war. Get the israelis to find a way to get more aid to gaza. When the dust settles, the president is 100 right. There has to be a larger political conversation about how we move to a twostate solution. Otherwise, were going to return to Something Like this down the road. Can you speak to the line President Biden is walking right now . He also condemned Israeli Settler Attack On Palestinians in the west bank. Hes trying to say, listen, hamas is separate from the Palestinian People. Lets not conflate the two, warning a little bit, israel, to pump the brakes. Exactly right. This is conditional support. This is needle threading. What hes trying to do is be publicly as supportive and empathetic as he can be. Israel has every right, indeed, the duty, as he said, to hit hard back against hamas, but distinction between hamas and gaza, between hamas and the people of gaza. Again, the political who horizo that has to be out there. Israel has to be sensitive to the laws of war. This is conditional support. President so far has pulled it off really well. He is, by far, more popular in israel than bibi netanyahu. The question for the president is, can he continue to walk this line, urge israel while acknowledging it has the right to do things, urge it to act with a degree of restraint . Ultimately, i think it is in israels best interest to do so. He is essentially joining the israeli political conversation. He is trying to be hes not telling israel, you have to do things. Ultimately, its their sovereign decisions. What he is saying, though, be wise. Make Foreign Policy with your head, not with your heart. Even though youre tempted to do certain things, even though quote, unquote, you have the right to do certain things, make sure its smart. Make sure it leaves you better off the day after. This is a very tricky thing, but i think his instincts are right. It is extremely tricky amid concerns of a wider war in The Middle East. The white house is working to ease tensions with its top competitor in asia. Senior Biden Administration Officials Say tomorrow, the president will host chinas Foreign Minister at the white house. Thats ahead of a planned trip to the u. S. By chinese president xi jinping next month, where the white house is working toward securing a facetoface meeting between xi and biden. For more on this, lets bring in nbc news Foreign Correspondent Janis Mackey Frayer, live from beijing. What needs to happen for all this to go well . Reporter well, this is a crucial set of meetings about to happen in the midst of two major conflicts with ramifications for the world to be reshaped. Wang yi is the highest level chinese official to Visit Washington in years. The meetings will be spread over three days with secretary blinken, jake sullivan, and ultimately with President Biden, expected to happen friday. The issues could touch on anything from human rights to fentanyl, tech wars to the south china sea. What the u. S. Is looking to leverage with wang yi is chinas influence with iran. To help ensure that there is some stability, the sort of Stability Richard was talking about, to ensure that there isnt a wider regional conflict. Beijing made no secret of its efforts to try to position itself as a Global Player, and xi jinping as a global statesman. This conflict, though, is already presenting some limits for chinas neutrality. China has relations with israel, but it is traditionally backing the palestinians. While were not going to see china take on a role like qatar, qatar having influence with hamas, in particular, wang yi seems to be carving out a role for china. Hes had talks with the israelis and palestinians. Hes talked with arab leaders in saudi arabia, talked with iran. The u. S. Is looking at this as an opening to potentially coordinate with china on The Middle East. The other important piece with these meetings, of course, is that wang yi is expected to lay the groundwork for the visit possibly next month with chinas president xi jinping to the United States. That meeting with President Biden. They havent spoken in nearly a year and consider the year its been. But there have been signs of stabilizing the relationship. Theres opinion a whirlwind of highlevel visits here in recent months. The most recent, gavin newsom, the california governor, he has been here this week. He met yesterday with xi jinping. I asked him, did he get the sense in that room with xi jinping that he thought the u. S. China relationship was in a better place than it was even a few months ago. Heres what he had to say. We can isolate. We can turn our back on one another. We can talk past each other, down to each other. Ive never seen history of mankind, progress made in that space. I think progress is only made when you set the table, work through your differences, and disagreements, and you do it in a responsible and respectful way. Thats the spirit that brings me back to china. Its the spirit i hope brings president xi back to the United States. Well see. Reporter so the tension between the u. S. And china is still there, but there is the sense that maybe the tension has been capped. There is at least communication now. Whats still unclear is whether a bidenxi summit will yield progress beyond communication. Things appear better on the surface, but they seem to be simmering below it. Janis mackey frayer, live from beijing, thank you. For much of her report, you were nodding your head. Yup. These meetings, what are the dynamics at play . What are the pitfalls . Why is it important these meetings happen . Couple things. One is china is a major importer of iranian oil. The last thing the chinese economy right now needs is a cutoff of oil or expensive oil. The real question is, can we get china to maybe play a little of a dampening role with iran here . Not inconceivably. China, thus far, has not provided arms, as best we know, to russia. We want that to remain the case. We want some limits to the no limit relationship between china and russia, as the ukraine war finishes its second year, moves toward the third year. Yeah, the president always says we need a floor in u. S. Chinese relations. Xi jinping is definitely now coming over to San Francisco for the socalled apec meetings. Can we get something of a floor . Again, were not going to have massive cooperation with china, but can we avoid something worse . Can we keep open an economic relationship, come up with parameters, and avoid a conflict over taiwan . There are three geographies in american Foreign Policy. The middle east, the ukrainerussia war, asia with china and taijuan. Taiwan. The russians, the iranians have made a show of their relationship. Lavrov showing where he stands on both. What does the United States do with that budding alliance of those nations . You have that axis, the antiamerican axis. Theyre antidemocratic and antiamerican. We have the europeans, nato, the japanese. Last night, you had the state dinner with the Prime Minister of australia. You have taiwan. You havewere seeing is the wor spinning around two axes. You have the United States, then you have north korea, russia. We have is saudis working with Us Tuesdays And Thursdays and fridays, but they work with them the other days of the week. It makes it hard to work on issues like climate. But this is where we are. The world is away from a post cold war and now it is a new world disorder. The president emeritus on foreign relations, thank you for being flexible on the Breaking News. Were following that out of lewiston, maine, where at least 15 people are dead and up to 50 may be injured in the community. There was a gunman who opened fire at two locations, including a Bowling Alley where there was a youth night taking place. The Bowling Alley is near Bates College. Crowds were stampeding to get away from this man who is still at large at this hour. Schools are closed. Hospitals are on lockdown as they try to tend to the victims and also not have more victims. People are being urged to shelter in place. We will have the very latest for you on this Mass Shooting in maine with the gunman heavily armed still at large. 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Get started for 59. 99 a month for 12 months. Plus, ask how to get an 800 prepaid card with a qualifying internet bundle. Comcast business, powering possibilities. 52 past the hour. Were staying on the latest out of maine. Up to 15 dead, 50 injured. Theres going to be a News Conference at 10 30 this morning. This is lewiston, maine. A gunman still at large and heavily Armed Wreaking Havoc at two locations in lewiston near Bates College, near portland and freeport. Major tourist destinations. This man entered a bar and a Bowling Alley, and there is concern a lot of young people may be among the victims of this latest Mass Shooting in america. Well have the latest as it comes in to us. Other big news in the morning here, donald trump stormed out of a new york city courtroom yesterday after a heated day in court in which he was fined 10,000 on the spot for violating a gag order in the case. The former president , at his 250 million Civil Fraud Trial to watch the final day of Michael Cohens testimony, was himself called to take the stand to answer about who he was referring to earlier in the day when he said this to reporters. This judge is a partisan judge with a person who is very partisan sitting alongside him. Perhaps even much more partisan than he is. You know, he didnt have to be there. Trump insisted that he was talking about Michael Cohen, but the judge did not believe him. In previous posts and comments, trump and his team repeatedly targeted the judges law clerk who sits beside him during the trial. The judge immediately ordered the fine on the spot. Trump stormed out of the courtroom less than an hour later. Nbc News Reporters at the trial say trumps departure was so abrupt, it appeared to surprise even his own lawyers and had his secret Service Detail running after him. Joining us now, former litigator and legal analyst lisa rubin. What in the world . He does this to himself. Yeah. He knew what he was supposed to say and not supposed to say. He goes close to the line. The judge slaps a fine. He is humiliated in court, and he storms out like a baby. Stormed out like a baby. Yesterday, mika, we should have been talking about Michael Cohens credibility, right . Yesterday was trumps lawyers opportunity she did a pretty good job at working on that part of the story, right . I think the first day, she had a great day. The second day was tougher for her. Alina habba. We should have been talking about Michael Cohen. Instead, the persons credibility on the line at the end of the day was donald trump. He didnt have show up. Beyond the gag order, fascinating part of the story for sure, what actually happened in the courtroom . How significant was Michael Cohens testimony . Michael cohens testimony is really muted by the Attorney General on one issue, which is trumps intent and his direct participation. As you know, trump limited his communications with people. He didnt text. He didnt email. He really didnt even use the phone. The small circle of people he talked to about his statements of Financial Condition was a group that included Allen Weisen Berg and, according to Michael Cohen, cohen himself. When Michael Cohen was directly on the stand, he testified that over a course of year, trump asked him and weisselberg to reverse engineer his net worth. Hed say, this is what i think im worth, and he expected them to make it happen. The crossexamination was calling Michael Cohen a liar and showing how Michael Cohen has no credibility. It wasnt surprising to anybody who has followed trump or followed Michael Cohen. The question is, is Michael Cohen believable on this issue . I would submit to you yes. Thats less because of Michael Cohen and more because of what he already know about donald trump. Cohen came outside the courtroom yesterday after court and explained why he lied during his 2018 plea hearing. Heres what he said. When i lied to judge pauly, something that Defense Counsel thought was going to be the gotcha moment, i did it because, you may recall, i was given three days. In fact, it was two, it was 48 hours, from a friday evening at 5 30 to a monday morning in order to plead guilty or face an 80page indictment that would include my wife. Least go back in time, five years ago. Remind viewers of the moment in 2018, what he is talking about, what he lied about. When Michael Cohen pled guilty in 2018 to a variety of crimes, some didnt include things hed done to donald trump. Several had to do with tax evasion. Michael cohen at the time was concerned that if he did not plead, prosecutors would charge his wife, who cosigned his tax returns, and potentially could have charged his fatherinlaw in connection with his business. Michael cohen says he did it for his family. I want to be clear, Michael Cohens lie is a serious one. To lie under oath to a federal judge during a plea hearing is not inconsequential. On the other hand, to get up in front of a court now and admit that, you dont do that unless you are really serious about what youre about to say, as well. It took a lot of bravery, particularly in this political environment, as donald trump is making his enemies list, as his campaign continues, to come into open court and admit to that in court. Analyst lisa rubin. Thank you. Keep us posted. Bates college are on active high alert. Everyone is urged to shelter in place. Also, Boden College is 20 minutes away. Were getting a sense of whats going on. Were following the latest out of lewiston, maine, where at least 15 people are dead at this hour. A manhunt is under way for a Person Of Interest still at large and considered Armed And Dangerous. Plus, National Security spokesperson john kirby will join us on the unfolding situation in The Middle East. Were back in two minutes. In t. e a good throwback . [sfx video game] emergenc crystals. The chewy app has everything for pets. Hungry pets, itchy pets, scratchy pets, and most importantly, your pet. Every day great prices and 35 off your first authorship order. Right to your door. Download the chewy app. At this point, were going to focus inside our community. Were going to heal our community. Were going to persevere and get through this. Theres no time not to. It will take a while, you know, Something Like this doesnt just get solved overnight. Nobody can expect it to. But we have a really strong community. Weve overcome a lot and will overcome this. That was the mayor of auburn, maine, early this morning. Many of the survivors of last nights shootings in lewiston were taken to the neighboring city to be interviewed and reunited with their families. It is the top of the hour. Welcome back to morning joe. It is thursday, october 26th. We have major Breaking News to report to you this morning. Msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle joins the table. Heres the very latest. At least 15 people are dead, up to 50 may be injured in the community of lewiston, which is located about 30 miles north of portland ine. Police say the gunman entered two locations on wednesday night, first a Bowling Alley, where he fatally shot seven people before moving to a nearby bar. Some of the victims may have been injured in stampedes as crowds raced to escape as the shooting started. Officials fear many teenagers could be among those killed or injured as the Bowling Alley was hosting its youth night yesterday. One survivor of the shooting it the Bowling Alley spoke to the Associated Press about the moment he heard the first shot. Listen. Normal night of bowling. Out of nowhere, he came in. There was a loud pop. Thought it was a balloon. Had my back turned to the door. As soon as i turned and saw it was not a balloon, he was holding a weapon, i booked it down the lane. I slid basically into where the pins are and climbed up in the machine and was on top of the machines for ten minutes until the cops got there. I was by myself. Yeah, i wasnt there ten minutes. Willie, this is the Person Of Interest. What i have right here, this is the website of Bates College, which, as you mentioned, is four minutes away. They have bright yellow Emergency Alert, active shooter. They go on to tell all their students theyre monitoring the situation, to shelter in place. They have a long explanation that everything remains in lockdown. We realize that there are students who were not in their Residence Hall as we went into lockdown and employees who are on campus are unable to return home. If youre in that situation, they give an emergency number. Theyre taking this incredibly seriously. Still, again, so many jured. We dont know if there were students in the bar or the boin alley. The nearby college on a complete lockdown. Also, Boden College, 20 minutes away, there is an Emergency Alert going out to their stents. Bates college is right between the two shooting locations. As you say, boden is not far away. In fact, this Person Of Interest resident of boden. Ut is a Police Identified a 40yearold male as the Person Of Interest in connection to these awful shootings. Hes still at large, considered, of course, Armed And Dangerous, with an arstyle rifle. Police say they located his vehicle in the neighboring town of lisbon year a boat dock, but he was not in the car. Law enforcement asking residents of lisbon now to shelter in place, as well. Just moments ago, the Maine State Police announced it is expanding its shelter in place order to the nearby town of bowdoin. According to a bulletin, the man is a Military Firearms Instructor who has roughly 20 years of experience. The man reported Hearing Voices telling him to shoot up a Military Base in saco. He was reported to have been committed to a Mental Health facility two weeks this summer before he was released. Lets bring in Correspondent Sam Brock on the ground in lewiston, maine. Whats the latest there . Reporter willie, good morning. The communities are living under the canopy of fear. As you suggested a second ago, willie, within the last hour, weve seen an expansion of the shelter in place order. Im in lewiston right now. This is one of the neighborhoods over my shoulder. Youll see the Police Presence. Down the road is the bar, one of the location where is the killings took place. The chronology right now is fuzzy in terms of what happened when, the chronology of the shootings. 