59 minutes, 38 seconds and counting until the first polls close on Election Night. Thank you so much for joining us for this election count down and here is what is going to be happening, every friday night from now until election day we are going to be right here, at this hour at this board, bringing you the latest in polling, the latest data, the latest on the Ground Reporting and expert analysis as we draw near one of the most anticipated Midterm Elections in modern memory. Thats going to be november the 8th. Already, voting started in more than a dozen states. That includes some of the most critical battlegrounds on the board, pennsylvania, florida, wisconsin, just over the last couple of days, ohio, arizona, and a Georgia Early Voting set to begin this coming monday. It is the peach state where we start tonight with our breaking news. A head to head televised showdown this evening between democratic senator Raphael Warnock, and his republican challenger, Herschel Walker. All year,
Crossing the Southern Border soars. And as some republican governors resort to political stunts with peoples lives, well talk about that. Later this morning, former Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton will be our guest. We look forward to talking with her as well. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is friday, september 16th. Along with joe, willie and me, we have u. S. Special correspondent for bb news, katty kay in london, and the host of Way Too Early White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, also with us the president of the National Action network and host of politics nation, Reverend Al Sharpton joins us this morning. You know what people say about our show, that morning joe show is the most mindful show, we teach everybody that two things can be true at one time. Were not always that mindful. Were going to be talking about that. Were going to be talking about the crisis at the Southern Border, and by the way, i understand every two years, yes, theres the Conv
refusal to testify before the january 6th select committee and his failure to turn over documents. let s begin this morning outside the u.s. district court in washington, d.c. cnn political correspondent sara murray is there. how is all of this expected to play out today? reporter: well, you know, look, steve bannon is here in court, we expect this could take a couple of hours. what we know is that steve bannon is trying to get out of any kind of jail time. he was convicted on two counts for refusing to show up for a subpoena to testify before congress and refusing to hand over documents. the government has asked that he spend six months behind bars and they said he should pay a $200,000 fine. now, bannon s team has said, look, at the most he should get probation, he listened to his attorneys advice and if you are going to put him behind bars it should be house arrest only. they are also saying bannon plans to appeal his conviction and they re saying that any punishment he
Hillary clinton operative Christopher Steele 1 million if he could prove his allegations that biden stomach Davante Adams included. And he pressed on the lack of cooperation justifying the visor pfizer warning, you and your colleagues took the information and put it in the corner page pfizer application and you didnt have cooperation from databases, Intelligence Community or Christopher Steele and still went into a fisa application. Correct. David spunt outside of the courthouse, david. Brian was on the stand for a day and a half and also we just heard from Carl Stolen A Democratic Public Relations operative and according to john durham and durham is doing a lot of questioning specifically in this case to show how invested he is, Charles Dolan admitted he saw some information on television news, gave that information for gossip as durham may want to call it to igor danchenko. Igor danchenko then put it in the steele dossier saying it was from a republican or a trump operative. Igor dan
kids getting hooked on flavored tobacco, including e-cigarettes. big tobacco lures them in with flavors like lemon drop and bubble gum, candy flavors that get them addicted to tobacco products, and can lead to serious health consequences, even harming their brain development. that s why pediatricians urge you to vote yes on prop 31. it stops the sale of dangerous flavored tobacco and helps protect kids from nicotine addiction. please vote yes on 31. vote yes on prop 31. keeps driving prices for everyday goods to painful levels for american families. we will be joined by carol lee and peter nicholas to discuss their new interview with the first lady, jill biden, including her thoughts on a 2024 bid for her husband. i will speak with john kirby on the international effort to keep support headed toward ukraine right now, in the midst of russia s new deadly aerial strikes. good day to you. i m peter alexander in for my friend andrea mitchell. we are watching breaking news h