Jail for several years for counterfeiting one vote. If they try to vote illegally once, he tried to steal the entire election. And his lawyers out there are saying that its just a matter of him expressing his First Amendment rights. And that is deranged. That is a deranged argument. Trumps lawyers also making the case that mike pence will be the defenses, quote, best witness. Today on cnn, pence contradicted lauras take on the Pressure Campaign to block the certification of president bidens election victory. What President Trump did not do is direct Vice President pence to do anything. He asked him in an aspirational way, asking is covered by the First Amendment. In the days before the president was talking about us rejecting votes. And then late in the process, his lawyers suggested that we return votes to the states. But frankly, the day before january 6th, if memory serves, they came back, his lawyers did, and said we want you to reject votes outright. They were asking me to overtur
we begin with the aftermath of him, and what could be the costliest hurricane in u.s. history. and was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone today, the storm delivering with heavy rains from the creek of islands to new england marking. out some and delivering strangers storm surge to the south. in florida, it s climbing. in this hour it stands at 77. that number is expected to rise. they re also assessing the damage, it could amount to billions of dollars in the southwestern part of the state. businesses destroyed. homes flattened. residents, left in complete shock. i wish we should be alive right now. we shouldn t be alive right now with that storm. the power of that storm? it would ve crashed into that side of the house. we would ve been swept away. to see the damage of clothes, it s almost frightening to see just how easily he d chewed through tons of concrete and steel. but to the danger above? heartbreaking. when you realize this is the only way an entire community c
we begin with the aftermath of ian and what could be the costliest hurricane and u.s. history. ian o was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone today, the storm delivering heavy rains for the carolinas to new england, knocking out power to sum and delivering dangerous storm search to the east coast. in florida, the death toll is climbing. at this hour, it stands at 77. that number is expected to rise. they are also assessing the damage. it could amount to billions of dollars in the southwestern part of the state. businesses destroyed, homes flattened, residents left in complete shock. we should not be alive right now. we shouldn t be alive right now with the storm. but the power of that storm, if that would have crashed into the side of the house, we would have been swept away. to view the damage up close, it s almost frightening to see just how easily ian true through tons of concrete and steel. but the view the damage from above, heartbreaking, when you realize that this
The special primetime hour of morning joe with two days until the midterm elections. Early voting has already started, and now it is a final sprint to the finish. Trying to take control of the house and senate, and the future of president agendas. The issues that are driving the vote, it abortion, crime, how much power trump republicans still wield over the gop. In many ways, democracy itself is on the ballot with Election Deniers in multiple states poised to could take control over the next president ial race is being determined. Were digging into all of it with reports from key battlegrounds with an allstar political panel. Along with joe, lori, and me, we have Nbc News National Correspondent and Executive Editor of the weekend. John heilemann, he is cohost of showtime, former u. S. Senator now on nbc news and msnbc news political analyst. Claire mccaskill, the host of the msnbc of politicsnation, and president at the National Action network. And former White House Press secretary je
we re seeing more people come every day. we got access to the one that is already open, and according to the city, at capacity. inside this hotel, this is the first place where people seeking asylum are processed in new york city. officials with the city tell us it is hundreds of people coming in to this room every single day. over the last year the city has opened 194 sites for migrants, including 13 large scale humanitarian relief centers. they say they are currently housing over 56,000 asylum seekers. officials say the federal government needs to step up and that new york city is shouldering the burden of a national issue. this is a federal problem. that s why we need federal intervention to help out. new york city can be doing all this and helping out this crisis. that was nbc s alison barber reporting from new york. next, did the presidents lawyers make the same argument as richard nixon? nbc news historian michael