15 to people were killed, up to 50 injured, at two locations, 40 miles away. One is the bar and grill. The second is a Bowling Alley. It was youth night, as mika said, as this happened. This gets a little fine here, as well, in the sense that police right now are identifying robert card as a Person Of Interest. The images youre looking at right now, thats of the suspect. So far, card has not been called the suspect. He has been called a Person Of Interest. The suspect walked into the Bowling Alley with a Semiautomatic Rifle and started shooting people. We also know the suspects vehicle was recovered in lisbon, a 10 or 15 minute drive away. There is a Police Presence there. In terms of where he might be, the Maine State Police tweeted out there are roughly 100 investigators out right now searching for robert card. Now, 100 doesnt sound like a whole lot given the stakes, but these are really small towns. Ill point that out. Bowdoin you mentioned under the shelter in place order, 3,000 people. Lewiston is the second most populous city in maine, roughly 37,000 people. Were not talking about a ton in terms of the numbers. Right now, the reach and the fear, the concern is obviously elevated. I did have conversations with people as soon as i got off the plane after midnight last night, and they were all glued to their televisions, trying to get the latest information they could. I spoke with a couple women at a local hotel who said they were actually getting calls, not push alerts but calls from people about the fact that this man was on the run right now and being sought. I said, well, who called you, friends, relatives . One woman said, no, it was the neighbors from the street he lived on. Its informative, i guess. It is a window into how close, how tight knit a lot of the communities are. They had told the woman i spoke with they were aware of Mental Health issues. Not that there was an imminent threat, but it was known that this was an individual that struggled. Willie, you mentioned a second ago there was a bulletinissued overnight from the maine information and analysis center, which is basically a database for Law Enforcement. Describing the fact that robert card is someone who had reported mental issues, was committed, actually, for a couple of weeks and, quote, had heard voices, and there were somehow Threats Associated with a National Guard base. Put all of these pieces together, and it certainly appears like, if this is, in fact, the person responsible, and, again, right now he is a Person Of Interest, there could have been warning signs about something potentially dangerous. How often do we hear that . When youre talking about Mass Shootings, that this didnt just happen overnight. It happened over the course of years, in terms of someones destabilization. Here we are now. It is true as of the middle of september, we crossed the threshold of 500 Mass Shootings just this year alone. Were approaching 600. This scale, describing the amount of victims, 15 to 20 confirmed deaths, up to 50 people injured, and not clear whether that was through gunfire or through the chaos and commotion that ensued after the fact. Just to hear the raw numbers and know that there are people out right now searching for this man has everyone on edge. I will, lastly, add that there was a post issued over facebook from the bar a couple hours ago. Said, i am crushed right now. Presumably this is the ownership. Im crushed right now. My world has been turned upside down. Nobody can make sense of any of this. Its just such an incredible depth of loss. That is where we start this thursday morning right now. Back to you. It is important to put this in perspective as youre doing here, which is that last year in the state of maine, 29 reported homicides in this entire state for the entire year. We have had at least 15 dead in this shooting and with 50 ar15 injuries, you can imagine that number could go up from here. Sam, lets talk about the Law Enforcement side of this. Were going to speak with clint watts in a moment. In the last hour, he said, just looking at these Security Images of the shooter, he looks like he knows how to hold a weapon. He is wearing the pants where he can stuff magazines. He came prepared for this. This man, it goes without saying, is Armed And Dangerous. A difficult task to track this man down. As i said a moment ago, they found his car, a white Subaru Outback. Itd been abandoned in lisbon, maine, near a boat dock. Do they have any other leads this morning, sam . Reporter not that we are aware of. There is a scheduled Press Conference from Maine State Department at 10 30 eastern standard time. In about 3 1 2 hours, hopefully well get some enlightenment as to where their investigation has taken them. It is worth noting other states like New Hampshire and connecticut said theyre vigilant and looking closely but have not issued any shelters in place. Right now, that is specific just to maine. How far geographically the search expanded is information were hoping to find out. One other thing, i came from brunswick, 30, 40 minutes due east. I didnt notice a lot of Law Enforcement. Driving on the roads here, you do not see the saturation of resources that one would expect given the scale of this. Perhaps that is a luxury of the fact that Law Enforcement doesnt think card is around here. Perhaps theyre dedicating resources elsewhere. Between the 100 investigators number we saw in the tweet and also the fact that theres not a ton of visible presence of Law Enforcement theres some. Youll see cars and people wearing vests that say police at downtown strips, certainly here near the site of a heinous crime, but you are not seeing the saturation one would expect given whats going on right now. We have to wait to find out where investigators right now are in terms of tracking this man down. Nbcs sam brock live for us in lewiston, maine. Sam, well be back to you throughout the morning. Thanks so much. Lets bring in Mike Barnicle now. Mike, of course, youve lived in new england for all of your life. You know these little towns. Its sort of deceptive to say lewiston, maine, is the states second largest city. 37,000. It is, but it is only 37,000 people. What are you seeing and hearing in the reporting so far . A couple things. Lewiston, auburn, the area is extremely rural, despite the vastness. 37,000 people, everyone would know each other. Theyd know the suspect if, indeed, it is robert card. There are plenty of places for the suspect to have disappeared. Its a wooded area. That might be the reason you dont see a congestive quality to police cars gathered around. The other thing is, all of these shootings, theres no way you get used to them. Each one is a shock. No. This is particularly striking to me, and maybe to clint, who is going to be on in a couple minutes, in that you have a full frame picture right there of the shooter as the incident is occurring. Thats not happened, to my memory, in any of the prior Mass Shootings. Thats from the Bowling Alley. Yes. Weve covered a lot of them. The other striking thing is, you look at the photo, that is a very confident shooter. A very confident shooter, knowing exactly where he is going and what he wants to do and what he did do. Poses a continuing mortal threat to Police Officers, fbi agents, anyone on the chase. Heavily armed and wearing cargo pants to carry as much ammo as possible. He is experienced, according to Law Enforcement authorities. Very experienced in handling ammunition and was recently in a Mental Health facility for two weeks for severe Mental Health issues, and for saying threatening things about shooting up Military Bases. This is about as Armed And Dangerous as you can get. This is what students at Bates College are waking up to when they open their phones. An active shooter in lewiston, maine, whi is their town, with all sorts of information as to what you should do and who co tall if you need help. Bates college is basically the campus of where this happened, four minutes from these tion, in the middle. Bowdoin college, 20 minutes away, students are waking up to information of an active shooting. Joining us now, National Security analyst for nbc news and msnbc, clint watts. And senior Law Enforcement analyst, cedric alexander. He is former Chief Of Police for dekalb county, georgia. Cedric, if we could just ask your first insights so far here on morning joe, from what we have heard so far about this active shooter still on the run. Oh, we lost cedric. We will get back to him. Clint, since we last spoke to you, what can you add to the conversation that we are trying to sort of piece together here and figure out whether this man is hiding in the nearby cemetery, in all the different locations in lewiston, or is it possible he has fled the state . Mika, the great challenge of this one is youre talking about a highly trained individual. Weve had lots of Mass Shootings over the years, unfortunately. Oftentimes, the mass shooters are not particularly killed with the weapons. They maybe acquired it recently. Part of the reason they were interdicted by Law Enforcement is because they didnt have a lot of training. Law enforcement can move on them more quickly. That is not the case in this scenario. The shooter, as you can see from the pictures, came equipped, knew how the use the equipment, and also has experience with the military and army reserve. This is someone who could go out on their own. They could maybe survive in the woods, move around in the woods. You could think of these harrowing situations for Law Enforcement of walking into ambushes potentially. You know, in these setups, we dont know what it is like for him or what it has been like for him in terms of his outdoor experience, but it would suggest that if hes been a Military Firearms Instructor for up to 20 years, not only does he know how to handle a weapon, he knows tactics, as well. This is going to be a very dangerous situation throughout the morning. Ill be interested to see if a Press Conference comes out, if they do have some tips and leads, or if theyre starting from scratch really this morning, as daylight breaks in maine. Willie, im reading from the Portland Press herald. The car they believe he was driving, a white Subaru Outback, was found near the lisbon boat dock on frost hill avenue. I wonder if there are possibilities of, could he flee by water . How is he gone at this point, given such carnage in two locations . Could have switched cars. Could have hopped on a motorcycle. The possibilities are endless. Cedric, as youve been listening to the profile of this Person Of Interest, im curious what your Law Enforcement experience tells you about how theyre pursuing him, how police are pursuing him right now . Remind viewers, last month, the escaped killer from the Pennsylvania Prison was on the loose for two weeks. It took two weeks to find him. What are you seeing and hearing this morning . Well, certainly, i agree with clint, everything he just stated. Here, we have a subject who is heavily armed, an individual who has training with weapons and has Military Experience. That certainly heightens the threat. Consider the fact the amount of mayhem he has left behind, we still dont know yet how many other people may have been injured and killed. This is an individual that has to be highly pursued by the police, and im quite sure theyre using every tactic, every caution they can to make sure that upon their approach, theyll be able to do so in a way that is going to lead to their advantage and not to his. Every bit of intelligence information they can gather from different agencies, community, wherever it may happen to come from, using technology that is yet still to be revealed, i think is going to be incredibly important in a resolution of this case. This is a very dangerous individual who has the capacity to do further harm, has the training and certainly has the small weapons up on his person, in which he can continue to be a threat to that community and around that community in lewiston, maine. Mike barnicle reading from the local reporters who are on the scene and in gathering information, again, the press herald, ann kinney was picking up a prescription in lewiston on wednesday night, last night, when a loud speaker in the store came on telling us that there was an active shooter situation and that all entrants and exit doors were being locked. An employee brought us chairs to sit on, and they waited through the night. Response as Information Rippled across the community had everybody sheltering in place exactly where they were. Yeah. Thats the haniford market in auburn, maine, 11 miles from lewiston, maine. Again, it gets back to the fact that the suspect that were talking about here, its an extremely rural area once you get out of the municipalities of lewiston, 37,000 people. Cedric, id like to ask you about that rural aspect. I mean, you have, as weve outlined the potential suspect here, it would seem he is quite familiar, obviously, with weaponry. He must be, obviously, because he is a native up there, he must be familiar with the countryside and perhaps with hunting, fishing, other sports, Recreational Activities that are instinctive to people in maine. That is only going to, i think, add to the burden of finding, tracking, and capturing him. Exactly. Absolutely, mike. Its clear he is indigenous to that area. He is familiar with the area. He certainly can hide himself within the woods there, which would provide him cover. This time of year, all leaves have not fallen off the trees yet. I think his familiarization within and around that community, his familiarization certainly with small arms weapons and his military training, that can be to his tactical advantage. He is still, however, going to be confronted with a great deal of experience and firepower that will be in possession of Law Enforcement as they pursue him in a very meticulous manner. I am confident that this case is going to be brought to resolve, but in the meantime, it becomes extremely important, mika, willie, and mike, that the community certainly stay Hunkered Down, be eyes and ears, and work with that local Law Enforcement in every way that you can. Keeping yourself and your family safe as that Community Goes through this horrific experience. The rest of the country, however, we are going through it with them. National security analyst clint watts and senior Law Enforcement analyst cedric alexander, thank you, both. Right now, were still in Breaking News mode. Were still trying to cover this story, make sense of it, and also listen to Law Enforcement authorities as they try to tell us what