Do the investigation they say it is doing, as he will report to us. That is an expensive report and explosive reporting. Im so glad you are covering it with the person at the center of all of it, everyone who cares about the integrity of our democracy and the High Court and the decisions it is making should be watching tonight. Im going to save you some time because Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey is joining us and he is this programs pennsylvania political expert. We are going to get it settled at The End of the hour with Senator Casey who is going to win pennsylvania. That wont be a question anymore. By 11 00 p. M. , alex, theres going to be, thats not going to be a question. Hes going to tell us. If anybody knows it, it is Bob Casey. He has encyclopedic knowledge of every single county in the state. I know this from spending time with him in 2020. It is a must watch hour of television for you tonight. Alex, well, this is for Monday Night. This is getting way ahead of ourselves but it is relevant to tonights news. Bob woodward will be on the program 10 00 p. M. To discuss this book, which is the October Surprise of books in a very big way. If you need an extra hour any night of the week, please, just raise a flag. Im fine. As you know, an hour is plenty for me. Its plenty. Not enough for america. Have a great show, lawrence. Thanks, alex. The Breaking News of the day went from Breaking News to a president Ial Campaign it in record time. With the harris for President Campaign setting a new Speed Record Today in converting Breaking News into a campaign ad. I talked to Vladimir Putin a lot. I got along with him well. I know Vladimir Putin so well. I would like to congratulate Vladimir Putin for making another great deal. To talk to him like that . We had a very good relationship. Im trying to tell people it is a good thing. When you see putin and all these people at the top of their game. I also have a pretty good relationship, as you know, with President Putin. If we win, we will get things resolved very quickly. Very quickly. I think it is going to be very quick. Absolutely. It takes two to tango. The shocking, Breaking News of the morning is the biggest October Surprise of the 21st century. The term October Surprise was first used in the president Ial Campaign to refer to president Jimmy Carters failed attempt to rescue american hostages held in iran in October Of 1980 , within weeks of the president ial election, which President Carter then lost to ronald reagan. The Surprise News in October Of 1980, that the president had tried to rescue the hostages but failed, was regarded by the News Medium as the October Surprise that determined the outcome of the election. Just as a successful release of the hostages, rescue of the hostages by Jimmy Carter probably would have been the October Surprise that won Jimmy Carter his reelection. Todays October Surprise, revealed by the Washington Post would have crushed any president ial candidate prior to the Trump Era and Donald Trump. The Washington Post reported that Bob Woodwards new book, which will be published next week, entitled war, reveals that in the Darkest Hour of the Covid19 Pandemic in 2020, when there was no vaccine and when most people in the world, including most people in this country, could not obtain covid 19 tests, Donald Trump sent priceless test to Vladimir Putin for Vladimir Putins personal use. The Washington Post breaking News Headline on the story was trump secretly sent Covid19 Tests to putin during 2020 shortage. The post reported as the Coronavirus Tour through the world in 2020, and the united states and other countries confronted a shortage of test designed to detect of the illness, president Donald Trump secretly sent coveted tests to russian President Putin for his personal use. Putin, petrified of the virus, accepted the supplies took pains to prevent political fallout, not for him but for his american counterpart. He cautioned trump not to reveal that he had dispatched the scarce medical equipment to moscow, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor, Bob Woodward. Putin, according to the book, told trump i dont want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me. I dont want you to tell anybody. Donald trump followed vladimir Putins Advice and did not tell anyone. That is exactly the kind of thing that doesnt stay secret forever when Bob Woodward is on the case. Vladimir putins intense fear of covid19 was on public display throughout the worst of the pandemic, with repeated photographs of Vladimir Putin sitting at The End of a comically long table, sometimes berating russian generals at the other end of the table for their failures in his war in ukraine. That, of course, was french president emmanuel macron, who was also once at The End of that table. The book is filled with other revelations about Donald Trump, including Bob Woodwards conclusion, that Donald Trump was worse than richard nixon. These interactions between trump and the authoritarian leader of a country at war with an american ally formed the basis of the conclusion that trump is worse than richard nixon, whose presidency was undone by the watergate scandal, exposed a halfcentury ago by woodward and his Washington Post colleague, carl bernstein. Worse than nixon. No one would know better than Bob Woodward, who will join us on this grim Monday Night, when we will be able to go into much greater detail about these and other revelations in his new book. The Washington Post quotes Bob Woodward writing in the book, trump was the most reckless and impulsive president in American History and is demonstrating the very same character as a president ial candidate in 2024. That kind of reporting would have ended any president Ial Campaign prior to the Trump Era. Would have destroyed the candidate. Devastating reporting like that would still destroy a democratic president ial nominee. But, Donald Trump has converted the Republican Party into the Trump Party and appears to have established a lock on 47 of the vote in this country, which, if properly distributed by the curse on american democracy, the Electoral College, could win Donald Trump the presidency. New national Polling ShowsKamala Harris ahead of Donald Trump today, 49 to 46. Kamala harris is on track to get millions more votes than Donald Trump, just as Hillary Clinton did and just as Joe Biden data. , this is the one country in which winning the most votes for president doesnt mean you become president. Because of the Electoral College, which was deliberately