issued as the governor previously claimed. our final, and perhaps most outrageous and discussing fiction is actually being spread by some republican candidates! it's about litter boxes in schools. and you know what? we're gonna let this guy at a trump tower explain more. >> students are coming in dressed up as cats, with collars, and leash is on, and ears. and supposed to have litter boxes in the restrooms. >> i cannot believe i have to say this. but obviously, there are absolutely no litter boxes for students in schools. this specific story caught fire after the tories podcaster joe rogan repeated similar false claims on his wildly popular show. but after some backlash, he said that he did some more digging and he came to this conclusion. >> it doesn't seem that there's ever any proof that they clip the litter box in there. >> no proof. he pushed a lie.

hopefully, that settles that. and now we do not ever have to talk about litter boxes in school ever again! and be sure to tell your friends, this pre-midterm weekend, the truth matters. but only if you hear it. so listen up! and on that note, we wish you all a very good night! from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news. thank you for staying up late, i will see you at the end of monday! mo nday you know when you had to write it as a preschool and i had to be a certain number of pages? so you'd bump up the font size and make the margins a quarter inch bigger on both sides. i'm not saying i did that, but maybe i did. the republicans today took that trick, that high school trick, and they took it to its logical extreme. >> new this morning, house republicans on the judiciary committee released a 1000-page roadmap detailing allegations of political bias in the fbi and department of justice under president biden.

>> this is a preview of what a gop majority may uncover from daily administration at the midterm. >> i know what you are thinking, it doesn't pages, they must really have some damning evidence there. but no, this is the high school big margins trick times doesn't. literally. as the washington post puts it today, the report itself is less than 50 pages. so what's in there? it's more than 700 pages of already public letters and those are mainly just dozens of duplicates of the same two letters. and then there are about 300 pages of just signatures. talking points memo characterizes the report as nothing more than a who's who of fox news flavored grievances and conspiracy theories. but those grievances and conspiracy theories are not just fuller. they are in fact a preview of what republican majority will do if it controls congress. if republicans retake the house on tuesday, one of the authors

of this 1000-page -- treatise, congressman jim jordan will be the chairman of the house judiciary committee, and jim jordan will not just put up more reports based on filler on fox news, he will launch actual investigations based on filler and fox news. this quote on quote report today is targeting the fbi and the department of justice, which of course, are the agencies investigating president trump for taking hundreds of classified documents with him to mar-a-lago when he left the white house and for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election leading to the violent attack on the capitol. so now republicans are gearing up to sling mud and cast out on those investigations because there's investigations are about to come to a head, imminently, like in the next couple weeks. that's the current thinking because yesterday, longtime trump loyalists kash patel testify to a federal grand jury in the mar-a-lago documents gunnery investigation after his compelled to do so in exchange

for immunity. but tell has asserted without evidence that he personally witnessed president trump the classifying all those documents. so patel's that the money essential to the investigation, and we now know that patel was asked questions about that specific claim about the classification. he was also asked why trump took classified documents to mar-a-lago in the first place, a question that we were all very much like to know the answer to. and that is on top of the news that the fbi has been trying to get more information from two other trump aides involved in storing the documents at's beach club. and a very senior high-level prosecutor has been brought on to help with the government's case in all of this. as for the doj january six investigation, we know that the department has already spoken with multiple high-level aides and has also issued over 40 subpoenas to trump allies and sees the phones of some of them. does investigations are very much a live issue. they are full steam ahead.

now, as a rule, the department of justice does not take over public actions against political figures that run up to elections, but after tuesday, the gloves are off. the new york times now reports that the department of justice hopes to reach a decision on whether to bring charges against former president trump before the 2024 presidential campaign heats up. and he has held discussions about possibly appointing a special counsel to oversee a potential prosecution of the former president. which makes this group today by the very well sourced and jonathan swan exodus, it's why it makes such a big deal. swan reports that president trump was thinking about watching his presidential campaign in today's time, on november 14th. november 14th is also conveniently that day trump has been asked to testify to the january six committee of congress. speaking of which, we have breaking news tonight from the very same committee. president trump blew past today's deadline to produce documents that have been

