so, six days to go, and one thing that everybody is talking about, and thinking about, it is going to shock you. are you ready? turnout, folks. because candidates and big name backers are fanning across the country as we're coming on the air with president biden adding a last-minute semi prime time speech to the schedule tonight set to talk about threats to the democracy a couple of blocks from the capitol. a new report on what he will say. and new polling this hour, giving us a snapshot of what voters think about key senate and governors races and insight into who is psyched to vote and who is not. plus an nbc news election exclusive, rolling out this hour, the backlog for more than 100 state and local jurisdictions, still waiting to get some help with voting security. why the federal government has them on a wait list even now

less than a week from election day. also this hour, stocks are going down, interest rates going up again. the fed raising them another three quarters of a point. we will break down what it means for you and down the road. i'm hallie jackson in washington. along with kelly o'donnell, blaine blayne alexander and let me start with you, kelly. we are looking ahead to closing arguments being made not just by candidates but by surrogates, too, including the highest profile democrat in the country and that is president biden. ne a couple of hours will be delivering remarks on threats to democracy. and you may say wait a second, why is he a, at a train station here and not a battleground state and it is a couple of blocks from the capitol and the white house sees it as an important backdrop for the president to be delivering this message. >> very much so.

and since we live in washington, and it is our home, and we know that union station is one of the jewels of the city, it is right next door to the capitol and you can see the capitol from that location. so the president is the head of the democratic party, and certainly a voice in this election, and his record will be judged by voters, and his plans for the future will be judged by voters and in many instances, we've seen where the president has been helping to fundraise for the party, appearing with some candidates, and not appearing with others. tonight, he will speak more broadly about issues that he believes are at the heart of this election. and about events that we have seen in recent days and the threats that are a part of this current political environment. the president concerned about those candidates on the ballot who are deemed election deniers. people who have not accepted the past results, aren't even committing to accepting the results of what happens next week. also concerned about political violence. the attack on paul pelosi,

husband of the speaker of the house, with officials in san francisco, authorities there, and police, and prosecutors offices saying they do see a political motivation to that attack, as that case continues to be investigated and unfolds. and the president's concern for how some republicans have responded to that. those who have dismissed it, ignored it, laughed about it, made it a punch line, those kinds of things are a concern to the president, and officials here say he wants to speak about these issues. the big democratic issues have been a part of the president's rhetoric since he got into the race to become president, during his time in office, on the anniversary of january 6th, and now, even as millions of americans have already voted, the president into this final week is going to talk about these issues, and it puts some of his views about what is at stake, and also it is a call to action, for republicans,

independents and others, to be concerned not just about a single candidate in a single contest, but the bigger picture is of what is at stake for democracy and violence for our politics should not be tolerated by any party for any reason. >> kelly o'donnell live at the north lawn. i know you will have a late night, kelly thank you. blayne alexander, let me turn to you. president biden, as kelly has laid out, sees threats to democracy as a critical issue to the midterms and so many voters, and there is a look at the poll showing today 36% of people think inflation is the biggest issue overall facing this country. you see abortion access there with something like 10%. and the economy is critical, where you are, in georgia, and we know that stacey abrams is talking about all of it here in this bus tour that she's on, as we speak, and as people are already voting, they're not waiting for election day. >> and speaking of that,

literally in the past two seconds or so -- >> i can hear it. >> je, you can hear the bus, you can see it, there's a large billboard right behind me essentially, so yes, she just pulled in here, to henry county where i am, about an hour south of atlanta or so, but what it looks like in the final days for the abrams campaign is adding to that early voting number that you mentioned. already we're seeing record breaking turnout. we've seen it every day since the early voting period began about two plus weeks ago or so, but they're adding to that number. when i talked with earlier, today, i talked with stacey abrams campaign manager and she told me that she said they're focused on that fact, that their data shows every single registered voter in the state of georgia actually cast a ballot then stacey abrams would win the race and she says the data shows that the registered voters, a majority of registered voters are more likely to vote democrat and that's something that wasn't the case four years ago when she was on the ballot, the state's demographics are constantly

