intensifies his nuclear rhetoric amid a faltering military campaign in ukraine. the biden administration says it has told russia privately exactly what the consequences would be for using a nuclear weapon. we ll have the very latest on that. plus, a head turning new revelation concerning the attack on the capitol. what a former adviser to the january 6th committee says about a phone call between the trump white house and a rioter while the attack was underway. also this morning, tropical storm ian has just strengthened into a category 1 hurricane as it continues its track toward cuba and florida. we re watching that. and it is just six weeks until voters decide the balance of power in congress. we ll tell you where things stand this morning and what s in play. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s monday, september 26th. we begin with the new polling from the new york times that shows 54% believe donald trump threatened american democracy when he left office. 51
been charitably a dumpster fire but he has a voided a terrible gaffe. it s going to be a senior white house official said they think right now it s 50/50. that would be good enough to keep the senate. they re nervous. taking nothing for granted. john heilemann, there s one galvanizing issue, and that would be abortion. for yesterday s season premiere of the circus you spoke with vice president kamala harris about the overturning of roe v. wade. let s take a look at a portion of that interview. the right of people in our country to have the freedom to make a decision about whether they start a family, about their own body, about who they love, all humans are entitled to certain freedoms. and they should be protected. there s a backlash, the stripping away of roe v. wade, and we saw it in kansas.
italians, to the point of saying we may not want to use euros as money. to some extent it s because the people in brussels who are part of the european union just don t listen to ordinary folks. i hate to say that. that s a part of the story we should remember. and so many people when you re talking about italy or sweden or britain, for so many people, the concern has to do with immigration. ed luce, i remember talking to somebody, a loyal laborite member who our debates usually politically centered around margaret thatcher. you can guess what side i was on. she and her family loathed thatcher, loathed torys, loved conservativism in britain, and i asked her before brexit, i guess you re going to be voting against brexit. are you kidding me, no, we re voting for brexit, and she said we re tired of the eu telling us how to run our economy, how to
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before congress. what have you seen or heard of any kind of movement to deal with this by those at disney and/or other corporations? have you been able to see any redress of the issue? one of the reasons to make this film wasn t necessarily to hack away at disney necessarily but really, in fact, to take a company that people have high expectations for and hold it to a higher standard, and so it really does get under people s skin to think that it s disney. and i remember as a child the way people were treated. it wasn t always like this. the expectation was that that was a middle class job. you could raise a family on that job, and people did for many years and stayed at that company and retired securely for many years. and so we wanted to call them out because we wanted, first of all, to make human the predicament of so many other americans, but also because we want disney to do better. so the unions are getting more active, and we ve actually seen