Good evening. If you were wondering how long a disgraced expresident has to wait to be forgiven these days after inciting a deadly insurrection against the seat of democracy in hopes of overturning the election he lost, the answer is three weeks and a day. Thats how long it took House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy to make the pilgrimage to maralago and pay his respects to the former president. He went on his own initiative to talk strategy about taking back the house in 2022. He also went to try to make sure he would stay in the president s good graces, it seems. The expresident s Political Action committee put out a statement that reads in part, President Trumps popularity has never been stronger than it is today and his endorsement means more than perhaps any endorsement at any time. Three weeks and a day. Thats how little time it took for the party to rush back into the arms of the man who egged on the violent mob that descended on the capitol, smashed windows, beat Police Officers
Threatening a quote, blood blood blood bath if he doesnt win in 2024. That was just one weekend, the first full weekend since the general election matchup became official, and it all happened in the course of a Single Campaign rally. Here is trump in ohio. We are going to put a 100 tariff on every single car that comes across the line and youre not going to be able to sell those. If i get elected. Now, if i dont get elected, itll be a bloodbath, that will be the least of it. Itll be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it but they will not sell those cars. Trumps bloodbath, and comes amid a campaign in which he has vowed to be a, quote, dictator to rivals and to seek, quote, retribution which is why his critics are skeptical that campaigns Cleanup Effort claiming trump was trying to say, quote, bidens policies would create an economic bloodbath for the economic industry and the autoworkers. The campaign was forced to respond because the bloodbath comments were a big s
Official who joins me in just a moment says theres no need to hyperventilate. Put down the paper bag says jen psaki. Shes here with us. First, lets get to our reporters with what the president is expected to talk about tonight and how democrats and republicans will react. Joining us now, nbc news correspondent garrett haake, and chief White House Correspondent and political analyst, peter baker. Peter, bring us into the planning from the white houses perspective. What should we expect . I think youre going to hear the president talk about a few things. First of all, hes going to talk about his accomplishments. Hes going to try to remind the country of how things were when they were in the country when he took other the period, in the middle of the covid pandemic, lockdowns, social unrest in the streets. There was of course the January 6th Attack On Congress and the economy was in free fall. I think hes going to try to remind people how things have gotten better over the years, and take
Practice. Joining us with the latest, monica alba. What more do we know about the president s exams today . Reporter today is what is known as partial physical because that is there are usually a couple components that go into it. And the president had what is more locally referred to as a complete physical in 2021 where he even had a colonoscopy, he had to hand over his duties for the momentto the vice president. We dont expect that today. He is at walter reed undergoing labs and some tests and we expect the white house and the president s personal physician will be able to put out a summary of how that went later today. This is really something where they continue to assess certain things that the president is constantly dealing with, certain medications that he is taking. Certain effects of a Stiffened Gate from a foot injury hes had in the past. Well be being look at all of that. And in his 2021 physical, he also had biopsy of a small lesion that could have potentially been skin ca
Welcome back to the weekend, folks. Were here, and House Speaker mike johnson is proving he is actually really good at one thing. Kicking that can down the road. Congress now has another week to avoid a partial government shutdown. But none of this is normal, and we cannot say that enough. If congress was actually functioning like it should, this would have been a done deal back in september. So, joining us have to discuss this and all other things happening with the governments Transportation Secretary pete buttigieg. Secretary buttigieg, welcome to the program. You are still in washington, d. C. Your colleagues on capitol hill, most of them, have gone home. Theres a chance that were gonna be here this weekend, figuring out if they can continue to fund the government. They kick the can down the road. They bought themselves about a week. Can you just give us a sense form your Vantage Point of what is at stake with the government operating in this way, with Congressional Republicans con