. remember, the power in america lies where it always does, in your hands, the hands of the people. it s election day in america. the only thing that could get you singing at 5 a.m. i am a little delirious. it s 5 a.m. good morning, everybody. how are you doing? i m excited to see what happens today. me, too. we talk so much about the speculation, the day before the mid-terms is the worse and now we find out what s decided. this is a marathon. we re going to be here for a long time so get used to our faces, everybody. thanks for joining us. polls begin to open in less than 2 hours. 435 house seats and 35 senate seats are on the line. so, too, is democracy. with election deniers poised to win key races or refuse to accept losses. cnn reporters are on the ground in the key battleground states this morning and here in the studio, our team has our eyes all over these critical races as well. americans are not just choosing candidates today. they re also weighin
get this done. democrats are going to hold the senate? have to send a very clear message to washington. we want less radicalism and more balance. neil: well, are you ready for this? it is on. the voters lining up in the final hours to make their voices heard. this hour it s all about turnout, my friends in pennsylvania, in georgia, in arizona and nevada and so many more states and cities and districts. you have all of congress up for grabs. a third of the u.s. senate and both parties hoping for a surge to put them over the top once and for all. meanwhile, investors may be hoping for something else. stocks up because they think in this new environment to come, nothing gets done. i ll explain that in just a bit. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so much happening and so little time to get to it. so in the next hour, we re putting it all in perspective including that run-up in stocks that has some investors hoping that maybe with democrats and republicans continuing a
she may permanently lose vision in her right thigh. she will join us to tell us about this harrowing moment straight ahead to. also later, buckle up. espn host our buddy stephen a. smith will join us, we ll get his take on the gruesome injury from last night, thursday night football game. will next get to that but we begin tonight in the washington swamp, now led by some of the dumbest most incompetent people on the face of the earth, our economy is in shambles because of reckless spending. gas prices are going up again because of their war on energy. average price per gallon $6.26, statewide in california $6.18. oregon $5.29. washington state $5.17 and it s only going higher. our kids have fallen behind in school because of their unscientific covert restrictions, illegal immigration, opioid, sentinel deaths are at an all-time high because of their reckless open border policy. of course in afghanistan, and i we have vladimir putin threatening to use tactical nuclear weapons p
honest with signs of the times in the political climate today running the gamut from the downright dangerous, merely troubling, to the absurd. it is fair to ask if there is a thread connecting all of them. some kind of political philosophy driving it or whether this is just a moment for whatever reason that is ripe for almost everything and nearly anything. one example in new mexico four homes shot at belonging police say to democratic elected officials. the man now in custody and charged in connection with the crimes a republican who lost his state house race in a landslide then refused to concede. he seemed agitated. he seemed a little aggressive to me. i didn t consider him a threat then. but he was upset that he had lost the election. that is debby o malley who joins us shortly and says police said her home was hit 12 times maybe more. she is talking about the man in custody solomon pena who tweeted just after the election, quote, trump just announced for 2024. i stan
the freedom that matters is the freedom to speak your mind, the freedom of speech. that s the most basic and essential of all the freedoms. and that s why it s enshrined in the very first amendment to the bill of rights. it s central not simply to freedom, but to humanity. it s not opposable thumbs that separate us from the animalsk. that s our power. words in the beginning was the word, declares john . at the opening of the fourth gospel, the word the word is the most important thing that we have. take away our ability to choose our own words, and we are no longer fully human. we are subjects. we re chattel. authoritarians understand this. above all, that s why they hate freedom of speech. in fact, if you gave them a choice, they d let you have a fully automatic 50 caliber machine gun before they allowed you to say exactly what you want with a gun, you might be able to kill people, but with words you can expose them . with words you can change the world. in fact, there has n