i m yasmin vossoughian here in new york city. you hear the music. you have seen the ads. you maybe have gotten one of those text messages, campaign text messages. it means we re almost there. one day away from the midterm elections. this morning with just hours left to make the final pitches, candidates, they are hitting the trail across the country. 42 million americans have already early voted. but it is election day turnout that could make all of the difference. and in a topsy-turvy election year, the issues driving folks run the gamut. the main thing is we vote for people who are willing to accept the results at the ballots. abortion, firearms. inflation. just all the policies and the changes. just cutthroat. try to vote for the lesser of two evils is my way of thinking about it. that last point there, the lesser of two evils, that mind-set can make all the difference. our final round of nbc news polling showing that democrats and republicans are now neck and ne
contentious cross-examination from prosecutors. what new have we learned so far from the testimony so far today? reporter: essentially we ve had stewart rhodes throwing a lot of his co-defendants and other members of the oath keepers under the bus saying that they went off mission so to speak and when they when they entered the u.s. capitol. he said he thought it was stupid. he referred to what was happening at the capitol at charlie fox trot. and he was saying especially that he was not this wasn t what the oath keepers mission was about. they were about protecting individuals who were trying to speak on january 6th. i also had to reference these recordings that the government played previously where he talked about wanting to hang nancy pelosi from a lamp post and talked about wishing they had guns and he said i was drunk
events of january 6th except to agree it really was not all that bad. florida s republican governor drone sanity is decried what he says is the unnecessary politicization of the 6th which of course was, well, an inherently political event perpetrated by one party in response to an electoral loss. i think it is going to end up being just a politicized charlie fox trot today. i don t expect anything good to come out of anything that pelosi and the gang are doing. i don t expect anything from the corporate press to be enlightening. i think it is going to be nauseating quite frankly. nauseating. fox news played what aboutism with the events of the day with one anchor publicly speculating why speaker of the house nancy pelosi only paid tribute to the police officers who lost their lives and not ashli babitt the insurrectionist killed by law enforcement as she tried to force her way through a door leading to the lobby of the house chamber. one went the other went and now it is done. on
constitutional process proceeded and we were able to get it done and certify the vote. i have hope. i have hope that the republican party will evolve in the right way, go back to looking at their principles, and remembering what they stood for. and reject this nonsense. because even on policy, there are so many things that actually went outside of the republican principles that there is no reason to hang on to this former president. we need to move on and heal this country. governor ron desantis republican of florida today said that the media regarded january 6th as christmas. this was a christmas for us. he downplayed the tragedy. he said it s just an opportunity for trump haters to push an aj agenda. it is an insult to people when you say it s an insurrection and then a year later nobody has been charged with that. i think it s going to end up being just a politicized, charlie fox trot today. i don t expect anything good to come out of anything that pelosi
and the gang are doing. charlie fox trot is a military lingo for cluster f. i mean, a lot of there are a lot of conservative republicans who hoped for governor desantis to be maybe a bridge from the trump era to normalcy again. what is your response? it is very disappointing to hear because exactly. he is somebody who could run as a credible republican and actually potentially defeat donald trump but he is echoing what has essentially been the republican talking points throughout this which is it was simply a riot. nothing worse than the social justice protest we had seen the previous summer. what made this an insurrection was the intent which was to overthrow the election results and disenfranchise 80 million plus people who voted for joe biden. that is by definition an insurrection. that is not comparable to any sort of riot or protest that we saw previously. my republican friends know that. the fact they are echoing it is