subpoenaed by the general six committee. the committee informed the former presidents counsel that he must begin producing records no later than next week. it also reminded trump that he remains under subpoena for a deposition, deposition testimony starting on november 14th. so november 14th could be a very big day here, and it means that there might just be a six-day window between when midterm voting ends and when trump may announce another run at the presidency. whether trump will stick with that schedule remains uncertain, but trump has always seen running for president as his lifeline, get out of jail free card. the thing that could stall and complicate these investigations. to assert the any criminal indictment is nothing but a copyrighted effort on part of democratic president joe biden to smear the presumptive republican nominee for the same office, in this case, who donald trump hopes to be. attorney general merrick garland has always known that his limited time with the investigations. republicans have made clear that they are going to make

garland's life very, very complicated, should they retain congress. that has all been spot out in the 1000-page letter, and now trump camp has drawn another line in the sand, a potential presidential announcement, potentially ten days from now. so what should the department of justice do now? >> joining me now is jonathan swan, national political correspondent at axios. his sources in trump world have enabled him to publish dozens of trump religious groups. swan also won an emmy for is very memorable interview slash grilling of the former president in 2020. jonathan, thank you so much for being here, especially in this big day of news and on a friday night. let me first ask you, how confident you are in the reporting that trump is very seriously eyeing an imminent announcement. we will pay get to a certain date because the stomach trump

after all. how certain he is that he is going to throw his hat in the ring here for a presidential bid in the coming weeks? >> as soon as i can be with the caveat that it is donald trump, they are preparing for it that week of november 14th, whether it's november the 15th, november 16th, who knows. it's also as we put in this story, what happens on tuesday night matters. if republicans have a terrible night in the senate, that could affect the timing. if there's a runoff in georgia, that could affect the timing, but they are targeting that we could november 14th for the announcement, and they're looking a potentially doing it an announcement following by what has been described as multi day event, a role of consisting of multiple political events following that initial announcement. >> when we talk about timing, you talk about the political landscape, is trump walking into a newly emboldened republican party that is aglow with the winds that they have? are there more hobbled than they expect to be after the election, et cetera, but one of

the dueling -- investigations, but there are so many investigations, but in particular, the department of justice investigation. how much of that is figuring into all this? we know merrick garland is on a clock here, and merrick garland knows he's on a clock. donald trump knows he's on the clock. how much is trump thinking about that when he makes the announcement? >> well, i have not heard this directly from donald trump, so he has not said this to me but advisers of his have told me over the past 68 months that he does see running for president as one of his best offenses against these investigations, being a live political candidate, which he has been toying with. he keeps escalating, saying -- it's almost comical, i am very probably going to announce very time soon, et cetera. he's really been operating like a live political candidate for months now, and he does see that as a protective mechanism, obviously formalizing and announcing takes it to another level, but he's very cognizant

of that i am told. >> it is worth noting that in his legal filings, trump has mentioned his potential candidacy. august 22nd, a filing requesting the special master. president donald trey trump is the clear front runner in the 2024 presidential primary, and in the 2024 general election, should he decide to run. another filing in response to the doj filing, three weeks after an unprecedented and unnecessary legally unsupported raid on the home of a former president and possible candidate gets the current chief executive in 2024. this is not something that he has been subtle about, and he will use it quite obviously should there be some kind of indictment. who at this stage is advising him on all this, jonathan? >> when you say all this, do you mean the legal side of things are the political side? >> as the political and legal intersect, i guess all ask you to speak specifically to the political piece of this. we know a little bit about the legal team and there is a functioning in the legal team, but on the political side, who is he getting his advice from?

>> yeah, his men -- one of the missing perceptions or misconceptions about donald trump is that, i often hear set in punditry, surrounded by -- are there any adult in the room? this idea that he's surrounded by circus clowns. it's not accurate with the political team. he's acted surrounded by -- in terms of his core political team, they're fairly seasoned. susan wild, veteran republican operatives from florida, worked for ron desantis, very experience. tony fabrizio, very experienced republican poster, brian jack young, well regarded. chris, really a heavyweight republican strategist. the question is does he listen to them?

