good evening, i m chris jansing, day 378 of the biden administration. the house january 6th investigation is sharpening its focus on efforts to pressure former vice president mike pence to try to overturn the 2020 election. today, the select committee spent nine hours digging with greg jacob, vince s former chief counsel. this comes less than a week after marc short, the former vice presidents chief of staff, testified. the new york times says, quote, mr. short and mr. jacob were both closely involved in mr. pence s consideration of whether to go along with mr. trump s insistence that he try to block the official count of electoral college results. the times adds that days before the insurrection, they both met with john eastman, the lawyer who insisted that pence had the power to stop certification of the vote. the washington post has reported that jacobs clashed with eastman and his advice. maybe it is no surprise, then, that the committee had nine hours of questions for
town hall where they were supposed to get the chance to confront the people responsible company let a train full of chemicals fly off the rails and lit it on fire ceo of norfolk southern alec shaw shown right there just decided to back out of the meeting. allen shaw and rail company won t even show their faces. primetime has a producer out there, so we will be giving you updates throughout the hour. can you imagine how angry these people are? the company responsible for potentially cancer clustering the town is hiding from them. after they were riding the rails with bad parts. surveillance cameras caught the train sparking unjust 20 minutes before derailing. but now alan shaw and his rail company seem pretty comfortable turning their backs on ohio. is it because they line the pocket of every politician in ohio? probably. maybe norfolk southern didn t have the spine to face their victims. i wake up every day. i have been sick with my upper congestion. this morning i wok
president. all at the forefront as a nation once again heads to the polls. an election is not a referendum, it s a choice. at the center, control of congress with a 50/50 senate boiling down to a series of tight races that could tip the scale. the open nature of our border which john fetterman supports. trying to make himself not appear to be the radical leftist that he is. this is the man who spent 12 years in office misleading people. it s the voice of the voters that will prevail. which issues matter most to them in this final stretch. after roe, i ve never lived in this type of era. gas prices, food prices. everything is so expensive now. from the nation s capital and from just down the road from the u.s. capitol, i m steve kornacki, and we re eight days away from the midterm election that will decide who controls that building right behind me. the margins, they could not be tighter. democrats clinging to a senate majority thanks only to the tie-break
of our democracy. we will be covering everything over the next two hours. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. it s no longer election day, it is election month with just ten days until the midterms, more than 21 million americans had already cast their ballots across the nation, including president joe biden. today, the president and his granddaughter natalie voted in biden s hometown of wilmington, delaware. that comes as president obama hit the campaign trail, urging voters in georgia, michigan and wisconsin to do the same. so if you re scared, if you re anxious, if you re frustrated, don t complain, don t do, don t do know, don t get distracted, don t get bamboozled, don t fall for you go out and why? vote! get off your couch and what? ! vote put on your phone and what? vote! these buttons at the first nationwide election since donald trump began spreading the big lie, following his loss to joe biden back in 2020. that lie of a stolen election
welcome to alex witt reports. developing this hour, new word on the condition of paul pelosi after the terrifying attack at his san francisco home. how speaker nancy pelosi speaking her silence, saying her husband is doing better and she s grateful for the quick police response. and comes as audio reveals how a 9-1-1 operator may have saved his life. all of these new details ahead, new reaction from both sides of the political violence. i think this was a deranged individual. you can say, people saying let s fire pelosi or the take back the house. saying go to violence. i don t to see attacks on any politician from any political background. it is important people realize it is not just this moment, this horrific attack. that we have seen violence perpetrated throughout our political system. we are counting down to the midterms now nine days away. both party these sharpening their messages in this final stretch, democrats bring in one of their biggest weapons on the camp