repairs are occurring. that wraps up the hour for me. i m jose diaz-balart. you can reach me on twitter and instagram. thank you for the privilege of your time. alex witt picks up with more news right now. good morning, everyone. i m alex witt here at msnbc world headquarters in new york. breaking across the pond, a political earthquake. just 44 days, that is how long prime minister liz truss was in office before resigning just in the last few hours. i recognize, though, given the situation, i cannot deliver the mandate on which i was elected by the conservative party. this makes truss now the shortest-serving prime minister in 301 years. one british journalist wrote in the new york times days ago as political pressure mounted, quote, he was boris johnson s departing gift, a human land mine to level the ground for his possible return. in a sign of just how tenuous her standing was and perhaps how brutal uk politics can be, a british newspaper began tracking a hea
committee huddled today to hammer out final details of the donald trump subpoena, and why it has yet to be issued. plus, the justice department says its january 6th investigation is running out of money. what officials are asking congress and whether congress will give it to them. i m katy tur in for hallie jackson. we re going to start in pennsylvania, with mbs news white house correspondent mike memoli in philadelphia, and nbc news correspondent dasha burns, and punch bowl co-founder and msnbc contributor jake sherman as well. so mike, the president is in pennsylvania, and he stood in front of a bridge that collapsed a little bit earlier this year, he happened to be there for the aftermath of that collapse, and he s using it to make a specific pitch. what is it? well, what the president was really trying to do in order to try to help boost democrats in these midterm elections is talk about promises made and promises they delivered on. this is a president who really beli
defamation case brought by writer e. jean carroll who alleges the former president raped her in the 90s. with early voting already underway in dozens of states across the country, we are requesting to take a look at the key races in arizona and florida as well including last night, a pretty heated debate between senator marco rubio and val demings over everything from abortion to gun safety. the government is in that room because she brought them in there. she wants the taxpayer to pay for that abortion. that s government involvement pay for them all over the world. how long will you watch people being gunned down in first grade, fourth grade, high school, college, church, synagogue, a grocery store, a movie theater, a mall and a nightclub and do nothing? all right, up first, though, the president is set to give a really major speech any moment now. as soon as it comes up, we re going to bring it to you, expected to announce the release of 15 million barrels of oil f
now, 15 million barrels does sound like a lot, and it does have the potential to drive down gas prices in the short term, but it is not a new release. it has been planned for a while now. the final tranche of that 180 million barrels the white house announced last spring. so why announce it today? again, president biden said it was not about politics, but the election is 20 days away, and polls show the economy is dominating the national consciousness. around 80% say the economy or inflation or both will play a major role in how they cast their vote. the president wants to remind voters his team is trying to do something about it, especially as democrats try to say it is, republicans say it is all the democrats fault, as voters tend to blame the party in power when they worry about the state of things. is that fair? probably not. the economy is extremely complicated. and people who spend decades studying it say presidents have very little control, if any at all, over immedi
long-running saga of the ex-president s legal woes, with donald trump taking the stand in a civil lawsuit today and facing the prospect in taking the stand in the congressional investigation into january 6th, as well. and his private club and residence, donald trump sat for a sworn deposition in the defamation lawsuit brought by e.g. carol, who has accused donald trump of rape. the associated press reports this, the deposition will give her lawyers a chance to interrogate trump about the assault allegations, as well as statements he made in 2019, when she told her story publicly for the very first time. trump says the rape allegation is a hoax and a lie. his legal team has worked for years to make this day never come, to delay the deposition that was filed when he was still president. and the january 6th select committee is set to ask for the same thing, trump s testimony as soon as today. the vice chair liz cheney said last night the panel s decision to issue a subpoena to