will have wrapped up and what that means is that if you want to early vote, you have to get out to find the polling low cases and cast the ballot ahead of the crowds, and as you said, six seats are contested and that may be why we are not seeing the long lines we saw yesterday in texas. >> and katy beck, thank you. that going to wrap up this hour of msnbc live and we will see you tomorrow on "to today." and coming up is "andrea mitchell reports." fear factor, and two weeks before the mid-week election, and the president kicking up fear. >> take the camera no middto the and you will find ms-13 and isis and so much more. >> and the president is promising a tax bill, but there is no tax bill in congress, and

congress does not return until >> this is for middle income people, and all middle income people, and 10% and we will put it in next week. >> and the naked truth, the leader of turkey calling the murder of sjamal khashoggi savage. >> and he was doing the best to make the saudis squirm. and good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington where president trump's midterm strategy is clear, divide and conquer. he is road testing the message across the country starting with the monday's raucous rally tuesday for ted cruz, and laundry list of misstatements have the fact checkers working overtime today. joining me now is geoff bennett,

and nbc political analyst phil rucker, and washington bureau chief and "usa today" bureau chief susan page who interviewed the president exclusively last night on the trip to houston. and jof, to you first, the caravan claims of going to washington and the caravan coming, and take a look at part of what he had to say. >> go into the middle of the caravan and search. and -- no, no. take the camera and go into the middle and search, you will find ms-13 and middle eastern and everything. >> you know how the caravan started? does everybody know what this means? i think that the the democrats had something to do with it, and now they are saying, that i think that we maid a big mistake, because people are seeing how bad it is. >> geoff bennett, do some fact checking first of all on the

caravan, and the middle eastern influence or the democratic influence in starting the caravan. >> and in the way that the president so casually and implicitly links the middle easterners with terrorists is as problem problematic as offensive, and we saw the president there say to the reporters gathered there on the south lawn and i was among them, take the cameras to search and go look for the ms-13 and the middle easterns and we have been there for days, mariana atensio and gabe ute yars, and they report they are middle central men and will and children. and so to the say that this is democrats for who start theed a all of this, and if that is true, and the democrats would try to orchestrate this, they would not do it a week or two out from the midterm election, and these images that we are seeing, this i am told close to the person of the president thinks it crystallizes this argument, and the pitch he is

making to the supporters and this racialized fear, and stoking the fear about the immigrants and the crime and the terrorism, and this is what he thinks works for him more than he thinks that it would work for the demdemocrats, andrea. >> and susan, in your interview with the president he said it is a blessing in disguise to show how bad the laws are, and the democrats are responsible for that. and he will send as many troops as they need. and you can't send the troops south of the border, and you can't use the troops to be sent because of the -- >> well, i am not clear that he is sending the troops to the bo border, but he is saying that it is helping the republicans in the election, because it is scary to see them coming across mexico and to the southern

border, and as phil noted in the excellent story in the "washington post" it is easier to motivate people to come out to vote by fear than the satisfaction of how thing s hs done. >> it is stunning that the president acknowledged that to you, susan, and phil, your reporting is that the fear factor is potentially going to work for them, and they know it. >> yeah, it is a clear decision to focus not only on what the president sees as his big accomplishments in office starting with the tax cut bill from last december, but to stoke fear and to remind people about immigration as a key issue, and tr trump has been keeping an argument of the campaign trail that you can't have the wall or the harsh immigration crackdown that he supports without more republicans in the senate and without holding the republican majority in the house, and the pitch you will see day after day after day until the 6th.

