andrea? >> ryan nobles, great to have you with us. thank you so very much for the breaking news. a slight embarrassment. more than slight embarrassment for democrats in the caucus. that does it for this special edition of "andrea mitchell reports." we're live from pittsburgh. we will have a lot more tomorrow after the big debate. follow us online on facebook and on twitter. chris jansing will be here in just a few moments. few moments good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. today in the closing days of one of the most uncertain midterms of our lifetimes, candidates are theft with a shrinking number of available votes and a shrinking amount of time because more than eight million people have cast their ballots already, and there are just two weeks left before

election day. right now, average polls at half a dozen senate races are within the margin of error. so what moves the needle now? three huge debates are scheduled tonight alone. we go to our reporters live in the field in just a minute. plus, what the biden administration is calling a sham appeal hearing that was over before it started. brittney griner denied her bid to get out of a russian prison. it will no doubt ramp up international pressure on vladimir putin. that may be nothing from the pressure he's getting against his own people. plus, the flu, covid and now rsv. how worried should you be? the answer coming up. but we start with the mid-terms. and let's get specific. new polling shows both ohio and wisconsin senate races are a statistical dead heat. and a tracking poll out of pennsylvania shows john

fetterman and dr. oz points apart. tonight's huge debate in pennsylvania provides a critical timed opportunity for both candidates to gain some late momentum. and that's not the only debate. there is also a big one in michigan's governor's race tonight against gretchen whit her. >> you are looking at actual violent crimes caught on camera in kathy hochul's new york. nonof 8th vote like your life depends on it. >> crime is a recurring theme across the country. i want to bring in dasha burns, ali vitali and cornell belcher.

so take me to pennsylvania, dasha. tonight's debate could be make or break. it is dr. oz's chance to make a move. fetterman has already been lowering expectations. what are we going to see? >> yeah. chris, this race is so high stakes and so close that any number of factors could tip the scales here. perhaps the biggest factor right now is this debate. every voter we have talked to across the commonwealth has been waiting for this month after so many months of the two candidates duking it out over the air waves and social media. they are waiting to see them face to face together on the debate stage. the fetterman campaign sent out a memo saying that, quote, we'll admit, this isn't john's format. if we're all being honest, oz clearly comes into tuesday night with a huge built-in advantage. they also called the

circumstances of this debate unprecedented, pointing to the closed captioning that fetterman will be using because of the lingering auditory processing changes and saying that, quote, john is going to win this race even if he doesn't win the debate. so this will be very, very closely watched. we talked to a number of persuadable voters who said they may be making up their minds tonight. >> wow. to have that kind of high stakes debate at this point, i'm surprised. but i understand why people are, like, inundated with so many ads, so much information so they maybe want to see for themselves. what are you going to watch for tonight? >> well, i'm not surprised that they're lowering expectations for the debate. actually it is smart. oz is a television personality. it is smart to say the way

herschel walker in georgia was lowering expectations for himself in the debate. and so it is smart strategically. look, i think so much of it is already baked in. once upon a time i think debates moved voters hugely. i think with all the advertising, all the social media stuff and this -- this close in to the election, you have less voters to actually move. from a campaign perspective, in a bureau, you know, either republican or democrat what you don't want to do is make a mistake. you don't want to have a big sort of mistake happen tonight because that could change the dynamic. but if both men get off their talking points, which i suspect they will, both men get off their talking points and try to frame the conversation and to close the way they want to frame that conversation in the close, it will still be a draw. i think the key thing is for neither of these two gentlemen to make a big gaffe that could change the dynamic. >> meantime, doug, the big

picture, we have seen crime become more and more of an issue in more and more of these races. "the new york times" said fears about public safety and inflation have eclipsed abortion and the former president as make-or-break issues for voters, eroding democrats support, even in liberal enclaves like new york city and its suburbs. nobody, nobody thought the governor's race was going to be this close. is crime that big of a motivator? >> it is. there are two reasons. in new york, you have seen where crime is not just a daily issue for new yorkers, and even if you aren't a victim of crime, you see it every day. even if you are just going to the drugstore and things are behind a lock and key. it is a remnant of crime, so you are reminded of it. with lee zelden, he was attacked at an event. there was a drive-by shooting in front of his house. you have a former supreme court justice in the state.

