THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE THIS HOUR. I WILL BE BACK. NBC NEWS COVERAGE CONTINUES. >> COMING ON THE AIR WITH ONE CRISIS IN FLORIDA, HUNDREDS OF HOMES ACROSS THE STATE RIPPED UP BY HURRICANE IAN. IT IS ONLY HIGHLIGHTING THAT FLORIDA DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH HOMES TO BEGIN WITH. BREAKING TONIGHT, A LEGAL FILING FROM TRUMP GOING UP TO THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE LAND, WHAT HIS LAWYERS WANT THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES TO DO NOW.
ALSO BREAKING TONIGHT, TWITTER TELLING MUST YOU GOT A DEAL WITH THE WORLD RICHEST MAN AGREEING TO PAY THE PRICE, WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE MARKETS.>> TWO CASES BEING LINKED TO THE SERIAL KILLER ON THE LOOSE IN CALIFORNIA. WHY THE FEDS ARE GETTING INVOLVED. WE ARE BRINGING YOU AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ONE OF SILICON VALLEY'S TOP CRITICS ON WHY SHE IS BACK IN THE BIZ TO RUN AN APP YOU MIGHT ALREADY USE. >> IT IS NEVER AN EASY DAVID KANYE WEST, WHY HE IS USING THE KK WERE TO TALK ABOUT BLACK LIVES. WE HAVE GOT THAT LATER. AT THIS HOUR TONIGHT RIGHT NOW, 108 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED IN FLORIDA WITH THE NUMBER OF RESCUES IT INCLUDES A FEW THOUSAND. THE QUESTION TURNS TO WHERE WILL PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR HOMES GO NEXT? THE STATE IS IN A HOUSING CRISIS AND THAT WAS BEFORE THE HURRICANE. THE NUMBERS LAY OUT HOW FLORIDA IS HOME TO SOME OF THE COUNTRY'S MOST EXPENSIVE CITIES, THREE OF THEM. ALL IN THE TOP NINE NATIONALLY MARKETS FOR A TWO-BEDROOM HOME COST MORE THAN 30% OF WHAT YOU MAKE EVERY MONTH. IT IS HARD ON LOWER INCOME FOLKS WITH ESTIMATES SHOWING 400,000 HOMES FOR PEOPLE WHO MAKE HALF OF WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAYS IS FAIR MARKET RENT.
HALF OF THOSE RENTERS ARE EITHER OLDER OR DISABLED, IN SCHOOL, SO IT IS NOT LIKE THEY CAN GO OUT AND MAKE A BUNCH MORE MONEY MORE EASILY. ALL THIS MEANS HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR HOMES AND PLACES LIKE FORT MYERS MAY NOT HAVE SOMEWHERE TO GO NOW. YOU CAN SEE HOW WIDESPREAD THAT INSTRUCTION WAS. LOOK AT THIS AERIAL VIEW, THIS WAS BEFORE AND AFTER THE HURRICANE. THEY ARE GONE. AND SHOWS YOU HOW DEVASTATING THE HURRICANE WAS. PEOPLE ARE SCARED. >> THIS IS MY MOTHER'S HOUSE. MY MOM SHOULD BE HAPPY >> IT MAY NOT BE THE END WITH PRECURSORS TELLING THE WASHINGTON POST IT WILL BE ABOUT MEDIAN FOR THE REST OF THE HURRICANE SEASON WHICH IS NOT FINISHED UNTIL NEXT MONTH.
