be controversial. it should be done in one voice. sadly, it has become political. we have to end this. what happened to paul pelosi s despicable, unacceptable. unfortunately, it has become a more dangerous place me have to do everything we can to lower the rhetoric, have a civil conversation but make sure people are safe. we are counting down to midterms, now just nine days away. we are looking at the biggest issues driving people to the polls. a new abc abscess poll shows the economy, inflation, and abortion as the top three concerns, respectively. today the chairs of both republican and democratic campaign committees gave their message to voters. exploding cost of living, a crime wave in our major cities that is the result of this defund the police nonsense. those are the issues that are top of mind for every voter in this country, that is why they are going to show up on november 8th. that is why democrats a republicans are going to win in the midterms. we will pla
this ruling by the 11th circuit court of appeals. anderson, this is exactly what the justice department has been fighting for weeks. they tried to get this result in the district court from judge eileen canon. they didn t get it. now they ve had the victory from the 11th circuit. notably this is from a panel of two judges, two of them trump appointees, one obama appointee. and what the 11th circuit is saying tonight the justice department can go back to using the classified documents they d been restricted from using in their ongoing criminal probe into these classified documents that were seized from mar-a-lago last month. and the appeals court is saying here they re really agreeing with the justice department saying that, yes, in fact national security could be harmed if the justice department can t continue its probe here. they said that, you know, the doj has argued it s a criminal investigation, and the national security assessment is inextricably linked. the appeals c
we exercise our right. this should have higher turnout than what you typically see for midterms. a lot of people are beginning to realize that things are, you know, headed in the wrong direction. they want to, you know, have more control over what s happening in their lives. we have live reports from seven, key states, that will determine the senate, the future prospect for the biden agenda and the shape of the 2024 presidential contest. steve kornacki will be at the big board in moments to tell us where the most important races stand on election day, while former president trump leaves no doubt about his plans. i m going to be making a very big announcement on tuesday, november 15th. an emotional nancy pelosi raising questions about her future. will your decision be impacted by the attack in any way. yes. and welcome. good day. i m andrea mitchell at msnbc headquarters in new york. candidates and reporters are at polls today, with so much at stake for both poli
democracy, will all be decided today. the candidates have made their final closing arguments to rally an american public that is at once anxious, angry, and exhausted. are you ready to win this election? i m sick of talking about american decline. i think it s time we started to do something about it. please send me to washington, d.c. we re winning this. we ain t talking about no runoff. we re winning this. i believe in democracy. i certainly believe in a free and fair election. this is a transformative election. it s going to send a loud message to washington. we ve always done democracy better than anywhere else. and we are not going to stop now. y all ready to close this thing out? today we stand united as one voice. and i feel thean a massive vict shocks the world. i m ready for it. are you? well, now it s up to the voters. with millions heading out to cast their ballots today, we re keeping an extraordinarily close eye on the voting process nationwid
19 hours, 59 minutes, and 41 seconds in counting until the first poll closing on election night. we are picking up our countdown to election night right where we left off last friday night, and where we will be every friday night between now and the midterms. that is after tonight, only one more friday night between now and the midterms. it is getting really close, we are inside of two weeks right now to go, and not only is it getting closer on the calendar, but voting is underway in all sorts of states, early voting nearly 20 million, they have already been cast in this midterm election, in the 2018 midterm election, all sorts of records were shattered when it came to turnout. about 116 million votes were cast in that midterm election when all was said and done. we may be over 120 million when this one is over. numbers that would have been unthinkable years ago, that is of course where politics are right now. so, the biggest campaign news tonight, the democrats, they are bri