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00:00we had we have 22 waterfalls most of them haven't worked for over 50 years as of this morning they

00:08all work beautifully and they're clean the graffiti's gone the broken marble is fixed

00:14well there's a way of fixing it you use a thing called silicone and you fix them i'm not even

00:20mentioning pennsylvania which we want also right yes but we want them all we want probably we want

00:26all 50 we had an honest count if you want to know the the democrats and what they did is

00:33they said

00:33they left they gave the highest prices that we've ever had for all products groceries everything

00:39and they started saying affordability they'd say this is about affordability it's a con job

00:47i inherited their high prices we brought those prices way down it's called the promenade

00:52basically the promenade they want to call it the trump promenade but i don't know if i want to do

00:57that but it's going to be beautiful it's a beautiful project and it's going to take

01:01the lincoln memorial right down to the potomac

01:06some of the greatest hits from president trump's oval office gathering yesterday jonathan lemire

01:12once again the president mocking the concept of affordability the white house staff tried it

01:18appears they've given up to even have some events around affordability because obviously poll after

01:23poll and just talking to anybody you encounter it shows that the cost of living is through the roof

01:29and unsustainable for most people and their top concern but again donald trump unprompted they're

01:35waving that off as a concern yeah the best part of that is him using the about the promenade he's

01:40building it's like well maybe they'll call it the trump promenade because yeah he's so reluctant to put

01:44his name on things um yeah no but you're right though there is a there is a degree of political

01:49seriousness to the nonsense we hear is that it's again showing trump is so disconnected with what

01:56frankly americans feel but also what republicans want him to talk about and that then i do think

02:01there's a lot of given the people have thrown up their hands like he he's never going to be on

02:05message they can't even get him to leave the white house to have events across the country he does

02:09like no domestic travel none except to his own clubs and yet poll after poll suggests americans

02:16are frustrated with the war in iran to be sure but more than anything it's about the the high prices

02:21of gas of groceries of everything else and trump seems to not care and not only not care and not

02:26propose anything to fix it but actively demean that concern and there's few things that anger american

02:33voters more when you seem out of touch almost belittling about their concerns and that's why

02:39republicans despite the gerrymandering despite you know these investigations you know the efforts to

02:45put their thumb on the scale willie this uh this november's midterms that's why so many in the

02:49republican party are terrified not just the house but increasingly the senate too inflation and war are

02:56complicated matters talking about reflecting pools promenades ballrooms arches much easier and that's

03:03where the president's attention seems to be let's begin this hour with deadly attacks that continue

03:07this morning in the middle east despite yesterday's announcement of a u.s brokered ceasefire between

03:13israel and lebanon lebanese state media reports israeli strikes killed at least four people in the

03:19southern part of the country this comes after the iran-backed terrorist group hezbollah rejected the

03:24ceasefire deal saying it would not withdraw troops from lebanon meanwhile on capitol hill the senate was on

03:31the floor until about two hours ago wrapping up a votarama as it's called on amendments to the republicans

03:37seventy billion dollar immigration enforcement bill legislation passed after 18 hours of votes and several

03:44attempts to block the justice department's creation of a so-called anti-weaponization fund and just a day after

03:51approving a war powers resolution to limit president trump's authority in iran house lawmakers passed legislation

03:57yesterday to provide aid to ukraine and to impose new sanctions on russia plus president trump told reporters

04:04yesterday bill pulte will not be his permanent choice for director of national intelligence

04:10after appointing pulte to the role in an acting capacity this week the president signaled what

04:16pulte will be focused on as the leader of 18 intelligence agencies and it's an acting position

04:23it's not a problem he's not going to be permanent because you know i don't think he'd want to be

04:27permanent but he's a very smart guy and he may find out some things about the rigged elections etc etc

04:33i

04:33think he'd like to do it i'd like to i think he wants to do it very much get a

04:38lot of energy uh but

04:40he'll be very good uh again it's not a permanent position we're looking at we're interviewing people right

04:45now but it's somebody just to take it over for a little while let's bring in democratic senator

04:52richard blumenthal of connecticut he's a member of the armed services homeland security and judiciary

04:57committees also with us ms now senior capitol hill reporter host of way too early ali vitale

05:03and the bulwark sam stein is with us as well uh senator good morning thanks for joining us there's so

