Episode leaves us as a country. As the 11th hour gets underway on a busy friday night. Good evening once again from our msnbc headquarters here in new york. Day 645 of the trump administration, and it brought further proof that you should never bet against the feds. A florida man suspected of mailing bombs to high profile democrats indicating the homes of two former president s has been arrested. Earlier today 56yearold cesar sayoc was charged with five federal counts including mailing of explosives, threats against former president s and assault of current or former officials. His First Court Appearance will be on monday. He faces up to 48 years in prison if convicted on all counts. The break in the case came thankfully after a fingerprint was lifted off the outside of one of the packages. One of the bombs was mailed to congresswoman maxine waters. According to officials dna evidence was further found on some of the devices. This morning the fbi seized this white van owned by sayoc that was covered with protrump ti stickers. It was a wellknown and instantly recognizable vehicle in the local area where he lived. Of the visible and colorful imagery on the side, anticnn propaganda, targets and cross hairs aimed at Hillary Clinton and barack obama and Michael Moore and others. As our own Kerry Sanders reported earlier tonight, the suspects very active social media profile paints a picture of an ardent trump supporter. His twitter feed showing him driving to trump rallies, hosting crowd chants attacking cnn, cheering the president on in this selfie video, another recorded as the president spoke. Online sayoc would go after many of the democrats who received devices saying of george soros, you will vanish and attacking congresswom congresswoman Debbie Wasserman shul shuls. He was arrested in 2002 for threatening to throw a bomb. He pleaded guilty and was given a special sentence in which probation was ordered but a formal conviction not made. He was arrested for theft in 1992 and 2014. Earlier tonight an attorney for sayocs family told cnn that his former client was very sick. I interacted with cesar, and if i would say apples, he would say cardboard. He didnt react like a normal individual. He wasnt working on all cylinders, and this is a sad result of someone whos very sick, didnt get the help, became a loner, and then found a cause that adopted and accepted these types of people. He never seemed sophisticated enough to do Something Like hes accused of. I wouldnt be surprised to find out that there were either others who helped prod or encourage him to do this or that the bombs, in fact, were so crudely made they never could have worked. We also learned today that four additional explosive devices have been found. They were mailed to Democratic SenatorsKamala Harris and cory booker. Former director of National Intelligence james clapper, and trump critic and impeachment advocate tom steyer. This brings the total number of devices to 14. Tonight at a rally in North CarolinaPresident Trump praised Law Enforcement for the arrest and called for unity right before he, again, went after the news media. The medias constant unfair coverage, deep hostility, and negative attacks, you know that, only serve to drive people apart and to undermine healthy debate. For example, we have seen an effort by the media in recent hours to use the sinister actions of one individual to score political points against me and the republican party. Yet, when a Bernie Sanders supporter tried to murder Congressional Republicans and severely wounded a great man named Steve Scalise and others, we did not use that heinous attempt at mass murder for political gain because that would have been wrong. Later in the broadcast well have more on this sudden injection of Bernie Sanders name into this event. Before leaving for North Carolina while still at the white house, President Trump was asked if hed seen the suspects van and if hed reached out to anyone targeted with these devices. I did not. Dy ni did not see my face on th van. I dont know, i heard he was a person who preferred me over others, but i did not see that. If they wanted me to, but i think well probably pass. We should point out that very early this morning technically in the middle of the night 3 14 a. M. East coast time the president turned to twitter and said, quote, funny how lowly rated cnn and others can criticize me at will, even blaming me for the current spate of bombs and ridiculously comparing this to september 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing. Yet, when i criticize them, they go wild and scream its just not president ial. Later in the morning, the president added this, quote, republicans are doing so well in early voting and at the polls, and now this bomb he sets off bomb in quotes this bomb stuff happens, and the momentum greatly slows. News not talking politics. Very unfortunate. What is going on. Republicans go out and vote. This afternoon officials including the attorney general and the fbi director briefed the media on todays arrest. At one point the fbi director added that the pipe bombs are not a hoax. Each device consisted of roughly six inches of pvc pipe, a small clock, a battery, some wiring, and what is known as energetic