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
Because your derriere deserves expert care. preparation h. get comfortable with it. welcome back. it s looking more and more like elon musk, the richers man on the planet is going to purchase twitter, kicking off conversations about what that could might be mean for the social platform that places a significant role in our political discourse. president trump tweeted but although twitter has played a dominant role, its reach is much smaller than you might think. less than a quarter of americans say they ever use twitter, a small frakes shun than some of the more dominant like youtube and facebook. data shows a minority of very active users are producing the overwhelming majority of tweets. the top 25% are producing 97% of tweets. the other three quarters of the platform s users are just simply reading them. data also shows that twitter users lean pretty far lest, about 32% of adults that say they are democrats, saying they