really happy to have you here. we are less than 30 days out now from the elections. we are going to be joined in just a moment by the man who was in charge of the democratic party s efforts to hold the united states senate. and that is quite a job this year. the polling averages right now show that the prospects for both parties in the senate are equal as of today. literally, if the polling says today ends up matching the vote on election day, it will be 50/50 in the senate. so in terms of control of the senate, control of the direction of the country, every race really matters. every seat really matters. every candidate really matters. it is just on a knife s edge. and i mean, just on a personal level, if you didn t know whether you would volunteer for a candidate yet this year. if you would volunteer to door knock or do some get out the vote work. if you haven t committed to voting for sure yourself this year, this year your vote will really matter. this is not one to skip
race really matters. every seat really matters. every candidate really matters. it is just on a knife s edge on a personal level, for voting this cell for the year. this so it really will matter. the selection is going to be very tight and very very interesting. i will be very consequential. if the polling bears out and election day looks anything like the polls say it s going to look today. we will be talking with the man in charge of the democratic parties in the senate are obviously super high stakes job super difficult job still to who would you rather be but you rather be the senate guy for the democrats right now would you rather be the senate guy for the republicans who tomorrow has to go to the state of georgia and say that everybody vote for herschel walker because when you look at herschel walker take it for me we want you to know that that s what republicans stand for. now, we will not be taking questions about the holding a gun to a woman s head. nor will we take
so in terms of control of the senate, control of the direction of the country, every race really matters. every seat really matters. every candidate really matters. it is just on a knife s edge. and i mean, just on a personal level, if you didn t know whether you would volunteer for a candidate yet this year. if you would volunteer to door knock or do some get out the vote work. if you haven t committed to voting for sure yourself this year, this year your vote will really matter. this is not one to skip out on. this election will be very tight and very, very interesting. and very consequential. again, if the polling bears out. and election day looks anything like the polls say it will lookh today. we ll be talking with the man in charge of the democratic party s efforts in the senate in just a moment. obviously, a super high stakes job. a super difficult job. still though, who would you rather be? would you rather be the senate guy for the democrats right now? or would you r
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And the special twist in that case was that the government alleged these folks were not only trying to overthrow the u.s. government by force. they were trying to do so as part of a conspiracy with the nazi government in germany. now one of the defendants in that case was a high-ranking nazi agent. he was convicted of being a paid agent of the nazi government in this country. he had been running an operation inside the u.s. congress working with multiple members of congress and u.s. senators to use congressional offices to distribute million of pieces of nazi propaganda into american homes. lots of members of congress were implicated in that plot with that convicted nazi agent. lots of members were even being paid in various ways to take part in that plot. the agent they had been working with to do it was now part of this mass sedition indictment with the justice department. when that came together, implicated members of congress, some of them decided to lean on the justice department