X and tiktok. Thank you so much for joining me today. First of all, was going on a short hiatus. Im taking two weeks off to go enjoy the warmth of other suns. Ill see you back here saturday, october 5th. Smerconish is up next they or wont day im Michael Smerconish in new York City today, ballots are now being cast in alabama, were 52 days away from the final day of voting. But whether there will be another debate remains in doubt. Tuesday night in philadelphia ended with a nearly unanimous decision, but no Knockout Blow before it began, i said Donald Trump needed to exhibit discipline and Kamala Harris needed to show depth she met her mark. He missed his. I locked in my own assessment of the debate Via X just prior to delivery of closing statements before i might be swayed by anybody elses spin. Among my points, that trumps claims about migrants eating pets and abortions being performed at nine months would be a fact checkers dream, but not decisive. I wrote this, she won the debate bu
Barricade situation and reportedly involving hostages Cross State Lines in new jersey . Yeah. Yeah. I mean to say the least, this has been a terrifying morning in and around this area. Bucks county and now into new jersey. And its still, as you said, very much ongoing, three people dead at this point. And as you said, reports, now that not only is the suspect barricaded, but also potentially holding hostages, but let me tell you a little bit about how this all started. This started just before 09 00 a. M. Thats according to the false Township Police department. They initially got a call of a shooting in levittown, pennsylvania, again, about 30 miles north of Philadelphia Police then said that 26 yearold Andriy Gordon shot and killed two people. Then he went to a separate address in Leavitt Down Pennsylvania and shot and killed a third person then he went to 1 general in morris fill, pennsylvania. Thats right on the border of pennsylvania and new jersey carjack someone at 1 general, the
on that. ainsley: they work together really well. brian: hard to know who is a democrat or a republican because they think so much alike. steve: no killed. been a while on that. it s been a while since they come together. brian: maybe i missed off. i know on friday they were together i don t know what happened over the weekend. ainsley: cold out there. steve: 46 degrees. brian: not too bad. just going out today wear under arrest underarmor. steve: you mean long johns. brian: like under armor you wear it and keeps the heat in. are you wearing it right now. brian: i m fine. washington it s cold. steve: in washington, d.c. they need overarmor they come at you. that china select committee they are coming together. actually working together and mike gallagher s leadership. president biden is expected to announce his re-election bid tomorrow a new poll shows he may not have the support he was hoping for. the white house is going to host three democrats a
pbs, rick stengel, an msnbc political analyst and gordon chang, newsweek columnist. yammish, what do we know about this call between president biden and president xi jinping? we know the president for a long time has called china the u.s. s main competitor and said there is this really tug of war between democracy and autocracy this is really a high-stakes call and also a call president biden is welcoming because he has said diplomacy is the thing america should be known for. he s said over and over again that america is back. there s a lot going on there. we should also note that hanging over this call is the potential trip between house speaker nancy pelosi and taiwan. there s a lot of criticism coming from china, based on reporting, that says she should not take this trip and it could set off a sort of crisis. others are saying, if she cancels that trip, the u.s. would look week, including to nations like japan. there s a lot going on the domestic front and the nationa
scheme. these things happen, at all levels of government. but, that wasn t what this was. this was something stranger. michigan township, part of a statewide investigation. sources tell news a, michigan state police raided irving township home, and berry county, this past friday. this, after someone was allegedly given improper access to voting machines. the investigation, starting here in roscommon county. michigan state police say, there, a third party, allegedly, was given unauthorized access to voter tabulation machines, and data drives. state police confirmed, the investigation has since spread to several other counties in the state, but would not, explicitly, confirm if irving township was on that list. they say this township in the hall, is part of the investigation. state police, rating the town hall, investigating whether someone was given unauthorized access to voting machines. the township supervisor, later confirming, a state police seized voting tabulator