future bottlenecks. today i m announcing two further steps. first, i m allocating additional funding to help american partners as well as the united states cut port congestion by slashing red tape and reducing processing times so that ships can get in and out of our ports faster, and second i m signing an executive order that will strengthen our management of the united states defense stockpiles for minerals and materials and allow us allow us to react and respond more quickly to shortfalls in the industrial base. president biden also met with turkey s president recep tayyip erdogan raising human rights issues and turkey s use of a russian missile system with the turkish president. biden did not attend some of the more informal cultural event including tossing copies into the trevi fountain with other g-20 leaders. many of these leaders will be traveling to scotland tomorrow where the united nations climate change conference or connecticut fence is under way. let s go n
vaccine mandates. i guarantee you at least half of the department is staying home come saturday morning. companies and municipalities requiring vaccines and the battle lines are drawn. while some republican governors see advantage in opposing mandates. unfortunately, this has become about politicians wanting to control peach. i ll talk to arkansas governor asa hutchinson. and god and politics. while most evangelicals are aligning with former president biden do you think he s using him? absolutely. i think president trump is a miracle. the bible belt is unbuckling. looking at the divide in the evangelical movement. joining me for insight and analysis are amy walter, editor-in-chief and publisher of the cook political report, nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake. kimberly atkins stohr from the boston globe, and john podhoretz, editor of the commentary. welcome to sunday. it s meet the press. announcer: from nbc news in washi
find? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that will resist the temptation to talk about nothing other than succession. i m jonathan lemire on this monday, october 18th. we ll start with the news. we begin this morning on the latest with the 17 missionaries kidnapped in haiti, 16 of them, which includes children, are american citizens. they were taken hostage by a gang on their way home from building an orphanage. the gang responsible for the kidnapping is among the country s most dangerous and one of the first to engage in mass abductions. the u.s. department is working with haitian authorities at the most senior level to get them back. nbc news correspondent sam brock has the very latest. reporter: the turmoil and violence rocking haiti has been directed at american citizens after 17 people on a missionary visit were kidnapped. the ohio-based christian ministries posted on its website the group of 16 american citizens a
you re even feeling this yourself at home. it is playing out in a variety of ways, and i want to walk you through what we re seeing. now all across the country workers are making it clear that they are tired of the old way of doing things and they want a better deal. on thursday of this week more than 10,000 union workers took to the picket line said outside of 14 different john deere factories located mostly in the midwest. that is of course the farm equipment company, and it has had an incredible year. in fact, it s expected to report record profits of almost $6 billion and the workers who kept the company running during the pandemic they now want a bigger piece of that by. they overwhelmingly voted to reject one contract offer from the company and they re holding out for a better deal. it s important to note they re not uh-uh loan. last week 1,400 workers at kaling cereal plants went on strike. over 2,000 nurses and hospital workers are on strike in buffalo. and in massach
democrats left tying to piece together next steps. this is one of the problems that we have now, not just with senator manchin, but senator sinema. we need every democratic vote. we re not going to get one republican vote. our individual citizens will suffer a generation or two down the road and the economy will, as well. so, it s a shame that we would have to strike the policy initiative out of this package, but we have to get 50 votes. a massive strike that could have shut down much of hollywood s tv and film production avoided of crew workers reach a tentative deal with studio execs and their new contracts include some major perks. but will all union members actually still go for the deal. we ll ask that question in a live report, as we do say good morning, everybody. it is sunday, october 17th. i m kendis gibson. where did this month and year go by? it s not over yet. feels like it. i know. i m lindsey reiser. so good to be with you on this sunday. and we have a