really happy to have you here. we are less than 30 days out now from the elections. we are going to be joined in just a moment by the man who was in charge of the democratic party s efforts to hold the united states senate. and that is quite a job this year. the polling averages right now show that the prospects for both parties in the senate are equal as of today. literally, if the polling says today ends up matching the vote on election day, it will be 50/50 in the senate. so in terms of control of the senate, control of the direction of the country, every race really matters. every seat really matters. every candidate really matters. it is just on a knife s edge. and i mean, just on a personal level, if you didn t know whether you would volunteer for a candidate yet this year. if you would volunteer to door knock or do some get out the vote work. if you haven t committed to voting for sure yourself this year, this year your vote will really matter. this is not one to skip
to you in real life. you are, okay. we re going to need another chair over here. bring mine from here. rachel, as you know, i am crippled with a boston accent. rip pronunciation across the board is wicked hard for me. you ve been saying ultra all day, and i just heard you say, ultra, there is something? it comes at also add some people say it. i ll throw or ultra, as long as people don t know they are talking about light beer, it s fine. i am ultra excited to be talking to you about that, because i listened this morning when america got his first chance to listen to the podcast. i still don t know why it s called ultra. that s one of my questions. i have just been dying to talk to you about it all day, and we will talk about some other stuff here, for a few minutes, i ll be right there. to make your way through the building and get over here we have to get a chair. i ll see you in a minute, thank you, thanks lawrence. donald trump has confessed. he confe
Especially right now. now is not the time to raise taxes in san francisco. vote no on m and o. tonight i want to say thank you to e the brand-new podcast we just posted online today, it s called rachel maddow presents ultra. it is about some sort of forgotten but relevant recent experience, fighting off violent authoritarianism at home. we posted the first two episodes today, next episode we will post next week on monday. tonight, i m going to be on the tonight show with jimmy fallon. that is at 11:35 pm eastern. tomorrow, i m going to be right here with my friend boris wagner at 9 pm eastern. and i m going to be on lawrence o donnell in a hot minute. the last word with lawrence o donnell starts right now. good evening, lawrence. i m about to find my way over