>> and it is clear that the tax cut message is not working adds well as they have perceived. and so this is from yesterday. >> you wanted a tax cut by the first, and congress is not in session. >> no, no. we are putting in a resolution in the next week or week and a half -- >> a resolution where? >> we are giving income tax reduction of about 10%. >> where are you signing an executive order? >> no, no, through congress. we want to have time to do the vote. we will do the vote after the election. >> we will be putting in a 10% tax cut for middle income families. and it is going to be put in next week. kevin, we are putting in next week, the the 10% reduction in middle income taxes, next week. okay. he promised it in front of 22,000, and i don't need that, and he promised it to me, and that is good. >> that is of course, the

chairman of the house ways and means, but congress is not in session. congressman brady is right there in texas, and all of the members are out campaigning and they call it district work periods, and there is no bill written. phil rucker, you can't put a tax cut through congress by resolution. >> no, you absolutely can't, and congress has to be here to vote on a tax bill, and it is not like they can fly in for one day and vote on tax, and this is one tof the most complicated issues that lawmakers deal with and it could take weeks and months to arrive at a tax cut plan and the only person in washington who seems to know about the plan is president trump himself, and he has limited details, and there is no real information here. >> and geoff, this is clearly a strategy that the white house thinks is working, and there may be clear evidence that it is working from the polling in terms of the enthusiasm. post kavanaugh, we have seen a rise in the president's numbers up to 46%, and that is a high for him in the nbc/wall stre"wa

journal" poll that came out sunday, and now, weminishing of enthusiasm or a rise of the republican enthusiasm. and we will drill down on that in a moment. >> and how are you confident that the plan and the strategy as it exists is going to work for you in 2018, and they said it worked fine in 2016. and the president said that he would introduce a resolution. a and this is not law. and so he wants that cut fresh in the minds of the voters and more likely establishment republicans going to the the poll, and less incline and more motivated to go to the polls around the cultural issue s ts

the president is pitching, andrea. >> and in line with what phil ruck r and others have been reporting in terms of the themes of the rally, take a look at this from the president in nevada saturday. >> and we don't want the sanctuary cities, and they are rioting now. >> rioting, phil? >> not in california, and people may be opposed to sanctuary cities, but not mass riots as the president is imagining. >> susan, when you are on the air force one with the president, and you are questioning him, and challenging him and how does he respond to facts that contradict his claims? >> for instance, when we talked about, the issue of believing the saudi story on to murder of jamal khashoggi, he said that he thought that it was a plot gone awry which is consistent with

what the saudis are trying to sell, but most of the leaders are opposing, and i said to him, what about bringing a bone saw into the em bbassy, and doesn't that indicate a deliberate attempt beforehand to murder him? and he said, do you know that there was a bone saw? and i said, well, i don't personally know, and it has been reported and he said, well we will know more in a couple of days. >> well, of course, he has the cia director there and we will learn more, but the question becomes, will he accept the intelligent analysis which is going to confirm what has been reported. >> and what will he determine to do after that, and even after we know what happened, and in our interview, he was skeptical about the idea of cutting off armed sales. >> susan page, congratulations on the reporting, and phil, as well from the washington post, and geoff bennett, thank you very much from the white house. >> and coming up the former mayor of san antonio, and

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and in that caravan, you ve have some very bad people, and you have very bad people, and i can't let that happen to the country, and it is not. i am talking to a lot of people, and they are going to form a wall, a different kind of wall,

and get one built, and we need to get one built fast. fast. we need to protect our borders. we don't have borders, we don't have a country. >> president trump now floating a new plan to build a wall before his long promised border wall, and a final sales pitch to supporters in texas last night. and joining me is hulian castro, the former secretary the of housing and urban development under president obama, and author of his book "an unlikely journey." and you know the country so well, and you have been traveling so much now with the new book, and let's talk about this pitch, and whether this is going to work as the president tries to demonize the caravan. >> yeah, you know, andrea, it is -- this is, you know, i would say unbelievable, but he has