changing. and more registered voters now than four years ago. i asked what does the ground game look like in terms of turning out voter and they're doing everything they can, volunteers reaching out, texting people, sending them dms through social media and having community groups going through neighborhoods and fanning out across neighbors and knocking on tens of thousands of doors per day but the third thing brings us why we're here in henry county and looking at the places where the early voting turnout hasn't been that high. and in henry county, it is just over 30% or so, about half of those voters are african american, and so they're sending stacey abrams to those places and actually going out and going to the places where the turnout is low and hoping that will give a nudge to the people to go out and get to the polls. i do want to talk about early voting. certainly on brian kemp's side, too, he has been very clear that democrats have outworked republicans, over the part few election cycles and he says that's not going to be the case this time around, and that's why

he is urging his supporters to go out and vote early, too. >> blayne alexander, six days out from the midterms on the campaign trail, thank you, appreciate it. and antonia and vaughn here. and there is enthusiasm in north carolina and in arizona. who is actually going to show up and who has been showing up and who will be showing up to vote on election day. and antonia, let me go to you. there is a republican story to tell and former vice president mike pence is trying to tell it in that important state, as we talked about the big name surrogates coming out and trying to fire folks up here with a week to go. >> that's right. he's really here helping representative bud make the closing arguments in the senate race. and this is still a very tight race. and a lot could change still across the next six days in the race against democrat sherry beasley. and this is a state with some of the highest numbers of unaffiliated voters and

undecided voters of all backgrounds and the kind of voters are angry on one hand with the biden administration, and the economy, and the cost of living and looking at inflation and their pocketbooks and then also voters who are in many cases as i talked to them concerned about the state of women's reproductive rights, and worried about abortion access here in north carolina and around the country, and many of those voters are people who they are trying to reach. one of the things pence does for a candidate like bud is sometimes moderate some of the message. he has long had, former president trump's endorsement, but bringing out mike pence reaches some other voters for whom the trump endorsement was not sure. take a look at the remarks. >> and coming back to the north carolina gop headquarters less than a week away we sent ted bud to a republican majority in the united states senate. i'm here because i support ted bud. >> he's going around to all 100

counties in the state, but so is his opponent right now, and it is all going to come out to turnout for bud, that's going to be some of these moderate, more middle. road, unaffiliated folks and sherry beasley is hoping to get those votes but looking at black voters and drooping voter participation but her hope is to get an unprecedented number of people out to get this, what would be an historic win in her case. but at the moment, ted bud is slightly ahead and he is hoping that pence will help him make the final case. >> vaughn, where you're in air force base -- you're in arizona, and looking at the poll, former president obama will try to turn it around for democrats on the other side of the aisle in a couple of hours from now. >> right. this is the situation here, where we have to remember that there is a built-in republican voter advantage here in the state of arizona. doug doocy, in the last mid-term

election in 2018, won his re-election here for governor by 14 percentage points. this is still by all accounts, you can talk to folks on both sides of the aisle, this is a conservative state. so what the democrats here need to do is bring over some of those more independent or conservative voters that are against trump and trump acolytes. that's where you see katie hobbs, the democratic runner for governor and kelly separate of one another, independent of one another, and that goes to the down ballot for the secretary of state, and it stands in stark contrast to the republicans, kari lake has been trying to drag the likes of blake masters, and mark finchem over the finish line, the republican slate of candidates appearing together last night with the likes of steve bannon. and then that gets to the roots. they still need democrats in arizona to show up and vote here. this is the first time, you will see president obama, holding a rally in the state of arizona, in 15 years here, and the idea over the course of the last 15 years that obama who lost in

