i can t remember the exact quote, but remember when churchill said britain needs an ass kicker. churchill said many wonderful things. those particular phrases i don t remember. you re the historian, not me. everybody attributes everything to churchill, and then like the greatest churchill quotes ever, he didn t say. all the things churchill said but didn t say, i m laying claim to them. take them. tim ryan took that one, though, and i think he owned it quite well. it is a close race that could determine the balance of power in washington. the democratic nominee, congressman ryan will join us in just a moment. but first, nbc steve kornacki is standing by at the big board to break down where things stand with the midterms less than a month away. we are at go time. the rage is here, and i m a little nervous. he s pissed off, look at him. he s trying to hide it. i know. we re following the latest from ukraine as russia escalates attacks on civilian areas. g7 leade
you have to work for it. you have to nurture it. you have to fight for it. now, the good news is you get to make a difference, as long as you turn out the vote. former president barack obama he s good. he s good, isn t he? he s better than i ve seen him in a long time. he s having a good time out there. fired up, ready to go. it s like hank aaron playing on the 1962 mets, you re going to stand out, right? he s having fun, and i think you could see there, it s interesting, the arc of the rallies. he was really animated early in the tour. sober now, interesting. it s a sober time. that was former president obama in pennsylvania helping democrats with their closing message ahead of tomorrow s crucial midterm elections. this is it. meanwhile, new polling shows democrats have closed the enthusiasm gap with republicans, but will that be enough to keep the party in control of congress. we re going to have the latest numbers for you. plus, new reporting on when dona
governor, as your senator, as your secretary of state, as your attorney general, then democracy as we know it may not survive in arizona. that s not an exaggeration, that is a fact. that was former president obama hitting the campaign trail hard for democrats talking on election deniers in battleground states. that guy is pretty good. he s good at what he does. he s got a future in politics if he decides to go that way. president biden makes the fate of our democracy a key issue just days before voters decide who will control congress and the future path of our country. also ahead, new polling in several crucial races, including pennsylvania where voters are weighing in on the only debate between senate candidate john fetterman and dr. oz. plus, there are new details in the plot by trump s attorneys to overturn the 2020 election. his lawyers had a specific justice in mind, and we ll tell you who that is. and one of former president donald trump s top advisers has
us. the january 6th committee versus donald trump. new never before seen footage from insurrection day shows congressional leaders and the vice president scrambling to protect democracy and trump, the president missing in action. plus, dr. oz gives a new interview and concedes his bedside manner would be more passionate than his campaign rhetoric. would you ever talk to your patients like this? no. senate rival john fetterman had a stroke six months ago and dr. oz and his campaign team regularly question fetterman s ability to serve. a 25 days out election forecast. can democrats hold the senate? will republicans reclaim the house? a read on the big shifts and big races. butters first for us this hour, donald trump s trademark nonanswer to damning new evidence from the january 6th committee and to the committee s subpoena demanding trump testify. and turn over documents. a lengthy trump statement this morning gives no answer or reaction to the subpoena vote. instead,
from nbc news on how some republican senate candidates are looking to turn the page in a fall starting with a major ad blitz. that comes as for the first time ever voters seem lukewarm, the ones who are lukewarm on sitting president joe biden, still plan to vote for his party in november. and we ve been saying this for some time between the president s approval ratings and the generic ballot tests, joe biden is now in the mid-40s according to gallop and other polls. we ll talk about that. and longtime trump ally steve bannon expects to be charged in a state criminal case again? stemming into an investigation into his role in a charity that was supposed to have used private funds to build the wall of the u.s./mexico border. but didn t do it and isn t that really what donald trump did lying about the stop the steal money, where he got hundreds of millions of dollars and lied about the money being used for that again, here s another example, here s another parall