JESSE IS IN FORT MYERS. TALKED WITH PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR HOMES. I LOOK AT THE WOMAN WE SHOWED YOU. HER PARENTS LOST EVERYTHING. THEY HAVE NOTHING. WHAT ARE THEY TELLING YOU ABOUT WHERE THEY WILL GO?>> I THINK THERE ARE QUESTIONS STILL. AND SPOKE WITH GENTLEMEN OUTSIDE OF HIS HOME OVER THE WEEKEND. HE LOST NEARLY EVERYTHING, HE GOT A COUPLE BOXES IN THE CAR, BUT HE DID TEMPER THAT WITH REMINDING HIMSELF AND REMINDING US THAT HE AND HIS LOVED ONES ARE ALIVE AND I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT ALSO IS BROUGHT UP, EVEN IN THESE DIRE SITUATIONS WHERE THEY HAVE LOST SO MUCH ON FINDING A MOMENT OF APPRECIATION FOR LIFE, AND I SPOKE WITH A MAN WHO SAID HE RECENTLY GOT THIS BOAT UP ON BLOCKS BEFORE THE STORM CAME THROUGH. YOU CAN SEE NOW IT IS MOSTLY ON THE GROUND AND THEY HAVE GENERATORS. IT LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE TRYING TO DRY OUT WHAT IS LEFT AND FURTHER TO THE LEFT YOU CAN SEE THIS MASSIVE STRUCTURE, PROBABLY THREE STORIES HIGH AND LOOK AT WHAT IAN DID TO THAT. THESE ARE SCENES WE ARE SEEING ALL OVER THESE COMMUNITIES.
ONE THING I WANT TO MENTION, NOT JUST HOMES HAVE BEEN LOST, BUT BUSINESSES INCLUDING WRECKAGE IS WE HAVE SEEN SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY. ONE COUPLE I INTERVIEWED THEM THEY HAVE A JEWELRY STORE AND THEY TOLD ME THEY ARE LOOKING AT LEASING A SPACE ON THE MAINLAND FURTHER IN LAND FOR THE TIME BECAUSE IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS, BUT THEIR EMPLOYEES AS WELL. SO IT IS A CASCADING EFFECT BEYOND OR SOMEONE WILL LIVE. LIVELIHOODS ARE AT STAKE AS WELL >> WE HEARD FROM GOVERNOR DESANTIS IN FLORIDA WITHIN THE LAST COUPLE HOURS TALKING ABOUT THE RECOVERY PUSH, THE PUSH TO HELP SMALL BUSINESSES.
I THINK THE LAST COUPLE MINUTES THE HURRICANE RECOVERY CENTER OPENING IN YOUR AREA IS THERE AS WELL.>> THE GOVERNOR TALKED ABOUT MORE THAN 2300 RESCUES BEING MADE SO FAR. ME KNOW THOSE EFFORTS ARE ONGOING AS TIME GOES ON. THOSE POINT TOWARDS POSSIBLY BECOMING RECOVERY EFFORTS UNFORTUNATELY. SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WAS TALKED ABOUT BY THE GOVERNOR AND THERE IS HOPE OF BRIDGES BEING BUILT TO GET ACCESS BACK TO THE BARRIER ISLANDS THAT HAVE BEEN LARGELY CUT OFF BECAUSE OF THE ROADWAYS BEING BLOWN OUT. >> INCLUDING SANIBEL ISLAND. >> WE WENT THERE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. WE WERE THERE FOR A SPECIAL STORY, AN INSPIRING STORY ABOUT A FAMILY BRINGING A PAIR OF TORRES FROM THE SYNAGOGUE COMMUNITY TO BE ABLE TO USE THEM TONIGHT TO BEGIN YOM KIPPUR, THE MOST SOLEMN DAY ON THE JEWISH CALENDAR. WE GOT A LOOK AT SOME OF THE DEVASTATION AND WE SAW THE CAUSEWAY WHERE YOU CAN SEE PORTIONS OF THE ROADWAY WERE WIPED OUT.
THERE WAS WATER COMING THROUGH. YOU COULD HAVE WRITTEN THE BOAT.>> GLAD TO HAVE YOU ON THE GROUND IN FORT MYERS. THANK YOU FOR WRINGING US A LOOK AT WHAT PEOPLE ARE STILL GOING THROUGH. WE APPRECIATE IT. WE HAVE GOT MORE BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT. IN THE FIGHT OVER CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS, WITH TRUMP ASKING THE SUPREME COURT TO GET INVOLVED HERE IS THE DEAL, THE LEGAL TEAM ONCE THAT SPECIAL MASTER, THAT INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY TO REVIEW CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. THE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS THE FBI FOUND AT TRUMP'S MAR-A-LAGO HOME. THE TEAM IS BASICALLY APPEALING THE CIRCUIT COURT'S DECISION TO LET THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE START LOOKING AT THOSE DOCUMENTS AGAIN. REMEMBER THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WANTED TO LOOK AT THESE DOCUMENTS, THE SPECIAL MASTER WAS GOING TO LOOK AT THEM, NOW THE TRUMP TEAM ONCE THE SUPREME COURT TO SAY DOJ PRESS PAUSE, SPECIAL MASTER DO YOUR THING. LET ME BRING IN KENDALL.
HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY WANT AND THE CHANCES THE JUSTICES ARE EVEN GOING TO TAKE THIS CASE BECAUSE THAT IS CERTAINLY NOT A GUARANTEED OUTCOME.>> THAT I THINK IS THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT THAT SOME LEGAL EXPERTS THAT DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE SUPREME COURT WILL TAKE THIS CASE BECAUSE THEY DON'T GENERALLY GET INVOLVED IN THESE DISPUTES ABOUT DISCOVERY IN THE LOWER COURTS. THEN AGAIN, THIS IS A 6-3 CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY, THREE APPOINTED BY TRUMP, SOME HAVE EXPANSIVE VIEWS ABOUT EXECUTIVE POWER. THEY MAY TAKE IT, BUT WHAT TRUMP SIDE IS ASKING THEM TO DO IS ESSENTIALLY RESTORE THE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS TO THE SPECIAL MASTER.
REMEMBER THE APPEALS COURT SAID THEY OVERRULED THE DISTRICT JUDGE WHO WANTED ALL THE DOCUMENTS TO BE REVIEWED BY THE SPECIAL MASTER. THE APPEALS COURT SAID WE ARE TAKING THESE HUNDRED CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS, WE ARE ALLOWING THE FBI TO IMMEDIATELY USE THOSE IN A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND THERE IS NO REASON FOR A SPECIAL MASTER TO REVIEW THEM. THEY ARE THE PROPERTY OF THE GOVERNMENT. IN ITS ARGUMENT, THE TRUMP SIDE IS SAYING ONE OF THE THINGS THE SPECIAL MASTER SHOULD DECIDE IS WHETHER THOSE DOCUMENTS WERE PROPERLY CLASSIFIED, WHICH MANY PEOPLE WILL FIND IRONIC BECAUSE WHEN THE SPECIAL MASTER ASKED THE TRUMP LAWYERS TO PROVIDE ANY EVIDENCE THAT THE PRESIDENT HAD DECLASSIFIED THESE DOCUMENTS, THEY DECLINED. THEY SAID IT WAS NOT A PROPER REQUEST. THEY SEEM TO BE SPEAKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES. THE SUPREME COURT MAY NOT TAKE THE CASE. IF IT DOES, IT COULD MEAN MANY MONTHS OF DELAY BEFORE THIS IS RESOLVED.
>> DO WE HAVE ANY TIMELINE FROM WHEN WE WILL HEAR FROM THE SUPREME COURT AND WHETHER THEY WILL EVEN LOOK AT THIS?>> SINCE IT IS AN EMERGENCY REQUEST, IT COULD BE RATHER QUICK. >> IF THAT HAPPENS, YOU WILL BE ALL OVER IT. THANK YOU. >>> BREAKING NEWS AS IT RELATES TO TWITTER. THEY AGREED TO THE SURPRISE REVERSAL FROM ELON MUSK WHO WANTS TO BUY THE SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY FOR THE AMOUNT HE INITIALLY OFFERED BEFORE PULLING OUT OF THE DEAL WITH THE SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANY. $44 BILLION. TWITTER THING THEY DO INTEND TO CLOSE THE TRANSACTION. MUSK HAD WRITTEN A LETTER THAT MUSK WILL PULL A 180 AFTER SAYING HE WANTED A DEAL THEN BACKED OUT, HE IS NOW BACK IN. MONTHS OF FIGHTING, KEEP IN MIND THIS ALL COMES JUST A FEW DAYS, A COUPLE WEEKS BEFORE THEY WERE SET TO GO TO COURT LATER THIS MONTH. JULIA FROM CNBC IS JOINING US NOW. A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT, A FLURRY IN THE LAST HOUR THAT MADE THIS THING JELL.