and two supreme court justice races elected on north carolina on the ballot. so you learn a lot about campaigns watching north carolina football. a lot of advertisements where he's talking about crime first and foremost. it was the closest race for a while. now you are seeing separation for bud leading the pack there. >> we know violent crime is up in many places, but we also know that 7 out of the top 10 states with the worst violent crime rates are run by republicans. so why do democrats seem to be losing this issue so badly? not seeming to. polls show they are. >> well, look, historically, you know, news flash, republicans had an advantage on the issue of fighting crime. news flash, republicans have also had an issue advantage going back to when i was polling at the dnc for governor dean in 2006 around the economy. but it is -- it is about sort of

connecting the dots for democrats on crime. when you connect the dots with the issue of guns, democrats have a big advantage on guns right now. so there is -- we look for the silver bullet variable. yeah, republicans want to make that conversation all about crime. and a democrat would be foolish to take that bait and make the conversation completely about crime. he or she who defines a debate is typically the one that will win the debate. if democrats want to pitch this forward focus and talk about the future, talk about gun safety, talk about freedom and reproductive rights and republicans want to make this about inflation and crime because that clearly benefits them, it is just basic campaign tactics. but i will tell you right now the issue of guns is different now than i have ever seen it because it's typically been an issue where democrats have not wanted to touch and it's broken solidly for republicans and republicans voter round issue. now especially with the young

people and i give a lot of credit to the young people in florida, the issue of gun and gun safety is now breaking solid by for democrats. >> speaking of florida, you could make the argument that last night's debate was charlie chris' last chance to make a run at desantis. the headlines weren't about issues. they were about desantis' future plans. >> yeah. that's exactly right, chris. you could make that argument. and frankly i would. having been in the room last night, the debate touched on a range of issues. desantis defending his last few years here as governor and polls show him leading, that he should have another term of governor. but the length of that term is what became one of the seminoll moments of this debate. hammering desantis on whether or not he would commit to serving as a full four years of governor because of the idea that 2024

and a potential presidential run are right around the corner maybe. listen. >> i have a question for you. you're running for governor. why don't you look in the eyes of the people of state of florida and say to them if you are re-elected you will serve a full four-year term as governor. yes or no? yes or no, ron? will you serve a full four-year term if you are re-elected governor of florida? it's a fair question. he won't tell you. >> so you saw desantis there ignoring that question from chris. the moderator would point out that it wasn't the candidates who would be asking each other questions. it was the moderator. the moderator did not follow-up on that despite the fact it came up several more times throughout the debate. but, look, this is the reality for ron desantis here, someone that does have good home base support, defending not just the conservative ideals he put forward in terms of the economics of the state of florida but also the way he

handled the covid-19 response, something he initially faced criticism for but ultimately florida voters seemed to potentially come around on and also of course for those of us who are looking the way this might look in 2024, defending the culture wars that he has been at the forefront of, models himself akin to donald trump but charting a path as his own candidate here in florida too, chris. >> i want to bring you back around to the issue stuck. is there an argument that you can't really separate the economy from crime? they are intertwined because it is a feeling that people have that their anxious, that they're unsettled. and will that ultimately be what drives people not only to decide what to vote but who they will vote for? >> absolutely. every poll shows that over 70% of the country feels that we're moving in the wrong direction. by default, that means democrats will get more of the blame for that just simply by the fact of having a democratic house, senate and president. typically at this point in

campaigns, we have already started to see the colors and shapes and we sort of know what's going to happen. these senate races and the cross winds we have seen with the dobbs decision makes it harder on the house side. but republicans are more and more confident and they see races that weren't on their radar screen, the new york governor's race being one. a lot of races that republicans weren't optimistic on months ago, they are now. >> but is it a full game to end up who is going to end up with control of the senate now? >> until the dr. oz and fetterman debate, it is a fool's game. >> i will play the expectation's game also. look, this is supposed to be a republican-led year. they are supposed to pick up 30, 40 seats. there is nowhere in the data that they're at 30, 40 seats. rick, you talk about a close race in north carolina. last time i checked, north carolina was a solidly red state. and the fact that you have a