05:09much to talk through with you but let's begin right there with the idea that bill pulte a man with

05:15no

05:15experience in intelligence whatsoever will now oversee 18 intelligence agencies at least on a

05:21temporary basis as acting director of national intelligence what concerns do you have about bill

05:27pulte exactly the ones that you just articulated no experience absolutely no expertise in this highly

05:36sensitive and important area in the 15 years that i've been in the united states senate what i've come

05:42to see is that there's no position in our national security system more important than the dni and

05:50remember why it exists in the wake of 9-11 we found that our intelligence system was splintered that

06:00different parts of it failed to communicate what they knew and it not only put us at risk it created

06:07one of the great tragedies in the history of the united states so the dni is a critical position

06:12and to make it one of political loyalty to politicize it is absolutely to make america a lot less safe

06:22in fact to endanger our national security senator we're always thankful when you give us time but the

06:29fact that you're here after a very lengthy voterama i think is notable um overnight obviously republicans

06:35ended up passing this immigration focused funding package but in the process of getting there there

06:40were some really interesting amendment votes where amendments didn't pass but certain republicans

06:45raised eyebrows by voting for things like blocking that weaponization fund that the white house has

06:51been talking about like trying to block the ballroom funding um what were the conversations on the floor

06:57that you overheard either with or from your republican counterparts and what does the whole process tell you

07:03about where the party is right now well first of all thank you for having me even on no sleep

07:07or maybe

07:08especially on no sleep i can't imagine a better way to begin the day uh the conversations were extremely

07:16interesting and illuminating i think that the trump facade is beginning to break a little bit

07:24they are plainly worried deeply concerned about this election remember these amendments put them on

07:31record voting to block our efforts to kill that slush fund the 1.8 billion dollar thug fund to aid

07:43the president's allies and friends including convicted january 7th rioters they went on record

07:51against blocking the immunity shield that the president will now have as a result of the deal that blanche

08:00uh branch negotiated negotiated on his tax returns and so they are now part and parcel of the corruption

08:10of this government and the kind of choices they had to make i think were deeply disconcerting to them

08:19and that's the kind of conversation we had on the floor a lot of gallows humor yeah which i think

08:25probably seeps in when you're doing these overnight votes anyway but certainly there's a lot of moments

08:30where the white house has had sort of own goals as i've heard republicans talk about it on members of

08:35its own party but i would imagine that that slush fund that january 6th insurrectionists could take

08:40advantage of blanche has tried to say it's dead the president has sort of kept it alive and i would

08:46imagine

08:46as someone who's on the senate judiciary committee that it's going to be a central piece of the

08:51confirmation battle for blanche do you have any sense of when that confirmation battle is going to

08:56kick off and the ways that this might be important especially as you have someone like senator tom tillis

09:01on the republican side who said that this was going to be a litmus test for him i think blanche

09:07is going to

09:07have a tough time on confirmation and we on the judiciary committee have a lot of difficult

09:14questions for him because he has shown he's going to be donald trump's lawyer not the people's lawyer

09:19i was the attorney general of the state of connecticut and i know what it means to represent

09:24the government i was the u.s attorney in connecticut for four and a half years i know what it

09:29means to

09:30be part of the justice department he has so degraded the standard and the ethics of the justice

09:39department in all he's done that serve the president's interest that deal on the president's

09:44tax immunity is absolutely abhorrent and that's why i think even republicans whether it's tillis

09:54or cornyn may have some difficulty and of course they're a little bit more liberated than they were

10:01partly because of the decision not to go in tillis's case for re-election partly because of

10:07defeat in corner's case but i think we're we're going to have a really tumultuous time for him in

10:14confirmation are they liberated though i want to push back a little bit because um you took a slew of

10:21votes over the past 24 hours and in every turn they were able to make sure that there was no

10:26legislative

10:27language outlawing this weaponization fund in fact one of the most critical votes came early on

10:32and it was bill cassidy someone who just was humiliated by donald trump in his own re-election

10:37bid who cast the vote to make sure that that weaponization fund was not outlawed into law you

10:43have a number of pressure points coming up the top branch confirmation battle whether or not to renew

10:49faiza and use that as leverage uh for this bill pulty nomination potentially another war authorization

