Lets speak to our lets speak to our political correspondent political correspondent damian grammaticas, who is at The Party damian grammaticas, who is at the Party Conference in brighton. Conference in brighton. You join us you join us youjoin us in you join us in writing where youjoin us in you join us in writing where the Lib Dems are enjoying that the Lib Dems are enjoying that election result. More than a election result. More than a four fold, fivefold increase four fold, fivefold increase election result. More than a election result. More than a fourfold, fivefold increase in mp5, Sir Ed Davey enjoying fourfold, fivefold increase in mp5, Sir Ed Davey enjoying mps, Sir Ed Davey enjoying absolutely will mps, Sir Ed Davey enjoying that. The benefits that he that. The benefits that he brought to the election where brought to the election where he put himself out there are he put himself out there are took part in lots of stance in took part in lots of stance in defence but try to tal
first bill melugin live at the border in eagle pass, texas. 11:00 p.m. on a friday night the press office at department of homeland security released numbers, 11 p.m. on a friday night. an unusual time to be releasing a statement. dana, good morning that s exactly right. as blatant of a friday night news drop as you will ever see. keep in mind these september numbers are the last numbers the public would get a chance to see when it comes to the border before the mid-terms. those numbers are historic. let s take a look at them right now. september 2022, fiscal year 2022 they report more than 227,000 migrant encounters, that s the highest september in dhs history. the numbers also show fiscal year 2022 ended with nearly 2.4 million migrant encounters. that s the highest fiscal year ever recorded. perhaps most concerning if we can pull up this graphic. fiscal year 2022 ended with 98 border patrol arrests of people on the f.b.i. terror watch list. under president trump the high
the humanitarian crisis worsens in gaza as the united states urges israel to do more to limit civilian casualties, but blocks a u.n. cease-fire resolution. former nbc news correspondent, martin fletcher, is here to discuss the latest in the israel hamas war. and courtroom clash. special counsel jack smith wins a key victory in special election case against donald trump, spelling out the evidence he plans to use against the twice impeached four times indicted on 91 counts, disgraced, former president. i am jonathan capehart. this is the saturday show. with the iowa caucus is less than six weeks away, donald trump leading in the polls, alarm bells of another trump term and its implications for american democracy are growing louder. this week at the new imes issued this morning. a second trump presidency may be more radical than the last one. noting that the forces that somewhat contained his autocratic tendencies in his first term would, quote, all be weaker. a new special issu
willie, you look at the leads in the papers today, the major papers today. the wall street journal talking about the white house warning that funding for kyiv to run out in weeks. obviously, a desperate, desperate situation for those trying to stop a russian invasion here. the leads on the times, also, their lead story, of course, about israel pushing further south into gaza and approaching another large city center and the growing concerns about a humanitarian crisis. and, of course, over here, something that there s more and more focus on, it s about how donald trump s second term could obviously create a much darker trump and, of course, willie, very few checks and balances. we ll be getting all of those things today. a lot of really important stories and a lot of ground to cover. yeah. we re also going to be joined by liz cheney in just about an hour from now, and she ll tell us about her warning, as well. she believes if donald trump is elected to the white house a
supreme court s first female justice. also, a guy who claims to be all three of those things. elon musk met with benjamin netanyahu this week and agreed that israel must destroy hamas. i think musk could destroy hamas almost instantly by becoming their ceo. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, december 4th. we ve got a lot to get to this morning. israel expanding its offensive in gaza with ground forces moving into the southern part of the territory. it comes as israeli officials have withdrawn from negotiations for another humanitarian pause. we ll get the very latest on these major developments in just a moment. plus, an update for you on the string of attacks on an american warship and multiple commercial vessels in the middle east. also ahead, the dangers of a possible second term for donald trump. we re going to go through a special feature from the atlantic. a major effort to detail all the threats our democracy could face. here s what th