you. it's part of what is beautiful about democracy. trymaine lee, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. that reporting from trymaine was so incredible. well done. thanks to you at home. happy to have you with us. if you are sensing a little tension, a little drama, a little frissant of expectation about the election, if you get the sense that things are a little tense right now, closely fought in terms of how the elections are going to be decided, that is not just you projecting from your own internal levels of anxiety and stress. what you are sensing is a true thing that is measurable in the world. never more so than it is pleasurable tonight. look at this. this is a new poll just released tonight in one of the most fascinating and important races that is going to happen in the

country. this is the georgia governor's race between republican secretary of state, ultra conservative republican brian kemp and the former democratic leader of the state legislature in georgia, stacey abrams. new poll from the atlanta journal constitution, as you see in the headline, it says they are deadlocked. that's not hyperbole. look, quote, the poll, conducted by the university of georgia school of public and international affairs has stacey abrams at 46.9% and brian kemp at 46.7%. that is incredible. five days out in a statewide race, five days out from the election to be separated by 0.2 percentage points. if neither of these candidates gets over 50% of the vote, brian kemp and stacey abrams will have to go to a runoff in december. so if neither one of them hits

50, we will not know who georgia's governor is going to be until next month there. is a libertarian candidate who is running in georgia as well. he has as much a chance of winning the governorship in georgia as i have at winning miss america and the lottery and a tony award, all tonight. ta-da! but with the race this close, even with the tiny little pointless sliver of the vote that that libertarian candidate seems to be pulling in, him pulling off this number of vote, as unimportant as that will be for his future, it will result in neither brian kemp or stacey abrams being able to get over 50% to win that race next week. not when they're both tied at between 46.7 and 46.9%. but it's not just there. there is a new cnn poll out tonight in the senate race in florida. bill nelson running against the republican incumbent governor rick scott. that race tonight in florida also exactly tied, 46% each. well also just got new fox news

polls on the senate race in arizona. republican martha mcsally running against democrat kyrsten sinema. that race is also tied at 46% each. another fox news poll also shows a tie in the missouri senate race between democratic incumbent senator claire mccaskill and missouri's general republican scott hawley, tied at 40%. this sought of wisconsin. this is marquette university. their poll just released in the wisconsin governor's race, this is incumbent republican governor scott walker is having a tough time holding on to his seat against a democratic challenger named tony evers. this is the marquette university poll in that wisconsin governor's race. it now not only shows a tie between scott walker and tony evers, not only shows them with each having 47% of the vote, that marquette university politt rally found the exact same

number of humans picking tony evers as scott walker. it's not a statistical tie, a margin of error. the exact same number of human respondents in that poll picked tony evers as picked scott walker. man! lest you think your vote might not count this year, i don't care where you're voting, there are so many really important, really interesting races all over the country, right? congressional race, statewide, governor races, senate race, there are so many of them we're seeing polling like this, where it's not just close, it is absolutely dead even. in that case of that wisconsin governor's race, it's literally tied with the exact same number of human beings on each side. and in an environment like that, that means every single individual vote has a good chance of being very exciting, because it could be divisive. and every race is different, and

every race turns on the strengths and weaknesses of each candidate and on the issues on which the candidates are fighting it out, and the local circumstances in which the elects are happening. i know every race is local. but when the contest overall appears to be as close as it is this year between the two party, right, and we see that most strikingly of course at the national level with the question of who will control the house of representatives. will the republicans continue to hold it or will the democrats hold it? that has huge implications in washington for the next couple years of the trump administration, let alone policy. but even bigger picture than, that when the two parties are fighting this hard, this closely over this many battlegrounds, i think it becomes almost irresistible for the party controlling the white house to try to give the elections overall some sort of big national shove. right? to try to change the weather in their own favor, to try to change the political climate in this country that somehow

redowns in the direction of the president's party. the white house finds it impossible to not try in an election like this. and when it comes though to this white house and this president, the shove that president trump has tried on for this election for this year is remarkably unsubtle. this ad apparently created by the white house or maybe the trump campaign, but certainly circulated by the president, it literally argues that democrats are rioting violent, marauding criminal mobs that will hunt you down and beat you bloody and destroy your city and then burn its wreckage. that was followed by the president now circulating a new ad that overtly and literally blames democrats for a sinister murderer of police officers who braids his beard hair. the ad advocates that democrats are in favor of murdering specifically this guy murdering

