imminent does starts right now. thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello everyone. i m alicia mendes. we begin this saturday with america on edge of a financial cliff. a test it presents for congress and for the new house speaker, kevin mccarthy. a huge test for him, specifically given how much he gave away to become speaker, handing away power to those who prioritize chaos over governing, which is not what you want when the task at hand is paying the nations bills. instead of working to keep the global economy on track, the biggest headlines we saw this week about republicans where this was the circus surrounding republican george santos it is very complicated relationship. nbc news confirmed he lied about his mother, attack being in the towers of 9/11, turns out his mom wasn t even in the united states during those attacks. this week santos also denied claims he stole money from a veteran s gofundme page that was set up set up to help a man s dying dog. are republicans o
i m boris sanchez. i m an marie walker. tornado ripping through three states, leaving one dead and 10 others injured. a seven is under way for the missing and 100,000 people remain without power. plus, the final sprint. only three days to go until election day. we will tell you where candidates are making their final pitch to voters as we get a deeper look at the closest and most contentious races on the map. and a missed deadline. former president trump fails to hand over subpoena documents to congress. now, the skrapb 6th committee is giving him a new deadline. twitter slashing staff. thousands are now without jobs. what does it mean for the platform s future? it is the weekend. we are grateful you are starting it with us, this saturday, november 5th. good morning, amara. we have a new look but the same faces. we are just a few days away from the midterm elections. we will begin with severe weather after a tornado outbreak hits three states in the last 24 hours.
debunked conspiracy theories about voting machines. he spreads so much disinformation about the 2020 election, he got this cease and desist letter from dominion, the voting machine company, saying you are knowingly sowing discord in our democracy, all the while soliciting exorbitant amounts of money. he s appeared on steve bannon s show and with the my pillow guy, mike lindell. we did see evidence it was connected to the internet. there is no evidence any voting machines were connected to the internet in the 2020 election, but he s still asking republican poll workers to check. there s a little icon on the bottom right-hand corner. what i m trying to do is see whether or not these machines are indeed connected to the internet. he refused to speak to cnn, but the other leader of the training, sheryl konstantino, did. you re training these people to be undercover spies. that s the words you were using. i m wondering why. well, first of all, if you remember in the el
closures and the educational progress of schoolchildren. blaming the previous a administration, no teacher i know enjoys it with private learning. twenty in a classroom, 20 at home, former president donald trump ranted and raved as they put the safety measures in place to get this done. the former education secretary is not taking the attack lightly. randy should own up to the mistakes that they made in the way that they have harmed kids and harm families across the country, yet all she is doing is blaming everybody else. this is not about teachers, this is about she and all of her allies that continue to control everything with the democratic party 99% of contributions going directly to democrats do their bidding. they have especially failed the kids and they are supposed to be observant to. only 42% say that they are completely or somewhat satisfied and that is down nearly 10 points since just 2019. and then we have more from the union and the cdc. so what does it tel
january 6th investigation. lessons learned this year. the report confronting some of the hypocrisy their own justice, and our interview with the star of a historic film this year about the civil rights emmett till. i m excited to share it with you as we get through the hour. we begin with what we learned about the republican party as we and the. and it is reeling, struggling with all the maga problems that created after a midterm fizzle. the red wave, at most, has become sort of a red trickle. definitely not a republican wave. that s for darn sure. republicans where they were gonna sweep a red tsunami. that s what they told us, and we, to be honest, cautiously believe them. but they did not sweep, not even close. look at that. some level of agreement on the facts. even tucker carlson not doing the big lie denialism, but accepting the reality of election results. and that has been the mood as the year ends. donald trump announced he s running again, there s a power s