Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. As has peter baker, correspondent for the New York Times thanks to all three of you for staying up late. Congressman, again, just a civics and kind of a Physical Plant question. The winner gets to be an incumbent member of congress. The winner will go, will get really bad office space. Theyll be on the bottom of the seniority list. Hell get his predecessors office. You do inherit the office space . How does that work . I replaced the most Senior Member of congress. For eight months as a freshman, i had the best office on capital little. You had a beautiful view of the dome. Then reality sets in. But they cant move in. They cant feel as much as anyone can move in with a twoyear term. Lets say its 12 weeks before the next election. House is out till labor day. Because it is an election day, theyll be in for about three
weeks. Whoever the incumbent is, they will be an incumbent for all of about three weeks. What they will
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Remind folks what that means . Yeah. Theres a question about the status of the ballot. Maybe a question about the status of the voter. They tend to be, i keep saying, they tend to be democratic ballots. They tend to be voters, especially in franklin county, from delaware county. Oftentimes, you find that sometimes in nonwhite areas. You start having i. D. , voter i. D. Requirements. Maybe it is folks who wont have i. D. So you end up getting a situation. When you look at the provisionals, they tend on come more from provisional counties. I think the number was Something Like 1,400. Came out of franklin. I think it may have been in the
democratic part. A lot of them end up being counted. Theyre cast provisionally and then theyre reviewed afterwards. All right. Well be back. Thank you so much. Lets bring in g
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Will not be counted. If it is received tomorrow, lost in the mail, if that ballot gets in, it will be counted. So some are going to be counted terms of Absentee Ballots favored oconnor. You would expect that whatever comes out of this would give him a little boost. And there are going to be a couple hundred, we would think, a small number of military ballots. It may be a bigger wedge the provisions and all of that math im talking about does have the potential. I dont think to etrace 1750 for. But to get it inside half a percent. To cut it in half. It seems to have potential. So we have to wait. And again, state law saying they
have to wait ten days before they can even look at counting these provisional ballots. Just a terminology question. Our viewers have heard us talk about provisional ballots all night. Remind folks what that means . Yeah. Theres a question about the status of the ballot. May
A look at the days top news and headlines. Much time he is agreeing to serve but we know that he was facing multiple possible charges for bank fraud, tax fraud and a Campaign Finance violations. That is the other big question here, dana, will he as part of his deal agree to testify and we dont know that part of it yet. Theres a possibility that this guilty plea has nothing to do with the mueller probe. Dana and forgive me for reading off of my phone but i i got an email from a source, former federal prosecutor saying, if the rumors are true and is cooperating, i dont understand how the scope of the Mueller Investigation has any limits. They farmed his case to their friends and that Southern District of new york and suddenly hes cooperating. We dont know if hes actually
cooperating. The plea deal could have nothing to do with that, maybe its for Something Else we know. And they secured a lot of loans, and using 32 taxing medallions as collateral. Those diamonds were earning more than a
speaker. republican kevin mccarthy insists he ll have the votes needed to secure the position. but his conservative opponents say otherwise. creating the possibility of a messy showdown that may bring uncertainty and chaos just as republicans prepare to enter their new majority. meantime, in coming minority leader hakeem jeffries, a democrat, is weighing in on all that s at stake from his party s point of view. well, i think the question right now is, what are the republicans going to do? from our standpoint we know what our mission is, the question on the other side of the aisle is, what will the republicans do. will they double and triple down on extremism from marjorie taylor greene? that would be unfortunate. jury deliberations expected to begin later today in the criminal trial of the trump organization. prosecutors have urged the jury to focus only on tax fraud allegations against the company not on politics, on former president trump.