lied so much over to the course of his presidency that it is completely believable that he is trying to pull out all of the stops, telling lie after lie after lie about who is in the caravan, about his supposed middle-class tax cut that is not going to the happhappen, and th amounting to fearmongering with the issue of immigration. he is trying to create a very sharp boogeyman like he has in the entire tenure and hoping that it is going to the translate into the some juiced up base. and the problem is that though that the enough people can see through it now. >> and do you think so? do you think that the democrats are able to counteract this, because this is only basically a couple of days' old, but this caravan is clearly going to be the overriding theme now. he is return oing to ting to thd

fr frankly the migration from latin america to the border of mexico is playing right into his hands. >> but i don't know that it is, andly tell you why. this is proof positive that donald trump has bneen a total failure when it comes to immigration. he promised us, and he went out there and said that if we abused the families by taking away the little children from the families that it would deter more families from coming to the k country, and this is not true. so even if you are out there, and you are republican, and independent, independent, and you have concerns about, about immigration, and you are willing to believe that maybe separating children from their families may have been okay or the right thing to do, he said that he would do that, because he was going to deter folks from coming, and in fact, it did not work at all. so, i think that people can see through fearmongering and trying to pit people against each other

and scapegoating of the folks with a failed policy, and it is so convenient that this comes up two weeks before the election, and it is like the middle-class tax cut, and nobody knows about. the folks last night in houston, basically doesn't know what the president is talking about this tax cut that he is saying that he is going to be passed is an admission that the first tax cut that they passed was not for the middle-class but the wealthy. and so we have a president who is going at unprecedented lengths to lie to the gin up the ba base. i don't believe at the end of the day, it is going to overcome the skepticism that a vast majority of people have about h him, and how much he has failed over the last 18 months. >> in the book, as "unlikely journey" as a mexican american,

i had common history with the people seeking asylum, and many folks forget that their own lineage can be traced to a different land and their own survival depend ed on the empaty of strangers. at the same time, a lot of the latinos and we are seeing the enthusiasm among latino early voters, but at the same time, do you worry that the la ttinos an including the people documented of latin american background are going to be fearful of voting and fearful to government they have seen i.c.e. and other agencies take? >> well, i mean, it does concern me, of course sh, that republic in texas and other places have gone out of their way to create roadblocks for a lower income people, and people of color to vote whether it is gerrymandering or the voter i.d., sure, the rhetoric out there, i think it is a concern,

becauset may chill basically people's willingness to interact in any way, whether it is voting or filling out the census with the government, and so it needs to be and should be a concern, but i also believe and i believe that the poll reflect ed on sunday that there is enthusiasm that is growing, growing interest among the latinos to vote in the election, and that is a good thing, because the stakes are high, and not only for the latino community, but for all of us, and as president obama said yesterday in nevada, this is the most important election that we have seen in a long time, and young people, and latinos and others need to get out to vote. >> thank you for being with us today, former secretary castro. and the president does not hold back of the premeditated murder of jamal khashoggi.

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turkey's president erdogan is murder in the columnist jamal khashoggi, and dismissing

saudi's explanations calling the killing a planned operation. he called on the saudis to extradite the 18 suspects that i have name and send them to turkey, and still claiming that he has strong evidence, but refusing to give the details. this is surveillance footage of a man wearing jamal khashoggi's clothes walking around istanbul on the day that the saudi journalist was killed. they say this body double is a member of the hit team. and joining me is the retired admiral of the allied commander, and also, ambassador to nato joining us. and a lot to talk about. we will talk about vladimir putin about to hold a news conference with john bolden in getting out of the imf treaty, and first, jamal khashoggi, and admiral, so much at stake here, but no sign that the u.s. is going to punish saudi arabia. >> hardly.

the irony of this is to think of erdogan as a defender of free press, and he has put more journalists behind bars per capita than anybody i can think of. >> and the committee to protect journalists, and the most journalists are held in turkish jails in 2017 than any place in the world. >> yes, and in is about a larger geopolitical move between turkey and saudi arabia in the region, and in between erdogan who has taken a position supporting the qataris and finding his way potentially to one side of the deal on one side or another. and it is strange that it is dribbling out so slowly, and there is a game afoot behind the screen. >> and ivo, the outrage of the american-based journalist being mu murdered in this fashion with a finally a belated admission from the saudis, and the president of the united states sending all kinds of mixed signals.

