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is it going on in advance of election day in georgia? is the white republican secretary of state trying to suppress the minority vote in his bid for governor? that's what his black democratic opponent claims. she's demanding his resignation. we will dig for answers. plus, more breaking news. kanye news. the president tonight celebrating that sideshow that we witnessed in the oval office yesterday. he says what you saw is going to help big time with black voters. we'll put that one to the test. what do you say, my friends? it's almost the weekend. let's get after it. with every hour, it appears more and more likely that a "washington post" columnist was murdered on orders from the top of the saudi government. i've been going slow on this and we all should because who wants it to be true? but as the facts come out it

keeps leading us in the direction of that dark conclusion. now, a turkish newspaper says jamal khashoggi may have recorded his own death via his apple watch and that the audio files may have gone up into apple's icloud or an iphone outside where the killers couldn't delete the evidence. president trump still hasn't talked with the saudi king, although he said he talked to the highest level officials. while trump waits, senators from both parties take aim at one of his signature foreign policy victories -- a $110 billion saudi arms deal. connecticut democrat senator chris murphy is one of those looking to block the deal. senator, welcome to prime time. >> thanks for having me. >> all right. why are you in favor of this kind of move based on the opinion -- the information we know at this point? >> well, let's think about what this arms sales is being used for. this arms sale is going to equip

the saudi bombing campaign inside yemen. a country having a civil war. the united states is helping the saudis bomb houthi-controlled areas. what we have systemed is that the saudis have been intentionally bombing civilians. there is mounting evidence they are hitting hospitals and schools and school buses intentionally to try to create a humanitarian disaster. now, the trump administration took the saudis at their toward that they were just hitting these targets by accident. if we find out, as it looks, that they murdered jamal khashoggi and have lied to us and to the world community about it, it's even more reason not to believe them when they tell us they aren't intentionally trying to kill civilians inside yemen so i would argue there is a direct correlation between the message we would send by withholding money for this arms sale and the message that we need to send to the entire world, that you can't get away with this kind of behavior. without arguing the righteousness of the premise, because obviously if they did this to khashoggi, it's something the world should do more than frown at, it shouldn't

even just be the united states. yes, he was living here, but you should see the whole international community up in arms about this if true. but to use yemen, while that is a relevant issue, first of all, it's not a trump-created issue. that was going on before his administration and that was a pact some call a deal with the devil the that the united states government made. many people don't see saudi arabia as a friend to peace internationally. some refer to them as the head of the snake of terrorism and yet the obama administration also had a very similar degree of deference to this. now, personally it's different with trump. but shouldn't you be a little slow in terms of what you do on that level based on what you know about khashoggi? >> well, let me show my cards. i have long opposed the sale of these weapons to the saudis and i opposed it during the obama administration. it is important to note that trump has taken our support for

saudi arabia to a new level. the sale that is being noticed is a sale of precision-guided missiles. that was a kind of weaponry that president obama was unwilling to sell the saudis because he believed they might use them to commit human rights violations inside yemen. listen, i think the saudis -- i think it's likely the saudis did it this way on purpose. they wanted to kill this journalist and they wanted to do in the a way that sent a message that they could act with impunity. because there frankly with a whole other set of ways they could have murdered this guy without doing it inside their consulate, without having so much evidence of the wrongdoing. and so this kind of brazen action, daring the united states and the international community to do something about it, i think begs for a response. and if they get away with this, you know, the increase in attacks against journalists all across the country that we've seen in 2018, they start to get

worse. >> do you trust turkey? >> well, i think you've got to understand the geopolitical realities here. the turks have long been at the throats of the saudis. i have not seen any of the evidence that are in these turkish media reports. i have seen classified information, none of it suggests to me that jamal khashoggi is alive. but i do think it's important for us to take a look at the evidence that the turks have presented. what i do know, though, chris, is that i've been to a million diplomatic consulates and embassies abroad and they all have videotapes. they all hold them for long periods of time. if khashoggi left that embassy, the saudis would be able to show it. >> understood, but, you know, you have to be careful. i mean, you're known for being careful. the idea of what the turks stand to gain in this has to be factored in at this point. let's be clear-eyed about who

