Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. As has peter baker, correspondent for the New York Times thanks to all three of you for staying up late. Congressman, again, just a civics and kind of a Physical Plant question. The winner gets to be an incumbent member of congress. The winner will go, will get really bad office space. Theyll be on the bottom of the seniority list. Hell get his predecessors office. You do inherit the office space . How does that work . I replaced the most Senior Member of congress. For eight months as a freshman, i had the best office on capital little. You had a beautiful view of the dome. Then reality sets in. But they cant move in. They cant feel as much as anyone can move in with a twoyear term. Lets say its 12 weeks before the next election. House is out till labor day. Because it is an election day, theyll be in for about three
weeks. Whoever the incumbent is, they will be an incumbent for all of about three weeks. What they will
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Remind folks what that means . Yeah. Theres a question about the status of the ballot. Maybe a question about the status of the voter. They tend to be, i keep saying, they tend to be democratic ballots. They tend to be voters, especially in franklin county, from delaware county. Oftentimes, you find that sometimes in nonwhite areas. You start having i. D. , voter i. D. Requirements. Maybe it is folks who wont have i. D. So you end up getting a situation. When you look at the provisionals, they tend on come more from provisional counties. I think the number was Something Like 1,400. Came out of franklin. I think it may have been in the
democratic part. A lot of them end up being counted. Theyre cast provisionally and then theyre reviewed afterwards. All right. Well be back. Thank you so much. Lets bring in g
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Will not be counted. If it is received tomorrow, lost in the mail, if that ballot gets in, it will be counted. So some are going to be counted terms of Absentee Ballots favored oconnor. You would expect that whatever comes out of this would give him a little boost. And there are going to be a couple hundred, we would think, a small number of military ballots. It may be a bigger wedge the provisions and all of that math im talking about does have the potential. I dont think to etrace 1750 for. But to get it inside half a percent. To cut it in half. It seems to have potential. So we have to wait. And again, state law saying they
have to wait ten days before they can even look at counting these provisional ballots. Just a terminology question. Our viewers have heard us talk about provisional ballots all night. Remind folks what that means . Yeah. Theres a question about the status of the ballot. May
meddled in their investigation. prosecutors did not appear to follow the process, slow walk the investigation and put in place unnecessary approval and roadblocks from effectively and efficiently investigating the case. the u.s. attorney in delaware in our investigation was constantly hamstrung, limited by doj officials recommending for approval felony and misdemeanor charges for the 2017, 2018 and 2019 tax years thachl did not happen. other evidence you were denied access to? yes, there was issue the hunter biden laptop. kayleigh: democrats shrugged off the claims coming from joe ziegler and gary shapley, two veteran investigators with out standing records. they say it was political stunt. will this hearing help
under oath. there s a stenographer taking down every word he says and no lawyer, no defense lawyer allowed in that room. can you imagine the carnage if you unleash mueller or one of his attorneys on trump with no lawyer there. david jolly, a friend who is a lifelong new yorker and known donald trump for decades always says the following reminder to me. this guy was on the payroll of the network in this building for 14 years. he is used to being kind of the entertainer figure in whatever room he walks into. he is a physically large and imposing guy. he s always been able to make people laugh and get attention. he i think truly believes in his ability to come into that room, take over and charm the folks even the grizzled veteran investigators. true. having established all of that, what s your straight up prediction, will we ever see mueller on one side of a table