police officers. it is outrageous what democrats are doing to our country. literally says, quote, democrats let him stay. actually, after being deported during the clinton administration, that is actually a guy who was allowed back to stay in the country by the george w. bush administration. but apparently that's close enough to democrats to make the grade when it comes to the expected ver eed veracity of presidential statements in the trump white house. you can't let the truth of them get in the way of the story they trying to tell in the last few days before the election, to try to terrify low information voters into not voting at all, or for voting for the party that they think will defend the white race from the mongrel hoards who donald trump promises are coming into your house to punch you in the face. i mean, i realize that's a little on the nose, but i feel like if this is the level of subtlety they want to operate at heading into the election, this where we should meet them and talk blauntly about what hey are

doing here. but nobody is going to go to the polls. either early voting or this weekend, nobody is going to the polls to get a chance to vote yes or no on donald trump. he won't be on the ballot, right? it's other republican names all around the country the people have to vote on. state legislative candidates, statewide candidates, congressional candidates, gubernatorial candidates, those interest republicans who are going to have to decide whether they want to position themselves to benefit from this final shove that is coming from the white house before this year's elections, from this propaganda effort that is designed to shape the electorate in a way that will hopefully help republicans. and i understand why the white house is trying to do this. but there are problems for them with this strategy. for example, no matter how much they're trying to change the conversation away from it, today was another day of funerals in pittsburgh for three more of the victims of the deadliest attack

on the american jewish community ever committed on u.s. soil. the suspect in this weekend's massacre in that pittsburgh synagogue plead not guilty today to 44 felony counts. he is pleading not guilty. he could have plead guilty, come to some sort of plea agreement, specifically maybe in an effort to try to avoid the death penalty, but he is pleading not guilty, and he told the judge today that he wants a jury trial. and we will see how that works out for him in the court system. a lot of things could happen. but presumably, at that jury trial he is thinking at this point that he'll be able to mount what all of these guys fantasize about when they see themselves as justified, righteous killers defending the white race. presumably, he will want to use his jury trial to make a public argument in court that he thinks will persuade the country into rising up for a race war, right? make his public argument in court for why his murder of all these mostly elderly jews in pittsburgh was necessary and

even patriotic. he'll presumably want to make that public case before the jury. that's what these guys always want to do. and we know that he wants to make that arguments publicly because he made that argument at length over a period of weeks and months online. before he finally went ahead and loaded his guns and did it. the suspect in the pittsburgh massacre waxed ineloquent and in all caps for months in age old klan and skinhead style that the jews are out to destroy white people by promoting immigration so as to dilute the white race, to dilute white racial purity, to undermine white racial majority, weaken the country by making it less white. that's the -- that's the white nationalist connection, right? that's the connection they draw between the be afraid of the terrible terrifying diseased immigrant hoards cohordes comin in and the jews are probably

paying is for it. the white nationalist people have always connected those two things. the immigrant hordes are coming here to dilute our racial purity and undermine white power in america and the jews are out to destroy the white race. that's their argument and it has been as far back as you can count. that's why the pittsburgh massacre suspect was ranting about the caravan of migrants coming up from central america, and also simultaneously ranting about the need to kill the jews to stop that invasion that he was so afraid of. that was his argument for why he said he had to do it. he plead not guilty in court today. but that is what he's already plead online as his justification for this past weekend's massacre. he had to do it because the united states was being invaded, invaded by the immigrants and refugees right now. so he had to act urgently. that's the massacre suspect that plead not guilty in court this

morning, and then this was the president's speech acting out his arguments this afternoon. >> at this very moment, large well-organized caravans of migrants are marching toward our southern border. some people call it an invasion. it's line an invasion. >> even if there had not just been the worst massacre of american jews on u.s. soil by an alleged killer who decried the invasion and made this exact same argument days ago before he grabbed his guns and started shooting, even if that hadn't just happened, republicans might still be having a hard time deciding if they too are going to go with this as the last big public argument that we're going to have before this year's election. the country is in a national emergency because we're being invaded. i mean, the president certainly believes this is a great political move for himself and his party. but there are already signs that this sort of thing isn't going to work everywhere. it's actually starting to get

