you have to work for it. you have to nurture it. you have to fight for it. now, the good news is you get to make a difference, as long as you turn out the vote. former president barack obama he s good. he s good, isn t he? he s better than i ve seen him in a long time. he s having a good time out there. fired up, ready to go. it s like hank aaron playing on the 1962 mets, you re going to stand out, right? he s having fun, and i think you could see there, it s interesting, the arc of the rallies. he was really animated early in the tour. sober now, interesting. it s a sober time. that was former president obama in pennsylvania helping democrats with their closing message ahead of tomorrow s crucial midterm elections. this is it. meanwhile, new polling shows democrats have closed the enthusiasm gap with republicans, but will that be enough to keep the party in control of congress. we re going to have the latest numbers for you. plus, new reporting on when dona
from nbc news on how some republican senate candidates are looking to turn the page in a fall starting with a major ad blitz. that comes as for the first time ever voters seem lukewarm, the ones who are lukewarm on sitting president joe biden, still plan to vote for his party in november. and we ve been saying this for some time between the president s approval ratings and the generic ballot tests, joe biden is now in the mid-40s according to gallop and other polls. we ll talk about that. and longtime trump ally steve bannon expects to be charged in a state criminal case again? stemming into an investigation into his role in a charity that was supposed to have used private funds to build the wall of the u.s./mexico border. but didn t do it and isn t that really what donald trump did lying about the stop the steal money, where he got hundreds of millions of dollars and lied about the money being used for that again, here s another example, here s another parall
intensifies his nuclear rhetoric amid a faltering military campaign in ukraine. the biden administration says it has told russia privately exactly what the consequences would be for using a nuclear weapon. we ll have the very latest on that. plus, a head turning new revelation concerning the attack on the capitol. what a former adviser to the january 6th committee says about a phone call between the trump white house and a rioter while the attack was underway. also this morning, tropical storm ian has just strengthened into a category 1 hurricane as it continues its track toward cuba and florida. we re watching that. and it is just six weeks until voters decide the balance of power in congress. we ll tell you where things stand this morning and what s in play. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s monday, september 26th. we begin with the new polling from the new york times that shows 54% believe donald trump threatened american democracy when he left office. 51
yeah. okay. and what they don t tell is the rest of this clip, which we got to play in full. that happened yesterday. that wasn t, like from years ago. this was their cleanup. the story was, a bull wanted to have sex with three cows. gets the three cows pregnant. i don t want to hear this, no. and saw three other cows over the fence and wanted to get those cows pregnant so much that he went over barbed wire. are you okay? to get to the other cows. is this really what happened or are you making this up? sweetheart? yeah? i didn t tell the story. uh-huh. about a bull wanting to get six cows pregnant. there s no way herschel walker would tell that story at this moment. these people come to georgia. yeah. to help him get out of a scandal where he got a lot of people pregnant. lied about it. didn t want to so he literally said that yesterday, katty kay, on the campaign trail in georgia, and there was tom cotton and i guess rick s
accused the fbi of planting evidence? well now trump admits the documents were stored in cartons. remember when trump s lawyer told the justice department that classified material had been returned? well, investigators found more. lots more. remember when trump s team insisted the documents were safely secured? well, his lawyer now admits the former president frequently had guests in an office where highly classified papers were found in his desk. and once again, he does not deny having them. good morning. and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, september 1st. can you believe it? no, no i can t believe it. just like nobody can believe any of the excuses that have all been thrown around. i love yesterday, willie, his only argument is, not saying why he had the documents, not saying why he didn t return the documents, not saying why he lied to the fbi when they were asking for the documents, and they were moving them, and instead, he goes oh, oh, it s all a setup, they