we're dealing with here. they just now released this christian pastor, brunson, who they've been holding ostensibly under wrongful auspices. and the u.s. government has been going toe to toe with them. so their racho orighteous indig about a man being killed wrongfully is fine but they were just holding somebody wrongfully who is an american citizen. >> listen, no clean hands in this legion. bu i mentioned the context. you have to look at the context of mohammed bin salman's other actions inside the kingdom. while he has been portraying himself as a reformer, he has been engaged in a brutal crackdown on political dissidents. >> no question. >> he says he's willing to let women drive and yet he just locked up probably the preeminent saudi advocate for women's rights and, as you know, there's already open source reporting that they were conducting a campaign to try to

take jamal khashoggi into custody. so we have plenty of context around his actions that suggest that this would not be completely out of character for him. >> are you worried about trump's connections? his son-in-law's connections with mbs and whether or not that's playing any factor in the calculation of urgency? chris, can you hear me? all right, i lost the senator there, but it's a good question and we'll get his answer and give it to him because, again, you know, we're not used to seeing the president be this measured with think this type of aggression on the table. ordinarily he'd be like, boy -- well, you know what he usually says, but not here. it's unusual given what his close relationship is that he hasn't spoken to the man, he says job there says. so there's a major scandal brewing. one candidate in a squeaker governor's race is accused of

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of state -- obviously they're in charge of the election machinery, right, and how it gets done, his name is brian kemp -- that he's holding up the voter registration of tens of thousands of african-americans just weeks before the election. his democratic opponent stacey abrams demanding he resign from his post because of these allegations and a slew of civil rights groups have filed suit kemp because of this latest reporting and other problems that they have with transparency within the system. what's the right move? who's right? who's wrong? amy cramer and van jones, good to have you both on a friday night. van jones, the argument is, well, is this to protect against fraud so that they're double checking, making sure everybody is right and making you come with an i.d., clear it up, if you can't bring an i.d. they have all these different steps or is it the reverse? all these different steps are a way of chilling freedom going to the polls and making it hard to vote in these communities.

van? >> well, listen, can you imagine showing up to a sporting event and you show up and the person you have to play against is also the referee? that's the fundamental problem we have right now is that the secretary of state is running for governor and also managing the election. so no matter what, that creates a sense of a conflict of interest so you're already on thin ice. then, with less than 30 days to go, he announces he's going to hold up 50,000 registrations and, surprise, surprise, 70%, 70% of them in a state that is only 30% black are black people. so now you here in a situation where the referee is playing against you, holding back voters, it doesn't look good. now he comes out and says don't worry, i'm going to let these people vote. the problem you have with that is you're creating confusion and the people mailing in their ballots may not have the opportunity to actually be a part of this process in time.

none of this makes sense. if the guy believes he can win, he should just step down and let somebody else manage it and we would haven't any of this to deal >> with step down as secretary of state and run the race. >> yeah. >> amy, why not do that? >> look, brian kemp didn't make the law, guys. brian kemp is just enforcing the law and if he's not -- doesn't enforce the law he could be prosecuted for not enforcing the law. this was a law, this exact match legislation, was passed through the state legislature, signed into law by the governor and he is enforcing the law. if there's a problem with it, then change the state legislators, vote to change the legislators. >> have you read the law? >> i haven't read the exact verbiage of the law -- >> i have. >> well, let me finish. >> i'm asking you because it matters based on the point. if you read the language of the law, you would see there's no reason to do it the way he's doing it right now. >> the law mirrors a florida law that was upheld by a federal court. >> i'm not saying the law is wrong, i'm saying how he's doing

it. >> wait. let me say something. every one of these people, the 53,000 pending applications, every one can go to the polls and vote as long as they have the correct i.d. that shows their name and their address it can be a georgia driver's license, a state issued i.d. or social security card. so there shouldn't be a problem. and it's not a provisional ballot, their vote counts. >> if they can't show it get a provisional ballot. >> if you're mickey mouse or donald duck and you don't have the proper i.d. you shouldn't be vote buggiing voting. >> what have we learned about what requiring i.d. does to this process, van? >> we know it disproportionately impacts people are low income and people of color, et cetera, et cetera. that's predictable. let's not forget, the reason the state legislature, controlled by republicans, rushed through this

legislation is because the same person tried to do it on his own, got sued, had to settle and back down the last time he pulled this scheme. so they rushed through the legislation and he implements the legislation in a way that is maximally disadvantageous for communities of color. here's the problem. if you believe you can win -- and i'm sure jack kemp -- not jack kemp, i wish we had jack kemp. >> brian kemp. >> brian kemp, if he believes he can win fair and square, why not remove all doubt and step down and not be the referee of your own -- i've never -- there is zero trust here. if he wants to be a leader, he should step down. >> we just dealt with this in kansas where the secretary of state was also running and it got sticky there also. it is an odd situation and, in fact, in kansas i remember the guy saying on this show, i'll step away, i get it's a conflict, i'll step away if i

