hours of the race. we re in dangerous times. this is not the first time we ve been we ve been threatened. arizona s kari lake after a suspicious white powder was sent to her campaign office. and a potential tropical storm could impact florida just as voters are heading to the polls. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. today, one final day of campaigning before it s all in the hands of voters. at stake, control of both houses of congress along with dozens of state offices including governor. early voting still under way in 47 states with more than 40 million ballots already cast. here is what some voters have been telling us. i drive a truck. and it does not get very good gas mileage. i had to quit my last job because i couldn t afford to drive all the way out there. why is the price of gasoline where it is today? you can t just overlook that issue. i came up in a union household. my dad was a teamster for 3
very outstanding presidential record. that s not the reception that trump is used to receiving. the former president was boo d and heckled saturday at the libertarian national convention. we ll have more from that event in just a moment. plus, the latest on a bipartisan show of support for taiwan. a group of u.s. lawmakers visiting the island days after its new president took office. and we bring you a live look at arlington national cemetery in virginia, where a memorial day ceremonies will get underway in a few hours from now. good morning, welcome to msnbc s live coverage on this monday, may 27th. it is indeed memorial da thank you for being with us. we have lots of in touz bring news to bring you over the next couple hours. polls showing a tight race for the white house, donald trump made a pitch to libertarian voters over the weekend who were less than enthused to hear from the former president. without further ado, i would like to welcome to the stage, the 4
with october s consumer price index thursday. consumer credit data, weekly jobless claims also due out this week. gas prices held steady at 3 3.80 a gallon. let s bring in chief u.s. strategist at agf investments. greg, i want to start with the warninging about the economy th so many democrats have been talking about. let s listen to a democratic strategist of what she said the democrats got wrong this election cycle. we did not listen to voters in this election. and i think we re going to have bad night. when voters tell you over and over and over again that they care mostly about the economy, listen to them. stop talking about democracy being at stake. is it the message that s meddled on the company or 8.2 inflation is insurmountable. i think it s insurmountable.
that s unclear. most analysts agree that they are in the somewhat early stages, but they re making progress. then there was another interesting thing of note today, including solid fuel. suggestions that perhaps they were showing off this technology which would allow north korea to fire missiles quickly without loading liquid fuel first. that s usually an indicator via satellite that they re about to make a launch that allows those watching north korea to get an early heads up before north korea test launches. if they develop solid fuel, they would be able to launch without that early detection, that early warninging. so those are the two big things. again, analyst still lking at this video trying to figure out what exactly the north koreans have in their stockpile. dara. and what s been the reaction around the world to the parade
that the two militaries, that the turkish air force and the russian fighter jet, could have been operating on different channels and could explain why they didn t communicate. but there are many discrepancies in the account and this warning or lack of warning is just one of them. there s also the flight path itself. turkey released an image showing what it says is the radar tracked flight path of that russian su-24 bomber. and that in the turkish version of the flight path it crosses briefly across turkey. russia, however, put out its own flight tracker and shows a different path where the russian plane didn t cross over turkey. so, we have conflicting accounts over whether the warninging was given or heard, different flight paths proposed and turkey said it was an act of self defense and the russian foreign minister say that is this was a planned