Controversial border policies, today Border Patrol posted some images of u. S. Troops installing barbed wire in texas. This has voters across the u. S. Just swarming their early vote locations. More than 27 million early ballots cast as of yesterday evening. That number has eclipsed early votes for a president ial election in some cases, in some states, let alone a midterm year. Well talk more about these remarkable numbers in a moment. First lets go to our cnn senior White House Correspondent jeff zeleny who is at President Trumps rally in belgrade, montana. Jeff, what is the president s argument today . Reporter ana, the president is making a direct argument about why Montana Voters in his view should vote against jon tester. You can see behind me here, he is speaking in big sky country with air force one as a backdrop. From the beginning, President Trump making clear this race is indeed personal. He said, one of the many reasons ive been here four times is because of a personal veng
Rape by Supreme Court nominee with an otherwise impeccable reputation lets revisit with the president said about Brett Kavanaughs case. He has talked about it more than once. Reporter if he has. It took a little longer than expected to get the president to the stage but the crowd was fully engaged and ready to hear from the commander in chief, not just here to talk about his Supreme Court nominee but a spate of gop candidates, supporting dean heller in a dog fight for the senate seat, trying to keep that for the republicans. He talked about Brett Kavanaugh and was very careful in showing support for Brett Kavanaugh, nothing about the woman who accused him of assaulting her when they were in high school. Im not saying anything about anybody else but i want to tell you that Brett Kavanaugh is one of the finest human beings you will ever have the privilege of knowing or meeting. A great intellect, a great gentleman, impeccable reputation, went to yale, top students, went to yale law schoo
Less than 41 hours, america elects a new congress and the battle grows more heated. We will never back down. We will never surrender. And we will always fight on to victory. Always. We can come together to shape our countrys course. New polls show key races tightening, still no telling whether tuesdays vote yields a democratic sea change or a republican no change. Well, the republicans have lost their way. I mean, the Republican Party is a joke. Im a long time republican and i think they do a good job. An historic turnout in early voting foreshadows a potential record wave on tuesday but will it be blue or red . Will the outcome make a difference to the president . Im a much happier person than you would believe. But will he be on wednesday morning. Thats the question. A very good day to all of you. Im alex witt at hamas nbc World Headquarters in new york. The vote on americas future rolls on now. Less than than 41 hours than the polls officially open. Can surrogates zigzag. Today the
Call. You see 16 of the vote in Florida Governor, too close to call. A lot of votes counted but not all of it. Call at this hour. Indiana senate race, too close to call. You see quite a difference in the vote there at this hour. Here is a battle for the ages. Missouri, Claire Mccaskill trying to hang on to her sen seat in a state that is becoming redder and redder. That is too close to call. Let me warn you both on missouri and indiana. They have the democratic vote, the counties that they get pretty much the last counties that report their returns. You think thats a reflection. Thats why were not calling indiana. You see that wide you see the wide disparity there. The fact of the matter is, gary, indiana, a big democratic area. That is literally the last county to report. You have to find out how much is there. Sorry, andrea. We have a call to make. Senator menendez in new jersey, blue new jersey, he hangs on despite the fact that he went on for a corruption trial. We are saying that
Two weeks after the october 2nd incident. President trump was asked about a recording of the murder. Have you asked for the audio and video. We have asked for it if it exists. Are you surprised they havent turned it over. No. Im not sure that it exists yet. Probably does, possibly does. The president also appeared reluctant to criticize saudi arabia. We saudi arabia in terms of our fight against all of the terrorism, everything happening in iran and other prices. With that being said, saudi arabias been a very important ally of ours in the middle east. Were stopping iran. They are an ally. And theyre a tremendous purchaser of not only military equipment but other things. Theyre an important ally. Why not send the fbi in to figure this out . He wasnt a citizen of this country, for one thing. And were going to determine that. You dont know whether or not we have . Have you sent the fbi . Im not going to tell you. The Washington Post has published the last piece written we kashoggi. The p