IT FEELS LIKE FROM A STRATEGY PERSPECTIVE HE WAS LOOKING AHEAD TO THE TRIAL, PERHAPS SEEING THE WRITING ON THE WALL AND FIGURING IF I HAD THAT TO PAY, I MIGHT AS WELL ON THE COMPANY.>> ABSOLUTELY. THIS COMES LESS THAN TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE START OF THE TRIAL SET FOR OCTOBER 17 AND EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THIS COMES AHEAD OF MUSKS DEPOSITION SET FOR THURSDAY AND WRITE A OF THIS WEEK. I ALSO WOULD NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE IMPACT OF THOSE TWEETS THAT CAME OUT LATE LAST WEEK. THOSE TWEETS INCLUDED MESSAGES THAT INDICATED MUSK WAS FULLY AWARE OF THERE BEING A PROBLEM AT TWITTER, WHICH IS THE CENTER OF HIS ARGUMENT OF WHY HE WILL HAVE TO BUY TWITTER. >> HE WAS SAYING YOU HAVE MORE BOTS THAN YOU ARE OWNING UP TO. THAT MEANS I GET A GET OUT OF THIS DEAL FREE CARD. NOW MUSK IS BACK IN. LET'S SAY THIS ALL GOES THROUGH BECAUSE I WAS TALKING WITH A WASHINGTON POST REPORTER WHO SAID THERE IS SOME REAL UNEASE WITH TWITTER EMPLOYEES HERE, ANXIOUS ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS IF HE TAKES OVER.
WHAT IS A NEED FOR THE PEOPLE WHO USE TWITTER? WILL WE NOTICE ANY CHANGES OTHER THAN TRUMP GETTING BACK ON?>> I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT, THIS IS NOT 100% A DONE DEAL. THEY HAVE AGREED ON A PRICE, BUT THE DEAL HAS NOT CLOSED. WITH ELON MUSK YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. I THINK WE ARE WATCHING TO SEE IF THE JUDGE SAYS ARE YOU FULLY AGREED, IS THIS DEAL CLOSED. AT THE DEAL DOES CLOSE, THE QUESTION IS WHETHER MUSK GOES FORWARD WITH HIS PLAN THAT HE LAID OUT MONTHS AGO OF WHAT HE WANTED TO DO WITH TWITTER. HE WANTED TO CREATE A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE, HAVE PAYMENTS WITHIN THE PLATFORM AND HE HAD THIS VISION OF MASSIVELY EXPANDING HOW MANY PEOPLE COULD BE USING TWITTER BY MAKING THE SERVICE FAR MORE ACCESSIBLE AND EASY TO USE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT IN ON THE TWITTER DRAGON.
THOSE ARE AMBITIOUS PLANS. HE WANTED TO MAKE THE COMPANY LESS RELIANT ON ADVERTISING. WE WILL SEE HOW MUCH HIS VISION HAS CHANGED AFTER HE SPENT FIVE MONTHS BASHING THE PLATFORM ON SOCIAL MEDIA. >> THANK YOU. SOME WHIPLASH I THINK ARE BUSINESS REPORTERS LIKE YOURSELVES TODAY. WE SHOULD KEEP IN MIND THAT IT A COUPLE POINTS TWITTER TRADING STOPPED. IT STOPPED ON WALL STREET. ULTIMATELY THE SHARES WERE UP 12%. ALL OF IT CONTRIBUTING TO THE BEST DAY WALL STREET HAS SEEN IN MONTHS. STOCKS WERE UP IN EARLY TRADING, THEY HELD ON THE DOW CLOSING UP NEARLY 3%, THE S&P 500 UP MORE THAN 3%, THAT IS THE BEST DAY IT HAS HAD SINCE MARCH 2021. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT GOOD NEWS ON WALL STREET INSTEAD OF THINGS BEING IN THE RIGHT. IT IS RARE BECAUSE IT WAS A SEPTEMBER 2 FORGET. NOW THAT I WAS IN GREEN. INVESTORS RESPONDING TO THIS LABOR REPORT SHOWING THAT JOB OPENINGS SANK TO THE LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 2020. LET ME BRING IN BRIAN WHO COVERS THIS KIND OF THING FOR US. IS THIS GOING TO LAST? IS THIS OCTOBER RALLY GOING TO STICK AROUND?>> OBVIOUSLY EVEN IF YOU HAVE TWO DAYS, MAYBE THAT SAYS THINGS WILL BE GOOD FOR OCTOBER AND WHAT WE ARE SEEING IN TERMS OF THE MARKET RALLY COULD BE A REVERSAL OF THE FEELING THAT INVESTORS HAVE THAT MAY BE THE REALLY NASTY 8% FOR THE DOW JONES WAS SIMPLY OVERDONE.