10:55vote just passed the house uh around iran do you have expectations that you will make headway with

11:01these republicans when time and again even those who are liberated tend to do what the party wants

11:07well i hope i said a little liberated a little bit okay your push push back is well merited uh

11:14and i have no expectations okay to be really blunt i've lived with the trump leverage and fear

11:24for these past years and every time i thought there might be a break i have been disappointed and

11:33disillusioned beginning with muller going through the impeachment proceedings when behind the scenes

11:39they express deep concern and all the hand wringing all the eyebrows right but at the end of the day

11:48they've succumbed to the trump cult and fear so i can't say i have any expectations

11:56senator blumenthal we want to turn now to ukraine i know you just returned from a visit to that country

12:00you were there during a particularly intense russian bombardment and even though ukraine

12:06has certainly regained some of the momentum in that conflict you know putin is still inflicting so much

12:12pain on the ukrainian people but this comes also as we saw the house defy president trump and push

12:18forward a package a ukraine aid package give us your sense as to its future in the senate but also

12:24what

12:24you hope it could do at the white house we're working very hard in the senate for a bill that

12:33will

12:33impose scorching sanctions on russia to stop its purchase its sales of oil and gas the revenue it

12:46gains from those sales to countries that have been purchasing it over the years are fueling its war

12:54machines and the bill in the house passed by a bipartisan majority 226 to 195 and i think that momentum

13:03will aid us in the senate the the kind of military assistance provided in that bill is very important

13:09as well i want to give a lot of credit to the ranking member of the foreign affairs committee there

13:15greg meeks of new york as well as steny hoyer of maryland another leader but my trip to ukraine showed

13:22me

13:22how desperate putin is becoming he is losing troops at a rate that is unsustainable about 30 000 a month

13:32he's losing territory at this point his net losses i think have to be deeply troubling to him and so

13:39out of desperation i think he has launched this ferocious bloody attack on ukraine literally on

13:46civilians when we were there we went into bomb shelters probably three or four times a day sometimes

13:533 40 a.m in the morning or in the midst of forums and conferences so he is targeting homes

14:03apartments

14:04hospitals schools out of desperation but he is also having to contend with tremendous technology

14:11that the ukrainians had developed they're helping us they're teaching us but they're also using it to

14:17hit saint petersburg oil depots deep within russia tremendously impressive when you think about

14:25what it shows in vulnerability on the part of russia and that kind of technological advance the prowess

14:33they're showing has to be deeply troubling as well to putin senator bloomfeld we also happen to be the

14:39united states although the white house doesn't seem want to talk about it much anymore an active war

14:44uh with iran right now there's still being shots being fired almost daily um so what is your

14:50assessment uh given the intelligence you're aware of and the people you're able to have access to and

14:55speak with about where these negotiations to end the war really are we've heard these deadlines for

15:01you know three and a half months now it'll be two weeks it'll be four weeks it'll be six weeks

15:05the

15:05war is complete the war is over said marco rubio of operation epic fury a couple of days ago

15:12what is your sense of actually where these negotiations are and how they might end

15:17i think the negotiations are at a standstill frankly there is a war

15:26in name only i think there's a ceasefire but there continues to be iranian control

15:35and throttling of the strait of hormuz which is driving prices and threatening the world economy as

15:44well as raising the cost of living for everybody here in our country i see it in connecticut the anger

15:51and frustration so i think the the talks have been unavailing but the bottom line here is that the goals

16:01now seem to be very much what the president this president had as a result of biden negotiations

16:07in the jcpoa none of the goals of the war whether it's securing the original uranium changing the

16:18regime destroying missile capacity have been accomplished and so i think there really is a

16:23standstill in the negotiation as the president tries to grapple with this reality that simply

16:28won't go away simply because he says what the reality should be

16:36and of course he's reluctant to strike any deal that resembles the deal the obama administration

16:41was able to strike with iran democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut senator thanks

16:46for your time this morning we always appreciate it thank you still ahead on morning joe we'll have

16:51the latest on the race for california governor results continue to come in this morning three days

16:57later plus politico's jonathan martin joins us with a look at the fight over who will take over

17:02congresswoman nancy pelosi's long held seat and as we go to break this weekend over on nbc sunday

