Good to be with you. Im Katy Tur how can you ride the crest of a wave how long can you ride it vp kamala harris is now going into her fourth week atop the democratic ticket, and news keeps getting better for her a blue Ribbon Poll, the new York Sienna times poll shows shes changed the president ial race, leading Donald Trump by four points, within the margin of error, of course, in pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, among likely voters, and that is not the only good set of numbers that shes looking at weve also got brand new polling on the always vaunted Youth Vote, and what harriss nomination has done to the enthusiasm among 18 to 29yearolds young people hint, theres a big up swing all in all, its the kind of energy that the party believes can boost much more than just the top of the ticket. I think every Candidate And Campaign has gotten a great lift kamala harris has carried this campaign in three weeks to a place it wasnt before, and tim walz, i think, has just added to that. Th
Reminiscent of the thing that nixon s vice president, spirit new did, which got him indicted and thrown out of office as vice president of the united states. Louis dejoy is still postmaster general today. But we did learn today that he is under criminal investigation. We re going to speak with the reporter who helped break that story in just a few minutes. Before we get to that big news tonight though, i want to take a second to circle back to update you on a story that we first covered a few months ago. A story about the great state of missouri. It was a story centered on this republican elected official. Her name is patricia derges. She went to medical school in the korean. When she came back to the united states after she graduated from that school, she was not accepted to a medical residency program. So, the consequence of that is that she is not a licensed physician in the state of missouri. She can t be. She was unqualified. Because she is cousin get into residency program. That
as this, the most secure election in the history of this country by chris krebs, lifelong republican charged with securing the vote. the washington post reporting over the weekend only 27 republicans have acknowledged the fact of the election result, indisputed fact. post writes that the results of the survey demonstrate the fear most republicans have of the outgoing president and his grip on the party, despite his new status as just the third elected president to lose re-election in the past 80 years. more than 70% of republican lawmakers did not acknowledge the post questions as of friday evening. that s about 220 republicans in all. the 220 elected officials will have blood on their hands if any harm comes to the local and statewide office holders now receiving death threats from trump supporters who believe donald trump s lies. two of the gop officials under the most brutal assault by trump and his voters, georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger, and georgia elec
so the white house can still point to job growth. a number of aides have been texting the new york times story with the headline that the job numbers are still pretty good, but this was not the report that they were hoping for. they were bracing for better numbers. and even last month that is exactly how president biden did react when those lackluster numbers came out from the month of august and the president said look, i wanted to see something better here. we all did. acknowledging that because of the surge in the delta variant at the time that this was the economic picture of where we are. but that is something that the white house has been stressing all summer long, that these jobs reports are a snapshot of where we are and it is important to add context to what was going on and what was driving what is this weaker report. and what we are seeing clearly here is that as students were going back to the classroom, as some parents were going back to work, because of the
we will uphold our oath, as public servants, it is my belief that our state be met or off for it. also this, week a judge ruling trump s georgia trial can be televised. so if willis gets the start date she wants, trump s georgia legal fight will be coming to a screen near you on october 23rd. the former president already has a trial date in washington d. c.. he will face off with federal prosecutors just one day before super tuesday, in the january 6th case, more than three years after the capitol riot. this comes as the doj secures some of the longest january 6th sentences yet, including ten years for a member of the proud boys, who smashed a window at the capitol. far-right extremist, dominic pezzola, cried in front of the judge, then pumped his fist and yelled, trump won, as he left court. that moment of defiance, sounding a lot like trump himself. the former president s social media rants still showing no remorse, even when a frenzy of 3am posts suggest he might be awak