With president ial candidate cory booker live from iowa. And our powerhouse roundtable. And al gore takes on Climate Change and the 2020 candidates. Well break down the politics, smoke out the spin. The facts that matter this week. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning, and welcome to this week. It has been a week packed with news punctuated by the shocking revelation that Jeffrey Epstein facing the prospect of life in prison on sex trafficking charges was found dead in his jail cell from an apparent suicide on saturday. The death has sparked outrage from his accusers, and raised questions. It has also spawn a series of conspiracy theories online. Some now circulating if not surprisingly by the president himself. Our chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas tracking all the latest developments. Pierre, this is a federal prison. The a. G. Responsible in the end. Hes ordered an inquiry. George, this is one of the most highprof
he has taking out billboards, but he s not running for president. sure. thank you, chris, as always. and thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. hazmat suits, paramedics, firefighters at the ballot box. today authorities in adams county colorado right next to denver found investigating a ballot they received an envelope containing a suspicious, powdery substance. it is crazy on its face that we are at a point here were someone trying to harm election workers is even within the realm of possibility. but what makes this story truly remarkable is how the adams county clerk is handling all of this. back in may, he told abc news that threats he and his fellow election workers were facing were so bad that he was wearing a bulletproof vest to work. and he was not alone. election workers in multiple colorado counties underwent active shooter training, and started wearing their own bulletproof fasts because of the threats that have been pouring in as a result of the
across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow hazmat suits, paramedics firefighters at the ballot box. today, authorities in adams county, colorado right next to denver, announced a local law enforcement and the fbi are investigating a ballot they received in an envelope containing a suspicious powdery substance. it is crazy on its face that word a point here where someone trying to harm election workers is even within the realm of possibility. but what makes the story truly remarkable is how the adams county clerk is handling all this. back in may she told abc news that threats he as fellow election workers were facing were so bad that he was wearing a bulletproof vest to work. and he is not alone. election workers in multiple colorado counties underwent active shooter training, and started wearing their own bulletproof fasts because of the threats that have been pouring in as a result of the big lie. the adams c
protecting our democracy. the president is expected to address threats from maga republican election deniers to not accept the result thofs year s vote. and the growing embrace of political violence in the aftermath of the hammer attack on house speaker pelosi s 82-year-old husband. joining me for the hour are jen saki, matthew dowd and david plus. jen i start with you. you ve been talking to white house officials. what should we expect to hear from the president? joy, it s six days until the election and this is the big closing argument for the president. there he s doing this because at this point it sless about convincing people that you have a better plan. it s about lighting a fire under those democrats and people who are going to support democratic candidates to get them out. the other piece they are focused on is saying to democratics and other people voting for candidates hang with us. it may be a long week. it may take time to count the votes but stick with us and
Not strikingly negative in the 8 00 hour on msnbc, and hats off to you for that, my friend. Strikingly positive. Have a great weekend. Put that in your pipe. Thanks to you at home for joining me this evening. Do you remember how President Trump had a thing about strongmen and dictators . He could not get enough of them. Most famously, there is the very questionable and very public friendship between trump and putin. But there were other examples too. They were his love letters to north korean dictator kim jongun. There was his reported willingness to protect Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin salman, aka mbs, even after mbs ordered the killing of an american journalist. And then there was the former president of the philippines, rodrigo duterte. During the trump administration, president duterte went on a brutal extrajudicial killing spree. He ordered the mortar of thousands of people he claimed were suspected drug dealers without any trial, without any due process. And duterte was right