material, which is essentially potential explosives and material that give off heat and energy through a reaction to heat, shock, or friction. Though were still analyzing the devices in our laboratory, these are not hoax devices. With that lets bring in our leadoff panel on a friday night. While theres plenty of time to talk about the politics, first lets talk about this investigation and this lightning fast arrest. Jim kavanaugh is back with us a retired special agent in charge for the atf, the explosive experts at the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. Malcolm nance a special ops homeland security, 35 years on the job working in Counter Terrorism and intelligence. And ariana berg a former assistant u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york. Jim, anytime youve been on ive listened carefully. Youve taught me over the years that every criminal eventually makes a mistake. We are thankful this criminal made apparently more than one. If theres a strange blessing to any of this, he left us with so much to go on. They had over a dozen pieces of hardware spread out in a lab to go over with a fine tooth comb, correct . Thats right. He was better at leaving evidence than he was at making bombs, and you know, looking at that van, i mean, im reminded of churchhills quote, a fanatic is a guy who cant stop talking and wont change the subject. You can just see inside the mind of this guy. Hes a fanatic about this topic, and he wanted to go after his targets. So yes, a treasuretrove of evidence, lots of fingerprints. Was it a fingerprint really that broke the case. They were able to get a latent print off the envelope, likely ran it through the system, got a hit on his arrest, dna off a couple of ied parts inside the envelope. Checked with fdle, the Florida State agents, got a pretty good match. Its not a total, its a pretty close match. Thats in the probable cause affidavit and also some of the misspellings. Of course he lived near the mailing center, and of course when you see his van, the motive, so they had a pretty good criminal complaint, some good initial charges. Theres going to be more. Theyre going to flush that all out, but, you know, theres going to be plenty of evidence. The question is did he have any help, brian . Was anybody else with him. Dna inside the bombs on ied parts. Hes integral to it, but was he totally alone. Malcolm nance were obviously celebrating good news here tonight, and as i said, a lightning fast investigation, a lightning fast arrest. What worries you further beyond this case . Well, first, for this suspect, youve really got to reevaluate your life choices when you wake up to the Fbi Hostage Rescue Team surrounding you ask bringing you in as a terrorist because thats what he is. And what we need to consider right now is as jim said, the key part of this investigation is did he act alone. Did he assemble all of these devices. Was he part of a team that assembled these devices . Most worrisome for me is you know, where is the bomb factory. Where did he actually assemble these devices . Is there an entire pile of them left unmailed, and were other devices mailed and are now inside the mail stream still en route to targets waiting to be sorted and waiting for postal inspectors to find them . This terrorist campaign is not over by any stretch of the imagination until we get those things answered. Counselor, arianna berg, i want to play for you an interview that took place tonight. This is the suspects former boss, a restaurant manager, brief part of a conversation she had on live tv tonight that opens a whole door to the kind of mind were talking about here. Well talk about it on the other side. He definitely beat to the beat of his own drum. He was antiguy, antiblack, anti ant antijewish. You name it. Everybody that really wasnt white and wasnt a white supremacist didnt belong in the world. Thats what he used to say to me all the time, but i really was shell shocked when i found out it was him. I really couldnt believe it because as far as an employee, he was on time. He was cordial. He was articulate. I never had any problems with him. There was no theft. My customers liked him, but it was just his political views that scared me. Was he violent . Not at all. There was no violence at all. I mean, he made it a point he knew i was a lesbian and a very proud lesbian, and he made it a point to tell me that, you know, god had made a mistake with me and that i should burn in held and along with my other black friends. Hed say that to you just straight to your face . Absolutely. Absolutely. So counselor, if i appointed you prosecutor of this case, i think youd probably put her on the stand, and i think youd probably make special arrangements to drive that van right into the courtroom or get the jury, all of them to go out on a field trip and see it in the parking lot. What else . Absolutely. That van is a roving play book for the crimes that sayoc was attempting to commit and did commit. All of that evidence is something that prosecutors and Law Enforcement are poring over and looking at to get inside the mind of sayoc. What was motivating . What was animating him behind these crimes . If we rook look at the complain which was the charging