theyre doing to track down the shooter in this. So many families are getting horrendous news right now. 15 to 20 dead. Up to 50 injured. Hospitals are on Lockdown Mode as they race to try to help those who are injured, willie. Mika, weve been talking about Bates College, right smack in the middle. This is a Bates College town. Lewiston, maine. Bates just put out a statement saying, at this time, there are no reports of any bates stunt or employee fatalities, at this time. Okay. They are locked down. Employees are asked to shelter in place until further notice from the college. They dont have any reports anyway at this time of injuries to their population. That was a fear for bates because the Bowling Alley, there was a youth night happening. There are families now today, again, in the middle of hell. In the middle of another Mass Shooting. In the middle of massive loss in the worst way with the most devastating type of weapon once again. For a lot of people, its hard to put into words what this looks like and feels like, to even cover and talk about, let alone be a part of. Heres someone who had a lot of words to say. Heres how Sacramento Kings head coach mike brown reacted to the news of this Mass Shooting in maine. A visibly emotional brown chose to dedicate his post Game Press Conference to a call for change. First thing id like to say is, i dont know everything thats going on, but im not that smart, but i know we as a country got to do something. Im walking over here, and somebody says there was a Mass Shooting in maine with 20, 22 dead at a grocery store. At a freaking grocery store, man. If that doesnt touch anybody, i dont i dont know. I dont even know what to say. That is that is absolutely disgusting. Its sad. Its sad that we sit here and watch this happen time after time after time after time, and nobody does anything about it. Its a sad day. Its a sad day. Its a sad day for our country, a sad day in this world. Until we decide to do something about it, the powers that be, this is going to keep happening. Our kids arent going to be able to enjoy what the United States is about because we dont know how to fix a problem thats right in front of us. Its sad. A feel for the families. I dont know what else to say. I dont even want to talk basketball. Im sorry. Like, we playing a game. It was fun. Obviously, we won. If we cant do anything to fix this, its over. Its over. Its over for our country, for this to happen time after time. Ill talk tomorrow. That is coach brown. He was trying to make a point there. He mentioned a grocery store. Its just as bad, but a Bowling Alley with a youth night, Mike Barnicle, and a bar, where people were just gathering to connect and to be part of humanity. Yes, its more than disgusting. Its hard to find the right words, and it is hard to find the right time to talk about change. Everyone says at a time like this, its not the time. Oh, its the time. Its the time every minute of every day because, at this point, if were at 600 Mass Shootings this year, count it, theres not a day that should go by that you dont talk about it. Yet, and yet, weve been bickering or watching republicans and extremists bickering over who the Speaker Of The House should be instead of getting anything done. So i think the coach was pointing to the fact that, we need to do better. We need to do better as a country. That starts In Washington. Instead, we have an Election Denier now who is the Speaker Of The House, finally, as we finally get a Speaker Of The House. This is, all of it, the whole package, whats going on In Washington, every day, what happened in lewiston, maine, last night, is deeply, deeply depressing. Mike brown just said One True Thing out of several other true things he said. The One True Thing that he said was, its going to keep happening. It will keep happening because of our weakness as a country, because of our politicians cowardice, as people who are representing the country. The shock of what happened in lewiston, maine, i think can be summed up in statistics. Maine is a big state geographically, as you know. It takes five or six hours to travel the distance of maine in an automobile. Absolutely. Last year, i believe, maine had a total of 27 homicides statewide. Last night, lewiston, maine, had at least 15 or 16 homicides in e night, in one place. And 50 injured. There are probably more to die, sadly and unfortunately. Thats the numbers were looking at in terms of the impact, the impact of mass murder in one small town, lewiston, maine, population 37,000. We sit here, this great country of ours, greatest country in the history of the world, and we can do nothing about this continually happening. Week after week after week. How is that possible . Here in the United States of america. Yeah, mike, 29 homicides last year. 29 homicides, at least 15 last night. You know, coach brown in the beautiful words he spoke said, we have to do something. We have to change. The question for the country is, what is that exactly . Undoubtedly, if this guy is, in fact, the shooter, this Person Of Interest, he is a Firearms Instructor. Got his weapon legally, you would assume, as a Firearms Instructor. He got Mental Health care, as we talk about the Mental Health care side of it. The question will be, what else do you do . Theyve tried to change the laws in the state of maine. That failed this year. There were proposals to require Background Checks for private gun purchases, to create a 72hour waiting period for gun purchases. Those both failed. There is a gun culture, hunting and sporting in the state of maine, as well. The laws are relatively lax there. Lets bring in National Security counsel coordinator for Strategic Communication at the white house, retired rear admiral john kirby. A lot to talk with you about, particularly whats happening in israel right now. But do want to ask for your reaction and that of the administration to the shooting in maine this morning. The president and first lady are grieving this morning just right along with so many families now that have gotten the worst possible news. Of course, theyre praying very, very hard for those who have been injured, that they can be healed and on a path to recovery soon and that there are no other deaths. Obviously, this is a frightening situation. It just goes to speak to the effort that we need to apply, certainly in legislation, to get more done, to get these weapons of war off the streets. The bipartisan Safer Communities act that the president was able to push through, actually, thats a good start. There are good things in there, but it is not enough. More needs to be done to get these weapons of war off the streets and out of peoples hands that are walking around, you know, in walmarts and Grocery Stores and Bowling Alleys. Weve had those conversations after every Mass Shooting, often, almost always, they involve a Semiautomatic Rifle, like an ar15 weapon, calls for legislation, and not much changes. Well be back to this story in a moment. Admiral, want to ask about Israeli Soldiers, back now on israeli soil after conducting a targeted raid in Northern Gaza. Official says it was done in preparation for the next stages of combat, to use their words. Meanwhile, President Biden calling for a humanitarian pause to allow for more aid to enter the gaza strip. Admiral, lets start there. Why is it so difficult at this point . Why is it taking so long to get that humanitarian aid into the hospitals, for example, that say theyre going to have to close their doors, they dont have the supplies, the water, and the things they need to operate . Its a trickle, and the president said that yesterday. We have to see more aid getting in there. It is a complex situation, and, i mean, obviously, its a zone of combat. We have to make sure that it can get in safely. There is an Inspection Regime that has to be done before trucks go in so that israel can understand there is no contraband in the trucks. Hamas needs to allow for the Free Movement of the vehicles inside gaza to get to the aid organizations, to get to the people. Theres an awful lot of moving parts here. It is very complicated. Thats why David Satterfield is on the ground working the levers every single day. We hope there will be more trucks in. Werent able to get any yet, which is not good. Were working this very, very hard. Admiral, theres a lot of talk about the Ground Invasion, when and if and how it should happen, and what the purpose is for it and what the longterm solutions would be. Not to go in without strategic purpose. But what about iran . Everyone always talks about the iran factor and iran being a part of this. Now, were hearing about sectors in iran attacking our troops in other countries. What about iran . Whats being done . Theres no question, mika, iran has complicity across the board. Theyve been supporting hamas and hezbollah for years. Theyre supporting these Militia Groups in iraq and syria that attacks our troops in recent days. Thats the direction and facilitation of the irgc. We have sent a strong signal to everyone in the region, including iran, that we dont want to see escalation of this conflict. We have significant National Security interests at stake, let alone the protection of our troops in places like iran and syria. Were going to take those responsibilities seriously. Were going to act and make sure we have the capabilities to do so, to defend those interests. Admiral, the Media Spotlight has fallen off of ukraine lately with the focus being clearly, and responsibly, on The Middle East and whats going on there. But in ukraine, winter is fast approaching. It is still a very hot war, and it is a war between two nations, russia and ukraine, in which one nation, russia, has a deep, deep bench of people, of soldiers, that they can keep sending to the front. Ukraine, less so. What are the prospects for a long winter war . Mike, thats a great question. I think we all need to settle in and be prepared, that as the weather gets worse here in the next month or so, that these two sides are going to keep slugging it out. That could go past the winter. I think we all need to be prepared for that. What it looks like in the spring, i dont know. This counteroffensive is still progressing. Even the ukrainians will tell you, mike, it is going slower than they want it to go, and the weather is starting to not be very cooperative. To your other point about manpower, youre right, russia has more Manpower Resources at their disposal. It is, frankly, a bigger country. What theyre doing, mike, is just throwing that manpower into the fight with little training, little resourcing, little preparation. Theyre just trying to overwhelm the ukrainians. What the ukrainians have in terms of advantage is better skill, better leadership, better command and control, and thanks to the United States and 50 some odd other partners, better capabilities, better tools, better weapons. Theyre using them efficiency. Admiral, want to go back quickly to the american troops that were attacked on our bases in iraq and syria. Nbc news reported a couple days ago that it was two dozen Service Members who suffered injuries. Now, were learning yesterday that theres some traumatic brain injuries, tbi. Can you say definitively how Many American troops were injured, and what is the extent of those injuries . No, willie, i cant give you an exact number. The Department Of Defense would have to give that to you. What happens with some of these rocket atattacks, willie, sometimes the injuries dont manifest themselves, particularly if it is tbi related, brain injuries, you dont manifest, no symptoms until hours or days after the event. Thats why the number fluctuates a little bit. What i can tell you is all these injuries are not lifethreatening. Many of these soldiers who were injured are back on duty right now. Tbi, traumatic brain injury, is a factor, Concussive Effect of the Rocket Attacks can be significant. Were going to make sure they get all the care they need. We have a lot of experience, as you might imagine after 23 years of war, with traumatic brain injury. Well make sure they get that care. Admiral, what level of attack from an iranbacked group on american troops would rise to the level of an american response . Does it take the death of an american soldier . Clearly, they shot at and injured two dozen of our Service Members. At what point does the United States respond to that . Ill tell ya, the president spoke a little bit about this yesterday. He as Commander In Chief is going to make his own decisions about what we have to do for force protection, to protect our troops and protect our facilities. Whatever that decision is, it is going to be at a time and manner of our choosing. It is going to be our decision to make. You know, well continue to watch this. As he said yesterday, you know, if the attacks continue, there will be a response. Retired rear admiral john kirby, thank you very much. We will check in with you again soon. Thanks for being on this morning. Yes, maam. Still ahead on morning joe, were going to continue to follow the manhunt in maine, as Police Search for the Person Of Interest in the deadliest Mass Shooting in the u. S. This year. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. 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Com live look at the capitol where, finally, big news, republicans, House Republicans have finally elected a new speaker. Nbc news capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles has more on who now is holding the gavel. Reporter it took four tries, but House Republicans finally elected a Speaker Of The House. The speaker elect mike johnson from the state of louisiana. Reporter louisianas mike johnson was the last man standing. Cobbling together the support from a fatigued conference to win the vote unanimously and promising to get right to work. The challenge before us is great, but the time for action is now. Reporter johnson has a long list of work ahead of him. The government will run out of money in midnovember. Aid packages to ukraine and israel are on the table, as well as the approval of the farm bill and the reauthorization of the faa. Much of this will require bipartisan support, Something Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer made clear. I hope and look forward to working with him in a bipartisan way. I hope he will. Reporter johnson hasnt been much of a bipartisan politician. He holds conservative views on abortion, gay rights, and gun control, and he was a leading voice in republican efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Even played into conspiracy theories about Voting Machines being tampered with, which were widely discredited. Theres a lot of merit to that. When the president says the election was rigged, thats what hes talking about, that the fix was in. Reporter President Biden brushed off concerns johnson could stand in the way of certifying the next election. Just like i was not worried that the last guy would be able to overturn the election. Reporter it is a position bidens fellow democrats view as disqualifying, but republicans embraced, shouting down reporter attempts to question johnson on the topic. Johnson, you helped lead the efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Oh reporter now, johnson will take on the difficult task of managing a divided party at a time when there is so much to get done. Nbcs ryan nobles with that report. Lets bring in chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times, peter baker, and the host of the podcast on brand with donny deutsch, donny deutsch. Peter, is there any word on capitol hill about moving forward and trying to get things done, or are these extreme positions that this new speaker holds going to continue with the dynamic that we have seen on capitol hill with the House Republicans . This is a speaker untested by some measures, probably the least experienced speaker on the beginning of his speakership in a century. Hes got a real task ahead of him, a real challenge. You see how hard it is to simply pick a speaker. Imagine what theyre going to do now heading into this budget issue they have to resolve in basically three weeks or the government will shut down. They have to, obviously, tackle this idea of more money for ukraine, israel, taiwan, and border security. Theyve got a lot on their plate, and it is a very untested leadership for the narrow majority. It is going to be a big, big few weeks, i think, on capitol hill. A big week for President