hard to see where it's going to work. i mean, in the great state of iowa, the governor's race right now is a really interesting one. it's one where there hasn't ban lot of public polling, there hasn't been a lot of national attention. but 538.com right now lists the iowa governor's race as likely democrat in hawaii. and that's with an incumbent republican trying to hold on the that seat. one of the late emerging issues in that iowa governor's race is the republican incumbent governor kim reynolds, she picked as her statewide co-chair for her campaign a congressman named steve king. now congressman steve king has a national profile because he had these virulent anti-immigrant politics and was known for his raw, unapologetic racist appeals against immigrants and his retweets of neo-nazis. was known for all of that, even before trump made it cool in the republican party. after congressman king went so far as to take a trip to austria this summer, literally to meet with a neo-nazi political party,

king's own district in iowa, even though they've been electing him and re-electing him for years, and he's never exactly hid this light under a bushel, they're finally shuddering a little bit about the prospect of reelecting him one more time. among other things, his hometown paper, which has supported him in the past, his hometown paper has now abandoned him. it doesn't hurt that the democrat rung against steve king appears to 23409 have an enemy in the world and seems to be running exactly the kind of race you might need to run in that district in order to beat a guy like steve king. but steve king's race and anti-immigrant stuff now, it does appear to have fed up his own constituents in iowa enough that his own race is an interesting new question and his involvement in the republican governor's campaign itself is becoming enough of a controversy for her that it may help her lose that governor's seat. it may help elect democrat fred

hubbell, governor of iowa on tuesday night. for other republicans who don't want a reputation like steve king's, for other republicans, particularly those in tight races who are trying to steer clear of the steve king-donald trump effect at this late day date. a lot of them have been trying to avoid this anti-demagoguery stuff as much as they can. they try not to answer questions about it. please don't ask a follow-up. a lot of them have been trying to run instead on things like health care, which we've been covering for the last few weeks now. that, of course, has its own awkwardness for republican candidates this year. after all these years of the republican party as a unified front running vituperatively against obamacare, and everything the affordable care act stood for and did, now this year all these republicans who are up for election or reelection this year, they're

all trying to run like they're the biggest champions of obamacare ever. vote for me. i will protect what obamacare -- vote for me. i'll make sure that obamacare. obamacare made it a new rule that insurance companies can't deny you a policy, can't say no to you for getting covered, and they can't charge you more for getting covered if you have a preexisting condition. all these republicans were trying to say that was awesome. we got to make sure that doesn't go away. boy, i sure love that. i can be counted to fight for you on that. after all these years they have been fighting to get rid that of and every other element of obamacare. president obama himself has been out on the campaign trail, stumping for democratic candidates in this election. seems quite specifically fed up about that. here is former president obama a few days ago in wisconsin talking about wisconsin republican governor scott walker, trying to run for reelection this year as if he's obamacare's biggest champion. >> your governor has been running an ad during election

time saying he is going to protect preexisting conditions when he is literally doing the opposite. that is some kind of goal. that is some kind of chutzpah. but let's also call it what it is. it is a lie. >> as republicans try to run away from trump and his violence and race closing argument and they try to find other policy issues to run on instead, health care isn't going to work for republican candidates for a bunch of different reasons. i mean, one of them is their record. the republican party's unified, unanimous record fighting everything in the affordable care act. including insurance companies having to cover you if you got a preexisting condition. they're all trying to run on that now. but it is too blatant a reverse. it's too blatant a lie to get

away with anywhere in the country, especially in a year when health care is more important to voters than any other issue that's helping them to decide between the candidates in their local race. there is also this problem. 20 republican-led states, including scott walker's wisconsin right now are suing in federal courts to eliminate coverage for preexisting conditions. as established by obamacare. they're suing to eradicate every vestige of obamacare, including specifically arguing in their lawsuit that the rule that says preexisting conditions have to be covered, that must die. that's a lawsuit from 20 republican-led states. that lawsuit has actually made its way through the courts now, and a ruling on that case is due any second, any day. i mean, the republican-led states are suing to eliminate preexisting conditions. all of these republican candidates, including republican governors from those states that are suing for that are saying i'm really for coverage for

preexisting conditions. but the court's ruling on that could come any day now, betweening between now and election day on tuesday. so that's a problem for them. but even worse for republicans who are trying to change the conversation to health care today, today, november 1st was the first day that new rules established by the trump administration unilaterally, today is the first day those new rules went into effect. and as of today for the first time, actually, i'll quote "the wall street journal" here, quote, this is the first open enrollment period under a trump administration change under which plans -- health insurance plans can now deny coverage to people with preexisting conditions. under obamacare, we got this new rule in the country that tells health insurance companies you can't deny people coverage because they have asthma or high blood pressure. they've ever had a lump removed from their breast or any other preexisting condition. we got that under obamacare. republicans in 20 states with