toss-up race in a republican state like ohio speaks to this is not just a referendum on democrats. this is also a referendum on republicans and they're not fairing that well. this is not a republican wave year like we expected it to be. >> we will see you in two weeks. thank you all. while our midterm election season can seem like a never ending slog, the u.k. has had two prime ministers in two months. rishi sunak took over the job today after being officially welcomed by king charles. >> this government will have integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level. trust is earned and i will earn yours. >> nbc senior international respondent keir simmons joins us from london. look, the economic situation in the u.k. is still often, just

like it was when liz truss took over a month and a half ago. what do we know about sunak and what he's likely to do differently? >> reporter: yeah. things haven't changed, have they, chris, even though the leader in that famous building there, ten downing streets has changed to date. it is kind of a split screen today because you have sunak, as you mentioned, indian heritage. what an extraordinary moment in history for that man to now be leading this country with all of its colonial pasts. and so lots of people will be noticing that and celebrating that. on the other hand it is a very serious moment. normally when a prime minister is appointing, they come out and their family are there and there are other lawmakers standing and cheering. not this time. it was a very serious message because ahead are billions dollars of worth of black hole in the british finances that will have to be fixed in some way. he has a divided party that he

has to try to rule and unite. and the problem is going to be, chris, where do you make the cuts? do you put up taxes, which many of his own lawmakers would like. do you make big cuts? where? health? do you do it there? or do you cut some of the financial support for the ukraine and that crisis there? of course, the white house would not want that. and already president biden has made a statement welcoming the new prime minister and saying he's sure that the u.k. will continue to be a strong ally to the u.s. over the ukraine crisis. >> cutting budgets never fun and never popular. keir simmons, we'll be talking again. thank you so much. brittney griner's appeal in a russian court denied. what happens now? a legal expert who served at the u.s. embassy in moscow joins me next. as pressure mounts for putin in

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it now seems to be squarely on the u.s. government to get brittney griner out of russian captivity. a russian court denied her appeal sochlt the u.s. will have to continue those delicate negotiations at an incredibly tension time with russia. griner is expected to be moved to the russian penal colonies. torture, physical and sexual

abuse, limited access to food care, inadequate sanitation. i want to bring in the former resident legal advisor at the u.s. embassy. tom, that sounds about as bad as one could possibly imagine. it does come from a state department report. how bad is it? >> i mean, it's not good. i think that the state department reports are accurate, and they're consistent with first-hand accounts that we have from other people who have been in similar penal colonies. there is a lot of work required, overcrowding, insufficient access to food and health care and, as you know, occasional abuse. so not a good place to be. >> you have worked with the embassy in moscow for years. so now that the appeal, sham as it's called by the government here, is exhausted, what's next? what can the u.s. do to gain the release of not just brittney griner, but paul whelan as well.

>> what they can do is negotiate for the release of griner. a teacher got 14 years for a small amount of medical cannabis. they can continue to negotiate in exchange for them. obviously that's extremely difficult given the political situation right now. if there is any kind of silver lining to this decision, the russian government previously said we're not going to engage in negotiations for griner's release until the appeals have been exhausted, unless her sentence enters into legal effect, which it has done after today's decision. >> would it be fair to say that ultimately this decision will be made by vladimir putin and everybody is talking about the fact that because of the war he is under so much pressure. does it make it far more difficult to do these negotiations? >> absolutely. these kinds of negotiations, exchanges are difficult even in

good political conditions. they're especially difficult now. it could be that the russians are expecting more oligarchs, people close to putin to be arrested for sanctions evasion or something else and they may want to hold back and get as many americans as they can as potential bargaining chips. >> we want to stay on top of this story. tom, thank you. i hope you will come back and talk with us again. there is growing concern inside and outside of russia about just how desperate vladimir putin has become with mounting losses and the war he started in ukraine. the german chancellor saying just this morning that the russian president's latest string of drone attacks on civilians are a sign of moscow's desperation. in russia, one top tycoon is not holding back. according to u.s. officials, putin was told personally by that tycoon that his military chiefs are, quote, mismanaging

the war. all of these woes seem to go back to ukraine's successes on the battlefield. what is the latest you can tell us from within the country there. >> reporter: absolutely. it is that southern front. this is a city that is the closest largest city to crimea. so it was one of the first cities that russia occupied. ukraine has been trying to take it back since it was occupied more than six months ago. we heard in just the last hour from the chief of staff from the airport that some kind of bombing campaign by ukrainian forces have killed as he said at least 40 russian soldiers, burying more in rubble in a village outside of kherson. we should also remind our viewers that russian forces withdrew the civilians from kherson. intelligence reports suggest that russia is reinforcing those positions, not abandoning their posts. there was some discussion that

russia would withdraw altogether. all of this the backdrop to more strikes happening every day. these drones continuing to strike the energy infrastructure. more than a third of the power is out across this country and it is not coming back. the situation is not going to get better as long as these strikes continue, chris. >> i can't tell you how much we appreciate your reporting from there. thank you so much. the white house renewing its call for an assault weapons ban after a gunman walked into a st. louis high school and killed two people and sent nine others to the hospital yesterday. and then he got into a gunfight with police who eventually killed him. >> the officers arrived quickly, made entry with no hesitation. went directly to the sound of gunfire, which is the expectation not only of the department but of the community as well. >> the police commissioner says officers were on the scene four minutes after the first 911

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here we go. early voting has just started in wisconsin today where new polling data shows a dead heat in the wisconsin senate race. ron johnson up one point over mandela barnes. a race so important to senate control that both sides are attracting marquee surrogates this week, including former president barack obama who will make a rare campaign appearance for barnes this weekend. shaquille brewster is in milwaukee for us. nearly a quarter of a million voters already voted by mail, i understand.

what are you hearing from folks as they head to the polls now? >> well, they're taking this seriously. the intensity in wisconsin is picking up. from the moment the polls opened at 9:00 a.m., we saw the lieutenant governor, the democrat in this race, go and cast his ballot at an early voting location in milwaukee. and then here in wakasha, we have the incumbent senator here, encouraging people to cast their ballot and vote early in this battleground state. this is one of those races that democrats believed coming in that this was a key pickup opportunity for them. this is a race where if you look at polling, ron johnson is not the most popular senator. he did look vulnerable. but you see the polling now and it is neck in neck. you have a lot of outside fun, a lot of outside focus in the big name surrogates you mentioned. pete buttigieg. before then on wednesday, you

will see elizabeth warren and glenn youngkin. with the 50/50 senate, every seat is important. on this early day of voting, the candidates are feeling it with as tense and tight as it is. >> thank you very much. another critical race, nevada. early voting in the state started on saturday. so now we've got some data points on voters. and no one follows it more closely than john. he will join us in just a couple of minutes. cornell belcher is back with me, a pollster with brilliant corners research. both of those guys are msnbc analysts. i want to go to georgia if i can, cornell, because that's another place early voting results are coming in. they show a turn-out that is blacker and older than recent

elections. post-pandemic early voting has changed, but has it changed the game? do we just really not know what we're dealing with here yet? >> no, we don't. and let's give our viewers some context. midterm elections are different from presidential elections and turn-out. if you take the last midterm election of 2010 and 2014, you got somewhere between 40 and 43% turn-out. the presidential election, you grow that up into the 60s if we're lucky. but in 2018, you had a turn-out that looked like a presidential election. so you had a lot of increased turn-out. you got close-out close to 55% turn-out, which a big deal for a midterm. i thought that that was a phenomenal. i thought that was the trump again, you wouldn't see that again. but if you look at the early