Biden as he tries to navigate the changing tides in the house of representatives. Peter, can you help us and our viewers understand what changed with the moderates in the Republican Caucus . Three weeks, they said, were not voting for somebody who is an Election Denier. Moderates were striking against matt gaetz. Yesterday, they voted for johnson, who espoused the same positions jim jordan does, including leading the legal effort slapped down by the Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 election. He may be more charming about it. Why did the moderates suddenly flip on principles yesterday . First of all, remember the idea of moderates standing up against conservatives on the floor was the aberration, not the norm, right . Moderates have traditionally been unwilling to use the power they do have in that kind of a way. That was a onetime, oneoff thing, obviously, at this point, it looks like. Youre right, obviously, i think mike johnson and jim jordan are similar. Tells you about personality on the hill. Jim jordan rubbed people the wrong way, it wasnt just his positions on the issues, it was his personality and how he approached things. Mike johnson obviously didnt make the eneies jordan did. He has similar positions, and itll be a test in many ways. We havent had a speaker with these positions going back a long time. Kevin mccarthy voted against certifying the election but wasnt perceived to be a fullon, you know, in the same way mike johnson is. Moderates eventually got tired and decided to have a speaker in order to move forward and get the house back in business. All right. Of course, former President Trump posted maga mike, offering his full support. This is, again, a small minority of extremists. I wouldnt even call them, donny would you describe them as conseratives . Mike johnson is a win for the democrats because it continues to brand the party as super maga. Lets get into this guy a little bit. Not only is he an Election Denier, one of the lead Election Deniers, not only is he for a full ban on abortion, his stance on lgbtq and homosexuality, going back to 2005, not 1957, he wrote in an oped, the homosexual lifestyle is dangerous, will lead to the legalization of pedophilia and destruction of democracy. In the year 2005, this is the Speaker Of The House. This is the extremist views that the republicans are getting behind, and it is going to backfire come 2024. He also said samesex marriage would lead to people marrying their pets. Speaker of the house. Go on and on down the list. It is, is it not, the victory of maga, of donald trump squashed emmer. He wasnt quite loyal enough to donald trump, and some people got to trump and said, heres the stuff emmer said. Trump puts out the post, hes done. The end of the day, gets his guy. When you have matt gaetz running to Steve Bannons podcast yesterday to celebrate this, it tells you who won. This is a loser in a general election. The party is no longer the Republican Party, its the maga party. As my friend Joe Scarborough would say, insurrectionists, weirdos and freaks, you have to put him up there. The president of the United States had a state dinner with the Prime Minister of australia. Big deal, as you know, state dinner. Probably the time he was putting his fork into his caesar salad, he has a tap on the shoulder. Someone tells him at least 14 or 15 people have been shot to death in lewiston, maine. Thats it for the president of the United States at the state dinner. He goes to the oval office. He makes calls. Probably well into the night. Hes old. He knows how old he is. Its in the papers and media multiple times each and every day. You were on a day trip with him to telaviv. Washington to telaviv and back within 36 hours, with a couple of major speeches. Could you speak to the weight of the presidency, the turmoil, the trouble, the minutebyminute focus that a president has to have on things like lewiston, maine, and death in gaza . Yeah, im glad you brought that up. That is, in fact, endemic to the presidency, right . Thats why it matters who is president at any given time. You need somebody in there who is able to handle multiple crises at any moment. Any moment, somebody could tap you on that shoulder and say theres been a Mass Shooting in maine. They can tap you on the shoulder in the middle of an Elementary School and say, america is under attack by terrorists. Weve seen it again and again. As president , you may want to focus on this policy, come to office with this goal, this agenda, but events tend to take over. In fact, president obama once told aides, he says, being president really, you control maybe 25 of the agenda, and the rest are events. Mind you, the british Prime Minister who was asked by a reporter what will your Prime Minister ship be about, he said, events, dear boy. President of the United States, middle of the state dinner, and suddenly youre dealing with a massacre on your own territory at the same time youre trying to manage whats happening across the world. Extraordinary, obviously, the job in the world, the attention, the stress and pressure are immense, remarkable. This is not for the weak or weary. It is for those who can handle great tragedy and find ways to turn that into, you know, something positive for the country. Chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times, peter baker, thank you very much for being on this morning. Coming up, were following, of course, the Breaking News. Another Mass Shooting, this time lewiston, maine. At this hour, the Person Of Interest is still on the run as Police Search for him and a motive. In a few hours, authorities will hold a News Conference and give us updates on the manhunt. Well have much more. Morning joe will be right back. Will be right back od in the fridge . Its not dog food. Its freshpet. Real meat. Real veggies. Real weird. He was bad luck anyway. I work at the end of the production line with metal that weighs 600 tons. I never thought id be a welder but i cannot think of a better job. Were currently working on ships to train our merchant marines. And ships to transport cargo and supplies. Joe biden is bringing manufacturing back. Creating good jobs and standing up for workers. Pretty much everyone who i work with got their job because of joe biden. Every day im out here working with the team, i know hes out there working for us. Im joe biden and i approve this message. Welcome back. In the days since Hamas Terrorists stormed into israel earlier this month, a flood of videos and photos and misinformation on what happened have filled social media making it difficult for people from around the world to sort out what is the truth. An activist and the cofounder of the nonpartisan organization, i am a voter, addressed that major issue and more in an Instagram Post that has now been viewed tens of millions of times. I was born in iran under the same regime that is supporting hamas right now, and every single morning, we were forced to chant, death to america. Death to israel, and its almost shocking to watch these americans support an organization that wants them dead and hates everything about their values. They sit there and post terrorist propaganda and you think that makes you an activist or someone with deranged liberal values. Youre going to rallies in montreal, new york, paris, and london and celebrating the death of hundreds and hundreds of jews that were slaughtered in their sleep. You think this is liberal . You think this is liberation . You think this is resistance . Where is your humanity . What is happening here . As a child, mandana fled iran with her persianjewish family before being granted asylum as a refugee in the United States and she joins us now. I should point out that that video on your channel was viewed 15 million times. It was shared. It has been viewed ultimately in its totality up to 50 million times. Youve really struck a chord. What prompted you to just put it all out there and go there and say that . You know, i woke up on october 7th and saw the worst atrocity ive seen since 9 11, and i didnt really know how to process it. It was so painful and then i went on my social media, and, you know, im an activist. Ive worked shoulder to shoulder with so many people in congress and universities, activists and they were either silent or they were starting to side with hamas or they were starting to blame the jews or their government for the terrorism, and thats just not something that we do. We dont blame victims for terrorism, and i couldnt understand this whole, like, oh, its because of this. Its because of this land dispute, like, theres no reason that ever makes that okay, and we didnt get a day to be upset. I mean, there were hostages. We were finding out information about beheadings and mass rapes and instead of mourning and checking on our families, we did to go on the internet and defend our dignity from misinformation, and i have never seen that happen before, and it does feel like that happens when jews die, and when you see the hamas doctrine which explicitly says it calls to obliterate israel and kill jews, i cannot understand how people would defend a terrorist organization. You got a lot of response to this. A lot of people reaching out to you. You have been busy ever since you put this out there. Donnie, i saw you nodding your head to a lot of what mandana had to say. God bless you, mandana. What you are saying which seems so revolutionary should be matter of fact and good for you. Were only 19 days away from 1,400 jews, israelis being slaughtered, massacred, beheaded, raped, and just if i go backwards a little bit in the past and i think of images of a young Woman Holding up a sign that says, you know, clean the world from jews, ethnic cleansing and a group of young jewish students huddling in a library as theres antisemitic chanting outside, thats not berlin in 1939. That was yesterday in new york city, in the bronx on cooper union campus, and people need to remember, israel is not fighting the palestines. Theyre fighting hamas. A terroristlike, isislike organization. We cannot forget that. Tell us about the response youve got, and if you want to respond to what donny had to say, and what your call to action is from your perspective. Yeah. Well, i mean, like, again, i was born in iran, right . I was iranian. I looked iranian. My family had lived there for thousands of years and then one day, the islamic regime takes over and im a jew, and i have to flee my homeland, and that has happened to hundreds of thousands of jews that were throughout The Middle East that have been forced out and so i dont think people understand what israel means to us because we had nowhere to go. I believe that my safety and security is inextricably linked to israel and if israel didnt exist tomorrow, i literally despite living in los angeles, think that i would die, and now we finally have a nation to protect us. Watching people call from the river to the sea is saul calling for israel to be removed from the map, and i dont think people understand what theyre saying and the magnitude of these words, and while i see whats happening on the ground, i believe theres a propaganda war thats being conducted online, and antisemitism is growing at alarming rates. I feel it every single day. Im not kidding when i say i have to change my name in my uber, and theres violence in my neighborhood. My daughter had a swastika in her school. This is real. I know islam phobia is going on, but im asking people to please watch their words. When you say these words, genocide, apartheid, inaccurately used, they have real consequences for people. Were actually terrified. Like, i cant explain to you the fear of jews around the world right now, and the rate of antisemitism that has climbing has been inherited over thousands of years of generational trauma. Since the slaughter of jews, its grown fourfold in this country. And part of it is to see these massive crowds in the streets of American Cities and european capitals as you described in your video, and just so comfortable and explicitly holding up signs with swastikas and spouting antisemitism. College campuses here thats been really disheartening, you think those would be places of leadership. Sure, there can be dissent. Of course, theres free speech, but when you are explicitly talking about terrorists and celebrating the death, the grisly death of people on fire, and how do you explain to leadership that clearly and unequivocally we condemn this and we do not respect their right . We respect their right of free speech, but not to harass jewish students on campus . I think its a deeprooted antisemitism. I think watching jews get eviscerated for thousands of years, there is a comfort with jews as the victims of hate and of murder, and i dont know that they understand i think theres, you know, people buy into so many tropes, and theyre not even conscious of the antisemitism, and so they have these justifications, like, j jews will be fine. Theyre rich and control the media, and thats not true. That was said by the germans, and it is used as this inability to show compassion. I dont understand how anyone after that massacre said anything other than oh my god, this is horrible. Its a free for all now to come up with the reasons to blame the jews, and this is just not stuff that we do, and i dont i dont understand the silence around it. It is alarming to see people not call this out because weve seen how this ended before. We appreciate your speaking out. Well have you back to talk about your organization. Youre a cofounder of i am a voter and well be having you back to talk about that a lot. Thank you very much. Thank you so much for having me. And our third hour of morning joe continues right now. We have literally hundreds of Police Officers working around the state of maine to investigate this case, to locate mr. Carr who again is a Person Of Interest and a Person Of Interest only, and well continue to gather information so we can bring the suspect to justice and ultimately seek prosecution down the road. Unfolding in maine. At least 15 people are dead. Up to 50 may be injured in the community of lewiston located about 30 miles north of portland, maine. Police say the gunman entered two separate locations wednesday night. First, a Bowling Alley where he fatally shot seven people before moving onto a nearby bar. Emilie ikeda has the latest. Reporter still looking for the killer who is still on the run. After horrific shootings at two businesses left up to 20 people dead according to Law Enforcement sources who say there may be up to 50 people injured. Police searching for a Person Of Interest, 40yearold robert card saying hes Armed And Dangerous. The people see him, they should not approach card or make contact with him in any way. Reporter local police also releasing these photos of a suspect holding an Assault Rifle and this white suv that Authorities Say was found nearby in the town of lisbon. On wednesday night, local Officials Say the gunman attacked two locations about four miles apart. The Bowling Alley was full of young people. Tonight was youth night, so they were the place was just crawling with teenagers, so we suspect and fear that many of the victims there are going to be young teens. Reporter a Police Intelligence bulletin revealing more information about the Person Of Interest saying, card was trained as a Firearms Instructor and believed to be in the army reserve. That release also says he recently reported Mental Health issues including Hearing Voices and threats to shoot up the National Guard base in maine. As the Community Waits and grieves, leroy walker says he hasnt heard from his son who worked as a manager. My son is dead. I know hes dead. I know it as well as i know im standing here telling you because hes not here, and hes not at any other hospital. Reporter anxious residents waiting outside a local hospital hoping to hear any updates about loved ones. As one can imagine, its your worst nightmare. So mika, place say News Conference at 10 30 a. M. As of right now, well be able to provide more information. This Person Of Interest is still on the loose and Armed And Dangerous. This is unfolding in maine, in lewiston, maine. This robert card, 40 years old, Reading Associated press and nbc news reporting, hes described as a Firearms Instructor believed to be in the army reserve assigned to a Training Facility in sacco, maine. He was committed to a Mental Health facility for two weeks in 2023, and it didnt report