2012 by nine percentage points would be trying to corral the democrats and it is quite a statement, but when you look at the numbers of the fox news poll that just came out yesterday, it shows katie hobbs down by oneperson point but when voters were put to the question, as to whether they were enthusiastic about the candidates they supported and 60% of lakes and 48% of hobbs and a great number of voters have their ballots at home and what democrats need is for those folks to drop them off at the ballot drop boxes or at the polls on election day. >> vaughn hillyard in arizona, and antonia hilton in north carolina, thank you both. an nbc news exclusive now, more than 100 state and local election jurisdictions are asking the federal government for help with cybersecurity and these are state and local municipalities that went to the fed and saying they need some

help and still waiting for the help, close to election day, according to those familiar with the backlog. >> talk about what the municipalities want, and what is up with the holdup here? six days to go. why haven't they gotten the help they asked for. >> great question, we're asking them all now. and what i can tell you is the local jurisdiction, state and locals, they are asking cisa, the agency newly created within the department of homeland security, to provide services to make sure our elections are safe, they're asking them for testing, to make sure that their systems cannot be hacked. that's not necessarily the ballot where you go, a lot of those are disconnected from the internet, but it could be something like a website, where voter registration is stored. a place where the results of an election would be posted. these are all places, and we learned this from the mueller report, these are all places that russia did find result nable, in -- vulnerable in 2016 when they sought to interfere with the election then.

they are our concerns and we heard in the past that cisa is volunteering to provide assistance to state and locals but it is up to the state and locals to accept the help and more than 100 jurisdictions are asking for help and can our websites be hacked, can we do a test to make sure that they cannot be hacked? and in fact, cisa has a backlog of more than 100 that are still waiting, hallie can and we understand a lot of it has to do with staffing shortages and a major contractor that used to be do this privately, they have now stopped providing those services, so it is really a perfect storm but from what we understand is that they won't get to these before election day, hallie and. >> is there a number, in the next six days they are going to get through 30, or i don't know, or it is just these 100 are out of luck? >> these tests take a while. they take months. it's not going to happen before election day, as we understand, they hope to get to them. and i should say we did reach

out for comment, they're not denying this backlog but they're saying they were able to provide a more general test to basically make sure that their cyber hygiene is in check and able to do that for over 400 injures decision, but this specific test that allows someone to say, look, can we be hacked, it requires a lot of expertise and a lot of time and basically what we're hearing is they don't have the time to do it before election day. hallie? >> turn reporting, glad to bring it to our viewers first here on msnbc. thank you very much. live to uvalde coming up on the show, where one of the team members, is talking with the new superintendent in an interview that is just out. we will talk about how the community is doing after 911 calls from inside the school were released. and new details coming to us about the attack on speaker pelosi's husband. what we know, just ahead. and first, right as we're coming on the air, the fed is hiking interest rates again for the sixth time this year. we will talk about the market reaction and what it means for you in just 60 seconds.

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a check of what is happening on wall street, stocks are all over the place in the last 45 minutes or so of trading. the dow is down a little bit. and it obviously looked a little bit different earlier in the day. what's up? well, you probably noticed, the fed has announced yet another interest rate hike. but you also saw the fed signaling a bit of a slowdown down the road. if this feels a little bit like deja vu to you, guess what, it is, it is the sixth time this year that the fed has hiked rates. they're trying to bring down inflation, which you know it is the highest it has been in several decades. four actually. stephanie ruhle, business analyst joins us now and jay powell has either been speaking or wrapped up speaking as we speak here. what are the tea leaves that we can read, help us read between the jay powell lines here and what it means for all of us.

>> what i heard you say, inflation is the highest it's been in several, i thought you were about to say several years and i was going to hit you with, girl, it is more than years, it is decades, but you got it right. listen, no surprise that they raised interest rates today. what you're saying they may not continue to raise them at this pace, it is because they're realizing they may need to take a step back and look at this. this is the sixth time this year and the problem is inflation isn't cooling as quickly as they thought, or hoped it would. and it is a really difficult balancing act, right? right now we're experiencing double pain. high inflation and high interest rates. and the reason we're raising rates is because we want to cool inflation and it hasn't happened yet. and so the way one economist has phrased it it is sort of experiencing the pain before we're experiencing the upside. and that's the problem. so potentially they're going to take a step back here, and hoping that raising rates yet again will cool things, but one of the problems, hallie, is that consumer demand remains really