>> yes, and the president and the saudis are trying to limit the damage. they want to get on as fast as they can to go back to the relationship they had. this is a hiccup in the relationship as far as both sides seem to be concerned. it is not -- and it has been taken seriously in part, because the press has made it impossible f for the president not to take pit seriously, but much more needs to be done to really deal with this fundamental affront of human rights. >> and the president is exploding the numbers that he is claiming from the arms deals and other deals. they said in riyadh in the summit of the spring of 2017, $450 billion in corporate deals and plus $110 in arms deals and only $14.5 billion of arms deals have been pledge and not contract and the number of jobs is just totally exploe ploeded. and i wanted to dig into to your expertise of the short and medium-range missiles in largely

euro europe, and landmark agreement of reagan and gorbachev which sett the start of the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty, but john bolten in moscow blowing them up telling the russians that we want to give out of them and giving russians the huge advantage of cheating on the edge of it, and they will be the here rose and we will divide nato. >> yes, and remember the geography, because they own this cal -- caliph of leningrad, and the russians are doing high fives right now with this. and we need to address the russian violations here, but pulling out of the treaty as a cold call is not the way to do it. >> ambassador daalder? >> well, it is remarkable that

vladimir putin has been saying that he does not like the treaty, and it is constraining their ability of dealing with threats from europe and other parts of the europe, and we are giving them a free ride, and a free ride without us gaining anything in the return, and the reality is that the geography matters when it is short and medium-range missiles. when we deploy the short and the medium range missiles we can threaten canada and mexico. >> that is not so theoretical anymore, and just joking, everybody. >> and if you want a counter, you have to deploy them on the allied territories, and you won't do that if you are not consulting on the allies in an important agreement. >> and let me defang one argument that the treaty is constraining us in asia gamagai china, and the idea that we want to be used the medium-range ballistic missiles in a land war

in asia is not going to happen. >> and i have thought many sea-launched weapons. >> and cruise missiles and every way to cover can it, and it is advantage to the russians, and it does not make sense. >> and this is another internal thing to concern some people which is that general mattis, and secretary mattis is against the big build up of weapon, and billions of dollars of weapons that we don't need, and this is a precursor to this and the president says we need more until they come to their senses, and this is another nail to the end of secretary mattis after the elections. >> well, i will tell you that there is not an ounce of quit for general mattis, and he is going to stay in the job until his heart burst, and the president going the have to fire him. it is not a good political move for the president, and general mattis has been a voice of reason in the councils, and

let's hope that he stays the cour course. >> and your new book, evo "the empty throne." >> it it is the abdication of the story of donald trump implementing a vision of how the united states ought to engage the world that he has had for 30 years ash and he has not changed that much. he said it yesterday in texas once again, the allies have ripped us off for a long time the. and we need to get them to pay us for the privilege of defend ing them. i am a nationalist. those are the things that he said, and that is in fact the foreign policy that he has implemented and the inf treaty is just the latest. it is a short term win, but long term loss. and so all of the agreements have served the purpose, and we are walking away, and it is damaging with us the allies and our friend, and it is the one

thing that we have, and the russians and the chinese don't have. we have allies, and they have clients and we are doing a good job of turning the allies into no longer friends and partners and bad for the united states. >> the "empty throne." thank you both. and coming up, the bass p y player, and riling up the base, and will his tough talk help the republicans at the polls? more coming up on "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. ok everyone! our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition... for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-six vitamins and minerals. ensure. now up to 30 grams of protein for strength and energy! their medicare options...e people go to learn about before they're on medicare.

