starts right now. hi. thank you so much. i am ari melber and whoop there it is. election day within three weeks. early voting has begun, including in new key states. and we begin with something special. i m not going to hide the ball. i m going to show you the two chairs. howard dean who ran the dnc. michael steele who ran the rnc. in our opinion, no two better people to walk us through and it, they are here right now. let me tell you the context. 2 million people cast ballots. when we say election day, it s like rhetoric. this is election month. early voting is showing records smashed in certain states. fluid dynamics. new polls show the house leaning slightly towards republicans, depending on what happens. democrats believe they are still in a strong position to hold the senate majority. and as we ve told you, we cannot accurately cover 400 plus races at once. we will bring you the highlights, the context, the facts and the music. but i will show you some of the deba
data. they re right on the statistics, but the narrative, the expression, the messaging is where they come up against that wall to get people over the hurdle so they understand when they state the data, the emotion behind it is commensurate or the same, right? in terms of truth. and i think that s always been the trick. go ahead, howard. i m going to get howard in. michael sounds like the coolest math teacher i ve ever met. down with the math data. i think he s right, and i think the democrats have historically done what michael said, unfortunately for us. however, the people of oklahoma are not stupid, and stick was hoping that they would be stupid. a poll i just saw five minutes ago showed that that lady, whose name i don t even know, is ahead by five points in that race. in oklahoma, one of the reddest states in the country, a democratic woman is leading.
and so it s going to be very hard for them to explain why they did not produce documents that were requested by congress. let me bring howard in. howard, the other guy has big questions. you get the simplest one, no offense. well, thank you. there s a thing called control f and you can control f for wikileaks and make sure if you re looking for it, it exists and hand them over to congress if they ask for them. why don t you walk us through how chuck grassley got mad enough about this to be involved because he s a republican. i don t think he s going to be just willy-nilly about this. no. and when congressional committees, especially ones with subpoena power and investigative duties on the hill, ask for documents, they want the documents. and you either produce them or you don t produce them. it s not as fuzzy as you were saying about recollection. there are subpoenas that you can
and today if a majority of or if justice kennedy is the controlling vote here and he sees this more as federalism than discrimination, that could be a very narrow opinion as well. pete, let s look at this thing. here s justice kennedy. it focuses on his concerns about the defense of marriage act. i think he s going to strike it down. doma. and how it interferes with state rights, as you say. let s listen. when it has 1,100 laws, which in our society means that the federal government is intertwined with the citizens day-to-day life, you are at at real risk of running in conflict with what has always been thought to be the essence of the state police power, which is to regulate marriage, divorce, custody. so how i m sorry. i want to bring howard in. reporter: i was going to say,
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