every time they have had a nominee since then. it has been this guy. his democratic opponent the president of the united states joe biden tonight announced he has tested positive for covid. he has therefore canceled all events so he can recover back home in delaware. the president is said to be mildly symptomatic. the president s doctor releasing a statement saying he has upper respiratory symptoms including a runny nose and a nonproductive cough. the doctors a statement says the president has general malaise which generally just means you feel bad. the white house statement i should point this out misspelled the word malaise. i spent if you panicked minutes googling the misspelling of the word to make sure it wasn t a new medical term i have never heard before. turns out it doesn t. the president just feels lousy. he has malaise. and a dry cough. he is taking paxlovid. this is the president of the second about with covid. the first time he had it was almost exactly 2 years a
i wasn t looking for a tv show. i have blend to do, but they could not have been nicer, they suggested that why don t do you something. soy we talked about what i wanted to do, and something that really was not experimental, but i wanted to bring it back, long form interview, where there is a special guest, you and have time to delve in. that has been nature of this program, life, liberty and levin. i also wanted to do a show about books. i understand that does not sound as glitzy but we have tremendous authors with tremendous minds. it is difficult to cover that and cover news and cover washington just once a week. my own thinking that been what about a long form interview for authors, tonight, i decided to fuse the two. we have a fantastic guest, a fantastic author, who has done incredible cutting edge investigation about power of communist china here. revelations that i knew nothing about. i sat down with this book and i finished it in really a day and a half. i don t sp
additional nato troops sent to romania in the baltics to send a signal to russian president vladimir putin not to try to move into any neighboring countries. putin has not made it a direct threat to nato country and ukraine is not a nato member. all of this comes a briefing from uk intelligence over the weekend that putin is planning to install a progression president and ukraine and orders from her state department the families to evacuate ukraine. joining us with the latest national security correspondent jennifer griffin. this was surprising to me this briefing but it seems to add up that maybe this is the strategy we had these briefings this is a briefing were over the last few days the briefing from u.s. intelligence about putin planning false flag operations for a pretext for invasion and then the ukraine russian president and now open briefing about troop deployment, is that the plan to deter putin with this media war in a sense? i don t know i would assess it that w
about. here are a few of the conversations we thought you shouldn t miss. we have some new polling to tell you about that shows a tight general election race between joe biden and donald trump. in the first, biden leads trump by three points, 48% to 45% among registered voters. that s within the poll s margin of error. that follows polling that shows a neck and neck battle for key swing states. in the latest poll, tied at 45% in michigan and pennsylvania. in wisconsin biden leads by a single point which is within the margin of error. molly is an msnbc political analyst and also with us, conservative attorney george conway is back with us. the polling shows donald trump has a big problem. of course. with women voters. in the quinnipiac survey, 60% of women say uithey plan to vote f joe biden compared to 35% for trump. if that happens in november, it would be a three point improvement on biden s 2020 numbers, a year when women cast more votes than ever before and turned o
get a free line of unlimited intro for a year when you buy one unlimited line. visit xfinitymobile.com today to learn more. today, the former special counselor who investigated president biden s mishandling of documents, a man by the name of robert hur, was grilled on capitol hill. the former counsel has already declined to charge president biden with anything, concluding that nothing he did was worthy of prosecution. but that did not stop republicans in congress from making a four hour circus out of mr. hur s testimony today. that is because today s hearing wasn t actually a matter of law. it was about scoring political points. the reality here is that the only reason joe biden accidentally taking some classified documents when he left office, the only reason that matters at all is because donald trump willfully, purposefully, took classified documents with him when he left office and then tried to obstruct justice to cover it all up. these two cases are not the same. but