good afternoon. i m casey hunt here in washington. we re going to begin with breaking news. just moments ago we learned that tesla is recalling hundreds of thousands of vehicles in order to remove the, quote, full self-driving feature. that is the beta software that lets the car drive with minimal human intervention. gabe cohen has our latest reporting on this. this is a lot of cars and a big deal. reporter: we re talking about poten potentially 363,000 tesla vehicles being recalled. we are just getting this recall report in that s coming from the national highway traffic safety administration. i want to walk you through what models we re talking about. so we re talking about the tesla model s, model x, model 3 and model y vehicles, spanning several years. 2016 all the way up until 2023. as you mentioned, all of these vehicles we re talking about are equipped with that self-driving beta software and now tesla is going to be giving a free software update. in the meantime, th
hey, everybody. good morning to you. i m yasmin vossoughian here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. speaker nancy pelosi s husband violently attacked in the couple s home overnight. what we know about the attack and mr. pelosi s condition at this hour. plus, it s official, the world s wealthiest man now in charge of one of the most powerful global tools for spreading information. twitter. the changes he s looking to make there. could we see a return of one former notorious tweeter? the former president. a big boost in the peach state showdown between raphael warnock and herschel walker. tonight barack obama hitting the campaign trail in the state of georgia with just 11 days to go until the midterms. early voting already breaking records there. how much of a difference will this make? and right now alarm bells sounding across this country. doctors, hospitals overwhelmed by a new challenge. covid-19 combined with a potentially bad influenza season and now we re se
pandemic, getting infrastructure passed up on capitol hill, as well as one of the largest investments in climate change initiatives that was passed earlier in the fall. this would certainly mark a big moment of change for the white house, as president biden is entering his final two years of office, and potentially launching another re-election bid. ron klain has worked with biden for a very long time, dating back to his time in the senate, also as vice president and advising his campaign from the outside back in 2020. cnn has reached out to the white house for comment on this and has yet to receive comments specifically. the new york times today is reporting on a very significant development as they say the white house chaff ron kli chief of staff ron klain will step down in near weeks. is he stepping down, does it have anything to do with the recent classified documents, handling of, you know, from the white house? is it instead, as the new york times is reporting,
no path to becoming speaker of the house because a bunch of conservative members of the republican conference have dug in against him. what has changed this morning? why should today be any different after the three failed votes yesterday? a couple things mccarthy is doing like send his allies fanning out across the conference, trying to get some members voting present instead of no. we ll talk about that in a second. keep in mind, the numbers here. mccarthy can only atord four defectors to become speaker. if everybody votes for a earn. he started with 19 tuesday. he finished off with 20. steve kornacki is going to join us to break down the math and tell us what to expect. another thing that s new today, former president trump getting off the fence to push fellow republicans to, i m quoting here, vote for kevin. close the deal. how much will that matter? we ll get into it because right now it is parls in the building behind me. nobody in charge. no end in sight. no work getti
very different timelines when it comes to the appointment of a special counsel when it comes to the handling of classified documents. merrick garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the handling of some classified documents. his appointment follows the development that a second set of classified documents were found, these in a storage space in the garage of president biden s home in wilmington, delaware. the president s lawyer said it was a small number of documents. watch. on january 5th, 2023, mr. laush briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. based on mr. laush s initial investigation, i concluded that under the special counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. as i have said before, i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraord