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-no, but i mean, like, -you can t hurt me, man. tapper: for a country that bills itself as the world s oldest democracy, we sure do love a strongman, and from teddy roosevelt all the way up to our reality tv president, nowhere produces more of them than the empire state. and i get it. in an age where congress approval rating hovers somewhere around sewer rats, we wanna vote for the politician who can finally just get things done. that was eliot spitzer to a t. but when new yorkers sent the sheriff of wall street to the governor s mansion, we all learned the hard way that white knights can have dark secrets. spitzer was caught breaking his own sex work laws, a level of hypocrisy we could never forget. eliot spitzer blazed a trail through new york that had him in spitting distance of the white house, right up until the moment he set himself on fire. this will sound like a setup for a bad joke, but bear with me. [cheering] the change you seek, the new york you dream o ....
now. camila, i was just amazed. you probably couldn t see the video from where you re standing. as i was talking to this woman, she picked up her foot and showed what looked like two or three inches of thick mud stuck to the bottom of her shoe. and i guess this is what people are dealing with in the middle of all this. but i guess things are improving somewhat. give us the latest. reporter: well, jim, it s still really messy, and i don t have to see the video because there were so many people that i saw here walking out of the playa. just to give you some perspective of where i am, the playa is right here behind me. so the festival is only just a couple of miles from where i am. throughout the day, i saw dozens and dozens of people with those cakey shoes with mud all over their bodies. the cars are covered in mud. i saw a number of rvs getting stuck behind me here in the desert. that s what you re seeing today. people are saying, look, i want to get out no matter what ....
of adults think biden is too old to run. when asked what words come to mind when you think of joe biden, 26% said old, outdated, aging or elderly. another 15% said slow, confused or bumbling. mitch mcconnell didn t help the cause of octogenarian politicians when the minority leader had his second apparent freeze in a month while speaking with reporters, and that dianne feinstein will have a sub limb natural impact when people look at biden. if biden stays in the race, he ll need to convince the country that despite the concerns people have about him now at age 80, he s still the best choice for the nation when he s finishing a second term at age 86. if the opponent is donald trump, that might work. but what if next spring the weight of trump s prosecutions finally cause a republican reshuffling? he would be replaced, but democrats will still have biden as their standard bearer against the wishes of three quarters of their own voters. the collapse of the hunter biden ple ....
to florida to survey damage from hurricane ida leah. the president will meet with survivors and officials on the ground. one person the president does not have plans to meet with is florida governor, ron desantis. the governor s office says in these rural communities, and so soon after impact, the security preparations alone, going to set up such a meeting with shut down ongoing recovery efforts. earlier on nbc, fema administrator, deanna criswell, responding. when i was on the ground and traveling with the governor on thursday, we went to some of the very remote and coastal communities that were impacted. access is very limited. that s why the governor s team, and my team, we mutually agreed upon live oak as an area that is already starting the recovery. the majority of the power is back online. there are no roads that are closed. but there are people that are hurting there too. brand-new national wall street journal polls shows donald trump, despite four indictmen ....
looming conflict between donald trump s trial schedules and the election calendar. there is no time in the next 15 months that he will not be needed both in court defending against foreign indictments and on the campaign trail competing for the nomination. it remains to be seen whether trump can continue to a stand or benefit from his legal perils. a different type of scheduling trouble looms on the democratic timeline. consider this, despite the record about which democrats are proud, joe biden remains unpopular. hill latest gallup approval stands at just 42%. even many democrats don t want him to run for re-election. a recent poll found that 75% of americans don t want him to run again. that is higher than trump, of whom 69% said the same thing at the end of july a poll found that 75% of democratic leaning voters want the party to nominate someone other than biden. why? largely, it is age. the ap poll found that 77% of adults think biden is too old to run. when asked ....