jesse: kickbacks, sexting, bribery. meet the new wanda. the fbi caught catfishing americans trying to secure the border. are you the bud light genie? ya. i wish i was at the fight. jesse: bud light transitions back to a man. should we let them. plus . (screaming) jesse: this is a government of the people, by the people, for the people no longer. it s now a government by the corporations, of the corporations and by the corporations. that was president rutherford b.hayes. behind the gilded age was greed and corruption. tie kaopbz lining the pockets of politician gobbling upland acre by acre. bribing public officials has always been part of the business and occasionally the fbi catches wind of it. the arrests of one senator, congressmen and others. the law lickers were on tape accepting brides from agents posing as middle eastern businessmen trying to obtain political favors for a foreign arab sheik. i said we were willing to pay. okay. i m saying some day you,
what he said about reports the u.s. spied on south korean officials, rising nuclear tensions and relations with china the slow-moving disaster the severe flooding threat as snow melts much of yosemite park closed, as some areas along the mississippi are already under water. what doctors are calling one of the worst allergy seasons in decades why so many adults are suffering for the first time. and the remarkable life of an american original, singer, actor and civil rights activist, remembering the great harry belafonte. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome, everyone. there are 560 days until the 2024 presidential election, and tonight the ingredients for a potential trump-biden rematch are falling into place following president biden s announcement today that he is in, officially running for a second term in office as he put it in an early morning video release, to finish the job. the president laying out the stakes, taking
more fair and more equal and more free. the time to stand up to this growing left wing tyranny is right now. so now it s all up to the voters. and most of them say inflation is issue number one. i like to drive everywhere, but these gas prices are crazy. 6 1/2 dollars for a pound of hamburger, that s a lot of money. and president trump fires the first shots across the 2024 gop bow. mike pence at 7. mike s doing better than i thought. inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday, i m abby phillip. we are now t minus two days until one of the most hotly contested midterms of our lifetimes, and turnout could exceed the midterm records set in 2018, and by one estimate, nearly $17 billion have already been spent. republicans, they may be favored to win the house, but who controls the senate could hinge on voters in pennsylvania. so that is why president biden, former presidents obama and trump were all
away and amara, we can see the finish line now. yes, we can. it feels like it s been a long last several weeks. we are finally here. this is the last weekend of campaigning before tuesday s elections as the candidates and their surrogates make their final push for votes. in the battle for control of the senate it comes down to a handful of key states, including pennsylvania. president biden, barack obama and donald trump all campaigning in the state today. the president keeping his focus on democracy and the economy. he says he is optimistic about the midterms, but polling has indicated that the momentum is on republicans side. another race that could decide who controls the senate is in georgia between senator raphael warnock and former football star herschel walker. millions of voters have already cast their ballots. in fact, early voting is up compared to the 2018 midterms. almost 35 million people in 47 states have voted early. and our reporters and correspondents
interesting period right now. so what do you make of the current state of america? well, i put an album out about i think this was in 2005, and the title of the album was liars. and i have this tendency sometimes to be a little bit prophetic in the music that i make. and at the time, it wasn t necessarily about politics. it was just about the human tendency to be dishonest in great and small ways. in other words, if someone says, how do you like my new hairdo, and you don t like it, but you say, it looks great on way. you re trying to find ways not to lie and sometimes there s no way you can t. so i made a record about all the ways that people are dishonest with each other. i never thought that a political party would make that a canon, you know, that essentially the reason why liz cheney isn t in the republican party was because she refused to lie. in other words, to be a republican means that you have to first and foremost be able to lie. and lie until you get cornere