reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. time for this rat pack to pack it in. thanks very much for joining me this evening. i m jim acosta. we ll be back tomorrow night. good night. your way round the hill. and now the party bosses want a meeting. they have a proposition. they want you to take a shot at the white house. not eventually, but now. - think about it, will you? narrator: well, first you ll have to get past her, the senator with decades of experience and friends in high places, already at home in the oval office. and then you ll have to get past him, a senator and bona fide war hero backed b by a mean polititical machinine. [crowd chanting indistinctly] let s say you are ready. here s the real question. is america? [dramatic music] only one way to find out. [tense music] america, president george w. bush s second term. [chatter] at war in iraq and afghanistan, teetering on the brink of a global economic crash, disillusioned, divided, and despera
a lake house. so reporters asked the white house if that s why he s not going to wilmington. guess what the now very familiar resounding response sounded like? watch. so as it relates to classified documents, information, which the president takes very seriously and you heard him speak to it when asked by colleagues in california, i d refer you to the white house counsel office for any statement coming from here. martha: yeah. basically just hit rewind and replay on that answer. takes it very seriously. so the president s lawyers found the first batch of these classified documents at the think tank in washington d.c. that was six days. i want to reiterate this. this find came six days before the mid-term elections. after all of the brouhaha, we know there s different situations. however, there s quite a few similarities, right? so why did we not learn about any of this for months? so this from the new york times. this says a lot. 68 days of silence. why the white house
starts right now. hi, ari. hi, all night. i ll be with you all night. see you soon. see you soon. thanks. welcome to debate night in america. this special edition of the beat will take you through everything you need to know as we ramp up. this live shot outside the debate hall for joe biden and donald trump. this is the earliest general election debate in american history. that s not all:alex wagner is there and will be joining us in a moment. the biden campaign pushed to jumpstart interest in the race by making this debate earlier. we could tell you tonight a huge 73% of voters say they are planning to watch tonight. and you can, too. nicolle mentioned this debate airs right here on msnbc in about three hours with rachel maddow leading the special coverage in under an hour. i can also tell you this is the first debate between a president and a former president. kind of an interesting factoid there. also the first time these two have been near each other at all since
Were decisive in 2022 in the mid-term? look, i think that the women have always been the deciding factor in the election. we ve had soccer moms, hockey moms and now single women being the deciding factor. single women used to be a smaller percentage of the population. growing and increasing over time. single women historically have voted democratic. it s not that surprising. a lot of the democratic policies benefitted women. people pay pro abortion, a lot of those issues get people to vote. you look at that 18 to 34 block, single woman, 60% have voted democrat. now we have a larger block and then you had a mid-term where they re immobilized to vote over the dobbs decision. i m not sure i would label them as woke. it s not the woke agenda that got them out to vote. it was really i think abortion. a lot of these women split the