good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. high stakes political drama unfolding today. in two of the closest senate races in the country with two embattled candidates trying to keep their shot at victory from slipping away. this georgia republican nominee herschel walker is tripling down, maybe quadrupling down on his denials about an ex-girlfriend s abortion. flat out denial a lie. and democrat john fetterman giving his first in-person interview since suffering a stroke to nbc. he claims he s good to go, but he won t release his medical records to prove it. we ll have live reports from both states, show you that interview and ask pennsylvania democrat whether she thinks voters deserve more. plus will there be a smoking gun at the investigation on capitol hill the answer just 24 horse away. and finally it turns out intentionally slamming a $330 million spacecraft into the side of an asteroid is a good thing. how nasa s grand experiment tha
john: america reports, waiting for a federal judge s ruling on the fate of title 42. decision could come down any minute as border states brace for a bigger crisis if the trump era immigration order is allowed to expire on monday. i m john roberts. gillian: great to be with you, john. gillian turner in for sandra smith. border areas are seeing a big surge in activity in anticipation of the title 42 decision in the del rio sector in texas, 1800 migrants in 24 hours. a large number of those people were single adults. that s the migrant demographic that is likelyest to be expelled under title 42. john: texas governor abbott says it will only get worse. it would surpass the population of houston if title 42 is not renewed. 18,000 pouring into border states every day. bill joins us from the border in eagle pass, texas. what are you seeing there? john, good afternoon to you. del rio sector getting hammered with activity, nearly 2,000 illegal crossings in just 24 hours, an
but the legacy of the event is no longer just about the horrific mess as officials are now investigating at least one death in the nevada desert. plus, the latest on a stunning and senseless killing at a college in texas. a 21-year-old student shot point-blank by a man he didn t even know. as chilling as that was, wait until you hear what the alleged gunman said he planned to do next. and president biden addressing union workers in philadelphia today, celebrating the american economy as the strongest in the world. so why don t the american people believe it? we want to begin with the shocking and now deadly situation at the burning man festival. one person is dead and others are stranded as rain has turned it into a major, muddy mess. we re just getting an update here, liz, many of the revelers being able to leave soon. tell us more about what we re learning. reporter: this is an update just moments ago from burning man organizer es. we ve been waiting for this and they
manafort. the defense is going to go on offense to attack gates credibility. all of that is part of the drama today. the nuts and bolts of this case are still in the numbers, in the tax fraud, bank fraud, alleged deals for these clients allied with the putin regime. now, paul manafort faces 18 fraud charges from a time before he ever joined the trump campaign. this was all the ukrainian consulting work, which means there s a ton of paper and prosecutors are arguing to this jury whatever happens with mr. gates, the paper doesn t lie. for example, also new, we can tell you, they showed an e-mail today that manafort sent to gates with gates testifying that trump s former campaign chair wrote this is a disaster in april 2015 in that e-mail, about a higher than expected tax bill, throwing in a wtf as well. the full quote is he told the jury he s not happy, i just saw this, wtf, how could i be blind
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What we now know is that the clinton campaign through its lawyers and fusion g.p.s., the information firm it hired, were working a bunch of journalists and at the same time they gave the story for example to franklin fore, who wrote the big piece about that, are they were pushing, and baker testified about this, being pushing the new york times and it s obviously that the reporter weighs skeptical of the story and for that reason i think they went to the fbi to try to entice them into being interested in it in hoping that would make it a more saleable story to the times. so, they were working a lot of angles on this. i don t think it s credible to me that they were unsure whether the story was true or not because it was their own information people, their own opposition researchers who developed this story.