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a globalist is a person that wants to have the globe do well and frankly not caring about our country so much, and you know what, we can't have that. they have a word and it became sort of old-fashioned and it is called a nationalist, and i said, really, we are not supposed to be using that word. well, you know what i am? i'm a nationalist, okay. >> president trump proudly declaring himself a nationalist, and tagging himself with a label that has defined his america first message especially on the road in the last couple of weeks, and the remarks are sparking sharp criticism saying

it is a dog whistle fordiscriminati fordiscrimination. and mike murphy is former adviser to jeb bush and mitt romney, and peter hart founder of hart research associations and stephanie cutter, former adviser to president obama. and peter, thank you all so much. and peter, perceptions of the division from the nbc news and wall street poll that chuck unveiled, agreement on one thing, the democrats and the republicans are agreeing and 73% republicans and 85% democrats overall that we are really divided. >> we are totally divided as a nation. and it is shocking and awful. and the only thing they agree on, actually, is that the media is to blame. democrats and republicans. but otherwise, they just point the finger at the other party and say, all of the problem belongs to them. there is no sense of how we

thread these two parties together and become a nation again. >> mike murphy, you have worked for a number of republicans who tried to bring us together. but we don't see it right now in the republican party. where are the voices calling for the people to come together, and what you are seeing instead is a at lot of the base rallying. >> well, there are a few, but level heads are the first thing to go out of the window two weeks before the election. we are caught in the symmetry now where each side says i am right and you are evil. when we are under that calculus, everything that the other side does is to delegitimaize and makes politics stupid and destructive. and the first thing they do on wall street is mark to mark on e election day and count the votes, and looks like now, a power shift, and we will have to see, and if it is worse or better after the election. >> and one of the questions about that power shift, stephanie and the so-called blue

wave is that peter's polling is showing that the enthusiasm gap has really narrowed and peter, was it 72 to 68? >> yes. >> it is a four-point gap, and where it had been a much bigger advantage previously for the democrats before kavanaugh and what are the concerns now on the senate side? >> well, the concerns are that trump is clearly playing to a certain segment of his base to rally the vote, and it is working. and we need to be cognizant of it, but the democrats are focused on the strategy, and all at this point, it is about turning out the vote, and again, from the poll released this weekend, you can see this enormous gender gap that is occurring, and on democrats' side, the success means to get the sburp ban women ouuburban w the other side it is to get the

trump base out which is a older white male. >> and how concerning to democrats that the enthusiasm gap has narrowed so much after kavanaugh and focusing on the senate? >> well, it is important to understand, and it is concerning, but what is interesting is that the young people are getting involved and independents are more involved and so you will see a lot of groups that are going to be key for the democrats as getting much more interested and involved. one thing about election night, we will go back to half a century to turn out in this level of off-year election, and that is impressive and good for dem kra ocracy at the same time how do you get people to come back together attend of it. >> and who is turning out. are the democrats counting on the millennials after part of the issues, and will that be ephemeral or are all of the other democrats engaged to have a good night, and for the house to go democratic by more of the

pickup of the 23 seats? >> i think so, because what we have seen again in our most recent poll is the young people have gotten much more involved, the millennials, and the margin for the democrats is double-digits, and shows a strong sup port there. >> and mike murphy, where do you see the house and the senate two weeks out? >> well, i am actually contrarian on this enthusiasm gap here, and it is interesting but i agree with peter that turnout is going to be higher and that is a tailwind for the democrats, because the casual presidential year voters voting in the off year puts a big thumb on the scale. there are a whole bunch of people who like trump, but a lot who don't, and a whole bunch of democrats and independents who don't. so what i am watching more than anything is the great missing story, the governor's races. and those are real measures of

