Polling that come out, both the national polls and the swing state polls. Are generally telling the same story right now, they re telling a story that vice president kamala harris is doing significantly better against donald trump than president biden had been doing in his campaign. That is comparatively good news for the democrats. They are, apparently, better off now with harris as their candidate than they were before the switch from biden to harris. That said, in absolute terms, the polls, national polls, and the swing state polls, broadly speaking, don t really give either party a reason to celebrate right now. Vice president harris may be doing better than biden was against trump, but it doesn t mean that she is clearly winning against trump. It s basically a tie between the two candidates right now. And that produces all sorts of interesting dynamics to watch for, when it is this close, little differences between the candidates and their campaigns can make a very interesting not
says will quote, end a painful chapter. the new details on the tentative but huge civil settlement between doj and victims of the 2017 sutherland springs church mass shooting. why intelligence officials are keeping a close eye on russia and china right now after trump s indictment what they re trying to stop from happening. and republican house speaker kevin mccarthy threatens alvin bragg with action on the hill. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments i want to go first to nbc s ali vitali who has been following the threats from house republicans against bragg. we heard what donald trump had to say last night with alvin bragg, now speaker mccarthy is jumping in what s his angle. reporter: look, for mccarthy, it s more of what we have seen from him even before the trump indictment became official, we watched mccarthy mobilize here on the hill three powerful committee chairman from oversight, judiciary, and administration, all asking alvin bragg
trump s defense attorneys. it will be interesting to see whether or not they go back to the judge that ordered this, judge cannon in west palm beach, and say, you know, you never really addressed this, so why is the special master bringing this up, is this something you can make a ruling on? so i think that s something we ll have to watch. we have crossed the top of the hour. tom winter and vaughn hillyard. tom, how does this fit in as we step back out of the weeds on this investigation, how does this fit into the larger look the doj is taking at these documents, whichever way this decision breaks from the special master? does it really change the thrust of the investigation from doj? vaughn pointed out the special master, judge dearie, is hoping he can have the review portion done by october 7th. everybody is targeting a november 30th date for completion here. that s what the judge who initially ordered targeted this as well. presumably the week after thanksgiving this c
threats against lawmakers, all as the insurrection was about to begin. there s no escape, pelosi, schumer, nadler. we re coming for you. we re coming in like white on rice for pelosi, nadler, schumer, even you, aoc. we re coming to take you out. we ll pull you out by your hairs. how about that, pelosi? might as well make yourself another appointment. when i get done with you, you re going to need a shine up on top of that bald head. and that s not just another trump fan recording their own crimes or what would later be trespassing, the january 6 probe is linking him to a controversial capitol tour led by an incumbent republican congressman on insurrection eve. this is the surveillance video from that day. it is now evidence in the probe to how planned this attack was and if there was help on the insi the same man threatening to, quote, take out lawmakers with that eerie confidence about how far his plans might go appears to be inside the capitol doing what looks like reco
This one about january 6th and the testimony of former vice president mike pence i want to go to laura jarrett and, laura, i know we were in a situation where there was a question about would he appeal whether or not he had to testify. what are you learning now? just a week ago i was with you when we got the news that the judge had ordered the former vice president to testify in the special counsel s probe into the former president s efforts to cling to power, to block the certification results of the 2020 election, chris, and we can now report that the former vice president has opted not to appeal that ruling, which is an interesting decision obviously there were two sets of arguments at play. former president trump had argued that executive privilege should block pence from testifying because normally those conversations are held in private. it allows for some frank deliberation between the former president and his senior aides that argument did not work in front of the federal jud