there s no way around it, that s just the best one. believe me, i ve tried it every which way, and it really doesn t get better than pete butt. but this would have never happened under my administration. people are saying i made the trains less safe. not true, okay? not true. i did a lot for trains. i made them bigger, faster, less safe perhaps, but yeah, perhaps you did. perhaps. saturday night live s take on donald trump s recent trip to east palestine, ohio. meanwhile, president joe biden says he doesn t have plans to visit the town devastated by the train disaster, and we ll have his comments on why. plus, the first lady seems to have given away the president s plans for 2024. we ll play for you what she said. also ahead, a weekend of deadly russian strikes in ukraine brings more attention to the debate over supplying ukrainian forces with fighter jets. and a new report from the department of energy on the origins of covid. good morning. welcome to morn
will: growing number texas, fall basically meant football season, but i lived up here for a good 15 years and the northeast does fall right. i mean the weather, the leaves obviously but then what we just did, the apples and apple sigh darling stone i don t think i ever had an apple cider doughnut before moving up here. rachel: really? will: no, the cake doughnut not so popular. it s good. rachel: it s one of the benefits of i grew up in arizona where you just had two seasons, hot and not so hot. here you have four seasons and the fall is a real thing and unlike in wisconsin, you re right, up here in the northeast, it lingers. it s a long season and really beautiful and it s so great to see the leaves and as we had the food and colors, it s awesome. todd: at reason fall is great in new york city, autumn in new york, you mention the word linger. what doesn t linger in the fall is horrific smells that fill the entire city scape during the summer. they go away as temperature
a couple times, stare at the baseball, get existential about his career. here, it s pitch the ball, get the ball. pitch the ball, get the ball. i would think that for 2023 fans, this is a must. this is a must for major league baseball. they ve done research with young people, and baseball has really been fallen out of favor. one of the reasons is the pace of the game. another reason is they ve not created as much of a star system as football and basketball has. when you see the success of football in terms of ratings and fan passion, and basketball, baseball has been falling behind. this is a very, very, very, very good step, particularly with young people, as you said. we live in a tiktok culture, less is more. 2 1/2 beats 3 1/2 every time. donny, let me ask you also, i want to follow up on a conversation we had last hour. you and i were talking, sort of stumbled halfway through the term 21/ 22, going into the 22
shame in the instagram, tiktok culture. she s being rightly attacked for some of her views by her constituents and her response is filled with a lack of shame and that s how you garner influence on instagram and tiktok. i originally thought when i saw this earlier in the week that the tide was turning against aoc and the squad, but i fear, will, your point you made earlier is all too true. there s no shame. this is how she views how you should handle people that criticize you. will: i think it s a win for her. it marks a change in our politics and how you campaign and how you deal with your constituents. yeah, there are years where you go into a midterm and the democrats might be fired up. you go into a midterm and the republicans might be fired up. historically when you go into a mid term,s party not in the white house wins the midterm every single time but the only exception is in 2002. in this case, it s not just democrat in the white house but here in new york where we are, it s