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
filters like? there s no such thing as roland martin filters. we keep it unfilters, honest. if you do good i ll talk about you, bad i ll talk about you. at the end of the day i ll talk about you. i ticked president obama s people off, ticked biden off. somebody has to speak to power. we have fundamental issue with democracy we re facing. i know what the right wants to do, and it s going to be ugly especially for black folks. i m saying vote or shut the hell up. there you have it. let me tell you something. that was also unfiltered, sow ain t lying. you know we like to get you on. i hadn t seen you in a minute. call me any time. we can do it any time. we can chop it up. yes, sir. our thanks to roland martin joining us with that perspective and that independence. when we come back, i want to bring us to something we have not touched all week, the mass protest movement. how the trump era in america led
really motivated for a bunch of different reasons, and i think democracy is definitely on the table. democracy on the table. the voting has begun, including in key state, and this was our esteemed late colleague tim russert who said it florida, florida, florida, but that was of course of its time. today it might be georgia, georgia, georgia, and those records we mentioned are an early voting surge. over in north carolina, voting also under way. democrat jerry beasley looking to flip a senate seat and also become the first black senator in that state s history. i mention that because our next guest has his eye on that and some other races. journalist, commentator, roland martin unfilters host. who would host roland martin unfilters? roland martin. larry king, they told him when put your name in the show