established, it should always be remembered, by the founders as an antidemocracy institution that would prevent mere voters from actually controlling the outcome in president ial elections. That was the purposeful design of the Electoral College. Without the Electoral College, Donald Trump would have vanished from our politics in november of 2016. But, thanks to the Electoral College, the person Bob Woodward calls the most reckless and impulsive president in American History, is still with us. Today, Howard Stern asked Vice President harris about the big Breaking News of the day. Bob woodward was saying that trump was sending Covid Tests to Putin And Putin said dont let anyone know. I mean, this is, what is going on . What do you make of that . I actually said it even in the debate, i believe that Donald Trump is, has this desire to be a dictator. He a strong man and he gets played by them because he thinks that they are his friends and they are manipulating him fulltime. Manipulating him by flattery and with favor. So, in the and midst, to your point, as reported by Bob Woodward, in the height of the pandemic you remember, your listeners will remember, people were dying by the hundreds. Everybody was scrambling to get these kits, the tests, the Covid Test kits. Couldnt get them. Couldnt get them anywhere. This guy, who is president of the united states, is sending them to russia, to a murderous dictator for his personal use . That is just the most recent, stark example of who Donald Trump is, that hes secretly sent Covid19 Test kits for the personal use of putin, of russia, an adversary to the united states. When he was talking about americans should be putting bleach in their blood. Vice president harris began her public Appearances Today on the view. Donald trump prefers to run on problems instead of fixing problems. Is not solution oriented. If you really need to know how he thinks because he doesnt do these kinds of interviews, what his rallies. He spends fulltime engaged in grievance about what has happened to him. He spends fulltime perpetuating lies and misinformation. He spends fulltime talking about fictional characters. A lot of Name Calling and demeaning people. What he does not talk about is you. He does not talk about what you need. He does not talk about what your parents need to, what your children need. He doesnt talk about your childs needs. He talks about his needs. I think, again, back to the point, in this election, people are ready for a new generation of leadership, that is about fixing problems. Thank you. Medicare was created in 1965 by a Democratic Congress and democratic president , lyndon johnson. No republican president ever would have created medicare. No republican congress, ever would have done that. It is the most popular Government Health Care program in the united states, and actually, one of the most efficient and admired Government Health Care systems in the world. I have talked to Health Ministers from around the world about this and they all point to medicare as the system that they think is the one that works better than their own. Medicare was assigned to help people over 65 from you really with Hospital Bills at first but Care Coverage has expanded over the years and decades as the accepted definition of necessary medical treatment has extended over the years. Today, Kamala HarrisAnnounceds Mention of benefits that she would like to connect to deliver the kind of Health Care that people often need, now in final years of their lives. I took care of my mother when she was sick. She was diagnosed with cancer. And, so, it is a personal experience for me as well as something i care deeply about. Taking care of a parent, that means trying to cook what they want to eat, what they can eat. It means picking out closer for them that is soft enough that it doesnt irritate the skin, right . It means trying to think of something funny to make them laugh or smile. There is so much about that that really is about giving folks dignity. And, to your point about being in the sandwich generation, there are so many people right in the middle, taking care of their kids and their aging parents. It is almost impossible to do it all. Especially if they work, we are finding so many people are having to leave their job, which means losing a source of income, not to mention the emotional stress. What i am proposing is basically what we will do is allow medicare to cover inhome Health Care. They want to stay in their home, they dont want to go somewhere else. For the family to send them to a residential care facility, to hire somebody, that is so expensive. Heres the other thing about it. People say how are you going to pay for it . Heres the thing, here is how we pay for it. Part of what i also intend to do is allow medicare to continue to negotiate Drug Prices against these big pharmaceutical companies, which means we will save medicare the money because we are not going to be paying these high prices and the resources are best then put in a way that helps the family like the one you are describing, which we have already done with insulin. Health Care Policy experts in Government And Outside of government have known for decades now that the most offensive place to deliver Health Care is in the hospital. The least expensive place to deliver Health Care can be, in many instances, at home. Vice president harriss new proposal recognizes the new realities of the way we live and the way we die. After Vice President harris announced her new medicare home Health Care proposal, her Vice President ial running mate, governor Tim Walz, said, my dad died after a long banner data with lung cancer. It takes a toll. Caregiving is stressful enough. It shouldnt be this expensive. Kamala harris and i have a plan. Lets strengthen medicare to cover home care. With florida expected to be hit by possible the worst hurricane we have ever seen in florida, that means we are just days away from Donald Trump lying about federal Disaster Relief in the aftermath of hurricane, just as he has lied repeatedly about the federal response to last weeks hurricane, which all of the governors involved, republican governors, have actually paid. Right now, there is a Monster Storm barreling toward my state of florida, a place that is still reeling from hurricane helene. Trumps lien, claiming the biden administration is intentionally withholding aid from the areas where republicans live and that fema funds are being redirected to migrants. Ironically, that is something he did in 2019. What do you think the