have to step away. why create the controversy here? >> stacey abrams is creating the controversy. stacey abrams voted against electronic online registration, voter registration, and she created the new georgia project that is going out there and registering people with these paper registration form which is can be sloppy. so why not do it electronically? why is she in this new georgia adverse to registering electronically? it would cut a lot of stuff. and who doesn't have a cell phone these days? you can do it right from a cell phone, chris. but what she's doing is she is doing this to create fear, using fear tactics to raise money and stir up her base and get them out to vote and it's politically motivated and it's not right. every one of these people, the 53,000 applications, the 53,000 pending applications can vote. if you have the i.d., go to the polls and you can vote and it's an actual ballot, not a provisional ballot. >> it doesn't help the mail in people at all.

but more importantly, i'm not going to let you attack stacey abrams. she's somebody who has been a voting rights champion her whole career. her organization is out there doing its stuff and there's this myth that the republicans have that there are all these black and brown people out there that want to go and vote. where are they? i've spent my life begging people to vote, trying to find people to vote. the idea that people who are not qualified to vote and are bad people are out there by the millions trying to vote, that they have to deal with voter fraud, that's a complete canard. it's not true. the big problem we have is it's too hard to vote. we have too many voter suppression initiatives going on. the lines are too long, especially poor and black communities. those are the issues. this other stuff is fake stuff. and i don't think you need to attack abrams on that issue. she's been a voting rights champion her whole life and she's not done anything sketchy or shady and you're sounding like she has and that's not

fair. >> van, under brian kemp the voter registration rolls in georgia swelled to seven million, the highest it's ever been this past week. >> not because of him. in spite of him. >> he's the secretary of state. you want to blame him -- >> in spite of him. >> -- but you don't want to give him credit. the bottom line is -- >> why would he get credit? >> there's no voter suppression going on here. that people that register to vote, as long as they have the i.d. -- and i have to show an i.d. -- >> that's the part they argue is suppression. >> i have to show an id to come into every cnn building. >> but usually not to vote. >> but you know that i'm coming and i still have to show my i.d. why do you have a problem? you have to show an i.d. to buy a gun. this is absurd. show an i.d., vote, and there shouldn't be a problem with it. >> a lot of people don't have i.d. >> chris, come on. >> they don't drive. and they don't bother to go to the dmv or go to the state authority to go to get a personal i.d. because they don't feel they need it. >> in the state of georgia we

have a voter i.d. law and you have to show an id to vote. that's the law. if you don't like it, change it. >> here's the thing. people on both sides of the aisle can have different opinions about whether you should have this i.d., that i.d., whatever i.d. there is data that shows that the more low income you are, the older you are, people of color, that you wind up pushing people out and some people think that you're passionate about this is because you know who you're pushing out. i won't make that argument tonight but what i will make this argument is this, when you have race this close and you said earlier the law requires him to do this. the law does not require him to do this in this way at all. and you -- at the 11th hour you're throwing out this stuff. you scare people, you confuse people and people won't have confidence in what's going on. my hope is that for once he will -- listen kemp loves to be the bombastic guy, the mini trump but i believe he does care about his state and if he does

he will either rescind this policy or step down. >> van, do you agree with me? i'm not trying to scare people not to vote and i don't think you are either. can you agree that all the 53,000 pending applications, if you filled out one you need to show up to vote. can you agree with me on that? >> the whole campaign is also built on the mail-in ballots and those are also in question. it's not as simple as you're saying. >> i believe there should be no early voting. >> that's a separate issue. that's a separate issue so we'll take one at a time. amy cramer, van jones, thank you for making the arguments tonight. appreciate it. tomorrow night, speaking of van jones, he'll talk with dave chappelle, ben jealous and neil degrasse tyson on the van jones. that's a very watchable program tomorrow 7:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. now, georgia is one of the

