during these truly extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now. we will cue it. we re now really 13 days outside these mid-terms. control of congress clearly hangs in the balance. we re in the homestretch, people fighting for the votes and have this record breaking early turnout. what does it mean? we re going to go to one of the national experts who s been exactly in this position 13 days out. michael steele, look around left, right, center. he s here in one second. michael stands by. over 12 million people have now voted. that smashes the turnout totals at this point in 2018, which was the first election since trump became president. you remember how energized people were then. i can only tell you what s happening as it happens. i can t predict. but right now as of tonight we re seeing huge intensity in these mid-terms. we re also seeing reaction in isthese big debates, pennsylvania senate, new questions for fetterman and the democrats,
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political fortunes, whether in fact the leadership in ukraine would investigate his rivals, namely, first joe biden and whether investigating the 2016 election. you have two tracks going on. you have rudy giuliani carrying out the shadow foreign policy meeting with ukrainians to try to handle the biden end of things. and then you have the attorney general barr, trump hopes, will carry out the investigation examining 2016. so these are the two tracks of what the president s interested in and what he brings up in the call with zelensky. so chen wu, what is the significance of the president s personal lawyer going to the ukraine mixing it up in the midst of a key u.s. national security arrangement, pressuring and making appropriatings for an exchange, it may be involving u.s. national security, getting in the middle it. it s early october but rudy
senators will try to force a vote that will protect the russia special council after new documents highlighting the president s rage at robert mueller. as house democrats meet to pick their leaders republicans get an early taste of the big midterm shift. most of the reporters now off covering the party about to take power. maybe we are in the minority. this is what it will be lieb. like. we are not in the minority yet. we are waiting to hear from the secretary of state. she about to address reporters after intense foreign policy meeting. pompeo and mattis briefing senators including some who say if the president won t punish
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