17:10today my conversation with the true hollywood powerhouse mindy kaling she is of course began

17:16her career as a writer on the office and was on screen as kelly kapoor and now has become so

17:21much

17:21more as a writer a producer a director a creator of the hit netflix series running point and a new

17:28series on hulu a great conversation and by the way a great meal at one of the best indian restaurants

17:35in new york city with mindy kaling coming up this week the latest vote count from tuesday's primary

17:41elections in california shows republican steve hilton still holding a lead in the race for governor

17:47with 27 percent of the vote he's followed by democrats javier becerra at 26 percent and tom

17:53steyer at 20 percent the two candidates who receive the most votes regardless of party will advance to

17:59november's election los angeles county expected to release more results today elsewhere in the state

18:05one of the races gaining attention ahead of november is in california's 11th district held by congresswoman

18:12and former speaker nancy pelosi for four decades voters will choose her successor but the election

18:18comes at a time when democratic candidates are offering competing visions for the party joining

18:23us now on this story politics bureau chief and senior political columnist at politico jonathan martin

18:29he's writing about this in a new piece titled the heart of the american left is picking its next

18:34standard bearer jay mark great to see you um this is such a fascinating piece it's about one congressional

18:39district but so much more where does the democratic party want to go and in the mayor of san francisco

18:45daniel lurie over the last year and a half has made extraordinary strides in the city effectively

18:50turning the place around but with a more moderate and technocratic view of government exactly right you

18:57have a sort of bloombergian mayor who by the way when i interviewed uh daniel lurie he embraced the

19:03bloomberg model by name and this is one of the most liberal cities in america which

19:08captures i think where the democratic party is this is not 2020 willie this is not peak woke if you

19:16will this is a period even in san francisco of some backlash or what passes for backlash in san

19:23francisco of all places to be sure the candidates are all progressives down the line but on economics

19:29growth and development and business there are differences and the results of this race show where

19:35the democratic party is there were three main candidates willie the former aoc chief of staff

19:40who was running as kind of the radical and the joke in san francisco is there's three parties

19:44there's liberal more liberal and there's radical right and he was kind of the far left game well he came

19:50in third he's not going to make the runoff so the runoff is now down to somebody scott wiener who's

19:57not a moderate but somebody who's more of a pragmatist is very pro-lurry has connections to the

20:03business community against someone who's more of a traditional labor-backed candidate willie and that

20:07really captures the divide in this city that is now i think driven by class lines more than anything

20:14else they're all progressives on cultural issues but the class divide given the tech money is enormous

20:20in this city i also think you tease out something interesting in your piece another layer of lanes

20:25if you will that also speaks to the legacy that pelosi herself leaves behind it's this idea of

20:30progressive idealist or progressive pragmatist and i think that's pretty central to this too

20:35yeah look i think pelosi's favorite word is is operational she loves saying people are or they're

20:41not operational and that's the best praise that you can have for nancy pelosi if you're operational

20:46and i think she wants folks who obviously are culturally you know liberal but who are willing to

20:53get stuff done and i think that that certainly is her legacy there was always this character for by the

20:58right is this sort of out of touch far left liberal in san francisco the truth is the left has

21:03always

21:03mistrusted her in san francisco but she's not really one of them um you know she obviously is a huge

21:09donor

21:10someone who's tight with wealthy people but also she's close to the the folks in labor she's not

21:16really a sort of far left style radical and i think that has created an opening for somebody that is

21:22so you know in that mold the bigger thing though ali is this city has become a much wealthier city

21:28when pelosi won in 1987 guys you had irish and italian precincts you had traditional sort of you

21:35know cops and firefighters it was a different place it's now a much wealthier city and there's still the

21:42kind of counterculture there but there's very few folks that can afford to live in haydashbury anymore

21:46so it's not like there's a sort of group house where like the dad or jefferson airplane

21:51are going to start up then we can afford that these days because they're all working down the

21:55valley living in the city so the culture of the city has changed and that's changed the politics

22:00too and then lastly hispanic communities black communities a lot of them have gotten pushed out

22:05it's a whiter wealthier place and the politics have changed with that

22:10to your point jmart anthropics about to go public with a valuation of nearly a trillion dollars

22:16they're about to be a whole lot more billionaires in the san francisco bay area