anything on his condition, but he reported Hearing Voices and threats to shoot up a Military Base. They have been trying to track down more information. The central Maine Medical Center is reacting to this like its a war zone. They have a Mass Casualty mass Shooter Event unfolding in their er. Theyre coordinating with local hospitals to try and figure out how to take in patients. There were to some reports up to 50 injured. Theres an order for residents and Business Owners to stay inside, to not go outside from lewiston to lisbon, maine as a vehicle of interest was found, but they dont know if this man has fled in some other way. Maybe hes received help. Who knows . The governor of maine, janet mills has released a statement echoing instructions for people to shelter in place. She says shes been briefed on the situation and will remain in close contact with Public Safety officials. Joe biden spoke by phone with the governor and offered full federal support in the wake of this horrific attack again in lewiston, maine. Schools are closed today, and everybody is told to shelter in place until they know where this man is, and just for the record, willie, maine doesnt require permits to carry guns. I go to maine i have been going to maine for 56 years. It has a longstanding culture of gun ownership, hunting and sports shooting. I cant imagine Something Like this happening in maine, but thats what we say everywhere when there is one of these Mass Shootings which is now of course, an epidemic. And these Mass Shootings in maine anyway are exceedingly rare if you look back through the history of the Portland Press herald, the newspaper in portland. Theyre doing great reporting op this doing detailed reporting on this. Bates college is right smack in the middle of these Shooting Sites and that school is locked down. There is concern, willie, that a lot of young people may be victims here because at one of the locations, they were having, like, a teen night or something. The Bowling Alley, it was youth night. Its horrifying. It is. Lets go to nbc National Security analyst, clint watts. Clint, the Person Of Interest as theyre calling him as of right now is still out there. The man who they believe perpetrated these shootings with an arstyle rifle at two separate locations. From your experience, how do you approach this . They found the vehicle that they believe he was in. They havent found him. Theyve locked down the town of lisbon because thats where they found the car. Where do you begin to track this person down . Willie, i think last night when we came on air for this, it was the worst case scenario, and you knew it right away. If you just look at that image of the shooter, you quickly notice that he seems to be someone who knows how to handle a weapon, and when youre Law Enforcement, youve seen him already go through and just shoot and kill multiple people. The way hes holding the weapon, the kind of equipment hes got, youre looking at extra magazines taped together, it looks like. Highcapacity scopes, cargo pants. This is somebody who knows what theyre doing. You can tell by the way theyre standing and holding the weapon. Imagine youre Law Enforcement now, and youre trying to track this down and in lewiston, there are not a lot of Law Enforcement. Its a vast area, and just a couple of months ago, we were talking about a prison break. Remember in pennsylvania, and that was an individual who didnt really have much, you know, escape from a prison, was just on the loose and trying to find him. That is not the case in this scenario. We have large, rural areas with somebody who has some Military Experience and knows how to use a weapon, and he has used it multiple times at multiple locations. This is a very dangerous situation for Law Enforcement, and like we had seen earlier this morning, a lot of Law Enforcement, atf rushing to the scene. Youll have state police rushing to the scene, but theyre really moving from behind. Theres not that many Law Enforcement officers in that town to cover that vast an area that quickly while also dealing with multiple trauma scenes. Were covering Breaking News, a Mass Shooting in lewiston, maine. Were talking about 15 or 16 dead. Were trying to get the numbers right, and many, many, many more injured, and again, willie, clint was talking about how experienced this suspect was with the cargo pants and ammunition all over him. He was able to wreak as much havoc as possible on this town and on these people, and the challenge right now for authorities and all the different Law Enforcement organizations that are coming together, trying to track him down, but also to lock down and make safe, for example, the Health Facilities that are trying to take care of the victims. Yeah. The many, many victims the hospital in the area is also on lockdown with police circulating it and circulating the halls because who knows where he might go next . And when we talk about up to 50 people injured, we know sadly from our experience with all these Mass Shootings with ar15s, those are very, very serious injuries. So there is a likelihood medical officials would tell you that the death toll could rise from where it is, 15 or 16 right now. Clint, national response. Would the fbi be on the ground already . Who else could they call in . Lewiston is a town of about 37,000 people. Its the second largest town in the state of maine, but still only 37,000 people. So they dont have the capacity for a widescale manhunt here. So who else would be on the ground here this morning . Yeah. The fbi is absolutely going to move to the scene very quickly. Evidence Response Teams, likely s. W. A. T. Teams will move. There are residents sprinkled throughout maine, in portland and augusta, and i think bangor as well. Those agencies will send people. Were still talking about a small number of agents. Separately i would imagine theyre going to need extra security. That brings up the situation with as mika noted at the top of the hour, you know, the army reserve base. Is there anybody that can just come and do just physical security or be immediately called up to try and protect specific locations . Yeah. I think the key thing we dont really understand about this case yet is why these two targets weve not heard. There is some indication that Law Enforcement did know potentially why he went to these two locations, but are there any other locations that this person has talked about or considered or somebody around that neighborhood that actually knows him or where he works thinks he might attack or use as a target . The last part is the outdoor training. Is he someone whos done a lot of survivalisttype training . Has he gone out and done a lot of camping and hiking . That would make the search even more difficult at this point with so few people on the scene. Thats what im wondering about, clint, and if you could help us you have been up all night, but in terms of when this story broke, when this started happening, and when they started looking for him, lewiston is maybe 90 minutes north of the border. Having done that drive a lot, is there any possibility he has been able to leave the state, gotten assistance or terms of where his car was found . Is there anything we can glean about where he may be . So far, ive not heard anything. Late last night Jim Cavanaugh and i were on as well, and we have not heard anything. There is potential he had another automobile, but that was not confirmed. Separately, it is a place where, you know, he did this attack. Theres a reaction time to the to the two scenes. He has a lot of lead time if he were to have another car. He could move quite some distance, but it is not clear at all where the individual went, and as of last night, i have not scene any evidence they have tracked any strong leads on his whereabouts. That may have changed, but i have not seen anything so far. All right. National security analyst clint watts. Were going to be in touch with you and many others throughout the morning on this. Were just starting to get some accounts of what it was like to be in the Bowling Alley or in the restaurant. This is from the Associated Press. A young man named brandon who said he was barefoot said, i had any back turned to the door and when i turned, it was not a balloon that popped. It was a man holding a weapon. He scrambled down the length of the Bowling Alley, dove in where the pins are, and hid up there. He said, i had been barefoot for five hours because i was putting on my bowling shoes. We have a lot of questions to address over the next four hours again. This man is still on the run. The suspect so far, identified as 40yearold robert card who is described as a Firearms Instructor which is why he was able potentially to wreak so much damage and murder across the area of not just lewiston, maine, but wherever else he might be. So still ahead on morning joe, we will continue to follow any and all developments out of the state of maine as a massive manhunt continues for this Person Of Interest in this deadly Mass Shooting, and by the way, up to 50 people injured and the type of weapon used, these injuries will be difficult. Well be checking in with local hospitals as well to figure out how theyre locking them down and dealing with the injuries and potentially more deaths as this story unfolds, this Breaking News unfolds. Plus, major news out of washington. Mike jonston is the new Speaker Of The House. Three weeks after republica removed kevin mccarthy, it was a long battle. Well tell you more about the new leader of the lower chamber. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Amber. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Has no idea shes sitting on a goldmine. Well she doesnt know that if she owns a Life Insurance policy of 100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. 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You wonder why this man this suspect at large described as a Firearms Instructor who was heavily, heavily armed, and is still on the run. There is a massive search under way. We are on this, and we will jump into this as every piece of information comes in. We have other big news to cover this morning. After more than three weeks of dysfunction and chaos on capitol hill, the house finally has a new speaker this morning. House lawmakers elected congressman mike johnson of louisiana as the 56th Speaker Of The House. Hes a conservative ally of former President Donald Trump and a lowranking member of the gop leadership team. After 22 days of disarray, Republican House members demonstrated remarkable unity with all 220 voting for johnson. Shortly after the vote, the new speaker made this pledge. And im going to make this commitment to you, to my colleagues here and on the other side of the aisle as well. My office is going to be known for trust and transparency and accountability, for good stewardship of the peoples treasure. For the honesty and integrity that is incumbent upon us, all oufs here in the peoples house. Speaker johnson will immediately have to work within his party and with the Biden White House to figure out how to fund the government before money runs out on November 17th, and deliver critical aid packages to ukraine and israel. As for Speaker Johnson himself, he has arguably the most ideological conservative person to serve as speaker since Newt Gingrich in the 1990s. Johnson is an outspoken opponent of abortion and lgbtq rights. The 51yearold also played an instrumental role in the gops efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He led the amicus brief signed by 100 republicans for a texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate the 2020 Election Results in four swing states won by President Biden. The New York Times called johnson, quote, the most important architect of the Electoral College objections. Ahead of yesterdays vote, pete aguilar of california called out johnson for his previous efforts to overturn the 2020 Election Results. This has been about one thing. This has been about who can appease donald trump. House republicans have put their names behind someone who has been called the most important architect of the Electoral College objections. He spearheaded thats fair. Thats fair. We know how you feel. Yeah. Youve made that clear. Damn right. Someone in the chamber yells. Meanwhile, former President Trump congratulated the new speaker by posting on social media, quote, maga mike johnson, adding that johnson will be, quote, a great speaker. Lets bring in the white house editor for politico, sam stein and congressional investigations reporter for the washington post, Jackie Alemany and founder of the conservative website, the bullwork, charlie sykes. This will be interesting. An Election Denier as the Speaker Of The House. And look who celebrated the loudest yesterday. It was donald trump. It was matt gaetz. It was somehow they got moderates the new york moderates who had been holding some of the power here. Mike lawler got on board with mike johnson, and the truth is as someone put it to me yesterday, hes jim jordan with a jacket and a better haircut. He has full throatedly supported the effort to overturn the election, and against abortion and lgbtq rights. What are your thoughts . No question who the winners here are. Matt gaetz got his way. He blew it up. He managed to torpedo kevin mccarthy, to block steve scalise, to shiv tom emmer, and eventually did get his own candidate. Adam kinzinger describes mike johnson as jim jordan in drag. So theres no question about it. I mean, this is a full maga speaker. You know, to describe him as one of the chief architects as the electoral objection is underestimating his role. Hes a fullthroated believer about dominion, about hugo chavez. If he had gotten his way, tens of millions of votes would have been thrown out. He is a he may be a personable individual, but he is a pure ideologue, but its extraordinary as we look back on all of this chaos that matt gaetz and, you know, a handful of other members of the caucus, of the people that john mccain called the wacko birds, john boehner called them terrorists, ultimately they got their way. Yeah. And all of the normies caved in. For a brief five minutes, it looked like the moderates were going to hold the line, but ultimately the squishes did what squishes always do, and the fact it was unanimous was extraordinary. That was my question to you, jacky. What happened when you had people like ken buck and others saying i will not support somebody who is an Election Denier full stop . Exactly. Yesterday, he got the votes he needed. It was a really remarkable turn of events to see someone with perhaps the lowest name i. D. In all of American History become speaker in a matter of less than 24 hours actually with a full support of his conference. I think that johnson benefitted from a number of things. Primarily the fact that he has no national profile. Even his colleagues didnt have time to properly vet him as one lawmaker told me. He didnt have time to go through all of his votes overnight in that period from, you know, tuesday night when tom emmer stormed out of the house gop conference dropping out as speaker, and when mike johnson then became the speaker. Designate to votes the next morning. He also benefitted from fatigue i think if lawmakers are being honest. When i spoke with ken buck yesterday he said, he supported mike johnson and tried to draw a distinction between his opposition between jim jordan and mike johnson saying making this argument that jordan was actively involved in encouraging the rioters to storm the u. S. Capitol. He was in the white house, in touch with trump in these efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and that mike johnson was involved in the lawyerly aspects of the fight and therefore it wasnt as harmful, but when i asked buck why he didnt ask johnson in that house gop Conference Meeting as he had with other candidates whether he was opposed whether he still believed the 2020 election was stolen, buck simply said it was a really long day. There were 12 other things going on, and he just didnt get to the question, but he was hopeful that johnson would answer it appropriately. I asked johnson right after he gave his Press Conference, his First Press Conference as house gop speaker whether or not he believed the 2020 election was stolen and he simply said his position was well known and he wasnt going to be talking about issues yesterday. Wow. Wow. So sam stein, big picture. How do how does Mitch Mcconnell work with him . How what do you see in terms of actual government running, policy being created, laws passing . What do you see coming in the future given his extreme stances and how he works with other republicans who perhaps dont carry those same beliefs . Its a great question. Theres a couple of things that have to come to a head, right . One is funding the government. We have a matter of weeks until the current resolution runs out and theyve got to get it funded, and you have to wonder if hes going to get he being johnson gets a little bit of runway to handle that. Another thing is this supplemental aid package that was introduced. 