document that the Southern District of new york filed, youll notice that remarkably what is very not present in that complaint is about his political motivations, his ideologies, which are literally advertised right on his van, on his twitter account, and clearly in his statements to his former boss and other people that know him. But those are the kinds of things that potentially could be charged. There are crimes that would increase his maximum penalties to life imprisonment or more years than he has left alive. Those crimes absolutely look into those political motivations. He could be charged potentially down the road with attempted murder against a u. S. Official in retaliation for the performance of their duties or attempted murder against a former u. S. Official or a Family Member of a former u. S. Official, again, to intimidate or retaliate against them for their political ideologies. This is the clear definition of domestic terrorism. When someone does something in pursuit of a particular political, social, or religious agenda. And counselor, its being tried by your former shop, the Southern District of new york. Given that these devices went all over the place and he was arrested in florida, why the Southern District of new york as a jurisdiction . A lot of times for federal crimes you need an interstate commerce because the mail was used. Really that means that most any Federal District could charge it. The Southern District of new york is uniquely situated to deal with these types of cases of terrorism, bombings, things like that. The joint Terrorism Task force with the fbi is really second to none in pursuing these cases, and we have to remember that even though these packages were mailed from florida and the initial bombs were sent to new york targets, thats enough for new york to take the case. Jim, in your old job, you had to know the pieces of a bomb as well as you did, the makeup of the human mind and having said that, what about this guy, what we know about him so far, what he looks like. Hes rumored to have been supporting himself as a dancer for a time. Other people said a truckdriver. Whats familiar about this guy to you . Well, hes living in a van down by the river for years. Thank you chris farley wherever you are. Like malcolm said and this is the great intelligence mind that he has and where these Intelligence Officers and Law Enforcement and the government will be spinning up by the way, going forward, and malcolm can talk about that, but look, hes living in a van down by the river, yet he made 14 bombs. Those bombs have a lot of tape, wire, components, glass, explosive materials, you know, the timer has to be wired up. Youre attaching everything. Theres a place, brian, theres a place somewhere. We call it a bomb factory. In my experience its a kitchen, a basement, a garage, a closet. It could be the van, but likely its probably somewhere else, and he had acquired these materials maybe in moms condo, you know, the back closet of the condo. It could be in a strip club, and theres also a computer. Theres a computer and his iphone, and hes googling the addresses of all these targets. Look, brian, youve been in the News Business a long time. The other day i asked you joe bidens middle name i bet you couldnt tell me. I now know its robinette. And james clappers middle name is on that bomb. You just dont come up on those names living in the van at the river. You got to search that, and all those searches came from somewhere. Is it the computer at the strip club . Is it the computer at the local library . Is it the computer at his moms house . Somewhere hes doing a search. It may be on his phone. Hes looking this stuff up. Hes printing this stuff out. Weve got to find those locations. Is there another accomplice . I dont think we can really tell right now. He could have done it alone, but you know when you go to these rallies, i mean, theres a bonding with folks. Everybodys in there with a red hat. Everybodys charged up. Everybodys sort of getting all worked up for supporting the president and all this. You can make a connection even if you are a loner generally. You can make a connection, so could he have made a connection of a likeminded person . We dont know the answer, but the agents will ferret that out, and that will be a big answer going forward. Was he acting alone . Was he the bomb maker and the courier . Or was he a bomb maker with somebody else and maybe they both kocouriered them to the po office . Did we down play this . It felt in the moment hyperbolic to call this an assassination attempt basically on the Leadership Structure of the last government, but you start to add this up. Youve got two president s. Youve got a former Vice President , secretary of state, attorney general, first lady sitting member of congress. There they all are, and a billionaire for good measure, an actor, one of these devices went to cnn across town. Was this in your mind a fullon assassination attempt . Well, assassination is just one of the techniques that terrorists, you know, thats encompassed within terrorism. I immediately called it what it was, which was a terrorist mail bomb campaign. We dont know what the objectives are. At that time we didnt know whether these devices