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how can it come back? look at the difference what maybe a quarter-mile difference meant. this is the southern end of the town. another picture. this is the middle of the town. here's what you had. . look at the difference. here's another perspective for you on it. mexico beach, florida, you see all the types of communities, all modern buildings, right? can you imagine the drama of what if you're these people? do you resfwhild do you stay? what if you're these people? or these people? off home but look at your neighborhood, look at your access, look at your reality, not for days or weeks but months. this is some of the worst of it because this is where michael came in but it's not where it left. alabama, georgia, the carolinas, virginia. by the time it hit, it was a tropical storm. that means nothing, especially

when north carolina was already so beat up. deadly storm 17 is the number we're reporting with certitude but i don't know. i have no idea, i haven't been able to be on the ground. the guys i'm talking to who are there, they haven't made a meaningful percentage of search and rescue. take a look, north carolina, this is what they're dealing with, why so much water? not because of what fell but because of what the earth can absorbed. there's still kids out of school in many parts of north carolina. they're literally underwater in many different aspects because they're already recovering. yesterday dozens of people were saved from flash floods and rising rivers as a result. more than 575 people were still in shelters from the last storm, florence. schools in many parts of the state haven't reopened.

close to 90,000 students have been out of school for weeks. all told, this is going to be a long road back. people will need your help. and i love you in advance because i know nobody steps up the way we do in times of trouble. governor rick scott in florida has activated florida disaster fund at volunteerflorida.org. volunteerflorida.org or go to charity navigator. they provide a list of organizations and they will tell you specific types of aid. say you don't have the money to give. you can donate blood. show your support online and spread awareness. you can check out cnn's impact your world at cnn.com/impact and you'll see stories that can motivate your involvement in a whole different bunch of ways. none of us wants to live the reality of these poor people down there. we can't imagine waking up to something like that unless

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she takes. we can't even get out of where i live because the debris piled up so high that they have to do the more important search-and-rescue before they can help the people that are stuck. >> how bad is the house? >> we've got some roof damage, siding, broken windows. the bottom floor was totally flooded to waist high. we've lost everything in our cabinets. there was two inches of mud on the bottom of the floors that we had to clean up. it took us two days to get the floor to where we could walk on it. it was pretty bad. >> you think you guys can stay there or as soon as you can you'll have to get out? >> well, we're trying to stay there. we don't want to go to a shelter but our refrigerator turned over sideways, we had a generator but it burned up last night but supposedly our county supposed to bring another one for it.

we'll try to get one in the morning. >> how many of you were in the house? >> my husband, i, and the dog, my dog snickers. >> what about food? what about water? >> we have a good supply of food and we had three or four cases each and we've been giving water by other people. they're good about handing out supplies, somebody gave us mres. we're good food wise. we're running out of bathing water. i filled the bathtubs prior to storm but after bathing and flushing toilets with them it's getting low. it would be nice if we could get a fire truck to come over and dump water in our tub. >> so the plan right now is to stay and tough it out and wait for things to -- >> we can't get out. the debris is so high in front of the complex where i live -- and it was a gated community --

that even inside the gate the debris is so bad we can't get our vehicles out even if we wanted to. and now the problem is both of our vehicles were in garages. my vehicle floated and everything that was in the garage floated around it so i don't know if it will run once i get it out. >> how long do you think you can keep up this way? >> as long as it takes. we have no choice. >> i suppose right now you think you can live through anything because of what you went through. what was it like during the storm? >> it was very scary. there was debris flying everywhere. the water was coming in. we just had to go to higher ground. we salvaged what we could on the bottom floor and at one point i said i'm done and we went to the second floor and did a lot of praying to get through it and it was devastating. it was something i never want to live through again. >> did you not have time to get

out or did you not think it was going to be as bad as it was before it ramped up from a 1 to a 4? >> we both work at the air force base and we didn't think it was going to be this bad and we thought we were far enough off 98 to where it wouldn't affect us because we were several blocks to the beach. i've been here through every hurricane we've had in this area and i've never seen one like this. it was devastating. >> what was the worst moment? >> the worst moment was when the house started shaking. you're in a three-story house and the house is shaking and rocking and the pressure and the noise, it was terrible. it was very scary. >> you said the canal behind the house. what happened? >> it filled up with water and so not only did we get water coming from the beach but from behind us, too. so when that water met the house

filled up in a matter of seconds. >> that's right, as soon as it came in, that was it. once it found that new level it just filled up fast. thank god you already found your way up to the second floor because it gets tough to move once the pressure is rushing on you at the same time. >> right. >> did other people stay? have you been able to check on people around you? are you worried about anybody? >> there was some people in the mobile homes behind me. one guy had to swim out his back window. his name was hector. it moved the trailer over and as he was swimming and grabbed the light pole there was two other people with their two dogs that were asking him to help them and they all managed to climb into a boat that was tied to a tree and that's what saved their lives. literally that boat tied to their tree saved their lives. >> what about the air force base and work assuming you find a way to get out of the complex. we're showing pictures of the overhead view of the area now