22:20jmart stay with us coming up new allegations against democratic candidate for u.s senate in

22:24maine embattled democratic senate candidate graham plattner the new york times spoke with several

22:30of plattner's ex-girlfriends some of whom claim the main politician was volatile and toxic during their

22:36time together the times writes plattner could be charming and charismatic they were called in

22:40interviews but also demeaning to women and in at least one case even physically threatening one

22:46of plattner's former girlfriends who's worked for conservative groups recounted their relationship

22:51from 2013 to 2015 quote plattner could be rough with her she said particularly when they were drinking

22:57leaving her shaken and sometimes afraid she was quick to note that he never hit me he never punched

23:03me but she did say he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders sometimes hard enough to leave marks

23:08and on one occasion yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to

23:14stay

23:14in the car we will note the times also spoke with several other former girlfriends who gave a very

23:19different account of their time with plattner referring to him as quote a gentle giant and super kind

23:25plattner joined ms now's chris hayes for an exclusive interview last night to address the story

23:32there are some allegations in this piece that i just want to be kind of unequivocal about

23:37are simply not true anything alleging physicality anything alleging that i knew what my tattoo was

23:45these are the statements of someone who's politically motivated in this piece there's a lot about my

23:51struggling not being a good boyfriend certainly self-medicating with alcohol and i've been very

23:56upfront since the beginning of this campaign that that was a pretty dark period of my life after i

24:01came back from my combat service and that's what that combat service that's what that kind of

24:06life looks like and uh and so there are things in this that i absolutely uh will take responsibility

24:14for and and have been speaking about openly for months now um but those serious allegations are just

24:19not true let's bring in ms now congressional reporter kevin fry he joins us live from sullivan maine kevin

24:26good morning so what are voters telling you this morning not just about that piece and his reaction

24:31to it but more broadly about some of the scandals that have followed him i mean look there is a

24:37degree

24:38of concern a bit frustration about the fact that we have to continue talking about kind of a trickle

24:42upon a trickle upon a trickle of these headlines about plattner but at the same time democrats that

24:49i've talked to since arriving here have consistently said that they are standing by him they believe that

24:54there is kind of this sense of that he has a story arc that is one of redemption they're willing

25:00to continue to back him here is some of what we heard

25:06does he have a problematic past yes but i would rather have a redemption story than somebody telling

25:12you how wonderful they are how much research they do and yet they still make the wrong decision

25:19for the people of maine would i date him no but it does play into his character but we're not

25:33looking

25:33for perfection we are where we are we have a senate that's controlled by the republicans who are not

25:38holding this president in check and that is a higher priority

25:45now some have also gone so far when i've talked to them to say that look they wish his recovery

25:50from

25:51some of these setbacks if you will was a little bit smoother and one individual when i spoke to her

25:56i asked you know is there a line where it goes too far where okay i can no longer support

26:03this

26:03individual and she said i don't know what that line is but i hope we do not get there there

26:08are some

26:08other factors at play here as well which is of course the janet mills questions she's still on

26:13the ballot she of course did suspend her campaign amid financial issues and generally speaking the

26:19folks that are still in platner's camp go back to this argument that it's time for a new generation

26:23of leadership they like what he stands for they like his economic message they like that he's bringing

26:28people together and clearly creating energy the question is is there another shoe to drop and if so

26:34when and what would be the impact of that kevin what's the feeling on the ground about the the

26:39state of this race obviously we heard from some of the voters say they believe we have to win this

26:43and graham plattner gives us the best chance warts and all um there is polling obviously sometimes that

26:49can be spotty what is your sense of where the race stands today yeah i mean look and there's pulling

26:56that suggests that perhaps this is getting tighter some of that i think is coming from the inside the

27:00susan collins camp there's obviously a concern amongst democrats in washington that are now

27:06beginning to say things like these allegations are concerning you've seen senator chuck schumer

27:10more or less kind of sidestep a question about whether or not he still backs plattner within the last

27:15day or so so there is a sense of kind of the anxiety the agita around him um the question

27:22is whether or

27:23not uh he can sustain this he of course has managed to repeatedly stay above the fray or not above

27:29the

27:29fray but has managed to to navigate through these waters and still maintain a hold on folks who like

