it s disqualifying. right now the number of early ballots returned is outpacing that of republican voters at the same time, it s tough to extrapolate what that means. republicans have pressed hard over the last two years for voters to vote in person, on election day. it s really gonna be a question that we re gonna have a hard time calculating. exactly what republican turnout is going to look like, until one lecture day itself if not days after. this is gonna be a dynamic week ahead here. as both campaigns not only for governor, but also for his other down ballot races are continuing to work to try and move the needle to the best they can here what the week they do have laughed. von, thank you for that report. let s go to was conson, where president obama was campaigning for democrats across the midwest this weekend. nbc s shaquille brewster in milwaukee has more. hi there.
she was defending her life? not at all. he wasn t a violent person. she has she has no other defense but to tell you that. private lives, as we all know, can hide cesspools of stories best left untold. but no secrets in a murder investigation. the detectives had to know, what was the nature of cara and j.j. s 20-year relationship. for example, that chance meeting on the beach years earlier when they were divorced. cara said it just happened. the detectives said she made it happen, tracking him down to an out of the way beach. she actually told us, you know, i m walking on this beach that s nowhere near my house and i say, the next man i walk into he s the one. yeah. and it ends up being j.j. it wasn t maybe in the movies, i guess, that might happen. calculating, said the detectives. and in keeping. a lot of the description to us of their relationship was she was more controlling. and especially, without exception she controlled the money. when j.j. retired
so at the end of the day, if you couldn t end up with the death penalty, i could understand that. as a human, you thought you could get to that place, but you realize you can t. but when you say as a juror that you believe the mitigating circumstances outweigh the aggravating factors, what that says to us is that you think that the rough life he had, the mental health issues he had, that that s really an excuse for the heinous calculating, cold murders that he committed because you could have still said, you know what? even though the aggravating factors outweigh the mitigating factors, we can t come up with the death sentence. and i could have accepted that a little better. but to say in any way that any one of those mitigating factors outweighed the aggravating factors says to me that you
he does appear to be becoming more reckless with these nuclear threats. tell us what your analysis of his state of mind is. i see he is actually in poker terms, he has put all in, and he is a fighter. so it is very difficult to see him accepting any kind of defeat. that surely makes the situation very crucial. you said i remember in early february, before the russian invasion, that something you sensed had changed about putin, that he used to be very careful, incremental, calculating, but that he was he was behaving in a much more aggressive fashion. just in your conversations, what do you think happened? everyone is perplexed by this.