high. and economically vulnerable americans who are suffering before the pandemic are suffering now, in many cases, even worse. but many of the americans won't like paying these other prices and they're willing to do it. look what we're spending in restaurant, and retail, and cya, and that doesn't incentivize businesses to lower prices. if you were selling pizza for 8 bucks a splice and selling out your pie, you wouldn't be lowering your prices. what the fed does to try to raise rates to slow the economy. it hasn't happened yet. they're starting it happens now. for every day americans, it is rough. >> stephanie ruhle, thank you. just in from uvalde, texas, sitting down with the new interim superintendent there, talking today about how to plan to keep the community safe and how the community is responding to the horrific shooting in may. inside the rob elementary

school, the video is described what you would expect in the calls panic, terror, fear, and inside classrooms with kids and teachers waiting, begging, basically, to be rescued. we now know they had to wait for more than an hour for police to kron front the gunman. the audio was released by the texas tribune and we do not have the information how they obtained it, and we have decided not to play the recordings here, the recordings are disturbing and we have more now from the area, where a school year has started and this is so critically important and what is this school year going to do to keep kids safe and how is this community coping and recovering? >> that is something they're trying to find the answer to. short answer, everything they have at their disposal, and that includes more resources than they've ever had arguably in this district's history, the new

superintendent, at least for the interim, telling us they received more than $2.5 million in donations and grants that they're using to try to do a massive security overhaul. and for all of the campuses here in uvalde. and the short term, that means putting up high perimeter fences around a lot of the schools. they have at their disposal more than 30 state troopers located in and around the campuses, protecting the perimeter, and the interim superintendent telling me their job is to protect the outside, should anything happen on the inside, that they have the local police force, who can respond as needed but keep in mind that their entire school police force is temporarily suspended. they're going to have to start from scratch there and this is something else the superintendent had to say about the task ahead of him. the monumental task ahead of him. take a listen. >> what are some of the security measures shall the upgrades that you can expect to see in the immediate future? >> fencing, we have already have

that going on, with the security fencing, it is eight feet, around all entries of every campus. >> every school in uvalde. >> every school in uvalde. >> and there will be security gates. where we will be strichbing for the single entrance vestibules. where there will be cameras in the vestibules, single entrance, you will have to be buzzed in. we're working on electronic card slats. you know, to better control entry. >> now, all of those material changes, hard to say, hard to believe, but that's the easy part here, hallie, and what will be much more difficult is rebuilding the trust that has been lost over the course of this horrific tragedy, and ensuing investigation. and every new piece of evidence or video, audio recording, as you mentioned, that comes out, only keeps this community from

healing, and regarding this, those audio recordings that came out over the last 24 hours, when i asked the superintendent to, you know, the director of the texas department of public safety, whatever they say that they have not failed this community, and what was his response to that, he said it was frustrating. hallie? >> morgan chesky live in uvalde, texas, thank you. we will be looking for more of your reporting tonight on "nbc nightly news." appreciate it. still ahead on the show, more war concerns about what is going on with north korea after the u.s. is accusing them of giving weapons to russia to use in ukraine. that's one of several developments this afternoon. we will take you live to the pentagon for the rest. plus, new details on an attack on the speaker of the house's husband, paul pelosi, including what we now know about a home security tape, coming up. . we take care of vehicles , with the latest technology. when my last customer discovered a crack in his car's windshield, he scheduled at safelite.com. safelite makes it easy.