100 billion, ukraine, israel, border aid, and all of that will be packaged together. Does he get any leeway to push that forward . And if so, maybe they can get it done, but it gets pared back, you know, but Mitch Mcconnell has to figure out how much pressure he puts on him as well. Its a great unknown, and keep in mind theres no template by which we can judge mike johnson. Hes never done this before. His legislative record is very sparse. Hes only been a fourterm member of congress. He doesnt have the Leadership Experience that anyone who also ran for the post has, so this is all sort of on the fly experimental governance. Hes second in line for the presidency, and people are googling him right now to figure out whats going on. So im just completely uncertain as everyone else is about how these next couple of weeks go, but there are several major things that have to happen. The idea that Mike Johnsons republican colleagues, the moderates didnt have time to vet him properly because this was moving so quickly doesnt past the laugh test because all you have to do is google him to find he was one of the architects and leaders to attempt to overturn the 2020 election that was slapped down by the Supreme Court, ultimately with that amicus brief and the texas lawsuit. Speak to the donald trump of it all here. For all the talk of his perhaps waning influence, he was able to yeah. Take out emmer when he wanted to when he decided he wasnt a Strong Enough supporter and at the end of the day, he looked at mike johnson, did donald trump and said, oh. He did all that stuff on my behalf around the 2020 election. Congress, hes the guy. Yeah. Theres no question about it. I mean in case there was any doubt that donald trump is sitting in a courtroom in new york, but he is still the Apex Predator of the Republican Party. Tom emmer is not the speaker because he refused to go along with Donald Trumps coup attempts. Mike johnson, this fifthstring speaker that nobody really knows anything about is, in fact, second in line to the presidency because of the role he played in trying to get donald trump to overthrow the election. I mean, so this is this is not rocket science. Right. This is now a full maga house, and whether it was exhaustion or a lack of courage or a lack of imagination, you know, you had the entire Republican Party basically now lining up behind a Super Uber Trumpy speaker. Wow. Which seems to be the story of the last seven years, isnt it . It seems to be the story of 2023. It seems to be the story of 2024. The bull works charlie sykes, sam stein, and jackie ailmany, thank you. We have an Election Denier as Speaker Of The House. Were also following this major Breaking News out of maine. If you are just joining us, at least 15 people are dead, and up to 50 may be injured. That is the suspect, the Person Of Interest in this. Police say the gunman entered two locations last night, a Bowling Alley in lewiston, maine where he fatally shot seven people before moving onto a nearby bar. Some of the victims may have been injured in stampedes as crowds raced to escape as the shooting unfolded. Officials say a lot of teenagers could be among those killed or injured as the Bowling Alley was hosting its youth night yesterday. Willie pointing out this Bowling Alley is four minutes away from Bates College. This Person Of Interest, a 40yearold male is still at large. He was Armed And Dangerous with he was last seen with an arstyle rifle, heavily armed. They located his vehicle in the neighboring town of lisbon. The entire area is locked down. Schools are closed and residents have been urged to shelter in place. A lot of questions about this suspect who according to Law Enforcement officials, was a Military Firearms Instructor with 20 Years Experience of military service. He had many, many health problems, Mental Health problems and was recently in a Mental Health facility as recently as this summer. The white house has been briefed on this. The governor of maine has been briefed on this, and well be hearing much more this morning especially from local hospitals which are also under lockdown and being protected right now because the suspect is still at large, but theyre dealing with up to 50 injured, and with that type of weapon, these injuries could be quite serious. Well be continuing to follow this Breaking News throughout the morning. We have several other big stories as well to cover. Coming up, israel conducts an overnight raid in Northern Gaza as it prepares for a Ground Invasion that the u. S. Is urging the country, try to delay. Well have the latest on the israel hamas war. Plus, President Biden is set to meet with chinas Foreign Minister on friday. Could it lead to a face to face with chinese president xi jinping next month . Well have the very latest from beijing. Thats just ahead on morning joe. Beijing. Thats just ahead on morning joe. Into every sip and sign. Fastsigns. Make your statement. Today, my friend you did it, you did it, you did it. Centrum silver is now clinically shown to support Cognitive Health in older adults. Its one more step towards taking charge of your health. So every day, you can say, youuu did it with centrum silver. I told myself i was ok with my moderate to severe Rheumatoid Arthritis symptoms. With my Psoriatic Arthritis symptoms. But just ok isnt ok. And i was done settling. If you still have symptoms after a tnf blocker like humira or enbrel, rinvoq is different and may help. Rinvoq is a oncedaily pill that can dramatically relieve ra and psa symptoms, including fatigue for some. It can stop joint damage. 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In a joint address with the australian Prime Minister In Washington, President Biden spoke about the war yesterday. Israel has the right and i would add responsibility to respond to the slaughter of their people, and we will ensure israel has what it needs to defend itself against these terrorists. Thats a guarantee. We also have to represent hamas doesnt represent let me say it again. Hamas doesnt represent the vast majority of Palestinian People on the gaza strip and anywhere else. Hamas is hiding behind Palestinian Civilians and its despicable and not surprisingly cowardly as well. This puts an added burden on israel as they go after hamas, but that does not lessen the need to operate and align with the laws of war for israeli has to do everything in its power as difficult as it is to protect innocent civilians, and its difficult. I also want to take a moment to look ahead toward the future that we seek. Israelis and palestinians equally deserve to live side by side in safety, dignity, and peace. Theres no going back to the status quo as it stood on october the 6th. That means ensuring hamas can no longer terrorize israel and use Palestinian Civilians as human shields. It also means that when this crisis is over, there has to be a vision of what comes next, and in our view, it has to be a twostate solution. It means a concentrated effort for all the parties, israelis, palestinians, regional partners, Global Leaders to put us on a path toward peace. Im convinced one of the reasons hamas attacked when they did, and i have no proof of this. This is what my instinct tells me, is because of the progress we were making toward reintegration for israel and integration overall, and we cant leave that work behind. So Richard Haass is with us. What do you make of what President Biden said, and especially the last part where he talks about the need for a vision of what comes next . Does anyone have an answer for that . Well, hes right. Yes, but whats the next part . Its also on the United States. Right. You cant just defeat hamas militarily. Right. One is im one of those saying you cant eliminate it. Lets put that aside, but you need more than a military tool. You cant beat something with nothing. There has got to be a palestinian partner. Its never going b hamas. Ultimately it will be palestinians in the west bank, but israel has been undermining them. They have been undermining themselves. The United States has not made this a priority. Lets be honest. What weve got to do is stabilize the current situation. Avoid a wider war, get the israelis to ultimately think about how we get aid into gaza. Everybody is worried about how we get the hostages out, but if and when the dust settles, the president is right. Theres got to be a larger political conversation about how we move toward a twostate solution. Otherwise, were going to return to Something Like this down the road. Can you speak, richard, to the line President Biden is walking right now . He also condemned Israeli Settler attacks in the west bank. Hes trying to say, listen. Hamas is separate from the Palestinian People. Lets not conflate the two, warning a little bit israel to pump the brakes. You got it exactly right. This is conditional support. This is needlethreading, and what hes trying to do is be publicly as supportive and empathetic as he can be. Israel has every right, indeed the duty he said to hit hard back against hamas, but the distinction between hamas and gaza, between hamas and the people of gaza, again, the political horizon that has to be out there, israel has to be sensitive to the laws of war. This is conditional support. The president so far has pulled it off really well. He is by far more popular in israel than netanyahu, and can he continue to walk this line, urge israel, while he acknowledges the right to do things, urge them to act with a degree of restraint . And i think its in israels best interest to do so. Hes essentially joining the israeli political conversation. Mmhmm. Hes trying hes not telling israel you have to do things. Its their sovereign decisions. What he is saying, though, be wise. Make Foreign Policy with your head, not with your heart, and even thousand youre tempted to do certain things, and even though you have the right to do certain things, make sure its smart. Make sure it leaves you better off the day after, and so this is a very tricky thing, but i think his instincts are right here. It is extremely tricky amid concerns of a wider war in The Middle East. The white house is working to ease tensions with its top competitor in asia. Senior Biden Administration Officials Say tomorrow the president will host chinas Foreign Minister at the white house. Thats ahead of a planned trip to the u. S. By chinese president xi jinping next month where the mous white house is working towards securing a face to face meeting between xi and biden. For more on this, lets bring in nbc news Foreign Correspondent Janis Mackey Frayer live from beijing. What needs to happen for all of this to go well . Reporter well, this is a crucial said of meetings thats about to happen with conflicts and for the world to be reshaped. This is the highest level chinese official to meet In Washington in years. The meetings will be spread over three days with antony blinken, the jake sullivan, and President Biden. Thats expected to happen on friday, and the issues could touch on anything from human rights to fentanyl, tech wars to the south china sea, but what the u. S. Is looking to leverage with him is chinas influence with iran, to help ensure that there is some stability the sort of Stability Richard was just talking about, to ensure there isnt a wider regional conflict. Beijing has made no secret of its efforts to try to position itself as a Global Player and xi jinping has a global statesman, but this presents limits for chinas neutrality. It has relations with iran, but it has traditionally backed the palestinians. While were probably not going to see china take on a role like qatar, qatar also having influence with hamas in particular, the Foreign Minister does seem to be trying to carve out some sort of role for china. Hes had talks with both the israelis and the palestinians. Hes talked with arab leaders in saudi arabia. Hes talked with iran, and so the u. S. Is looking at this as an opening to potentially coordinate with china on The Middle East. The other important piece with these meetings, of course, is that its expected theyll lay the groundwork for xi jinping to visit the United States and that meeting with President Biden. They havent spoken in nearly a year and consider the year that its been, but there have been signs of stabilizing the relationship. Theres been a whirlwind of highlevel visits here in recent months. The most recent, gavin newsom, the california governor. Hes been here this week. He met yesterday with xi jinping, and i asked him, did he get the sense in that room with xi jinping that he thought the u. S. china relationship was in a better place than it was even a few months ago . Heres what he had to say. We can isolate, talk past each other, down to each other, and ive never seen history of mankind made in that space. I think progress is only made when you set the table, work through your disagreements and differences and do it in a responsible and respectful way. Thats the spirit that brings me back to china and thats the spirit i hope bring president xi back to the United States. Well see. The tension is still there, but there is the sense that maybe the tension has been capped. There is at least communication now. Whats still unclear is whether a Biden Xi Summit will actually yield any sort of progress beyond communication. Things appear better on the surface, but mika, but they appear to be simmering below it. Live in beijing, thank you very much for that report and for much of janis report, you were nodding your head. Yeah. These meetings what are the dynamics at play here . What are the pitfalls . Why is it important these meetings happen . A couple of things. One is china is a major importer of iranian oil. The last thing the chinese economy right now is a cutoff of oil or expensive oil. So the real question is, can we get china to maybe play a little bit of a camping role with iran here . Not inconceivable. Secondly, china has not provided arms as best we know to russia. We want to make sure that remains the case. We want some limits to this nolimit relationship between china and russia as ukraine, you know, as that war finishes its second year, moves towards its third year, and the question is, as the president always says, we need a floor in u. S. chinese relations. Xi jinping is definitely now coming over to San Francisco for the apex meetings. Can we get something of a floor . We wont have massive cooperation with china. The real question is, can we continue to avoid something much worse . Can we keep open an economic relationship . Come up with some parameters and can we at least calm or avoid a crisis over taiwan for the foreseeable future . Theres three geographies right now in american Foreign Policy, The Middle East, the Ukraine Russia war, asia with china, taiwan. All three now are coming into focus. Really important meetings. Wow. The russians, the chinese, the north koreans, throw them in there. The iranians have made a big show in the last couple of weeks with their alliance. With lavrov going from beijing to tehran and showing where he stands on both of those. Right. What does the United States do with that sort of budding alliance . Youve got that access if you will, and its the antiamerican axis. Theyre antidemocratic and weve got the europeans, weve got nato and the japanese. You had the Prime Minister of australia. Youve got taiwan and youve got south korea. So what were seeing right now is the world spinning around two a axis. You have china, russia, and the middle powers if you will, north korea and iran. Thats the way the worlds line up. A lot of the worlds socalled global south hedging its bets and the hindies are working with us on tuesdays, wednesdays and is saturdays and working with them mondays and fridays. That makes it hard to manage these regional crises and makes it hard to progress on things like climate or global issues, but this is the world now. The world has given way from an americandominated postcold war moment. This is now the new world disorder. Unipolar. Thats whats here. Coming up, a new development this morning with the united autoworkers strike. The union has reached a tentative deal with ford. What comes next and where things stand with the other automakers when we come back in just a moment. Ers when we come back in just a moment the power goes out and we still have wifi to do our homework. And thats a good thing . Great in my book who are you . No power . No problem. Introducing stormready wifi. Now you can stay reliably connected through Power Outages with unlimited cellular data and up to 4 hours of battery backup to keep you online. Only from xfinity. Home of the xfinity 10g network. Out of nowhere, he just came in and there was a loud pop. 