hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. whatever the results of next tuesday s midterm elections, there is no denying that these midterm elections are taking place with the very real specter of political violence and the prevalence of disinformation as a political weapon, unmatched in modern political times. large swaths of the gop have been swallowed up completely by the disinformation about the integrity of our very election systems, and many on the right have normalized conversations around political violence to the point in which polls show it is accepted by many as a useful tool to achieving the right s political aims. now, this says all sorts of things about the weakness of our democracy right now. more importantly, it says a whole lot of things about the weakness of the gop as a governing party. now, a party interested in governing would be desperate to debate policy and have those debates and win those debates ridded in data and a shared set of facts. there s none
ukraine says it s taken out a top russian general. so who is really winning the war tonight? and a game changer, 14 patients all with cancer given the same drug and every single one in remission. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, momentum, a very small group of senators, two democrats and two republicans are meeting tonight, and apparently are on the cusp of something when it comes to an agreement on gun laws, an agreement that can get 60 votes in the senate they say, news from senator john cornern the republican in the group, chris murphy who is also in tonight s meeting telling cbs news my goal is to have an agreement by the end of this week. look, it s been years of nothing, decades of nothing, but it appears that some sort of momentum may be building in washington. a key red state senator says he s open to a number of pro poepzales including raising the age to buy a semi automatic to 21 and what may surprise one opened to a ban on as
straight-up, racially motivated hate crime. now, the justice department is investigating. we ll have the latest. the january six committee slapped five congressman with subpoenas, and more could be coming. former impeachment manager joe neguse joins me live to discuss. a new nbc news poll is that with the latest snapshot of voter sentiment in this midterm election here. senator chris murphy joins me live on set to discuss the democrats agenda. also here, former attorney general eric holder to talk about the fight for voting rights and our democracy. i m jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. this sunday, we begin with that mass shooting at a grocery store in buffalo, new york, that left ten people dead and three people injured overnight. law enforcement officials have flat out called that racially motivated. the 18 year old white suspect is in custody and appeared at a hearing overnight. according to the erie county da, he is scheduled for a felony hearing on thursday.
Among those questions, what it could mean for 2020. Could some in the president s party be rethinking whether they want to stick with mr. Trump amid the impeachment fight. Well break down all the im kagss of last nights elections results. A significant new twist in the Impeachment Inquiry. Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondland changing his story now, backing up the testimony of several other key witnesses regarding aid to ukraine and the commitment to investigate the 2016 election and the bidens. But why was he allowed to change his testimony . Were going to dig into that in just a moment. Lets go right to the implications of tuesdays elections. For that i want to bring in msnbc National Political correspondent Steve Kornacki. Hes at the big board. Nbc news road war i dont Vaughn Hillyard joins us from louisville, kentucky. Vaughn, its a state that President Trump won by about 30 points in 2016. Here we are just three years later. Looks like there will be a Deck Kr Democrat in the governors me
well, it doesn t look like mr. jordan s subcommittee is on a quest for truth. they re more on a quest for political points. i ll make you a bet, that they don t look into the durham issue. so it s pretty obvious what they re doing. i don t think it has anything to do with improving the lives of normal americans. and it s going to be kind of a circus, i fear. i want to pick up with where your work left off, because now it is very much in the hands of the merrick garland justice department and the special counsel he s appointed. and i just want to show you something that congressman raskin said in the final public hearing. the last we heard was really this formal handoff. the culmination and the results of all the investigative work that you all did, the public hearings you held, this is how it ended in the criminal referrals. the whole purpose and obvious effect of trump s scheme were to