support from the trump justice department are suing to get rid of that protection. and today for the first time, you can buy cruddy health insurance that will not cover you if you have a preexisting condition. and you can buy that as of today for the first time since obamacare passed because of a rules change that was pushed through unilaterally by the trump administration that has gone into effect today, literally five days before election day. all right. and here is one last problem. as other options of other policies to talk about, like health care, those things get basically closed off to republicans for the last five days, as we head toward election day, as the president doubles and triples and quadruples down on this hard shove to make this election all about terrible immigrants and race and the border, there is another problem for republican candidates right now. we're going to speak in just a moment with a well connected reporter from "newsweek" magazine about the military

deployment, the active duty troop deployment that just started today which president trump ordered to the boarder in response to the central american migrants that he is trying to make the centerpiece of the election, the caravan is more than 800 miles away from the nearest place they could cross the u.s. board fer they got there. they're more than 2,000 miles away from the place they're considered most likely to try to reach the border, if they try to. but the president announced this week that there would be initially 5,000 active duty u.s. troops rushed to the border in response to the threat of this caravan. then it became 9,000 troops. now they're saying it is 15,000 troops. 15,000 active duty u.s. servicemen and women. democrats in the armed services committees in both the house and senate have now written letters to the white house asking about what's the cost of this deployment? how long is this thing going to last? and of course we are all used to not just increased demagoguery,

but also blatant political stunts before election day. i know that. it is something different. it is a different order of magnitude when you're talking about thousands of active duty u.s. soldiers, more u.s. soldiers than are serving right now in the war in afghanistan. the 15,000 active duty u.s. troops at, what, round up to infinite costs. if they're being taken away from other u.s. military missions and instead sent in a huge deployment right before the election to the border specifically to help the president's party win the election, because the president thinks that's good messaging, that's not your run of the mill stunt. that's something that might even annoy the military itself. and so here's the last point. two military sources have gone to the press and have provided to "newsweek" magazine actual military planning documents for trump's preelection border

deployment. these documents just published by "newsweek" magazine show the unvarnished internal military assessment that was not supposed to be made public about what exactly the military believes it is being sent to the border to confront. these documents obtained by "newsweek" magazine, there is a lot here. we're going to talk to the reporter from this story in just a moment. here is the reason they were leaked in the first place. this is the military assessment of the threat that the president is hyping so much as justifying this deployment. this is what this document says. according to the military in this internal document, quote, based on historic trends, it has assessed that only a small percentage of the migrants will likely reach the border. and then see over here? military documents love acronyms. the acronym is mlcoa, most likely course of action. mlcoa, what the military itself

assesses in terms of the supposed threat they're responding to. most likely course of action, caravan dwindles as it nears u.s., limited tco exploitation and no terrorist infiltration. so this was a document that was not supposed to be released to the public. it's unclassified but labeled for official use only and law enforcement sensitive. but it's now been leaked. and this shows us what the military thinks about this situation for which they're being sent in numbers larger than the afghanistan war deployment to the border right ahead of the election on the president's orders. the reason this document is now public, we don't know, because we can't get in the heads of the sources here, right? but it would seem to indicate that there may be people within in the military who want it to be known that this deployment of military trups before the election might just be for a political reason, to help the president's party and not for a real military reason. we'll have more with on reporter

that broke this document in just a few minutes.

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total of 534 additional border patrol agents to arizona. >> the government is concerned about a group of civilians called the minutemen. for them, today's announcement is too little too late. on monday, a thousand minutemen, some armed, will begin patrolling a 23-mile stretch of arizona's border, claiming border patrol agents need help. >> are we going out looking for a firefight? absolutely not. do we have a right to be there? yes. that's united states territory. >> the border patrol fears some of the minutemen are neither trained nor prepared to encounter illegal immigrants or smugglers. >> we feel if you bring untrained civilians to an area they don't know, you know, that the likelihood of them getting into a serious violent incident is very high. >> ah, the civilian fake border patrol. this comes up and around every few years, people who have been whipped up into a frenzy into believing that the border is being overrun and he can help.

