good to be with you. i m katy tur. we ve never seen anything like this before in key places across the country, interest in the election is so intense that millions have showed up to vote early. shattering turnout records, especially in the midterm year. who does that help? and is all of that enthusiasm reflected in the polls? we re going to explore that in just a moment. along with the concerning rise in threats at polling places, axios is reporting local mayors and police chiefs are being warned that extremists like the proud boys and the oath keepers are signing up as poll workers and drop box monitors, as part of localized efforts to intimidate voters. again, we will get to all of that in a moment. but first, if you were not already convinced by the campaign ads, or the mailers, or the emails, or the texts, last night s debates gave voters, you potentially, a lot to chew over. candidates in close races, in pennsylvania, michigan, and new york, faced off, first up in penns
wins the white house? his allies are telling us. time for red state ags and d.a.s to get busy said republican congressman mike collins. every facet of the republican party s politics and power has to be used right now to go toe to toe with the democrats, said his former white house adviser stephen miller. go after biden and his entire crime family, said congressman ronny jackson. time to fight fire with fire, said senator marco rubio. who nbc news now reports is on the short list for trump ears vp. in other words, i think you can sum it up as revenge. in fact, that is the very word the candidate himself is using most on his truth social app. revenge. he s even all but saying the word out loud. here is an interview he did last night with news max, regarding a potential political prosecution of hillary clinton. hillary, with the hammering of her cell phones and all of the things she did, but wouldn t it be terrible to throw the president s wife and the former secretary of state
correspondent, lisa rubin, former u.s. attorney, former senior fbi official, and msnbc legal analyst, chuck rosenberg, punch bowl founder, jake sherman, and political correspondent and msnbc political analyst, ashley parker. you have been on this beat for as long as i have. we saw what happened in 2016. as the rallies got more heated and violent, inside and out. we saw what happened after the election in 2020. and certainly what happened on january 6th. does the electorate need to take these sorts of threats, political revenge, and violent revenge seriously? reporter: absolutely. to be clear, internet commentators say all sorts of things, you know, from the privacy of their own homes and the cloak of anonymity and not everyone who makes a threat is serious about it, but i think it would be at the nation s own peril not to generally take these threats seriously, and one
much. and joining me is punch bowl founder and contributor jake sherman. we re talk become these races and it is close, and a lot of money poured in by the republicans right now into a lot of these congressional races. they re dumping another $11 million dollars into house races, the congressional leadership fund, and the biggest chunk of that is going to colorado, a pretty blue state. what s california got to do with it? happy birthday, katy. thank you. so a few things to note here. where the money is going in california among a couple of other states in the state, katie porter has $14 million in the bank, which shows how difficult this political environment is for democrats. now, 1.9 million in california is not that much money. because the l.a. media market as you know is i guess quite expensive. it costs a lot of money to reach a lost voters in california, so
senator fauci? to me it s publicity doesn t seem like it s policy making. seems like it s trying to find publicity. i don t know. john bresnahan, i haven t seen anything like it either. punch bowl founder. nice to see you today. thanks, john. to china now where there is a zero tolerance policy for covid as coronavirus cases rise across china, major manufacturers are shutting factories. ports are clogging up and workers are in short supply. chinese officials are locking down cities and launching mass testing on the widest scale in two years. leading to the disruption of the world s second largest economy and it is rippling around the world. the textile maker that supplies nike and adidas is rippling. the u.s., by the way, averages 800,000 cases a day. meanwhile, officials in several chinese cities are taking measures to counter these outbreaks. they re rolling out a second round of mass testing on the 14