OF COURSE THE BIG STORY DOES REMAIN WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THE ECONOMIC PICTURE AND FOR AMERICANS WE DID GET A READ ON THE LABOR MARKET THAT SAYS THAT JOB POSTINGS FELL BY ABOUT 1 MILLION BETWEEN JULY AND AUGUST. THAT MEANS ABOUT 10 MILLION JOB OPENINGS IN AMERICA. THAT IS STILL ABOVE PRE-COVERED LEVELS, BUT THAT DOES TELL YOU MAYBE THE STORY IS CHANGING FOR THE OPPORTUNITIES AMERICANS HAVE IN THE LABOR MARKET. NOT NECESSARILY A GOOD THING, BUT WE WILL GET AN UPDATED PICTURE BECAUSE AUGUST WAS A FEW MONTHS AGO. WE WILL GET AN UPDATE ON WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IN SEPTEMBER ON FRIDAY MORNING.
THAT WILL TELL US WHAT UNEMPLOYMENT AND PAYROLL GAINS SHOW. THAT WILL BE A BETTER PICTURE FOR WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE ACTUALLY PRESENT. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. STOMACH PROTESTS OVER A CASE THAT COULD GOT THE VOTING RIGHT ACT FURTHER. AND SS THE WAY THAT STATES DRAW THEIR DISTRICT MAPS. HERE IS THE DEAL, THIS CENTERS AROUND AN ALABAMA MAP DRAWN BY THE REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED LEGISLATURE. SOME ARGUE IT DISCRIMINATES AGAINST BLACK VOTERS. A BUNCH OF BLACK VOTERS ARE EITHER IN ONE DISTRICT OR SPREAD OUT.
THE CONSERVATIVE JUSTICES SEEM TO BE LOOKING FOR A NARROW WAY TO UPHOLD THE MAP. HERE IS THE PICTURE, THE MAP HAS ONE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OUT OF SEVEN WHERE BLACK VOTERS WOULD HAVE A CHANCE AT ELECTING A CANDIDATE THEY SAY REPRESENT THEM. EVEN WITHIN A QUARTER OF ALABAMA'S POPULATION IS BLACK, THE ARGUMENT IS THAT IT WOULD BE LESS REPRESENTATIVE. I WANT TO BRING IT NAOMI. YOU HAVE BEEN DOING MUCH REPORTING ON THIS. LET'S SET THE STAGE TODAY THAT THINGS GOT HOT IN A WAY THAT EVEN DREW THE ATTENTION OF PEOPLE WHO OBSERVED THE COURT EVERY DAY. >> THIS IS A BIG DAY FOR A LANDMARK CASE.
