Brooklyn, how we doing . Im luke, the host and Creative Director of Msnbc Live, and we are so excited to welcome you to our very first and sold out fan focused event [ applause ] thank you and this is where you get to meet and greet your favorite nbc personalities live and in person, and i can let you guys in on a little secret. Steve Kornackis Khakis are just as glorious in real life. Over the course of the day jen psaki, joy reid, and so many others will give you their take on the state of this wild and crazy election. Lets get this thing kicked off. Please welcome to the stage, the chart throb himself, the man, you know who im talking about, the man with the most incredible map, the hardest working man in politics, whos on live almost 48 hours in a 24 hour day, Steve Kornacki but Hold On, Hold On he will be joined by the pride of Los Angeles Katie steve, katie [ applause ] on Election Nights, you usually start out the night by telling us certain places youll be looking for early to
It s a great book from a great reporter. I m glad you had him on, chris. Agreed. Have a great weekend. You too. Okay, well, today started yet again with news of bomb threats in springfield, ohio. Yesterday two elementary schools, city hall, dmv and the county court facilities had to close because of bomb threats. Today two elementary schools were evacuated and a middle school had to close. Yesterday the mayor of springfield told nbc news he believes these bomb threats are directly connected to the baseless rumors spread online in the wake of viral social media posts claiming haitian migrants were abducting people s pets in springfield in order to eat them. I should note that the claims about haitian migrants eating pets in springfield are lies. There is no evidence to back up any of those claims. But that does not seem to matter. Here s the thing, a week ago today, on all of twitter, there were only about 1,000 posts mentioning haitians, migrants or immigrants eating animals. Twitter i