These two men were both a heartbeat away from being interesting this evening. It was a Vice President ial debate. One of these men will lose and we will never from him again. The other one will become vp again and we will never hear from him again. 4144. All right. A look at the late night takes of Vice President ial nominees tim Walz And J. D. Vance. The Ohio Senator largely kept things cordial in last Nights Debate focusing most of their attacks at their Running Mates at the top of the ticket. We are going to go through the big moments from what could be the final faceoff between the campaigns before election day. We will bring you a live report from The Middle East following a major escalation by iran launching a massive ballistic Missile Attack on israeli. We will have the very latest developments just ahead. Two major stories this morning. Good morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. Its wednesday, october 2nd. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early white House
hi everyone, it s 4:00 in new york as we come on the air, we are following breaking news. at this hour, one of the disgraced twice impeached ex-president s closest advisers, allen weisselberg is on route to the notorious rikers island. if he hasn t arrived already. he s been sentenced to five months behind bars for executing a tax scheme. he had been facing up to 15 years in prison but struck a deal with prosecutors pleading guilty to 15 felony counts including tax fraud, conspiracy and grand larceny, and agreeing to testify against the trump org, though notably not against the big boss, donald hymn or any of his family. weisselberg who is 75 years old has been with the trump org for 50 years. technically he was the chief financial officer, but cfo doesn t capture how central he is to the trump org and the shady transactions or how complicit he was in the dirty dealings of the ex-president. nobody knows that better than michael cohen who had and has and has shared the receipt
it s called an initial investigation, called the special council regulations. its purpose is to help the attorney general gather facts and research, to make a decision about whether to appoint a special counsel. garland, the same month last november appointed jack smith to take over the mar-a-lago documents investigation, in part because trump was running for president, and biden probably was going to as well, and the question is whether these differences we ve been discussing are sufficient to overcome the appearance of a conflict of interest and the highly sensitive matter of investigating a president that garland identified as a rational for putting a special counsel in charge of the trump investigation. what did your former colleagues say? i talked to one senior white house official who acknowledged that there s a story. it is news, indeed. and seemed to appreciate the detail and the attention to detail that journalists like the print coverage has represented.
not put too much spin on the ball. ask questions and get the facts out there. i think mccarthy clearly claire, you just showed those poll numbers. very few issues enjoy that much support this is one of them. mccarthy suggesting we forget it, appealing to the maga base. i think anna is right this is going to be clips bouncing around social media, enormous television coverage, print coverage. just be aggressive about getting the right witnesses. i think there should be few speeches. just a lot of questions and let the story get more deeply told here. you can t he is scape the