this is going to take weeks and weeks to clear up before people can consider what to do. just in terms of people being able to rationally consider options about survivability here versus somewhere else. what about work? will the air force base be open? >> i don't know. i don't have any television out here or any radio so i don't know what's going on at tyndall. i have not been able to get -- i've heard rescue people say that it is pretty much demolished so i don't know the status on our jobs at this time. >> what are you doing to keep your spirits up now? >> cleaning and spending a lot of time with the dog, trying to get out of the house. you can only clean so much, then you have to get out and take a walk. >> how is snickers doing? >> and pray. >> she's doing good. she's laying at my feet. >> all right, good. you got the dog, you got your

husband. you got your faith. you'll find the rest. >> i got my life. that's right. >> i'm sorry to meet you under these circumstances. we'll stay in touch, find out what you need and see how we can help, all right? >> thank you, sir. appreciate it. >> rose, be well. >> look, i don't know how i would make it if i were in rose's position and you can ask yourself the same thing. but that's why i'm asking, whatever we can do to as the need is made available. think about how you can help because there but for the grace. president trump is going to visit some of the disaster zones next week. he's been very busy, laser focused on winning over voters. guess who he name dropped on the campaign trail tonight? his good pal kanye. what a shock. and imagine what case he's making now. exactly what i told you this was

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yesterday -- you know the mockery that reportedly left many white house aides feeling embarrass, the president today spun it into this. >> i think we're going to get the african-american vote. [ cheers and applause ] and it's true, kanye west what he did was pretty amazing yesterday. >> amazing. what did he do but offer a bizarre rant of the supposed powers of a maga hat and something about an i plane and making the fliest cars. let's bring in don lemon. you're in the thick of this. this is exactly what the president hoped it would be. tons of attention for him and lots of negativity for the groups he deals with least to have to deal with among one another. this is a home run for him in the business of division.

>> it's the okey-doke. don't fall for the okey-doke. but i've said as much as i have to say about this whole situation with him and kanye west it's interesting because you said i'm in the thick of it. people don't -- you know when they chop up soundbites, they take the most incendiary thing, they don't say the part where you say "i really feel sorry for kanye, he's dealing with issues, he should get off the stage, if anybody loves him they should take care of it." nobody plays that. >> they don't want to because what they want to say is blacks love trump. >> some black people do. some black people do, which is fine. >> and kanye west doesn't have to be mentally toil like donald trump but if you talk to people around him, if you read what he said about himself, if you look at the reporting about what happened during his tour, the man is struggling.

>> he says so. he talks about his mental health issues. he talks about having bipolar disorder and not taking his medication and then he changed it in the white house saying they said i had bipolar disorder but i have sleep deprivation. and here's my thing when people say, oh, my gosh, i can't believe you're talking about his mental issues, what are you talking about? we're trying to take the stigma off of that so by pretending it's not happening that doesn't help. you can spend anything you want, but i feel sorry for him. he should get off the stage. not that he shouldn't -- i'm not trying to shut him up which is what the critics say but if you're going to support trump, if you're going to support whomever, know what you're talking about. >> if you did a cross reference of the people saying don't talk about him being mentally ill because he says if this as if they were protecting his illness, i bet you they're the same people when you talk about drug addiction and they say this is an illness, they say no, no, no, it's a choice.

those people should be punished. it's all politics. what do you have coming up? >> we're going to talk about that and what happened with jamal khashoggi because jason rizion is coming on and they're doing great reporting at the "washington post." he's >> we'll be watching. all right. got a news flash for you. there are big problems with american politics. the stuff with kanye is another example. incivility is the word of the day, and it's spreading. it's spreading both sides. nobody's immune. it's in the media. you feel it. you react to it. why? i'm going to tell you why because that's my job, next. ever since i started renting from national. because national lets me lose the wait at the counter... ...and choose any car in the aisle. and i don't wait when i return, thanks to drop & go.