what the border patrol desperately needs is their untrained civilian vigilante untrained roger gator help. it's not actually helpful. it's never been helpful. the actual people who work on the border for u.s. law enforcement never think it's helpful. so tonight we're reporting on these leaked documents from the u.s. military that have ended up getting published in "newsweek" magazine. the top line result here is that in terms of this deployment that the president has ordered of u.s. active duty troops to the border right ahead of the election, the military assessment about the threat they're going there to stop, this migrant caravan coming up from central america, military's assessment about that as an actual threat is only a small percentage of any of those migrants who are part of that caravan right now will end up ever reaching the border. here's what the military assesses as the most likely course of action for that caravan, quote, caravan dwindlelings as it nears u.s. there is limited criminal

exploitation and no terrorist infiltration. so no criminal problem, no terrorist problem, and not all that many people overall. also, nobody is going to be anywhere for a really long time. there are 800 to 2,000 miles away, depending on which route they take. so active duty troops are being sent there, apparently in huge numbers on the president's orders right before the election. he is making as big a show out of it as possible. speech at the white house today and everything. but now we know that the military itself assesses the situation there as nowhere near the kind of terrible immediate existential threat that the president is preaching to the country as supposedly justifying this deployment. so it's interesting. with this document, with james laporta's reporting, he is the one who obtained this document for "newsweek," we can see what the military is apparently not at all worried about. here is the neat thing about this document, though. in this document, we can see what the military is most worried about with this deployment, this just in time for the election border troop

deployment. it turns out what the military, according to these documents, according to these leaked documents, what the military is most actually worried about are americans who show up to play militia and fake patrol the border themselves. they say among the events of interest they need to be concerned about are, quote, an estimated 200 unregulated armed militia members currently operating along the southern border. for one thing, the pentagon says based on their past experience with these vigilante anti-immigrant militia guys, one of the problems with them they know from past experience is that they steal. look at this. under events of interest, quote, reported incidents of unregulated militias stealing national guard equipment during deployments. so okay, active duty troops, if you or somebody in your family is going to be part of this 15,000 troop deployment to the border just in time for the election, you already know and now we know thanks to these documents that the military

assesses basically no credible threat of that caravan overwhelming the border. but the military does want you to keep your eyes pealed for the armed militia vigilante guys who are excited about the caravan who might be looming in the area and trying to steal your stuff. joining us now is james laporta, investigative reporter at "newsweek." he is a former u.s. marine infantry man himself. mr. laporta, it's really nice to have you with us tonight. congratulations on this scoop. >> thank you for having me. >> can you tell us -- both from this document that you obtained from your second quarter, but also with your own military background, i understand you have military intelligence background as well. what kind of document is this that you've obtained? what would this be used for? and also, how secret is this kind of a document? >> so in terms of how secret this document is, it is an unclassified document. it is for official use only. it does have a slightly higher classification than for official

use only because of the law enforcement sensitivity, but in terms of the intelligence assessment, i mean, from my limited experience in the intelligence community, you would see this in what we call an intelligence preparation of the battlefield. i don't want to -- i want to caveat the term battlefield is not what i'm calling the southern border, but usually is when you would see it. it is an assessment of just like you said, the most likely course of action, the most dangerous course of action, but based on historical trends, what the intelligence community predicts will happen. >> i'm not going to ask you to talk about your source. i'm not pressuring you about that at all. i don't need you to explain exactly how you got this document which you say is law enforcement sensitive. it's not designed for public scrutiny. but can you talk at all about why you think this document was leaked, why somebody wanted a reporter such as yourself to have access to this information? >> well, my sources and both

other people i just talked to today in terms of sort of what is the overall feeling in the pentagon, they believe there tends to be an agreement on two things, one, that it's sort of a waste of time and there is really not the evidence to support sending this many troops down there. it really comes from a standpoint of how much money this is going to cost the taxpayers. but in terms of why the documents were leaked, it's really to show that the military is from my source's opinion and people in the pentagon they believe a lot of them -- not all of them, but lot of them believe that this is politically motivated. and so that, you know, they're sending 15,000 troops to basically respond to about 1400 people that may or may not show up at the border. >> and even if they do, it won't be any time soon. certainly nothing for which you need to rush people there right

before the election, if this is politically motivated. i just want to underscore one thing that you said there, not just in terms of the sources from whom you obtained this document, be you also described pentagon source more clearly that you're hearing within the pentagon there are definitely voices who are upset about this deployment, who are suggesting that it's wasteful and that it is motived for political reasons and that it is not warranted by the actual conditions on the ground. do you think that is something for which we're going to start to hear a sort of dissent channel voice from the pentagon or that will start to see more documents leaked or that people will actually start to talk what their concerns are about this deployment? >> possibly. the sources talked to today sort of paint the pentagon into sort of three different groups. one group is a dissenting opinion from what these documents show, it's basically they are hard liners.