27:35his message and believe that look we as people are not perfect and neither should we expect our leaders

27:41to be there is a belief that there is a lesson learned of course some of these more recent allegations

27:45from this week are just within the last few years they're not going back a decade and a half like

27:50some

27:50of the other allegations so i think there is a degree of anxiety the other question of course is the

27:56susan collins of this all she has been down in polling in the past in past elections here and

28:01has still managed to pull this off so don't sleep on her ability to do that again umass little poll

28:07yesterday for what it's worth had platter up five points on susan collins with a long way to go

28:12congressional reporter for ms now kevin fry kevin thanks so much reporting from maine this morning

28:17we appreciate it so j mart um we heard from the voters there and that's what you hear across the

28:22state

28:22of maine among democrats we believe we have a candidate who can win this seat who can finally

28:27in their view push susan collins out of the united states senate and push back against the trump

28:32administration we are not going to abandon him now that's at least what you hear from democrats in

28:37maine that woman willie in the yellow dress i mean you could have taken that quote and put it

28:43in the mouth of any trump voter for the last decade right it's just it's just a sign of the

28:48time say

28:49look he's not perfect but he's a you know maybe he's a blunt object but we got to get back

28:55to the

28:55senate because we got to stop trump i mean that's the the same rationalization here that's the nature

29:01of the tribal politics we're in this was zero-sum game look i think right now where we are willie

29:06on

29:07this is the allegations have been damaging enough that i think have created profound doubts and the

29:13minds of democrats the platter can win this fall but they're not so damaging at this point that there's

29:18an effort to yank him from the ballot and find somebody else to run which is kind of the worst

29:23of both worlds if you're a democrat you don't get a fresh start but at the same time you got

29:27a wounded

29:27candidate to me the question is is this somebody who can benefit from the nature of the election

29:34is he going to be such a big year for democrats is maine so deeply blue that he could just

29:42ride that

29:43wave no matter his own flaws because it's really a vote against trump more than it's a vote for

29:48graham plattner or willie is this going to be like one of those elections that we've seen in the past

29:532010 comes to mind for for the gop when it's a big backlash year but there's some candidates that are

30:00so flawed i'm thinking people like sharon angle who ran against harry reid in nevada that year that

30:05even in a great year they're too flawed to get through what otherwise should be a favorable state

30:11it's way too soon to know but i think a lot of this will hinge on what more is out

30:16there are there

30:17more unexploded minds to come that's what democrats clearly are watching for every day yeah and it's

30:23another moment where we see that the two parties treat things differently you know the trump republicans

30:29just held their nose they voted for trump things that have been disqualifying for any politician any

30:34politician alley that came before him they were okay with it and and voted for him while democrats still

30:39wrestle with this so it seems the parties still do still seem to apply the rules a little differently

30:45what's the latest you've heard though ali about other democrats there on capitol hill about this

30:49you know platter was in washington earlier this week to try to convene a meeting of senators to talk about

30:54some of this this sparsely attended janet mills is out there saying hey i only suspended my campaign

31:00maybe i'm still in the mix you know do they feel like this this is possibility of a main pickup

31:05which

31:05feels very real more than it has before could be slipping away i think there's certainly a lot of

31:11angst and i think this is the test of in past years they've tried to litigate the morality of various

31:17candidates this is the true test of vote blue no matter who for them right voters are clearly grappling

31:22with that on the ground democrats that i speak to here both electeds and strategists continue to say

31:28it's up to the voters of maine and i actually think to that end we will get a good sense

31:33in tuesday's

31:33primary not of if platter is going to be the nominee because i think that really does feel

31:38like it's already been done and dusted in the minds of washington politicos who are looking up at maine

31:43i think instead it's going to be instructive to see what percent of maine voters does someone like

31:48a janet mills still get whose name is on the ballot but it's not like we've seen some spontaneous last

31:53dash of campaigning as she tries to make another go at this nomination she did point out you're right

31:58lamir that she suspended didn't drop out so again that's an option on the ballot for main voters and

32:04for democrats who are looking at all right what do mainers decide maybe they see that 20 percent or

32:09some number that is i think substantial for democrats in a primary it shows what kind of

32:15answer they are willing to give and if they feel that this stuff is disqualifying but i think jmart is

32:20right to point out that

32:21you

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