i will say this, joe scarborough, thank you for being on this morning for my first show officially. thank you for watching. mika, what s next? good morning, welcome to morning joe, it s tuesday october 26th and along with joe and willie, we have the new host of way too early, jonathan lemire and our msnbc s contributor, katty kay is with us and our eugene robinson joins us. joe, we got a big morning ahead, a number of developing stories we are following. it s good to have jonathan aboard. jean robinson, i want to follow a conversation. there is a time to negotiate and bargain and hackle. we are seeing the outline of the reconciliation bill, we are close to that now. what democrats need right now is understand that nothing succeeds success because they need to pass that massive bipartisan infrastructure bill, get the great buzz from it two or three days and follow-up. they re all bathing in the collective glory of that, then they pass the reconciliation bill on saturda
congressional democrats are gearing up for another week of negotiations as they attempt to move forward with two key pieces of president biden s economic agenda. the road toward passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the democrats larger spending package is far from smooth and the clock is ticking. democrats are racing against the clock as they push to pass both bills by the end of the month but face two major roadblocks in the form of so-called moderates. senator joe manchin and senator sinman. they have yet to bridge one of the most important parts, prescription drug price reform. senator sinema hasn t wavered. but hasn t specified what she would like to see. that s frustrating bernie sanders who implied her opposition may be linked to where her donations are coming from. he said in part, quote, take a hard look at the people who are opposed to strong legislation to lower the cost of prescription drugs and take a look at their campaign finance reports. i know th
court justice sonya sotomayor and her decision involving vaccine mandates for teachers and staff in new york city schools. justice kavanaugh testing positive for covid, a breakthrough case. the school shooting in houston. this time a school employee shot in the back. the alleged gunman, a former student, shooting his way into the school. newly released police body camera video tonight involving gabby petito. the part of the video not shown before. officers noticing bruises, asking if she had been hit in the face. her exchange with police. the major news tonight involving the national women s soccer league now postponing games after two prominent coaches were fired amid allegations of misconduct and abusive behavior. several players coming forward. already some high-profile support. the deadly midair collision. e idg with a helicopter. a frantic mother s harrowing 911 call after a toddler falls down that open manhole at a playground. my son fell in an open manhole.
steel plantd in mariupol, the resistance to the war that vladimir putin will not call a war, official inside the plant tells the washington post the situation is, quote, critical. translator: the shelling and storming of asovstal is not stopping but civilians still need to be taken out. women, many children remain there. president says, quote, if there is hell in the wuorld it s in asovstal. the hell is intense, growing darker by the hour by all accounts yet an official said russian troops entered the territory of the steel plant but, were, quote, repelled by defenders. again, that is the reality, one vladimir putin is trying to deny so he can secure, we assume, something that resembles a win four days ahead of a holiday special to the russian people that commemorates their victory in world war ii. and a war, vladimir putin s closest ally, dictator of belarus, said today, dragged on, russian troops weren t repelled because they never tried to enter the steel plant in the