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Law enforcement officials are asking residents to shelter in place as the manhunt continues. The gunman entered a Bowling Alley, where he fatally shot seve people, before moving onto a nearby bar. Some of the victims may have been injured in stampedes as crowds raced to escape the shooting. Officials fear that many teenagers could be among those killed and injured as the Bowling Alley was hosting its youth night when this happened. As the manhunt continues right now, the Lewiston Community is beginning to speak out. The Facebook Page of the bar where the second shooting occurred posted this morning, quote, my heart is crushed. Im at a loss for words. In a split second your world gets turned upside down for no good reason. We lost great people in this community. How can we make any sense of this . Sending out prayers to everyone. Sam brock is in lewiston, maine. What can you tell us . Reporter good morning. The depth of the anguish in this community is still being revealed. We are in hour 14 of this manhunt and its not clear if the Person Of Interest robert card is here. Other states like connecticut and massachusetts have not issued any shelter in places yet. As of this morning, bowden was just added to the communities sheltering in place. We are now talking about thousands of people. If you were out this morning to get coffee or gas, youll probably find businesses closed because everyone is obeying those orders. Augusta, bowden and lisbon are all in shelter in place right now. As i stand in lewiston, youll see Unmarked Police cars in front of the sports bar that we talked about, one of the locations where one of the killings took place. Were getting more clarity about the order in which it happened. The first place to be struck was owling alley, where there was youth night, and then four or five miles away this bar over my shoulder. In total were looking at between 15 and 20 People Killed and up to 50 who were injured from some combination of bullets being fired and also potentially stampeding. Its an area that is affecting every intersection of life with the school and kids and families. You saw Bates College on that map which is still on lockdown this morning as of a couple hours ago. Youre hearing tales of students hunkering down in dorm rooms, taking shelter. As i drive around, this is a very sparse area. You can go several minutes if not longer without seeing anything in terms of residential activity or commercial activity. I mean, theres just empty woods in many spaces. Its extremely sparse. Residents will tell you its a closeknit, tight community. Theres 37,000 people in lewiston, the second largest population of any city in maine. Also, as you look at these images, the Person Of Interest is not officially a suspect. We are expecting an update from Law Enforcement in the next hours. Hi looks so menacing there with the beard and Semiautomatic Rifle that he appears to be holding. According to maines information and analytics center, theres a database providing information to Law Enforcement of card having Mental Health problems and specifically saying he had heard voices and there was a desire to inflict damage and pain on a National Guard base nearby. All of these are pieces of a portrait that are very disturbing as this manhunt continues. The areas impacted in terms of strict orders has expanded just this morning. Roughly 100plus investigators are out on the ground right now pooling resources with local, state and federal to try to figure out where this man is. As you point out, the shelterinplace order extended to bowden, maine. We should point out this Person Of Interest, robert card, lives in bowden. There was a white Subaru Outback theyve been looking for they believe mr. Card was using. That was abandoned near a boat dock in lisbon maine. We would point out last month it took two weeks to find the guy in pennsylvania who escaped from the prison. With someone training in a rural area, could be deep somewhere hiding, could be prepared for this. He certainly was prepared for what took place last night if indeed he is the shooter. I know were going to have a Press Conference in about 90 minutes. Governor mills of maine will join that News Conference. Reporter the fact that the last material connection we have to card is that white suv that was found hours ago. That was last night within several hours of the shooting. We have not heard anything this morning. Its been overnight. We did see helicopters flying overhead a couple of hours ago. I havent seen a ton of activity here since. Im told lisbon, where the car was found, was swarming with Law Enforcement at one point. As you drive around, you are not seeing a saturation of resources. It might be indicative of the fact that the efforts are being focused in other parts of the state. There are certain areas we cannot go to, this bar being one of them. Youll see officers at the start of downtown strips. What youre not seeing is anyone racing in and around town as we await whats going to happen here. One other connection here, traditionally these manhunts can go on for days. It requires hundreds of people. In cleveland, texas, several months ago, it took them a week and a hf to track him down with hundreds of Law Enforcement officials. We are in a sparse part of maine waiting to see whether or not card is even alive at this point. Businesses are shut down. Its not just schools. Basically the entire region has been shut down as they look for this man. Sam brock in lewiston, maine, thank you so much. Thats very scary whether youre a citizen, a student at Bates College sheltering in place knowing this Person Of Interest is still out there with a gun. In just a second well get expert analysis in how the search is going. Local newspapers and other organizations in the area of portland, lewiston, lisbon, maine, have back live scroll of information for the community. Bath iron works partially closed. Shift workers are being asked not to come to work. Bates college remains on lockdown. Governor mills, 10 30 Press Conference. More businesses announced closures from the Childrens Museum to aroma joes. Some university of maine students are being told not to come to class until further notice. Community colleges are closing. Multiple state and municipal offices are closing, Grocery Stores across the area closing, issuing a statement of how deeply tragic this is. The closures extend to portland schools and it keeps going where you have towns farther and farther out from the perimeter of where this happened shutting down and saying theres no reason to go anywhere until they figure out where this man is. Lets bring in retired special agent in charge Jim Cavanaugh. Thanks for being with us this morning. Put together for us the pieces that we know so far that this is a man who has 20 years or so of Firearms Training experience in the military. Just looking at the still images from security cameras at the Bowling Alley, knows how to hold the weapon hes got, a Semiautomatic Rifle, clearly is prepared with ammunition. Law enforcement trying to track him down in a big rural area, how are they beginning to take that on right now . Its a big task. On many of these manhunts like this for shooters, this is a real challenge, mainly because this guy is in a homicidal murder rage. Hes in a manic state. Hes murdered multiple people at two separate locations and traveled from the second location. I dont think we should just assume and i hope the commanders on the ground are not just assuming hes somewhere on foot in the area. He would have easily taken a person in a car. With a rifle, you can just stand outside this road and when a car comes by, shoot into the car, kill the person, push him to the passenger side and drive away. He could show up anywhere thats driving time from when he got a car, if he got a car im just saying its a possibility. I wouldnt have tunnel vision that hes right there. Thats why the b. O. L. O. Is out, his picture is out, because this is a guy on a murderous rampage. This is the way commander versus have to think. Why is the boat at the boat dock . Did he get in a boat . We dont know the answer to any of those things. If he had a cell phone, they would have already probably tracked him and found him. Id say hes probably ditched it. Hes also feeling very powerful right now. This is a guy whos feeling the power of that gun. Being a Firearms Instructor, they become one with the gun. They can manipulate the firing mechanism if the gun jams, they can clear it instantly. They can change mags so fast you cant even see it when they have this proficiency with a weapon of being an instructor. The weapon becomes like a right arm to him. Also, hell be a good shot if hes a Firearms Instructor. That is tough when Police Encounter him, because he can take a long shot to back them off. Its a very dangerous and volatile situation especially in the new england area. This guy could show up anywhere. Spree killers and serial killers do travel. The d. C. Snipers traveled from the west coast to arizona down to alabama and up to washington killing people all along the way. We all remember Andrew Cunanan in the versace case who traveled killing people. We know he should have been stopped because he made statements in a Mental Health capacity that he wanted to shoot up the National Guard armory. That flat out should have been enough to stop him right there with a restraining order, red flag law, better law on Mental Health, no firearms. Thats what should have happened but didnt. Jim, what we do know and we know very little about robert card, who is the named Person Of Interest. He has not yet been named a suspect, oddly enough. We have clear photographic evidence of who he is. One of the pictures, a fullface frontal picture indicates a mugshot, which would indicate Prior Experience with Law Enforcement. We know hes local. We know hes a very confident shooter from the photos weve seen of him walking into the Bowling Alley and we know hes probably intimately familiar with the rural area that everybody is looking for him in. If he does go to ground, if he has gone to ground, what kind of a unit, what kind of a team, how many people would be responsible for going to look in the woods for a very confident, skilled shooter like this . Well, the tactical teams, the swat teams and srt teams take the lead on that kind of a mission. In atf, we call our swat sr, the srt. They have dogs, they have camouflage and night vision gear. They conduct rural operations all the time across america. Fbi does the same and so do Many State Police swat teams like Maine State Police. All the state police units can do that as well. They have to be sharp in both urban and r operations. Its very difficult, because if a guy bunkers up in som cabin up there and hes got this ability to shoot and plenty of ammunition, he can pick off an agent from afar. I spent my life writing search warrants and affidavits and complaints for warrants and supervising thousands of those. You know, what you need to get a warrant is probable cause. If its not probable cause with the guys case walking in and murdering people on the camera, i dont know what is. They can get a warrant based on the facts they have. Probably at the 10 30 News Conference theyll tell us they have obtained warrants. It just helps officers when they might have to confront him. It looks like they have plenty of probable cause. It will be so interesting to see if they have any clues as to where he is. Im looking at lisbon, maine, which is where his car was found near a boat dock. Lisbon is lined by two rivers, which wind their way into massive waterways and ultimately out to the sea. Im wondering are we thinking if hes got this tactical shooting experience and even the way he has conducted himself the way you see him in these pictures, if theres a concern here that were looking at someone who could hunker down somewhere for the long haul and not be found. I think your insight here is right. I think this guys plan is more killing as evidenced by his past behavior and past reported statements. Hes been very successful killing yesterday. He wants more killing, i would say. Hes not through killing. Now hes feeling powerful because hes not caught. Ive seen guys get like this, bombers, killers. When theyre not caught, they get this fantasy theyre smarter than the police and nobodys going to catch them. You know, when we eventually catch them, we know what they were thinking because we interview them and they tell us. I think this guy has a plan for more killing. He might have had a little bit more elaborate plan than we think about moving onto do that, like dumping the car that would be identified with him and getting in some other conveyance. Also, he could just hijack somebody. As a commander, i would have my ear tuned to the ground if somebody doesnt show up for work this morning, where are they. People are being asked not to go to work. There are so many possibilities. Im curious with the weapon that he was using and the cargo pants and the gear he was wearing to be able to carry ammo, the fact that he was able to get back to his car, its possible he resupplied. How much ammunition can he carry on his body for a weapon like that . Oh, he could carry 40 magazines if he wanted with 30 rounds apiece. He could carry more in a backpack. In the photographs he had in his bdu cargo pants, the pockets were bulging. The right pocket looked like it had a cylindrical object. Looked like to me that he had a machete under his shirt on the left side. I tried to look at that real close from some closeups. It looked like a machete. He has some protrusions on the left side. Hes loaded to kill. He wants to kill. Hes in a homicidal rage and hes very successful. Hes feeling that success whether hes Hunkered Down or driving somewhere, you know hes feeling it now. He could have killed himself too. Half the time these guys do. Im not getting a feel from this guy that hes done that. Because of all the ammunition and the multiple scenes, he feels like he wants to up the body count for whatever reason. We may not hear from him or find him until we hear some shooting somewhere in the region and Law Enforcement is drawn to it. Former atf special agent in charge, Jim Cavanaugh, thank you very much for your insight this morning. We are going to bring you any updates as they come. Obviously theres a News Conference at 10 30 eastern time which msnbc will be taking live. Also striking autoworkers appear to have reached a deal with one of detroits big three car makers. Plus this has been about one thing. This has been about who can appease donald trump. House republicans have put their names behind someone who has been called the most important architect of the Electoral College objections. Damn right he spear headed. Thats fair. We know how you feel. You made that clear. Wow. Republicans are not being shy about why they elected congressman mike johnson as house speaker. Well speak with Chris Matthews about the man holding the gavel. Youre watching morning joe. Well be right back. Ning joe. Well be right back. Dad, whats with your toenail . Oh, that. . Im not sure. Its a nail fungus infection. 