were real or not. We have to assume that theyre real and then work back and let the bomb teches carry out their work and establish whether theyre viable or not. When you see that large expanse of his target set, which by the way is in his head, theres no way to read that. Thats why i still think there are bombs out there. There are some prominent people who really should have been targeted early on. You dont know whats in the mind of the bomber. But this was a Broad Campaign to intimidate not just these individuals but the nation. You could arguably say 60 of the nation who see these people as their champions, so by targeting them, you intended to really go after a large portion of the population, which is the definition of terrorism. Three of the very best in the business, were fortunate to be able to ask the three of row to start our conversation, jim kavanaugh, malcolm nance, ar arianna berg. We move inevitably to the politics of the day. Steve schmidt is here to help us digest everything including what Trump Supporters had to say about the bomb even after the suspect was arrested. And the one record donald trump broke this month, the 11th hour back after this. Is looking good at booking. Com, we cant guarantee is youll good at that water jet thingy. But we can guarantee the best price on this hotel. Or any accommodation, from homes to yurts. Booking. Com booking. Yeah that skills like teamwork, attention to detail, and Customer Service are critical to business success. Like the ones we teach here, every day. Of course, daniel. Fridge, weather. Clear skies and 75. Trash can, turn on the tv. My pleasure. Ice dispenser, find me a dog sitter. Okay. And make ice. Pizza delivered. Whats happened to my son . I think thats just what people are like now. I mean, with progressive, you can quote your insurance on just about any device. Even on social media. Hell be fine. [ laughs ] will he . I dont know. Will he . Big corporations are making and just got a huge tax break. But the middle class is struggling. Prop c is a commonsense plan. The top 1 of businesses pay their fair share to tackle homelessness for all of us. Companies with revenue greater than 50 million pay, not Small Businesses or homeowners. The prop c plan is supported by the democratic party, teachers, and mentalhealth professionals. Vote yes on c. Big corporations pay for it, not you. And Hillary Clinton probably sent hers to herself. You dont think this guy sent these bombs . Probably not. They probably had it done. They may have paid him to do it. I think i heard something about it being Bernie Sanders supporter, you know, theres so much news going on right now that people dont know what to believe, so they stick with what they know. Those were Trump Supporters outside that rally in North Carolina tonight and where did that idea of some vague connection to Bernie Sanders come from . How did that get into the minds of Trump Supporters . Well, you can start right here. White house driveway just yesterday. The president is certainly not responsible for sending suspicious packages to someone no more than Bernie Sanders was responsible for a supporter of his shooting up a republican baseball field practice last year. The idea that this is at the hands of the president is absolutely ridiculous. So thats how it gets into the bloodstream, and as we showed you, it continued tonight when the president mentioned Bernie Sanders from the podium at his rally on this day they arrested the bombing suspect. Youd be forgiven right about now for thinking something is wrong with your television or perhaps with our national politics, and here with us tonight to talk about all of it, Steve Schmidt, a political veteran of the Bush White House and the mccain president ial campaign. You heard the theories that maybe hillary or obama went down to the post office, maybe Bernie Sanders was with them. Maybe they mailed themselves the bombs. We also heard Rush Limbaugh this afternoon talking about how the stickers were too symmetrical on the van and they werent faded enough in the florida sun. He have intimating that this was all a setup. And then after all, the investigation was carried out by the fbi, which has been diminished by this president since his first day in office. So where does today leave us, steve, as a country . It leaves us in a very depressing situation, brian, and theres a number of different aspects to it. First, when we look at Rush Limbaugh, one of the avatars of the billion dollars anger industry, the billion dollars conspiracy industry in this country that has infested 35 to 40 of the American People who have in essence in large numbers, not all of them, but in large numbers and this terrorist certainly amongst them, they have become fanatics. They have joined a cult of personality and a cult of shared victimhood. I think its important to understand the connection between conspiracy and victimization and the constant sea of trumps assault on objective truth. For these people whats true is what the leader believes is true or says is true or directs them to believe is true, and this is not just fundamentally ill liberal, its incompatible with a healthy, functioning democratic society. We have arrived at this dark hour because of donald