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from the white house, north korea is secretly supplying weapons to russia to use in ukraine. according to the national security council's john kirby. he says the weapons including a significant number of artillery shells being funneled through countries in the middle east and north africa to hide their ultimate final destination, one of the pieces of news this afternoon, coming out of north korea, which fired off a record 23 ballistic missiles today. nbc's courtney kube is at the pentagon and talk about the pentagon response and what we're hearing from the white house about this pair of big

headlines. >> on the launches, the korea launches, u.s. officials say it is most likely a direct response to the ongoing u.s./south korea air exercise. it is an enormous exercise. historically large with hundreds of sorties in the air and north korea threatened it would respond and the u.s. was expecting it could look like this with the ballistic missile launch, the key is the number of launches, much larger than the officials i've been speaking with were expecting. 23 missiles. and about 100 artillery rounds. the u.s. and south korea are continuing their exercise. they're continuing to fly, as part of this, and that is what we expect to be sort of the u.s. part of any response to this. but we should expect the ongoing tensions and the back and forth to likely continue as the exercise continues. on the other issue that you mentioned, this other headline coming out of the region right now, john kirby at the white house, the national security

council, says the u.s. now believes that north korea may be preparing to send some artillery shells to russia for use in ukraine. what is important here are two things. number one, they have no evidence that any of these artillery shells have made their way to russia or to ukraine. also, they believe that north korea is intentionally running these shells, this artillery through other countries, as a way to obscure its transfer from north korea directly into russia. so what we're going to continue asking here at the pentagon and across washington, is there evidence they're making their way into the hands of the crushens to be used in ukraine on the battlefield, artillery has been a critical weapon, a critical use inside ukraine and will only continue to be used in the coming months ahead as the conflict continues, but john kirby did make a point of saying that even with this, even if it ends up being hundreds or thousands of artillery shells

that make their way there, the u.s. does not believe it to be some decisive moment in the conflict there, hallie. >> thank you. good to see you. some new details out west on the attack on nancy pelosi's husband as nbc news confirms there was a camera fan on the home in san francisco, including one that was up and running as the attack was happening but nobody was monitoring it at the time, according to a couple of sources familiar with the situation. why not? well one, the house speaker wasn't there. one source telling nbc news, she is the mission. right? she is the mission. the cameras also run about 1800 at the capitol around the country that capitol police monitor and we have more from erin mclaughlin in san francisco, and the argument it seems from what the evidence is, and there's a lot of cameras and a lot of places around the country, speaker pelosi was not even at the house, so the expectation should not be that it would be monitored 24/7. talk us through what we're hearing, and the latest in the investigation and what is next for the suspect.

>> yes, that's right, hallie, at the same time, capitol hill police acknowledging that they need more resources, given, in their words, the political climate of the situation, and now, meanwhile we're getting more information about the attack itself. according to court documents, filed by the prosecution, and when 42-year-old david depape broke into the pelosi home behind me, wielding a hammer, waking up paul pelosi, paul pelosi managing to call 911, in the presence of david depape, the 911 dispatcher had a conversation with depape, according to the court documents and depape identifying himself as david, saying that he was a family friend of the pelosis, and something that paul pelosi disputed to the dispatcher, and the conversation was strange enough for the dispatcher to then elevate the priority to that call, minutes later, the

police arriving, and according to the court documents, when they arrived, depape told them that he was on a, quote, suicide mission, saying according to the documents, quote, i didn't really want to hurt him, but you know this was a suicide mission. i'm not going to stand here and do nothing even if it costs me my life. now, he also went on, in the presence of police, to name other individuals, high profile federal and local government officials, as well as a university professor, as individuals he could want to target. and this is all part of the prosecution's case that will be laid out before a judge on friday, in the hopes the prosecution, that the judge denies depape bail as he did in yesterday's court appearance. hallie? >> erin mclaughlin, thank you. next up an nbc news exclusive with senator ron