turn-out, it looks like 2018 was not a phenomenal and we may in fact see again an increased turn-out and particularly if you look at some of those numbers, i know you will jump into those numbers, i'm surprised by the number of young people who are surging through the polls in these early numbers. if you look at 2018, you had, what, approaching 48% of the millennials in that election had not voted in a midterm before, which sort of changed the dynamic. i think you will see that again. another quick point is this. with this kind of turn-out and with this kind of increase in the electorate, a lot of your polling is going to be off because a lot of your polling is not going to be taken into account for these new voters who are participating for the first time. >> that brings me to the ceo of the nevada independent news site. always great to see you, john. you have three days worth from nevada. what are you seeing so far? and do you want to venture a

guess as to what it might mean? >> it would just be a guess, chris. it is good to see you again after so long. i have to tell you, this is a very strange year in nevada. i have been watching this stuff for a long time. the turn-out in in person early voting is very low. there aren't even a lot of mail-in ballots that have come out early. remember, nevada completely changed its system. it had not emphasized mail-in balloting during the pandemicpa. there are not a lot of mail ballots in. democrats dominated republicans in mail ballots in 2020, and they were able to do very well here because of that. it is unclear if it is just a delay this time, chris. that is, the mail ballots are going to come in late. but even the early voting numbers, which are the republicans are winning in the urban areas of nevada, which make up 85% of the vote, those

are down quite substantially from 2018 and 2020. >> i have watched you work for many years when i have been in nevada, so i know it is just not numbers. you talk to a lot of people. are you sensing trends? are you sensing enthusiasm or lack of enthusiasm? what does the ground level stuff tell you? >> i think the democrats are worried because of joe biden's numbers. they're very bad here. below 40% even in their own polls. the races for the u.s. senate, the one that could be pivotal between cortez-masto and the former attorney general has been close throughout. the democrats are concerned that the first latina ever elected to the u.s. senate is not doing as well with hispanics as past candidates have done, which is, as i just said, incredibly ironic. her campaign believes she is starting to pick up there. but this makes republicans

nervous up and down the ballot. we have a big governor's race here that has been a toss-up and we have every state-wide office up. and, chris, we have three congressional races held by democrats that are considered very close. so i would say republicans are optimistic here and democrats are quite concerned. but, again, we still have two weeks to go until the election. >> it is amazing. a lot can really happen. cornell, can we also talk about misinformation in this campaign as a driver or maybe not, a depressioner of voting. who right wing conspiracy theorists who placed thousands of robocalls to voters in cleveland in the months before the november of 2020 election pleaded guilty just yesterday to a felony charge. what do we know about the impact of misinformation now, cornell? how widespread do we suspect it is in this election?

and i guess very much to the point, do we have any way to know how it is affecting turn-out and who people vote for? >> it is tough to judge it right now. if you go back and look at misinformation going into 2016, i think we didn't know exactly the extent to which sort of the misinformation and some of the russian meddling had on the election immediately. but a couple months afterwards, it seemed as though they were targeting certain voters, and we saw a lot of those voters at that time voting third party and moving away from hillary. we have seen this sort of tricky before, especially aimed at minority voters again. this is, you know, once again another hurdle for minority voting. we see it in state legislatures throughout the country, taking away ballot boxes, shortening the length of time for voting and in certain places we talk about georgia. you know, there is a marketed

difference in the wait times for an african american to vote in georgia than if you happen to be white in georgia. so this is just another sort of brick in that wall that some people want to put up and to sort of block and get in the way of african americans exercising their constitutional right to vote. >> what a great conversation. cornell belcher, love to have you back in a couple of weeks, thank you. a historic drop in housing prices. the new data just out that could have major implications for homeowners and the overall economy. that's next. economy. that's next.

