starts right now. hi. thank you so much. i am ari melber and whoop there it is. election day within three weeks. early voting has begun, including in new key states. and we begin with something special. i m not going to hide the ball. i m going to show you the two chairs. howard dean who ran the dnc. michael steele who ran the rnc. in our opinion, no two better people to walk us through and it, they are here right now. let me tell you the context. 2 million people cast ballots. when we say election day, it s like rhetoric. this is election month. early voting is showing records smashed in certain states. fluid dynamics. new polls show the house leaning slightly towards republicans, depending on what happens. democrats believe they are still in a strong position to hold the senate majority. and as we ve told you, we cannot accurately cover 400 plus races at once. we will bring you the highlights, the context, the facts and the music. but i will show you some of the deba
right doing both. they want to take away your right to access health care decisions. that s the messaging problem that democrats have. just sill straited in the last 30 seconds. in my opinion. i have to jump in, because we have more coming bum it s what we call a hot bench. even answer pumped up. big midterms. i was just going to quote billy porter, who is not known for politics but had plenty of political things to say when he joined us on the show this week. among other things he said, what do you mean it s not codified? what do you mean these are just norms? what do you mean you can flout subpoenas? i would be in jail if i did that. i m not doing the full quotes. i m doing a paraphrase. the full quote was spicier. i think both of you raise the point, though, what do you mean it wasn t codified? that s an internal discussion among pro-choice element of the party. and to michael s point, how do you make people know it could