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us a new snapshot where a couple of tight senate races stand six days before election day but i have to remind you, look at wisconsin, incumbent republican senator ron johnson has a razor thin 2 point lead against democrat mandela barnes, well within the margin of error, you can see the small print on the bottom, and in pennsylvania, john fetterman and mehmet oz neck and neck and this poll is before and after the debate, right, where it seems to be, you can see, before, after, not much changed, since the debate, with the new monmouth poll. i want to bring in dasha burns and shaq brewster. and we are hearing from the campaign about the new polling and how does it sync with what you're hearing on the ground from folks? >> well, one big thing to note from this poll is the difference in the margin in the governor's race, versus the senate race, right? what is creating that wide gap

for shapiro, where as the senate race is so close, so neck and neck? and we've been talking to voters on the ground here, who surprising, in this political climate, where people are still polarized, and they are actually planning to split their ticket, and this is happening here in pennsylvania and according to pollsters and experts, it is also happening potentially in other states like georgia, and like arizona, but this is perhaps where it is most potent, and i'm talking about mostly republican voters who are planning to vote for oz, for senate, but are not planning to vote for the republican for governor, doug mastriano, saying he is just a little bit too far right. they haven't seen enough from him. so they are planning to vote for shapiro instead. and this kind of goes against the narrative of everyone running to their corners right now. but those folks sort of in the movable middle that could ultimately make the difference here, they say for them, candidate quality really does matter, and it is about the person that's on the ballot and not necessarily the party.

take a listen to jacqueline devine on this. >> do you worry mastriano is too extreme? >> yes. yes. i personally believe that religion and politics should be separate and he's running a platform that like he wants, you know, it to be this together, and i don't believe, i don't believe that that should be. >> and by the way, it's not just voters. there are major unions here, in pennsylvania, that have also split their endorsements between pears, and take the pennsylvania state trooper, the philly police union, and i'm talking to experts that say that this could be a big headline on november 9th or whatever the election wraps up, probably not november 9th, we will probably need to be patient and pennsylvania rules will mean it will take a while to count the mail-in ballots and this group of voters does make a big difference here. >> dasha burns, thank you. >> shaq, let me go to you in

wisconsin there. this is a place where democrats felt like they had a good shot, right, to flip a gop seat when it comes to senator ron johnson, who is really stepping into a lot of controversy with the comments on election denialism on 020 et cetera, and looking at the poll now, it is closer than what democrats would want to see and probably than what republicans want to see, too. >> that's right. we saw in the new poll that things are truly neck and neck. this is well within the margin of error. and both campaigns acknowledge that. and that's why they're focused on turnout right now. and i had a one-on-one interview with senator ron johnson, as he was outside on the campaign trail, in marshfield, wisconsin, he said he is feeling cautiously optimistic about this race, and he defended what we've been noting as stepped-up attacks, or stepped-up attacks against his opponent, lieutenant governor mandela barnes. we heard him tell supporters even today that mandela barnes has disdain for the united states and for wisconsinites so i asked him to explain those attacks we've been hearing on

the trail. listen to a little bit of that exchange. >> i hear attacks against your opponent. are things heating up? >> what you're hearing is the truth about my opponent. what you're hearing on other side are false attacks against me. and it was really quite astonishing to hear president obama come in here and be so angry and so falsely attack me, and my children. i mean that was pretty low. >> now, on the other side, mandela barnes is also launching attacks against johnson, releasing what is likely his final campaign ad of this cycle, and suggesting that johnson changed tax law to benefit his own family, the attacks are flying and when you look at the issues, not just that the voters point out and the campaigns harp on, and cripe crime for republicans, one thing that we saw in the marquette university poll that is an issue that works well for republicans. an even democrats, if you look

at the whole list of crime and support for police and funding specifically for police, as a top issue, and support, increasing state funding, that is why you hear on a nationwide ballot, where republicans feel like they have the advantage, you hear democrats like mandela barnes and tony evers, they support increased funding for police and they support substantial accountability for police. so that back and forth will only continue as this race continues to get closer, hallie. >> shaq, has senator johnson said he would accept the results of the midterm election? >> i don't know if he's been asked that directly. i did ask limb about january 6th and his comments about the insurrection suggesting it was not an armed insurrection, he pushed back on that, saying that he forcefully denounced january 6th immediately. i didn't ask him about the results of this election, but he also, in his defense of january 6th, of his comments previously, he said that he acknowledged that president biden was the president-elect, he pointed out that he did not vote to shoot