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that helps promote digestive health. is the housing market heading for a crash? well a headline in forbes is already suggesting that's happened as new data out today shows new home prices dropping in august at the fastest price on record. scaring away home buyers and

experts fear a devastating domino effect. let's bring in the host of npr's full disclosure. always good to see you. help us to understand the domino effect. not just housing prices tanking, but i am seeing that as of last week, mortgage purchase applications are down 38% on a year over year basis. so what does it mean in the domino effect and for the overall economy? >> housing controls so much of the economy. it's gotten so fat and so flush during the pandemic as people sheltered into place, bought second homes, we know about the shortages in lumber and sheet rock and washers and driers. so the fed in targeting inflation, it will not say so explicitly that we're out there to get you, housing, but it has a fat target on its back. the plywood shortages, the roof

singles, everything you can think of. yes, when mortgages go from 3% to 4 to 7%, you will see buyers reassert themselves. they're on the sidelines and they will not hit the buy. >> how it unwinds will determine the economic downturn. do you buy that? what should we be looking for? >> i'm not sure that all bubbles resemble each other. a lot of people still have ptsd from 2008, 2009 and the housing crisis. they were shipping off these mortgages and inducing people who really couldn't afford and negative equity for the long term to be in that. and the toxicity of that recoursed through the entire economy with the bail-outs and everything else. i'm not convinced that's the case right now. people of means, especially

wealthy people who can make big down payments have been in this market. they're pretty better equipped to deal with a decline in prices. after all, the prices skyrocketed during the pandemic. i do worry about younger people that still remain locked out of the market, about the millennials, frustrated first-time owners who couldn't make ends meet and even with the correction in prices, a small correction can't make ends meet with a 7% mortgage. >> yeah. and all they're seeing are rents going up and up. thank you so much. now to a different kind of financial story. add adidas to the list of companies cutting ties with the musician ye, previously known as kanye west. adidas said this morning it does not tolerate anti-semitism or

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states. flu activity high in five states. very high in d.c. and when it comes to covid, deaths are up more than 230% in missouri over the last two weeks. i want to bring in dr. natalie azar, an msnbc medical contributor. i mean, you know this better than i do. hospital systems are already thin. winter is still months away. are we equipped to handle these three viruses all at once? >> i know. hospitals are definitely probably in the process of making contingency plans for this. you know, pediatric hospitals are typically almost run at capacity so any amount more is going to be difficult to handle. what i would say to folks is that this is a perfect opportunity to have your child vaccinated for the flu as well as against covid-19 to make sure

they are up to date. those are two essentially vaccine preventable illnesses at this point. unfortunately, we don't have a vaccine for rsv, but keeping your children away from folks who are sick is a way to protect them from all three viruses. >> we already have a situation where there's a hospital that's way over capacity and we're less than a week from halloween. what advice do you have for parents who are sending their kids out to trick or treat or going to parties? >> you know, i don't think we need to roll back that, chris. i don't think most americans have an appetite for it nor do i think it's good for our children to let them experience the holidays, but keeping it outside makes sense. i would probably avoid a crowded indoor party at this point. in terms of actually handling the candy, i don't think that's an issue as you know. it just isn't going to survive on wrappers and things like that. but i would say however just to make a point about this is that

just make sure you analyze and look at the candy that your child's going to eat. make sure it is coming in individually wrapped wrappers. nothing that's hand wrapped or anything like that. we want to make sure kids stay safe from all fronts. >> always. let's talk about the president. biden is getting updated covid-19 booster vaccine in just a few minutes. he obviously is hoping to inspire others because a dismal less than 10% of eligible americans have already gotten it. what do you say to your patients who think, i don't know, they may not need it because they've had the earlier vaccine or they've had covid recently? i've heard that a lot. >> sure. to this, i say what i've been saying always and that is it's not a one size fits all. really almost each person individually needs to do their own risk assessment. whether or not they've had covid before, how many vaccines they've had, how old they are, what medications they might be on or chronic conditions. of course, my patient population, because they're technically many of them

compromised, i'll be encouraging them to get their booster. philosophically, the divide comes a bit if you are on the side of trying to prevent every infection or just severe disease and hospitalization. then one could argue updated boosters for an otherwise healthy person is not indicated. if you're on the side of i'd still like to prevent infection because i'm concerned about long covid, i want to protect others, you're going to want to get your booster. i've been saying wait at least 90 days from your last infection or injection. i think some of us are pushing that a bit maybe even to four to six months because you want to maximize and enhance your immune response to the booster and if you do it too close to your last infection or injection, you're not going to get everything you can out of that shot. >> great advice. good to see you. moments from now, again, president biden will speak on the pandemic as he gets his

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