United states and all around the world. Im Michael Holmes. Appreciate it had you company and we do begin with the breaking news that three americans held prisoner in russia are now back on us soil. They were greeted, as you can see there by president Biden And Vice president harris when they arrived at joint base andrews in maryland, a short while ago its all part of the biggest exchange of prisoners between the u. S. And russia since the end of the cold war for a complex arrangement involving 24 people in seven countries. Marine veteran paul Whelan And Journalist evan Gershkovich And Alsu kurmasheva are among the 16 people set free by moscow in the Deal President biden said the deal could never have happened without the Strength And Courage cooperation of us allies of his call for other countries i asked him to do some things you answer immediate selfinterest very difficult for me to to take germany of slovenia really came in at the last minute. And i tell you what chancellor was cred
according to a recent poll more of this country believes obama care has been repealed than have been able to sign up for obama care. [ laughter ] the whole point of websites is to design them so it is nearly impossible to not sign up for something. every time i go to amazon i ll mistakenly sign up for six seasons of night court. are you sure you want to leave this page? yes. oops, it turns out i ordered something. good morning, everyone, it s tuesday, october 22nd. welcome to morning joe. with us on set we have former communications director for president george w. bush nicole wallace. msnbc contributor mike barnacle. thought you were is going to colombia? i am. and in washington, pulitzer prize winning columnist and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. that s what you do. you are the president of the united states and you can call anybody. nixon even called elvis got him over to the white house. i m serious. this is how leaders think. so i m doing this. any
emotional story. we begin with washington s latest power play, and one party is flexing its muscles. democrats control the senate. they took advantage of it with a rule change. majority leader harry reid triggered the nuclear option eliminating the use of phil busters to block presidential nominee appointments. the senate likes to call it the world s greatest deliberative body. after the nuclear option was detonated, changing a 100-year-old rule - the chamber is in danger of a meltdown. free to have most of his nominees accepted. people should vote their conscience and on behalf of their constituents. that s what they are there to do. the president accused republicans of abusing senate rules. a deliberate and determined effort to obstruct everything, no matter what the merits, to refight the results of an election is not normal. in the last month there were three votes to the d.c. court of appeals. the republicans blocked them all. part of a trend. the change me
capture oil and gas facilities, to fire on foreign embassies, to seize news of the foiled plot breaking as the united states is stepping up its drone attacks there. killing at least seven al qaeda terrorists in the southern part of the country. in the broader plot that led to the closings of 19 embassies and facilities and 16 countries still acted tonight with no indication that the threats have in any way diminished. here is state department spokesperson jen saki on the closings and the alerts. our embassy remains closed. we re continuing to evaluate all information on a daily basis. but beyond that, i don t have additional updates. we re keeping it closed to keep our people safe and because we believe a threat remains. saki said the threat remains as president obama visited camp pendleton today where he once again insisted we ve decimated al qaeda s leadership. that in direct contrast to a daily beast report tooay saying the ongoing security alert is in place becaus
uncovered an al qaeda plot to capture oil and gas facilities, to fire on foreign embassies, to seize news of the foiled plot breaking as the united states is stepping up its drone attacks there. killing at least seven al qaeda terrorists in the southern part of the country. in the broader plot that led to the closings of 19 embassies and facilities and 16 countries still acted tonight with no indication that the threats have in any way diminished. here is state department spokesperson jen saki on the closings and the alerts. our embassy remains closed. we re continuing to evaluate all information on a daily basis. but beyond that, i don t have additional updates. we re keeping it closed to keep our people safe and because we believe a threat remains. saki said the threat remains as president obama visited camp peleton today where he once again insted we ve decimated al qaeda s leadership that in direct contrast to a daily beast report tooay saying the ongoing security