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
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
Today, in california, a new judge was chosen for the trial of a man who s accused of breaking into the home of the democratic speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, and bludgeoning her 82 year-old husband with a hammer, fracturing his skull. those legal proceedings continued to unspool today in california. and in washington today, continued deliberations in this edition trial. the criminal trial of members of a pro trump paramilitary groups who are accused of trying to overthrow the government by force on january 6th last year. the leader of that group that is currently on trial for seditious conspiracy, stewart rhodes, is a former congressional staffer for republican congressman ron paul. we re awaiting the jury verdict and that massive sedition trial in washington, d. c.. also, today, we got guilty pleas from the gunman who livestreamed killing ten african american men and women at the buffalo supermarket in may. the judge today asked him in
Department pursued an investigation and brought a criminal prosecution of people involved in plots to violently overthrow the government, these members of congress sprung into action to save themselves and derail the the investigation to throw out the the results of a i presidential election. to violently overthrow the u.s. government. to have an authoritarian government here instead of a democracy. it all happened. january 6th, 2021, was really something. and members of congress who were tied up in it. and will the sedition trials that have just started this month for these pro trump paramilitary groups that are part of it. an amazing thing we are going through as a country right now.
And will the sedition trials that have just started this month for these pro trump paramilitary groups that are part of it. an amazing thing we are going through as a country right now. but this is not the first time we ve been through something of these lines. and i can tell you, spending all these months working on this project. on the this story. i don t think it is a spoiler to tell you that one of the main takeaways for us. at least for me. looking at what happened last time that we were up against something like this, is that the criminal law can t do everything. i mean, we can t ever count on it all being against it in the courtroom. when it is extremist ultra right groups willing to use violence against everyone else to get their way, those are crimes and there is a role for the courts and the prison system, right? but there is also a really important role for everything else. for a whole of society response.