down the electors or dispute any of the electors during the electoral college count on january 6th. so i assume his answer is yes, but i did not ask that directly. >> and not even on that interview, i was just wondering more broadly. shaq brewster, thank you for bringing us the interview. dasha burns, thank you, as well. we have been talking about this. control of senate. really important, right? for stuff that you care about. for issues that are important to you. right? whatever side of the aisle you're on. this matters this. stuff matters. and it matters especially in a couple of states. because those are the states that will determine the balance of power. we've seen that, right? georgia. arizona. pennsylvania. what about colorado though, right? can you imagine maybe a year ago, two years ago, to be talking about this unexpected battleground. president biden won it by double digits in 2020. we have incumbent democrat michael bennet up against republican challenger joe o'dea and bennet was ahead, but mitch mcconnell says he is all in and

the super pac is putting in more than a million and former president trump says o'dea, saying he is a rhino, a republican in name only and maga didn't vote for stupid people with big mouths, i'm quoting now. mr. o'dea, thank you for being on the show this afternoon. >> thanks for having me on. appreciate it. >> listen, you heard me quote former president trump, i want to get to that in a second but let me start with where we are right now, six days out to election day, early voting is already happening, your opponent appearing to be outside the margin of error, do you think that you have enough time to convince people to vote for you? >> these polls are tightening. the michael bennet 98% voting record with biden and talk about inflation and the talk about the price of gas and talk about the price of groceries and record crime in colorado, we lost 1900 coloradoans to fentanyl overdose and they drove this country into

the ground and that's what people are talking about. i'm not a politician. i'm a contractor. i'm coming at this as an independent voice that will use my business acumen to make sure that we make great decisions for the united states and colorado. and that's what people are talking about. the polls are narrowing. i feel really good about where we have this race. >> you have repeatedly, and as you said here again today, seeking to link your opponent to president biden and he is in turn seeking to link to you president trump who you made clear you wouldn't support in 2024, i think your position is crystal clear on that as the former president himself knows given the insults has lobbed against you. given where the race is, do you regret your distance of president trump? >> i'm a contractor. i'm not a politician. i'm talking to voters right now. when you look back four years ago, and you see $2.30 gas and $3.50 diesel, and when you see wages growing, and when you see

all of the good things that was happening before joe biden took over here, 22 months ago, and michael bennet has been with him 98% of the time, and the cost is horrific, it is a horrific issue with our economy, record inflation. that's what this is, that this vote is going to be about. it's not about the past. it is about moving the country forward and how do we get this inflation to end? when they got to end this war on diesel. it has to happen. the economy is not going to get back in line until we get the price of diesel down under $4. >> so seeing the debates that you've done, and hearing on the economy, and it is a big issue for you, there is another big issue that is important here to people in colorado and people around the country, and it is a policy question, not about your opponent, not about president biden but what would you do if you ended up in the senate as it relates to abortion access. i know you support access to abortion prior to 20 weeks and if codify roe happens, and

you're in the senate, is that something that you would support? >> it would be something that i would definitely take a look at. we would have to make sure we have exceptions, rape, incest, life of the mother, and medical necessity later on in the pregnancy, and that decision also needs to be between a woman and a doctor, but i take a look, a long hard look at it. >> so you are not shutting the door, on potentially supporting the bill, bubbing your party potentially to support a bill that would code pie roe, i want to make sure that i'm clear on that. >> i'm an independent thinker. i'm my own man. i told people exactly where i'm going to win, i'm not going to change just because i go to the u.s. senate. i'm ready to move colorado forward. >> you have talked about here, on this discussion here, mr. o'dea, the idea that you do want to look forward, and i know that you feel like talking about donald trump is the past, but you are not an election denier. some of your republican colleagues. are including i think for example blake masters who is running for senate as well in a different state. i wonder, you also identify as a republican. right? what is your level of concern that your party writ large is