trump. He didnt mail the bomb, and he didnt put the stickers on the envelope, but he created the atmosphere where a sick person, a criminal, somebody like this terrorist would actualize trumps clear intent. Trump goes out every day as the tribal chief of a faction thats declared war on the majority of the country. He has called journalists enemies of the people. He has labeled opponents enemies of the state. He has made a former president , a former opponent, enemies of his movement, and this sick person or evil person or maybe a little bit of both decided to become a soldier in trumps army, to kill the enemies, and what we saw was the largest mass assassination plot in American History. We havent seen Something Like this since the day that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. These trump rallies brim with menace. He makes violent intimations all the time. He was celebrating the violent assault by a congressman on a journalist just days ago. Anybody who doesnt see the clear connection between the atmosphere and what occurred here has suspended disbelief or is complicit and dishonest or is simply so brainwashed that theyve stopped being able to think for themselves. Donald trumps presidency and the cost, the degradations to our civility, our country, are coming home to roost, and we averted a tragedy of epic dimensions by good luck, maybe a little bit of prov iden tial intervention and the fact that all the security protocols worked. Were just going to get a quick break, and our conversation continues on the other side. On the other side proposition 11 solves two issues. First, it continues to pay paramedics while were on break. Second, it ensures the closest ambulance can respond if you call 911. Vote yes on 11. Proposition 11 proposition 11 is a vote to protect patient safety. It ensures the closest ambulance remains oncall during paid breaks so that they can respond immediately when needed. Vote yes on 11. Speak can you imagine speaker of the house nancy pelosi . I dont think so. Maxine waters. Maxine waters. Im going to be nice tonight, so i wont say it. I wont say it. His attacks this evening also included crooked hillary and, of course, the news media. Our friend Steve Schmidt remains with us. I was asked to ask you tonight by someone whos quite concerned about where we are right now if, in your view, we are in an emergency . Because in previous emergencies, even as i recall after Hurricane Harvey in texas, all of our living president s and were fortunate to live in a time when we have so many living president s, members of that small exclusive club, all of our living president s came together to fundraise. They made a television spot, they made a Public Service announcement. In your view, in terms of prominent americans speaking up and saying this is a moment here, folks, are we in any sort of emergency . We are in an emergency because we have a president of the United States who is not the commander in chief as much as he is the inciter in chief. He is stoking a cold civil war in the United States, and the consequence of it with regard to the sick mind of this terrorist was nearly the assassination of two former president s, a secretary of state, Vice President , and many other prominent leaders of the democratic party. The violence, the menace, trump is the singularly greatest demagogue in American History ask he has degraded our culture and the civility in it faster than any person in American History, and it wasnt terrific to begin with. There is a crisis of cowardice, crisis of leadership. We see so few republicans speaking out on what is clearly causation between this sick person and the cult to which he pledged total obedience. When we listen to those people in the earlier segment opting out of reality, believing in the conspiracies, being stoked by the billion dollar propaganda industry, were in trouble. Steve schmidt, at the end of another long day and at the end of another eventful week, tonight i also note the president once again declared himself a nationalist at the rally. Steve, thank you very much for coming on this friday night. And coming up for us, donald trump broke a record of sorts this month, though its not one of those, we are likely to hear him talk about. Well have that when we come right back. Carla is living with metastatic Breast Cancer, which is Breast Cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. Shes also taking prescription ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women with hormone receptorpositive her2 metastatic Breast Cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. 