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let's stipulate for the sake of argument there's a lot of anger in our politics today. you know why? because it works. it always has. dirty secret of politics. negative ads always make the biggest difference in a campaign. now it's been notched up. talk of violence is in vogue. anger towards your opponent. treat it like an mma pre-fight, not a debate. might makes right. capitalizing on this is our president. >> you know what they did to guys like that? they'd be carried out on a scratch every. knock the crap out of him.

serious. i'd like to punch him in the face. get him out. try not to hurt him. if you do, i'll defend you in court. don't worry about it. i would have been out there fight, folks. i don't know if i would have done well, but i would have been boom, boom, boom, beat the -- >> look, is he all show, no go? of course. but he's also president of the united states, and we used to expect that position to appeal to our better instincts, but now appealing to base instincts seems to work better. trump is wildly popular among the right. success sells and silences. conservatives who have long made morality and character their marker are now marked by quiet. you hear that that's the gop leaders keeping their mouths shut and listen along to trumpian invective that they used to abhor. the left, they're not clean hands in this. they think they're getting wise by deciding to become more like what they used to call out. >> michelle says that, you know, when they go low, we go high.

no. no. when they go low, we kick 'em. >> now, eric holder tweeted he wasn't calling for violence, and i believe him. he was just saying, we have to get tough. but it raised eyebrows. why? because it adds to this sense that the left is becoming what they used to say they don't respect. these surprise wins in primaries, they're not that surprising. the left wants more extreme rhetoric and overt toughness to match the opposition. we see it in resistance movements as well, antifa. they have this thuggish appendage that creates riots, not resistance. confrontations are more common. and even when effective as we just saw during the kavanaugh hearing, that mode invites more, and down, and down we descend. nobody wins a race to the bottom. the irony is that trump, the guy who has done more to cheapen our discourse and lower the bar for acceptable behavior than any major player in the game at the moment, says his mission is actually to save the right from the mob on the left, which is

responding to the animus that he engendered. >> i need your help this election day, november 6th, to stop the radical democrat mob in their quest for power. the radical democrats have turned into an angry mob. >> ironic that he is calling out people for going too far. now it's in the media too. media can be a feedback mechanism for what's out there. with trump, it doesn't create the energy. it harnesses it, turbo charges it. that's fox. sean hannity, righteous indignation. >> the language of the left, the people that want to be in power in 26 days reaching new lows on an hourly basis. >> ingraham, the curled lip of disgust. >> the chaos strain has now even infected what was once the democratic establishment. >> and tucker. he doesn't have to say anything. he's just got that pissed puppy

dog puss that he has on his face. there it is. what are they doing? they're finding common enemies with their base, encouraging the animosity, using the word "unhinged" a lot. trump's positions are further proof. make america great again is an angry shake of the fist. it's a dog whistle to a time of less equality and cultural inclusion. when was america better than it would be one minute from right now? when has it been more free, more equal? come on. demonizing blacks who protest. illegal immigrants are here to get you. hide the women and jobs. islam is the enemy, except the saudis. those rich guys, they're great and rich. did i mention they buy lots of stuff from me? now, some who don't like their game, they're going to -- they don't like when their game is exposed, so what will they do? they'll twist what i'm going to say right now, but it doesn't matter because you can't hide from the reality. look at what is passing for campaign rhetoric by a republican in a governor's race in a major state.

>> between now and november 6, you better put a catcher's mask on your face because i'm going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes because i'm going to win this for the state of pennsylvania. >> this is not who we are, not at our best. that guy belongs in a bar, being told you've had enough, not getting your vote. now, it's not just about how we want to be. it's how we have to be, okay? this is a very unique place. we're only held together by our respect for the collective. it's what's in our constitution. it's our cultural creed. it's a command here. we, the people. one out of many. my pop taught me you find your own good in the good of the whole here. remember who we are. don't reward the haters. demand they do better for you. thank you for watching me. i hope you have a beautiful weekend. there's a lot more coverage for you tonight. "cnn tonight" with d. lemon starts right now.

you okay? >> what are you talking about, chris? you're unhinged. >> i don't even know what that word means. i only apply it to door. >> surely you're smarter than that. it's dumb. don't be dumb. it's stupid. >> i love that. you're trying to do the puppy dog puss. you can't pull it off. you need the bangs. you don't have the bangs. >> i don't even pay attention to it. it's -- it's just really funny. not to make fun of anyone, but i just don't -- it's just so absurd. >> i'm making fun of him but you have to because if you take it seriously, it's a lot more scary. hopefully it's just done for effect. >> yeah, but it's dangerous even with that because it's -- you know, because people actually believe it. some people actually believe it. so it's -- it's just dangerous, and i don't know. i sleep well at night. i'm not sure about those guys, but -- >> i don't. i have three