hurting the small d democratic process right now? >> look, i'm focused on the next six days here in colorado, i got to cover the entire state in one more time, to get out to all of voters, we are tied with independents right now, we're going to win the hispanic vote here in colorado, they're fed up with this economy and fed up with the price of gas, i'm not looking backwards, i'm looking forwards. >> i get that. i hear you. i know it is six days to the election, but if you win, you will be in the senate for six years, right? and this issue of election denialism is going to be in front of you. are you concerned that your potential future republican colleagues in the senate have these positions? >> look, we need to use our election system to move our government forward. i think hillary clinton is the first one who started talking about started talking about -- >> i'm asking about your identification with your own party. that's the question. >> we will move the country forward. that's what we're going to work on. >> colorado republican senate candidate joe o'dea.

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breaking news from the new york attorney general announcing they have gotten more than $30 million now from cbs and its former ceo for insider trading and concealing sex assault allegations. this is just breaking. let me bring in tom winter. this dates back to allegations of sexual misconduct from several years ago and a hefty financial settlement. talk us through the details. >> that's right. this investigation started as an investigation into whether or not cbs had adequately disclosed to the sec and new york state consumers the information it needed to as part of securities laws. when a company is aware of potentially damaging information or lawsuits or investigations, they have to make that information public if they are a publically traded company. what the new york attorney general's office says is cbs was putting out statements about the

longevity of its leadership team. in the course of that, they were aware that a criminal complaint for sexual assault had been filed against him, another alleged victim had come forward with allegations, and that reporters were working on stories around this, namely at the time "the new yorker." in the course of the investigation, they determined the cbs management team was aware of it, that one cbs executive had actually traded material non-public information that these allegations were known to the cbs team, traded stock before it fell almost 11% when the news about moonves came out and that cbs did not have adequate controls for handling these type of allegations. in the course of this, the new york attorney general's office says that they uncovered a los angeles police department captain working in the hollywood

division alerting cbs that a woman had come forward raising allegations from the 1980s that stated that she had been sexually assaulted by moonves and that in fact had tipped them off not only to the fact this complaint was filed but to the name of the victim, all information that's supposed to be not shared outside of the police department and its investigators. more questions about this particular lapd captain who had once worked for moonves in a private security fashion. >> tom winter, appreciate it. to new hampshire where this conspiracy theory is going to come up in that state's primetime senate debate set to happen a few hours from now. you have maggie hassan running to keep her seat. she will face off by don buldoc. in this new interview, he is not backing down from this not true thing he has been saying, that the school in the state is

putting litter boxes for kids who identify as animals. the school says it's not true. it's been -- it has made its way in some circles of the internet. ryan, talk us through what you are hearing. >> reporter: this is an issue that tracks back to something that senator hassan has been accusing don bolduc on. this audio was unearthed by cnn a couple of days ago from an event where he talked about a family that came up and told him there was a school in new hampshire using litter boxes for children that claim to identify as animals. that school says that just does not happen. it is not the case. i ran into him last night at an event. i gave him the opportunity to explain. he essentially doubled down and said he believed the family and that he didn't believe the

school. maggie hassan says this is another example of him as a candidate. >> i'm not backing down. okay? you got the wrong guy. >> don bolduc needs to stop repeating a harmful and outrageous conspiracy theory. unfortunately, it is not the only conspiracy theory that he has been peddling. >> reporter: the other conspiracy theories he is accused of spreading include suggesting that the 2020 election may have been stolen. it was something he briefly walked back and leaned back into when he got the endorsement of the former president, donald trump. the question is whether or not this is resonating with new hampshire voters. this is something the hassan campaign has been zeroing in on in the closing days of the campaign. bolduc has improved his standing in the polls. he is leading by one point. that's just one poll among many that have shown hassan with the lead. on the other side of the equation, we have seen hassan try and distance herself from

the current president, joe biden, listing off a number of airs in which she's critical of him and his administration. it goes to show, more than anything, new hampshire voters are independent thinkers. >> glad you are on the trail up there. thanks for joining us. nicolle wallace picks it up after the break. did you know if you turn to cold with tide you can save up to $150 a year on your energy bill?

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