pouring in. the pressure is on and the gloves are off. john, obviously i wasn t clear enough for you to understand this. here s a man that spent more than $20 million of his own money to try to buy that seat. you and donald trump were the masterful covid deniers. you re poorer and less safe because of kathy hochul and extreme policies. with 13 days left, candidates from both parties are scratching, clawing for every last vote. and there s going to be a lot of votes if the pre-election day ballot numbers are any indication. let s start in pennsylvania today. democrat john fetterman and republican mehmet oz facing off in their only debate, some accommodations were made as fetterman recovers from a stroke but both candidates had some bumpy answers. cnn s jessica dean is in harrisburg for us. how are the candidates cleaning things up today? reporter: even more than cleaning up the two are zeroing in on where they think the weaknesses are for the other campaigns from l
a grand jury from getting information from his inner circle. what the high-stakes legal dispute could mean for trump s legal troubles. and the countdown is on, 45 days to go until midterms. house republicans rallying around kevin mccarthy as he lays out his blueprint for a political win. the latest on the gop s strategy next. good morning, everyone. welcome to your new day. it is saturday, september 24th, a little more than 30 days away from halloween. i m so excited, boris, you have no idea. that s right do. you have a costume picked out? i do. i ll be mia belle from inconto. do you know it? oh, yes. i m just getting started. i love that holiday. i do too. we ll chat about that more during the breaks, but we ve got no shortage of news and no shortage of storms apparently either. watching two major storms. first hurricane fiona a post-tropical cyclone that s making landfall in eastern canada as we speak, and then hurricane warnings are in place as damaging
plus an explosion kills the daughter of a key ally of vladimir putin. raising questions about whether the ally himself was the target. in confusion reigns as florida school year starts with the don t say gay bill in full force. we will have a live report ahead. next hour, the two democratic candidates hoping to unseat governor ron desantis. the man behind that bill, it will join me live. nikki frieden charlie crist ahead of their tuesday showdown. you don t want to miss this. we re going to begin in georgia this hour way circuit court of appeals. a short time ago, temporarily blocked senator lindsey graham from having to testify before a fulton county special grand jury on tuesday. this blocking comes just two days after a judge had denied graham s attempt to delay the testimony. fulton county district attorney fani willis whose investigating possible election interference in georgia during the 2020 race wants to question graham about the calls he made to georgia secretary of
election interference, what he s saying and when he might go under oath. developing news overseas, putting europe on edge. international inspectors on their way to that nuclear power plant coming under fire in ukraine. the fears growing over a possible radiation disaster. our team there on the ground with a live report for you. meantime, good afternoon to all of you. i m alex witt, in for hallie jackson here in new york. i m joined by ken dilanian, as well as msnbc legal analyst kelly, you re with us, as well. ken, with the doj with at least some of those seized documents contained some attorney/client privileged material. how will that affect the investigation going forward? probably not at all, alex. it s pretty routine when the fbi searches somebody s office and they grab all their files, they may pick up stuff that s privileged. that s why they use what s known as a privilege or filter team, a group of independent prosecutors to go through the documents before they
surprise decision from a federal judge in florida who asked the justice department to prepare a redacted version of the affidavit that led to the search warrant for donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. that decision marking more of a middle of the road approach than some expected with the judge saying, quote, very important for the public to have access to as much information as possible. joining us now from palm beach, florida, just outside of mar-a-lago and nbc news correspondent sam brock. good morning. what is the latest here? reporter: willie, good morning. the latest is, it is all quiet right now outside of mar-a-lago. after some chaos yesterday in the courtroom. at least in the sense that this was not the result that many in the legal community were expecting, that the judge appears to be sympathetic to unsealing a portion of the affidavit. here is what is happening, what will happen next. the doj has a full week to submit its redactions and the judge will look at those