they believe in a crackdown on illegal immigration. and, you know, they're going to sort of -- they support what's actually going on. that is not from what i'm hearing is not the majority view there is a second group that they are career military. they're going to follow the orders of the president, just regardless of political ideology. they're going to follow the orders, but they really come at this problem in terms of the money situation, like, you know, how much is this going to cost. and then the third group is really how is this going to overall affect military readiness, that it's a waste of money, that even the troop level response coming down from the national command authority is -- just doesn't equate with the most likely course of action. like you said, they're assessing that the migrants are going to dwindle down to the smallest group, that historically 20%

make to it the border. and so if you're taking the 7,000, which is assessed in that document, 20% of 7,000 is about 1400 people. so it just seems to them irrational to send a force of 15,000 which is more than sort of what we have in afghanistan right now, which is is a 17-year war to the border to respond to about 1400 people. >> james laporta, investigative journalist for "newsweek," an infantry veteran of the u.s. marine corps himself. james, thank you very much for sharing this scoop with us. i think it's a really important story. >> thanks. >> thank you for having me. >> all right. we've got much more to come here tonight. do stay with us. add on advantage, a new way to save on travel. now when you book a flight you unlock discounts on select hotels that you can use up until your trip starts. so whether you want to go out, stay in, or be in the middle of it all... add the perfect hotel when you're ready,

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part of a legal team for the spirit lake tribe in north dakota. that tribe today suffered a defeat in federal court when a judge turned down the tribe's plea to block north dakota emphasis new voting law which is turning out to be a very well targeted means of essentially blocking native-americans from voting in next week's crucial elections. thank you very hutch for joining us tonight. really appreciate you being here. >> thank you for having me, rachel. >> this new law and its effect has received a lot of national attention. we've been covering this closely. this ruling today feels like a big setback. is this the end of the line in terms of a legal fight here? >> well, we're working with our team and the spirit lake tribe to figure out what the next steps are. but the tribes are continuing to work tirelessly printing new i.d.s, making sure they can get the new i.d.s in the hands of

the voters in anticipation for next tuesday. >> one of the things we've found frustrating to report on this is that the long time secretary of state in north dakota has been unwilling to explain to us, just to us trying to report this out, what his office will accept in terms of acceptable i.d. he just won't say what he'll accept from native-american tribe members. do you have a sense of what will be accepted or what won't, or is it as muddy to you as it is to us? >> that was one of the purposes of our lawsuit, rachel. let's start with first principles. north dakota does not have voter registration. we're the only state in the country that doesn't have voter registration. and that's due to the fact we're very small. the population of north dakota is less than the city of charlotte, north carolina. and out of that idea comes you should open the polls and vote. under the statute it's written that the legislator that's

written if you show up at the polls with a voter i.d., that has a picture i.d., date of birth and current residential address, you're supposed to be able to vote. but what we've seen and our investigation over the last month revealed and what we alleged in our complaint is some of those addresses are now being compared against the central voter file. and we had one of our plaintiffs who submitted an absentee ballot and it came back his address was invalid. again, we don't have voter registration. if you have an i.d. that has date of birth, picture, and residential address you should be able to vote. so what we're concerned about is next tuesday are they going to be checking these addresses? and when you dive into that and see all the problems with the voter assignment system we have an instance of two people living in the same home that have different addresses on separate voter file. number of folks who don't have addresses in the central voter file, specifically on the reservation where we have large

streets labeled unknown on the official map. >> tim perten, i have a feeling these next five days may involve firth developments in this case. much appreciate you being here. >> thank you for having me. >> and we'll be right back. stay with us.

that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. now it's time for the "last word" with the great lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> rachel, i have a very controversial question for you, which we've never discussed and even on those long canoe rides we do on the weekend on the lake, it's never come up. and that is where are you on oprah? for or against? >> oprah is or hopra as far as i'm concerned. when everything else falls to hell and the ash collapses oprah will still be there to shows