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In fact, daniel dale of the toronto star who joins us in just a moment reporting trump obliterated his oneweek record for dishonesty in this wave of premidterm appearances. Also in the course of this day continuing into tonights rally, the president painted himself as a victim of unfair Media Coverage that is behind the anger in our country. Well, here to talk about it, the aforementioned daniel dale, washington correspondent for the toronto star and tamara keith, White House Correspondent for npr. Daniel, we like having you on because you are now famous as the cataloger of misstatements and mistruths, but someone else has been following along in your foot steps. I give you our former president tonight in wisconsin, well talk about this on the other side. What we have not seen before in our public life. Outright lies. Is politicians just blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly lying. Just making stuff up. Calling up down, calling black white, but thats whats happened. See how i buried a mistruth in there . I said wisconsin, he was in detroit. Daniel, i want to put on the air a chart you have prepared, a disturbing trend line toward the last bar on the graphic. Explain what our viewers are seeing and why it exists . That is a chart of President Trumps false claims by week, and that includes everything from big lies to little exaggerations that are still incorrect. What youre seeing is a dramatic increase from the beginning of his presidency to the present. It started really sharply escalating around the end of 2017, but in the last four months or so, he has set monthly record after monthly record after monthly record, and in my view its gotten worse even further in the last few weeks, and we can quantify that. In the second week of october ending october 14th, he made 170 false claims. That is 37 more than his previous oneweek record. So by in measure quantitatively and qualitatively as well his dishonesty is worsening as we proceed towards the midterm and the end of his term. How do you watch a rally like tonight . Do you just try to keep tabs on a legal pad as he goes and get to the rest of it later . The thing is, it gets easier over time because he resident petes t repeats the same lies over and over. You can fact check it in march of 2017 and youre still Fact Checking it today. The longer he talks the easier the lie Fact Checking gets. And tamara, talk about the juxtaposition between this president on tell promeprompter then what can often be the next sentence. When his head turns towards the middle of the room you can tell hes off script, sometimes the message varies 180 degrees, sometimes he becomes a different person or character. Absolutely, it can be between sentences or as you saw this week earlier in the week he did that rally in wisconsin where he was teleprompter trump for most of the rally. There were a couple of moments where he kind of looked to the side and read the stage directions out loud and said, look how good im being. But he went from teleprompter trump to full on rally trump giving the people at the rally the show that they came for tonight. And daniel when hes ad libbing, it can often mean anger. It can mean selfpity, and as youve shown, hyperbole. Hes got an incredibly crowded schedule of rallies leading up to the midterms. Do you have any reason to think that the trend line you have recorded, the last bar graph you ended on, isnt going to keep going . Its going to keep going. I dont know if hell top 170 just because he spoke so many words that particular week that that might have been a high point. I think what were seeing now that to me as sort of a selfappointed, you know, trump lie tracker is different is that these are not only the usual exaggerations, you know, adding a few thousand here and there to his crowd sidzes what hes been doing is making big things up. These are complete fabrications about immigration, about health care. He told the wall street journal on tuesday that the tariffs that he has impose skpd br imposed and bragged about dont exist. This is i dont think theres any word for this other than lying, and i think its brazen lying. And tamara, the west wing staff watched him make up a 10 middle class tax cut between now and the midterms. Congress is home. They are recessed until after the election. That is a physical impossibility. To your day job, tamara, how are members of the west wing staff reacting to just the verbiage this week . Well, on the 10 tax cut that doesnt exist, there were aides that were holding a briefing, a background briefing where their names will not be on the record because it was background briefing, and they essentially said, well, the president is the one in the administration whos talking about this. Theres only so much they can do, and its really not a change. Over time the president has, you know, tweeted policy when the policy wasnt in place yet. Hes teased things that are coming where apparently no one else knows that theyre coming. This is pretty standard for the president. I think one thing that were seeing is were just seeing so much of him. You know, in the last month or so, he has done more interviews. He has done the press conferences. Every time he comes anywhere near a camera and a microphone he answers questions. President trump is just talking a lot more, and when he talks often things he says are simply not true. As i always tell people, journalists are the only stars of our show hour after hour night after night. Two of the journalists we depend on from time to time for just this very reporting, daniel dale, tamara keith, thank you both so much for joining us on a busier than average week on a friday night. And coming up for us, the caravan and the midterms, its an issue that cuts both ways, and it sounded to us like a job for Steve Kornacki when the 11th hour continues. avo life doesnt give you many second chances. But a subaru can. You guys ok . You alright . Wow. avo eyesight with precollision braking. Standard on the subaru ascent. Presenting the allnew threerow subaru ascent. Love is now bigger than ever. [woman 2]. This. [man 1]. This is my body of proof. [man 2] proof of less joint pain. [woman 3]. And clearer skin. [man 3] proof that i can fight psoriatic arthritis. [woman 4]. With humira. 