election day. we will be back everything what, willie? all of this is wrong. tomorrow morning we will have it right. a special show before a live studio audience and we will break down the results and the races that will likely still hang in the balance. we will also have some very special guests. that s at 6:00 a.m. eastern time right here on msnbc. josé diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i am josé diaz-balart from new york. today election day. polls are open in most of the country with polling places just opening in california and nevada. voters are making decisions in races that will determine the balance of power not only in the nation s capital, but in states, towns and cities across the country. when it comes to congress all 435 seats in the house of representatives are up for election and 35 senate seats. and republicans need to pick up five house seats and one senate seat to take control on c
her if i could challenge the children and the china thing for a moment because she had her hand in the assault weapons ban, there is no obama care without her. t.a.r.p., the financial meltdown. she was there for the most consequential moments of the last 15 years legislatively. and to that end i know people like to say she s a spunky grandma who just happened to get there. to me that s like the antithesis of her story. like her story is a person who was in a political family who rose to political power and has held on to it she may be a spunky grandmother but she works hard. totally. she has worked that s why people who like her love her. she does the work, which is why they respect her. i was going to make a point, i was covering the george w. bush white house and they had a great deal of respect for her on the intelligence committee after 9/11. let s get up to capitol hill and our correspondent manu raju. i asked you earlier would there be a domino effect here? tell
victory with a legislative agenda that has been passed? do you feel that the promises made to voters in the state of georgia could get them now, to get raphael warnock elected i ve been delivered upon to get them back out in the runoff? yeah, i think honestly, there are a couple of issues that we would love to see action on, black voters overall, see action on, and we haven t got it yet. voting rights is the obvious thing that is still out there. some type of police accountability, the george floyd act or something like that, that remains to be undone. let s be clear, this presidency, and i wasn t a huge biden supporter during the primaries but this presidency has achieved more and its first two years legislatively, arguably than any other century. if black voters noticed that, we noticed the child tax credit, we noticed the student debt cancellation. we noticed the infrastructure, so there s a variety of things going directly to benefit the backroom unity, and i think we
legislatively, and if he wants to run if donald trump is about to announce. so if the democrats keep the senate but the republicans take the house, how would that change things? well, jake is a better expert on the hill than i am. filibuster approved democratic control of the senate whether or not republicans have majority or not, and legislation will not get to his desk, at least standalone legislation that he wants and if it does he can veto it. and republicans have an advantage, and that s appropriation bills and debt limit bills, things they have to pass and president biden is not going to sign a bill that would outlaw abortion across the