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The agreement which is subject to approval by Union Members would include a roughly 25 pay increase or four years, cost of living adjustments and the right to strike over plant closures among other enhanced benefits. Any deal would still need to be ratified by a simple majority of fords 57,000 union workers. Lets bring in Andrew Ross Sorkin for more on this and much more. Andrew. Thanks. Its a milestone. Its a very important milestone, because its going to put pressure on gm and stellantis to follow suit. At 25 pay increase over those four years, just to put that in perspective, initially when ford and gm came out with their initial offers, they were in the single digit range. You have the unions on the other end asking for as much as 40 . Now theyre in the middle at about 25 . Also worth noting and thinking about why the timing of this has that happened way it has. Ford is going to be announcing its earnings later this afternoon after the stock market closes and is expected to report something on the order of 2 billion in profits. Well, its very hard to look the workers in the eyes and say were making 2 billion in profits but were not going to share that with you. Having said that, its worth noting it also means while the workers are going to be benefitting materially, the price of cars is going to go up. If you add on inflation, Interest Rates in america, getting a new car is going to be a particularly more expensive product. Both of these things can be good. Its going to be good for the employees, who may be able to actually buy a car because theyll have more money, but its going to cost everybody else more as well. Thats the great conundrum. Andrew ross sorkin, thank you very much for joining us. To washington now. After three weeks of infighting and chaos, House Republicans finally have elected a new speaker. Congressman mike johnson of louisiana received the 217 votes he needed to become the first Speaker Of The House from louisiana. Reporter it took four tries, but House Republicans finally elected a Speaker Of The House. The speakerelect, mike johnson. Reporter louisianas mike johnson was the last man standing, cobbling together the support from a fatigued conference to win the vote unanimously and promising to get right to work. The challenge before us is great, but the time for action is now. Reporter johnson has a long list of work ahead of him. The government will run out of money in mid november, aid packages to ukraine and israel are on the table, as well as the approval of the farm deal and the reauthorization of the faa. Much of this will require bipartisan support, Something Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer made clear. I hope and look forward to working with him in a bipartisan way. Reporter johnson has not been much of a bipartisan politician. He holds conservative views on abortion, gay rights and gun control, and he was a leading voice in republican efforts to overturn the 2020 election and even played into conspiracy theories about Voting Machines being tampered with, which were widely discredited. Theres a lot of merit to that. When the president says the election is rigged, thats what he was talking about. The fix was in. Reporter President Biden brushed off concerns johnson could stand in the way of certifying the next election. Just like i was not worried the last time they tried to overturn the election. Reporter its something democrats view as disqualifying, but republicans embrace, shouting down reporter attempts to question johnson on the topic. Do you believe in efforts to overtime the 2020 election . Reporter now johnson will take on the difficult task of managing a divided party at a time when there is so much to get done. A reporter booed and shouted down for daring to ask where he falls on the 2020 election. Last night Speaker Johnson did speak with Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer according to a source familiar with the call. Joining us now is Chris Matthews. Chris, you have worked on capitol hill. You have covered capitol hill for a long time. What do you make of how this all shook out and with the choice they landed on . It was basically a war of attrition and they all gave in. Certainly the moderates gave in. Being a speaker takes more than 217 votes. You have to be willing to govern. Youre third in line to the presidency. You have to run the United States government. You control the house of representatives which writes all the tax laws and the trade bill. Whats mike johnson going to do when he has to choose between keeping the government running November 17th and playing ball with the maga crowd, which hes a leader of, a guy who says the election was stolen from them. How is he going to do both . We dont know yet. Hes charming. Hes not like the jordan guy, a not very likable guy. People like the guy. That should help. It certainly helped with tip oneal for those ten years he was leader. If they like him, they might give him some leash, a little more direction than they gave mccarthy. They saw mccarthy as a fraud. Mccarthy was not a maga guy. He pretended to be one. Chris, you worked for tip oneal for quite some type. Tip was the Speaker Of The House. What does this new Speaker Of The House, a maga backbencher, does he know what he doesnt know . Mike, you know a lot of this stuff. The fact of the matter is remember Robert Dornan from california . Sure. He once said if a person from mars walked into the House Chamber and looked around the room, he could pick out the speaker. It was tip oneal. He could intimidate people. He certainly intimidated me for six years. I could feel it. And he could make people love the guy. He had no enemies. Thats a good start for mike johnson. If you have no enemies and thats clearly how he got the moderates. They dont dislike the guy. In the end, November 17th, are you for keeping the United States government running or not . If youre not, youre one of the matt gaetz people. Matt gaetz was on ari melber last night. Matt gaetz is celebrating. Hes a winner. Trump got rid of everybody. He got rid of emmers. All of these guys are gone because they werent trumpies. Lets talk about the trump factor. Last time i checked there was a lot of losing connected to donald trump. Hes got all these legal problems on top of it all. The republicans are hurting themselves, arent they . Its almost like hes calling the shots from san quentin. Hes going to trial after trial and hes calling in from the big pen what to do. Is he going to tell mike johnson what to do on the debt ceiling November 17th . Is he going to make the call . Its hilarious. I was going to say rikers. Basically hes in a defendants chair right now in all these cases and yet he still has the power to make this guy do what he wants. This guy is third in line to the presidency. And he asked the question. Look how mccarthy did it. He said, okay, ill schmooze with you guys on this socalled impeachment of joe biden. I dont really believe theres anything there. But were going to take some democrat guys onto try to pass the spending bill. That was the end of it, the minute he brought democrats in. What happens when mike johnson says i need a few democratic votes to get to 218 . What happens then . What does matt gaetz and the rest of the zealots do . In terms of the big question, what happens when this new speaker meets the president of the United States, who youve known for quite some time . What happens . Well, joe biden will want to find something they have in common. You know in the old days you find somebody that you had something in common with. It was usually kids. You want to talk about your children. Thats one way to become friends with another guy. Well they dont want to talk about hunter biden, of course. The fact of the matter is that normally the way to get in with any stranger is kids. I think hell try that. Joe biden will try to make friends with the guy. Theyve got to go through a lot of grueling nights when they have debt ceilings and continuing resolutions and all kinds of crs to deal with. I remember tip. The guy had pressure on him all the time from ronald reagan, from the southern guys that were still in the Democratic Party who were conservatives in many ways. He had the new breed guys that came in with watergate who wanted change all the time, dick gephardt, all kinds of people. He always felt the pressure, but he overcame it through different tactics, back room stuff sometimes, sometimes public, sometimes games he played in terms of working them. The speaker only has the power to set the agenda, which is important. But he also has the power to persuade people and make people like him and do favors for people. Its a young guy here. This guy is the speaker. Hes holding jeffersons manual right now. Hes got to learn the rules and hes got to learn how to make people like him and keep liking him through a grueling time, with trump out there giving the orders from wherever. Its an interesting new situation for this young guy. I do wish him well. I hope he helps make the government work. Weve got to believe in that. Youve got to hope. Hopefully some people rise to the occasion. Weve seen some people not do that in recent past. Maybe were a little triggered. When it comes to joe biden, just one thing, he loves talking about hunter. He loves his son. He also talks about the mistakes his son has made. He loves his grandchildren. No family is immune to challenge. Joe biden is the first to talk about that straight up to anybody who cares, anybody who has humanity. Chris matthews, thank you very much. 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Learn how abbvie could help you save. Overnight Israeli Defense forces carried out targeted raids inside Northern Gaza in preparation for a widely anticipated Ground Invasion against Hamas Terrorists. Richard engel has the latest. Reporter as israeli air strikes flatten the gaza strip and with pressure mounting on israel to pause its reprisal attack and allow more aid to reach Palestinian Civilians, the Israeli Military overnight carried out its first significant incursion into gaza, sending in tanks and special forces. The Israeli Military released footage of the operation in Northern Gaza, describing it as a targeted raid deep into gaza. In a statement, saying Israeli Soldiers located and struck numerous terrorists and operated to prepare the battlefield. The troops withdrew after the mission. This was not israels muchanticipated fullscale invasion. Thousands of israeli troops, many of them reservists, remain inside israel, ringing gaza. Last night israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a ground assault is coming and that only israel will decide when and how to do it. Israel now appears to be testing the ground to judge hamas reaction and strength. Last night, President Biden defended israels right and obligation to attack hamas after its militants killed more than 1400 israelis and took more than 200 hostages. But he added a note of caution. When this crisis is over, there has to be a vision of what comes next. In our view, it has to be a twostate solution. Reporter 12 hospitals are shut in gaza because of lack of supplies. Israel says its targeting hamas tunnels that run under homes, schools and hospitals. In one building, we saw this little girl inside of whats left of her apartment. They tell her to stay calm, that theyre nearly done removing debris. Her leg is trapped under concrete. They try to free her without collapsing the pocket shes in. Finally, shes safe. Nbcs Richard Engel with that report. 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The Steven Sondheim musical narrowly we roll along is having its first Broadway Revival since the original production infamously closed after just 16 performances back in 1981. Its now playing at the hudson theater in new york city, and its getting rave reviews. Here is a short clip from the show. Thats good. Theyre singing right along in studio with us. Cant help yourself, john. Yeah. Joining us now left to right around the horn the musical director Maria Friedman and the shows three stars, daniel radcliff. Thanks for worry about lucky . I was because they rewrote it around us and i know it was this beautiful little show and you give it to people like this and its the perfect show. People are really putting it up now, which is why i wanted to do it. And right at the top, they are putting this along what that packet is like the number one for people now. You spoke with him before he died about this revival, correct . Correct, he asked us to do this show. I was working with him on it and he knew dan was going to be playing charlie and was beside himself about it and he knew of the possibility. So he knew he was coming to play it. He wrote in the New York Times 10 days before he died to ensure the production came over, saying its coming to broadway. And that was that. Speaking of the New York Times, usually, you find some qualifiers. Its just start to finish pretty much. You are breaking Box Office Records at the hudson theater. For people who dont know the story, can you give a little synopsis for what they are going to see . I dont want to spoil too much because there are a lot of surprises. Amazing score, music and lyrics by stephen. And its basically the story of a friendship. The three of us play dear friends. It takes place over the course of 20 years and it starts at the end of the friendship and goes backwards in time to the beginning. And maria, when she was pitching the show, she said this is more than just a musical. This is an opportunity for people to come into the theater, to laugh, to have an amazing experience watching the show but there is something spiritual about saying it, we repeat the lyrics of how did you get here . Many audience members have reflected on their actual lives coming to see the show. So its a very unique experience. All of you have such amazing backgrounds. Wicked . Avenue. I dont like to mention the name of any films. Hamilton and spring awakening. They talent at this table is amazing. Tell us what it feels like to be back on stage, you are kind of a veteran now and what about the way this was being put together that you know it would be a smashing success. Having trouble but they only version i have seen of the show was this production by maria in london and it was fantastic. I have to say. , i was so excited when we first talked about it, the idea of getting to do the show and when these guys came on, im so excited to be back. It really feels like, it keeps you honest on stage. If you can do it on stage, gives you confident, i can do this in a film, on stage it feels like you are really doing. You have reached the highest heights of broadway. Tell us about the show, which are u. N. , i have a feeling it has to do with the people at this table. Here i am. I havent been on stage in a few yards, was living in los angeles and doing a series there and when i spoke to maria, she kind of pulled apart this role, which is kind of a challenging woman to play. I knew i had to be part of it, i have had the best time ever. Broadway, there is nothing like it and to be received the way we are being received, to hear the audience just gasped and be with us in every moment. Its an actors dream, it really is, to do the show. It is reflective and moving. I feel like we keep forgetting to say this. It is a comedy. We need some joy, eventually, and so many ways. It is full of joy. It is . And the whole cast, everyone is full of this, it sounds really sentimental, its full of love, this show, and each one of them are relating with each other. I look at them and it is genuine. When he walked into the theater as an audience member, you are going to be taken on the most wonderful journey. And you wont forget it. I was doing a broadcast the other day and the person interviewing me said she had grown up with this friend, they had fallen out. And they used to put the old tape in the car, years ago. Anyway, after the interview, she found that tape and got a little bit of it and sent it to her friend because they had been estranged. This is happening a lot. People are picking up the phone and just reminding each other of how much we all matter to each other. You can see the strictly limited engagement merrily we roll along of the hudson theater now until march of next year. Maria friedman, daniel graf, Daniel Radcliffe and lindsay mendez, thank you for being here. That does it for us this morning. Ana cabrera picks up the coverage, including the upcoming News Conference from Law Enforcement officials in maine after a quick break. As Cyber Criminals expand their toolkit, we must expand as well. We need to rethink. Next level moments, need the next level network. [speaker continues in the background] the network with 24 7 builtin security. Chip . At t business
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