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Additional interest on umbrella policy . Can you translate . Damage minimization of civil commotion. When insurance needs translating, get answers in plain english at progressiveanswers. Com. He wants you to sign karens birthday card. Its a high honor. The democrats want to invite caravan after caravan of illegal aliens into our country, and they want to sign them up for free health care, free welfare, free education, and for the right to vote. They want to sign up for the right to vote. President trump is hoping the art form of misleading rhetoric on immigration will play in the republicans favor when people go to the polls 11 days from now, but democrats in competitive districts are hoping it drives more latino voters on their side to the polls. Our National Political correspondent Steve Kornacki working the night shift on a friday night. Weve been talking about one of the sort of wild card factors here heading up to the midterms has been what is the enthusiasm level going to be when it comes to latino voters. Its so important for democrats and their chances in trying to take back the house, there are a number of of competitive districts that republicans now represent awith large latino populations. Latino voters have typically lagged when it comes to turnout. With that in mind, i want to show you this. This is what we had been seeing this year in our polling, people who say they have high enthusiasm for voting among latinos we were seeing previous to our last poll about 47 . That number was lagging behind other groups. The interesting thing that happened, our new nbc news wall street journal poll out this week, 47 before. We took the poll again this week, check this out. That number has skyrocketed. People, latino ro tee voters sa they have high enthusiasm. Climbs 47 to 71 . That was probably the best piece of news for democrats in our polls. That higher enthusiasm could end up changing the game. Weve got a new poll that came out this week from exactly the kind of district democrats have in mind. This is the tenth district in california. This is the Central Valley, republican represents, republican excuse me. I thought they were at the next slide. We show democrats with a 40 point advantage among latinos. Heres the district im talking about, jeff denim, republican incumbe incumbent. You see the Central Valley of california, and he is now trailing his democratic opponent by 2 points. It has a lot to do with this. Josh harder, the democrat in that district running up a 41 point margin. Denham is a republican whos tried to get to the middle on immigration, tried to distance himself from trump on that. Thought earlier in this cycle he might be in good position in this district, but now falling behind in that poll. Not the only district where democrats are hoping thats a factor. They hope that was not supposed to happen. They hope they can get large latino turnout and energy in the 10th district of california, a couple in the southern part, maybe the 23rd district of texas. That one might have been slipping away. That district, the 7th in texas, a couple in florida as well. There are a number of districts where there are republican incumbents, republican seats large latino populations and democrats think if there is a surge of energy among latino voters it could be the difference in those districts, brian. And the caution you and i will be voicing 12 days from now is 2016. We will keep it all top of mind as we look at the numbers come in that night. Steve kornacki always a pleasure, such a luxury to have you and your big board with us on our broadcast. Thank you. Coming up, an update on a story we covered live when it happened, yet not so much in the days since. 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The guardian has posted a story after sending a reporter to the Florida Panhandle where very little has changed since the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Michael. Athey put it, quote its been two weeks since category 4 Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle killing at least 39 and devastating most of the region with a major storm surge from the ocean and battering 150 mile an hour winds. Despite the best efforts of recovery workers, life is still extremely precarious for the remaining residents of the hardest hit coastal towns, chiefly panama city, mexico beach, and port st. Joe. Amid piles of debris, the landscape looks little different from the shattered state immediately after the hurricane that made it look like a bomb had hit. Some folks are still living off fema government relief, military, prepackaged meals. Nighttimes without power or suitable shelter, spotty phone service, and even fewer contractors. 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