the political power, and in the great lake states, and the places that kind of surprisingly catapulted trump to the presidency is where some of the greatest challenges are where we hold the governorships in wisconsin, michigan, ohio, illinois, and those are all tough, tough races in this environment right now. on the house, i think that the democrats have a better chance to win the majority, but on the senate, we will hold it, because sit is in the republican terrai, but we won't gain as many seats as in a normal year, but big, big turnout helps the dems in some of the swing congressional and governor races. >> stephanie cutter, in looking back at 2016, i did an interview recently with kathleen hall jamison who has a new book "s "cyber war" out the have strong data to point to the fact that the russian influence is profound, and john bolten is saying, nah, to the russians it

did not matter. >> did that surprise you? >> and face it, that the news media narrative that a lot of the democrats are saying to me, you guys said that it was an easy win for her, and lot of people who didn't like her very much, and didn't like him, and didn't feel like they had a choice, they voted for jill stein or stayed home, and that is 77,000 votes in three states. >> which determined the course of this country. that is why our message, the democratic message is to keep doing the work, and don't take it for granted. even on the house side when we have the advantage and the wind is at our backs, the core races are very, very tight, and maybe we are winning on the generic races, it is a very tight margin, and so it is going to be tough, and based on the historical data and the current data, the democrats will take the house, and the question is by how much obviously, but i am not counting on that. we need to work until the last day to get the vote out, and it is determine ded upon how many people come out to vote. i think that people learned a

lesson last time that staying home, you own it. they own the state of the country right now. >> and it is a -- >> so great to have the pros here. >> and wwim, who wants it most, and that is what it is about in the last two weeks. >> and in the end, and the closing trump is making out there on the campaign trail, and he is telling the voters exactly who he is, and who the republicans are, and not one republican stand up, and say, what he is doing is wrong. paul ryan is referring calls back to the white house when he is getting the calls of the so-called tax cut, because it is not true. the republicans need to stand up and call the president out for what he is doing, and the fact that they are telling people who they are, and they are trump republicans. >> we will have to leave it there. stephanie cutter, and peter hart, thank you for being here, and mike murphy, thank you as well, and coming up, barack the vote, and he is pushing the democrats to get to the polls, as there are new numbers of who

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everything that you can to get your friends, neighbors, family to turn out, the consequences of you staying home would be profoundly dangerous to this country. to the our democracy. >> former president obama urging the supporters the vote in the midterms as new signs show the democratic enthusiasm is lagging, and the news data is showing that the republicans are outpacing the republicans in early voting in key states s. the blue wave a mirage? von hilliard is in houston and steve patterson is in henderson, nevada, outside of las vegas. and von, a cold day there, and what does the turnout look like? >> it is a cold day here, andrea, but despite that, it is feeling like election day here, and you have not only the folks campaigning, but this parking lot here in the middle of h houston here, and this is harris county, and if you are a democrat, you should be

encouraged by the turnout here. we have been here for the course of the day and there has been a line of voters since the polling station opened today. harris county is the largest voting county in the state of texas, and also a place that the hillary clinton beat donald trump by 12 percentage points. if you're democrats looking, you want high voter turnout. yesterday was the first day of early voting here, andrea, and they triple the compared to 2014. and they nearly get the same number in 2016. at the same time, everybody saw images of that rally and there were folks who drove to see ted cruz and donald trump. so while democrats are encouraged here, it is important to know what's happening in the rural areas. >> vaughn hillyard, thanks so much. both these states have key senate races as well. steve patterson is at a shopping mall in henderson, nevada, a location that doesn't open until 1:00 eastern. i don't know if you have people

there yet, steve. >> oh, andrea, we have people here. i know my assignment is working the midterms, early voting, but i feel like i'm working the line at the beyonce concert. more than 82,000 people have already voted in early voting in one county, this county, clark county. the largest county in nevada. that is the same number comparison, three times what we had in 2014 here. just look down this line. the line -- this isn't even open yet. another 10, 15 minutes and early voting will start. we've had this line out the door since people were able to line up. volunteers working this. they say in their entire lifetime, they haven't seen numbers or lines that look like this. we're speaking to people in rural districts, at that obama rally and in those trump rallies that have been here. everybody saying this is a referendum on donald trump and

