up because of what the russians and saudis just did. i ll speak with don bacon and elizabeth slot kin. plus presidential portrait. maggie haberman has an in-depth look at his rise to power, including changing views on abortion, reversing the position he once made right here on this program. i m very pro-choice. yamiche alcindor and brendan buck. welcome to sunday, it s meet the press. announcer: this is meet the press with chuck todd. good sunday morning. i m kristin welker in for chuck to do. election day is just 30 days away. ronald reagan worried jimmy carter would engineer a last-minute release of u.s. hostages. carter, of course, did not, but the term stuck. there s at least three stories unfolding. first the nuclear threat from russia. then there are rising gas prices, now averaging just under $4 a gallon, which democrats worry there will be a sign to voters that there is a true. but the october surprise of the week, it could determine control of senat
You have this anecdote when it goes to the dedication of the verrazano bridge, and years later, he talks to a new york times reporter about it, and gets all sorts of details wrong. the weather, things said at that dedication. you write, he revealed himself ton ahn unreliable narrator of his early moments. the comments went unchecked, but for good reason. why would anyone think such details were untrue. where do you think that impulse comes from? it s a great question, but i think there s parts of he absorbed, before roy cohn, hi famous fixer was in his life. he absorb it i think from his father. he knew how to cut corners, knew how to handle things certain