MERYL MILLIGAN IS SOMEONE WHO IS GOING TO CHANGE POSSIBLY HOW STATES DRAW THEIR MAPS. TODAY YOU HAVE THREE LIBERAL JUSTICES REALLY HAMMERING ALABAMA AND ASKING THEM HOW IS THIS MAP NOT RATIONALLY, TO TORI AND HOW ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE SURE IT IS WITHIN THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT, HOW IS IT FOLLOWING THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT. THE BIG THING HERE IS 14% OF THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION COME FROM MAJORITY BLACK COMMUNITIES, BUT AFRICAN AMERICANS MAKE UP 20% OF THE POPULATION IN ALABAMA. YOU ALSO HEARD SOME CONSERVATIVE JUSTICES LOOK AT THAT AND GO THAT CAN'T BE, THE NUMBERS DON'T MATCH UP.>> THEN YOU HAVE CONSERVATIVES WHO ARE ASKING QUESTIONS. THEY WANT TO HELP ALABAMA MAKE THEIR CASE. I TALKED TO BOTH SIDES AND THEY BOTH FEEL GOOD ABOUT WHERE THEY ARE. THIS WILL PROBABLY GO IN FAVOR OF ALABAMA BECAUSE THIS IS A CONSERVATIVE COURT. >> WHAT WOULD THAT MEAN FOR STATES REDISTRICTING MOVING FORWARD? >> THIS IS THE KEY QUESTION BECAUSE THE HIGH COURT IS DETERMINING WHETHER OR NOT STATES THAT HAVE A BIG MINORITY POPULATION OF PEOPLE OF COLOR AND A HISTORY OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, WHETHER THEY HAVE TO TAKE RACE INTO ACCOUNT, WHETHER LOT REQUIRES THAT.
IF ALABAMA WINS THE CASE, IT WILL BE THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE RACE INTO ACCOUNT. I TALKED TO A PLAINTIFF, HIS ANCESTORS WERE IN PLACE SIX GENERATIONS AGO. HIS NAME IS ON THIS CASE ARGUING IS VOTING POWER IS BEING DILUTED. LISTEN TO WHAT HE TOLD ME.>> WE WOULD ASK THAT FEDERAL COURTS INTERVENE AND REQUIRE THEM TO LOOK AT THE POPULATION, LOOK AT THE VOTING HISTORY OF OUR STATE AND TO PRODUCE MAPS THAT ACTUALLY GIVE BACK ALABAMA'S CHANCE TO ELECT CANDIDATES OF THEIR CHOICE >> THERE YOU HAVE EVAN LAYING IT OUT SAYING YOU NEED TO GIVE US A MAP THAT REPRESENT AS AND I TALKED TO EVAN AFTER.
HE CAME OUT OF THE COURT TODAY. HE SAID IT FELT SURREAL BECAUSE AS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN, THIS IS THE SAME COURT THAT SAID AFRICAN-AMERICANS ARE NOT CITIZENS. NOW HE FELT AS THOUGH HIS ARGUMENTS WERE BEING ARGUED. HE WAS PROUD OF THE WORK THEY DID AND HE IS FEELING GOOD ABOUT IT. >> WHEN WE LOOK TO NOVEMBER, THIS IS DOWN THE ROAD. THE SUPREME COURT WILL MAKE A DECISION IN THE SPRING. IT IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE FOR THE MIDTERMS THIS YEAR. >> IT IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE RIGHT NOW. RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE TERRENCE, THE ONLY REPRESENTATIVE COMING FROM THE MAJORITY BLACK DISTRICT. THE IDEA IS WHETHER OR NOT IN THE FUTURE THEY WILL BE BREAKING UP THE MAJORITY BLACK DISTRICT. >> THANK YOU >> THANK YOU. IT IS COLD IN DC. THANK YOU. >> TO THE WHITE HOUSE, WE ARE IN THE LAST HOUR, PRESIDENT BIDEN REALLY PUT THE BALL IN VOTERS COURTS TO PROTECT ABORTION ACCESS. 100 DAYS SINCE THE COURT OVERTURNED ROE V WADE, LISTEN.>> WE SHOULD CODIFY THE PROTECTIONS OF ROE. ONCE AND FOR ALL. RIGHT NOW WE ARE SHORT A HANDFUL OF VOTES.