the issues that have been there since he's taken office. that's the reason why we see so much enthusiasm here, andrea. >> wow that is impressive. steve patterson and vaughn hillyard. thank you both so much. coming up, trail blazers. a first female justice on the supreme court, sandra day o'connor, announces she is withdrawing from public life. every road in the world is now an information superhighway. and the car has become an accessory to the smartphone. ride hailing, car sharing, carpooling... ...mobility services are proliferating. and there's a new generation who don't seem to want to own cars in the first place. it all means massive disruption to the car industry, cities, businesses and investors. ♪ ♪

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sandra day o'connor, nominated by ronald reagan to be the first woman on the supreme court, has announced in a letter released by her family today that she is bidding farewell to public life because of dementia, likely the early stages of alzheimer's. she write, as this progression come, i am no longer able to participate in public life. how fortunate i feel to be an american. as a young cowgirl from the arizona desert, i never could have imagined that one day i would have become the first woman justice on the u.s. supreme court. now, sadly this is the same condition that befell her late husband john o'connor and friends say that led to her premature retirement from the court. pete williams covers the supreme court for us. of course, know, the justice well. pete, for all of us would have had contact with sandra day o'connor, i covered her when she first came to washington, this is a sad moment.

>> sad moment, but also an inspiring one i think, andrea, because while it's been obvious that she's been in declining health and i think her last public appearance was more than two years ago, maybe 2 1/2 years ago, 3 years ago, she's been pushing very hard on two causes, one is to end the election of judges, which she thinks is an unfair process, and secondly, to urge public schools to give more civics education so young people know more about their government and will participate. but the fact is she's using this as -- this letter, most of her letter, in fact, talks about the importance of civics education. even at this moment, turning point of her life, she continues to push for civics education. in a statement that came out a short time ago, the chief justice john roberts who of course did serve on the court with her says he was saddened to learn about this but not at all surprised she used the occasion to think about the country first and he also ends this way. he says no illness or condition

can take away the inspiration she provides for those who will follow the many paths she has blazed. you know, she was off fond of saying the pressure of being the first woman on the supreme court made her work extra hard to make sure she would not be the last woman on the supreme court. that she felt that pressure very much. but she also said that when she went on the supreme court, it kind of broke a barrier, that many other states then began to put women on their state supreme courts as well. >> she was such an inspiration and mentor to ruth bader ginsburg, the second woman. i wanted to play very briefly what she said to the senate about her late husband john o'connor's alzheimer's disease. >> i'm here in a position of being a caregiver. my beloved husband john suffers from alzheimer's. he's had it for a long time now. and he's not in very good shape at present. and so i have some appreciation

for the depth of feeling that you have that's generated the interest and the people who are in this room today. you magnify that by people in every state of this country and you will understand the depth of concern that's out there. >> going to have to leave it on that note, pete. we'll have your reporting throughout the day and on "nightly news." thank you very much. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." remember sandra day o'connor and all the caregivers and patients with alzheimer's. follow us online and on facebook and twitter twitter, @andreamitchellreports. >> to your point about sandra day o'connor, the other good thing that could come of this. speaking about alzheimer's.

their prediction, about a fifth of the population over 65 will be affected by some form of dementia which is one of the consequences of us all living older lives but it's important for people to understand that. we'll talk about that as well, andrea, thank you. good afternoon, i'm ali velshi. stephanie's off today. it's tuesday, october 23rd. >> new clues about the chances of a blue wave on election day with early voting well under way in more than two dozen states. the early returns are huge. >> today's democrat party would rather protect criminal aliens then american citizens. you know how the caravan started? does everybody know what this means? i think the democrats had something to do with it. in that caravan, you had some very bad people. we're going to be putting in a 10% tax cut for middle income families. it's going to be put in next week. an