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town hall where they were supposed to get the chance to confront the people responsible company let a train full of chemicals fly off the rails and lit it on fire ceo of norfolk southern alec shaw shown right there just decided to back out of the meeting. allen shaw and rail company wont even show their faces. "primetime" has a producer out there, so we will be giving you updates throughout the hour. can you imagine how angry these people are? the company responsible for potentially...

academic for decades. we knew each other for more than 40 years. why we did not always agree, we always came back together. over the last two years, he and i were closely as co-chairs of the national campaign to have the black community fight covid. he was on politics nations of november 2020. -- we booked as late as a couple of weeks ago about this work and he was still fighting cancer all the way through, he kept fighting. we have the community on health conditions, housing and econo...

You? who cares about you? thats the choice in this election. all the other stuff is surface stuff. its distraction. >> and welcome to our set here in d.c. as we count down eight days to election day. as we say with all the early voting going on, the election in many ways already under way. again, to underscore the stakes here, a 50-50 senate. republicans needing a net gain of one seat to get control of the senate back. the house sits as close as it could possibly be pretty much. it would be a ne...

We have factual fears. factual fears over our democracy, factual fears over the fact that we have children specifically in the state of texas that are sadly enough being raped almost daily, yet they would not be able to seek the reproductive help they need, and they will be victimized again and a state like texas. we had to push hard, and we got to push back on the republicans and make sure we tell them that the facts are really on our site. >> let me play for you a soundbite of former president...

To bring more good paying jobs here to wisconsin. you did it when you elected tony ever as governor. >> [applause] >> you did it when you sent gwen moore and tammy ball went to washington to fight for you. and now youve got to do it again. because, heres the thing, wisconsin, there are a lot of issues at stake in this country, but the most basic question, the fundamental issue, you should be asking yourself right now is, who will fight for you? who cares about you? thats the choice in this elect...

But we still only know the surface stuff. because the former president is giving us new information, by his own admission, around how far he was willing to go to bring american democracy to its knees. he lost the election and yet he is still talking about overturning the election. he is still talking about trying to overturn the will of the american people. it is incredible, chris. >> so chuck, forgive me for an overly broad question, but it does seem like we are learning new things every day, w...

Not on the issues, but on the surface stuff that doesnt actually matter. i guarantee there will be handshakes and smiles. who knows what they talk about, but that will be the focus. remember his trip to the middle east, to saudi arabia. ed wasnt necessarily on terrorism, it was on the optics of the trip. i think a lot of people are frustrated by that and ill thing thats going to change with the g20 summit. >> charles: the president of the united states should not change who he is or what hes try...

Although humans are humans and we cant necessarily read the surface stuff. but theres still a lot that we dont know here. thats putting it mildly. so its hard to say. if i had to vote id say its probably at the bottom of the ocean. by the same token, nothing really is impossible at this point. >> jim, there have been pilots who have committed suicide but basically theyve turned the plane just nose down and just gone into the water gone into the ground. this is a plane, jim, that continued to fly...

Airplane, was the intent to take off from that particular landing strip also. that would have to be selected quite carefully. john, what do you make of the idea of terrorism? whether a crash or some sort of landing? >> the landing isnt impossible but it certainly is a very, very low level of probability. i agree with that entirely. im more concerned with the possibility of a rogue or wanna-be terrorist who might have taken over this airplane. we dont know if there was somebody riding in the cock...

Through of issues that is more than just kind of surface stuff. >> i wanted to refer some new polling number in ohio. despite the presidents problems with the economy, he still leads against the republican challengers across the board. the closest to him is mitt romney. what does that tell you? >> well, i would love to say it was they are fighting back. theyre looking at these republicans and saying these guys arent serious. theyve been pulled so far to the right. as up, pat robertson is telling...