her reign spanned 15 british prime ministers, 14 american presidents, seven popes, the end of the soviet empire, the decline of her own and its rebirth as modern britain. the people you see there outside buckingham palace and gathering elsewhere as well, windsor castle, have been gathering since this afternoon in the rain on word that the queen in balmoral castle in scotland had been put under medical supervision. the arrival of family members underscored the gravity of the hour and the family s single-minded response to it. the image of two of the queen s sons, prince andrew and edward and prince william at the wheel altogether in the same vehicle. from a sometimes contentious but message conscious family, the message this image sent was clear. then the clouds began lifting, rainbows formed outside buckingham palace and windsor castle. they signalled hope but delivered only sadness a short time later. the news coming in a simple message behind a humble frame in keeping with
there s too much political violence. there s too much intimidation. there are more than 300 election deniers on the republican tickets this year for state, federal, and local government. [ boos ] this is really serious stuff. if a republican nominee for governor in the state of wisconsin wins, here s what he said. he said, if i win, my party will never lose another election in wisconsin. he s either a prophet or he plans on doing something about election law. that s president joe biden in california last night. his latest stop in a jam-packed campaign schedule before the final days of the campaign. willie, you ve got these republican candidates that believe in american democracy only if they win. yeah. we ve played the laundry list of them. senator ron johnson was on yesterday talking to our own shaquille brewster inside the state of wisconsin. shaquille asked him simply if you lose will you honor the results? we ll have to see what happens. his words, i don t know what t
pitch their closing messages to voters. we ll have a slew of new polling numbers to see what, if anything, is getting through. also ahead, this week s jobless claims are in. what the new numbers on of the of another interest rate hike tell us about the state of our economy. professor eddie glaude jr. and jonathan lemire are with us. and joining us, nbc news national political reporter marc caputo and republican strategist and nbc news political analyst susan del percio. it s good to have you with us this hor hour. we have new polling out this morning. a hotly contested senate race in pennsylvania, the latest emerson college the hill survey finds mehmet oz with a two-point lead over john fetterman, within the poll s 3% margin of error. 4% remain undecided. let s keep it in pennsylvania. another new poll shows last week s debate between fetterman and oz appears to have had very little impact in minds of voters. 48% of voters telling monmouth university they will definitely
including kevin mccarthy s new problems. by the end of the hour we re going to turn to culture and the artist ransom. i want to begin this hour with you with one of our special reports about law and justice and fairness. it involves a dilemma many warned about, that the end of the trump presidency would not be the end of trump s impact or damage. especially been the ways he tried to corrupt the government and alter the traditions and norms at times have been guardrails for the united states. everything changed for president biden because he s now facing this new special counsel probe from the doj. unlike president obama. because the attorney general appointed a dedicated prosecutor to probe how classified documents ended up in his office and home and not just any prosecutor. we ll come back to that. this week s news is an unusual decision he made two months ago when he appointed a special prosecutor for trump s classified documents. in certain extraordinary cases it is in t