THE ONLY WAY IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IS IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MAKE IT HAPPEN.>> MIKE AND EMILY ARE THE WHITE HOUSE. LET ME PUT UP ON SCREEN FOR PEOPLE THAT DETAILS THE PRESIDENT HAS ROLLED OUT. MORE MONEY FOR TITLE X GRAMS, NEW DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION GUIDELINES, PREVENTING DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF PREGNANCY, WHAT HE AND ABORTION RIGHT REPORTERS ONCE WOULD BE WAY WAY MORE OF THIS, BUT WHAT YOU HEARD FROM THE PRESIDENT TODAY, FIVE EXCEPT FOR THE MIDTERMS, LET US NOT FORGET WAS A LOT OF THE MESSAGING WE HEARD FROM THE WHITE HOUSE SINCE THE OVERTURNING OF ROE, WHICH IS IT IS UP TO VOTERS. THERE IS ONLY SO MUCH THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH CAN DO. >> I WILL TELL YOU BETWEEN WHAT WE HEARD FROM THE PRESIDENT AND THE VICE PRESIDENT TODAY, THIS WAS AN OFFICIAL EVENT IN THE WHITE HOUSE. GOT CLOSE TO THE LINE TO BEING A POLITICAL EVENT. YOU HAD THE VICE PRESIDENT SAYING WE NEED A NATIONAL LAW AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NEED TO HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD.
THIS WAS AN EVENT CALLED MARK 100 DAYS SINCE THAT DECISION DID STRIKE DOWN THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO AN ABORTION. AS YOU INDICATE, THIS IS ABOUT FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE MIDTERMS. THIS ISSUE OF ABORTION WAS ONE THAT GAVE DEMOCRATS A SENSE THEY COULD ACTUALLY POTENTIALLY HAVE TO DEFY EXPECTATIONS AND ADD TO THEIR SENATE MAJORITY. WE ARE SEEING THE POLLS TIGHTEN IN SOME OF THESE KEY STATES, ESPECIALLY IN WISCONSIN AND MAYBE THOSE VOTES ARE SLIPPING AWAY. THIS WAS THE WHITE HOUSE TRYING TO RE-ENERGIZE THAT KEY CONSTITUENCY. WE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE ACTIONS THE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED TODAY. THEY GO FAR SHORT OF WHAT ADVOCATES REALLY SAY IS NECESSARY. WITH THE DOCTORS THE PRESIDENT HEARD FROM SAID WE NEED BOLD, BRAVE, AND IMMEDIATE ACTION THAT IS NOT NECESSARILY GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT WHAT HE'S TRYING TO DO IS MAKE CLEAR THIS IS A VOTING ISSUE AND NOT SOMETHING HE CAN DO WITHOUT MORE VOTES IN THE SENATE.
>> THE BALANCING ACT OR AT LEAST THE JUGGLING THE WHITE HOUSE IS DOING WITH ISSUES THEY THINK WILL MOBILIZE VOTERS, THIS EMPHASIS ON ABORTION ACCESS, IS YOUR REPORTING SHOWS, IMMIGRATION IS PROBABLY GOING TO WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE MIDTERMS BASED ON SOURCES YOU ARE TALKING TO. >> IT IS INTERESTING BECAUSE THE STORY ORIGINATED FROM A CONVERSATION I WAS HAVING WITH A WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL IT WAS AFTER KEVIN McCARTHY WHO COULD BE THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE IF REPUBLICANS TAKE OUT THE MAJORITY AND LAID OUT THEIR AGENDA. WHAT DOES THE PRESIDENT THINK HE CAN GET DONE WITH REPUBLICANS IN THE ANSWER DID SURPRISE ME, IT WAS IMMIGRATION. LET'S UNPACK WHAT THEY ARE SAYING. I THINK PART OF IT IS THIS IS A BIG PROMISE THE PRESIDENT MADE DURING THE CAMPAIGN. HE PUT IT FORWARD, BUT HAS NOT LOOKED TO GET OVER THE FINISH LINE. HE MAY BE ABLE TO SAY HE DID MAKE A MORE WHOLEHEARTED EFFORT, BUT WE SEE THIS AS AN ISSUE THAT ENERGIZES REPUBLICAN VOTERS AND IT IS PART OF WHY YOU ARE SEEING DEMOCRATS LOSE SOME OF THE GROUND ACROSS THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW AS REPUBLICANS FOCUS ON THAT IN THE CAMPAIGN.
THEY WANT TO BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY WHAT THEY THINK IS THE BARRIER FOR LEGISLATION, WHICH IS BOTH REPUBLICANS WHO ARE OPPOSED TO WHAT THE PRESIDENT WANTS TO DO.>> THANK YOU. BIDEN TODAY ON THE PHONE WITH THE JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER STRONGLY CONDEMNING WHAT WE SAW FROM NORTH KOREA, THE LAUNCHING OF AN UNANNOUNCED BALLISTIC MISSILE THAT HAD ITS WAY OVER JAPAN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS AND ITS BE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT THIS WAS. THIS WAS AN ESCALATION. LOOK AT THE MAP, IT TRAVELED 2800 MILES GOING OVER JAPAN BEFORE FALLING INTO THE PACIFIC. ANOTHER TRAJECTORY THE SAME DISTANCE COULD HAVE HIT HIM. THE U.S., THE JAPANESE, THE SOUTH KOREAN MILITARY ALL RESPONDING WITHDRAWALS OF THEIR OWN TODAY WE ALSO SAW THE JAPANESE PUBLIC PUT ON ALERT WITH AUTHORITIES THERE TELLING FOLKS THE SHOULDERS TEMPORARILY CLOSED.
ANDREA MITCHELL IS JOINING US. IT IS AN ESCALATION. THE U.S. ONCE A COUNCIL MEETING. WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH THE REGIME THAT NOBODY TALKS TO, THAT PEOPLE DON'T HAVE CONTROL OVER. HOW MUCH CAN YOU FUNCTION? >> IT SANCTIONS NORTH KOREA. THEY DID DURING COVID OFFER SOME HUMANITARIAN AID, BUT THAT WAS NOT ACCEPTED. THE FACT IS THEY ARE DOING ALL THEY CAN DO. THEY DID THESE EXERCISES, WHICH THEY HAVEN'T DONE FOR FIVE YEARS. THEY WERE IN SINGAPORE MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT. TODAY THEY DID TESTING. THAT SAID IT IS UNCLEAR WHAT THEY CAN DO AND THE FACTORS CHINA IS HIS ONLY ALLY IN THE WORLD BECAUSE NEXT WEEK IS THE BIG PARTY CONFERENCE TO RENOMINATE HIM FOR A THIRD TERM. THIS IS THE WORST TIME. THIS WAS AN UNDECLARED NUCLEAR TEST SITE, RATHER A MISSILE LAUNCH SITE ON THE CHINESE BORDER. YOU MENTIONED THE WORD NUCLEAR BECAUSE IT FEELS LIKE WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE PENTAGON WHAT IS THE CONCERN ABOUT WHETHER THIS TEST WAS NOT NUCLEAR, WHAT ABOUT THE TEST AFTER? WHAT IS NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES? DO YOU HAVE A SENSE?>> THEY HAVE THE LARGEST ARSENAL OTHER THAN THE U.S.
AND RUSSIANS AND THEY HAVE GOT UNTOLD NUMBERS BECAUSE THERE IS NO VERIFICATION. >> UNTOLD IS DOING A LOT OF WORK >> THE FACT IS THEY ARE EXPECTED TO DO ANOTHER TEST. WE HAVE SEEN THE UNDERGROUND LAUNCH SITE. A LOT OF ACTIVITY INDICATING THERE COULD BE A NUCLEAR TEST. THIS COULD BE A PRECURSOR. THERE HAS NOT BEEN ONE SINCE 2017. THESE MISSILE LAUNCHES ARE THE LONGEST RANGE IN QUITE A WHILE. THESE ARE MISSILES HOLDING A WARHEAD. THEY HAVE NOT MINIATURIZED — >> TO BE ABLE TO FUNCTIONALLY DO THAT. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AS YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT RUSSIA AND UKRAINE, HOW MUCH HAS THIS MISSILE TEST, DO YOU ANTICIPATE MORE HIGH-LEVEL MEETINGS ABOUT THIS ISSUE WITH THE PRESIDENT? >> THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF MEETINGS.