that depends what the situation, the day and a moment. his core political team, some of them are very simply establishment in their political backgrounds and not as fringy as i often see suggested in some of the commentary about them. the question is does he listen to them? >> i am familiar with lindsey wild, she was involved and desantis campaign for governor in 2018, among other republican campaigns. are they concerned about the sophistication's? are they taking them into consideration as they weigh a potential presidential bid? >> if they are, they would not tell the likes of me. the inner core political team is quite disciplined and that sense. they're not running their mouth about whether they're running investigations and such. so, i actually don't know, is the truth. i know people in his wider

orbit, wondering whether running for president under indictment in today's republican party, is that a bad thing? in any normal universe, it is, but the base -- donald's base is extremely energized by this fact, and they saw a bump in energy for him out of the mar-a-lago search executed by the fbi. i don't think people have a clear idea of the, whether it's going to be a plus or a minus when you're talking about republican primary voters. >> it's worth noting, as much as it could energize the voters, it's very different to be served criminal indictment when you are a sitting president then a former president. that is something that should factor somewhere into all of this. jonathan swan, national political correspondent axios, it's great scoops, thank you for your time tonight, jonathan. >> thanks for having me. >> now i want to turn to matt miller, former chief spokesperson for the justice department during the obama administration. matt, thank you for joining us tonight. it is a strange time in the world in this, i won't call it a calm before the storm, because it's anything but calm. we are looking at a week next

week that could be -- in the coming weeks in november that could be hugely consequential. merrick garland is no stranger to political reality. what do you make of -- first of all, what do you think his best options are here? there is talk of a potential special counsel appointment. do you think that is a viable option? you think that's a good option for merrick garland as he tries to navigate the current politics of all this? >> i can understand why they would consider it, because certainly, once donald trump is a declared candidate for president, there are people who will question the integrity of an attorney general of the opposing political party investigating him, if he is a declared candidate. i think it would be unwise. the reason to do is to -- and instill public confidence. let's be honest, the people who are supporters of donald trump are going to believe that this investigation is fair no matter who is conducted.

it merrick garland could appoint bill barr as special counsel, and donald trump would say it's a witch hunt against him, and the people that want to believe that are going to believe that. and it would be fine to go down that path if they were not downsized to a point, the special counsel, but i think that there are some practical and political and governance reasons not to do it. the most important is a practical one. with him running for president, they think that the justice department needs to happen top of mind is speed. they need to move quickly because, the political and legal calendar start to interact with each other in ways that really complicate and are really unhealthy. if you think about the case potentially being indicted, let's say it's indicted in the spring, indicted in the mar-a-lago case in march or april, you're looking at probably a year until trial. so then he would be coming to trial in the spring of 2024, right in the middle of the republican primaries. if you are convicted, he would be sentenced sometime over the summer, maybe in the fall, right before the general election, if he is the nominee.

then you have a bizarre scenario if he sensed the jail time, having to report to jail maybe around the time of the election or in the period between election and inauguration. it gets really complicated. what that means is that the justice department needs to move quickly, and it takes time to appoint a special counsel. it takes time to hire staff and go to the case files and the legal theories. i think it would be a mistake for a number of reasons, most importantly, the practical one, speed. >> so what is the utility of floating this idea that they're considering a special counsel, if it's not really a viable option, if it does not actually alleviate any of the political pressure on garland or biden for that matter? >> i suspect it might actually be considering it. i don't know if they meant to float this. there are some good reporters reporting on the justice department that might have drag this out. they probably are wearing it, because there is an attraction to it. if you're the attorney general,

you're thinking, i am going to come under all this criticism. the way i can make this decision look more fair, and i can instill public confidence in it is to make sure -- let's say i appointed a republican to be special counsel, and then people will know that i excepted a recommendation from a republican and republican appointee. it can't be questioned as unfair. but, i have to tell you, there are kind of political and governance reasons not to do it as well. the political reason, i will say, anytime a special counsel is appointed to investigate a president or in this case, a former president, it automatically becomes seen in the public eye as a match between that prosecutor and the president. think of cancer versus bill clinton or mueller versus trump. this would be the special counsel versus trump. versus if it's a u.s. attorney and 8 to 6 -- against people all the time, then you're just having donald trump being treated like every other citizen of the united states, promptly investigated and promptly prosecute for crimes, like every other citizen. you don't have the same political target place on the

special prosecutor's back in the way donald trump placed it on thomas müller's back and mobilize the right-wing media and congress against it. i'll do that anyway against the justice department. i think it's a little different if you have career prosecutors handling this case in their normal order of business. >> that nine trump the strong -- what is your expectation in terms of a criminal indictment for mar-a-lago, given the fact that kash patel was interviewed yesterday, the sort of high priority targets if you are all, they're in the mix at this point? that, i think to the outside world, signals that this may be coming to a close. do you think mark rowan will issue an indictment this month? >> i don't know about this month, but i think indictment is overwhelmingly likely. if you look at the facts of this case, the former president clearly had knowledge, clearly had intent, and it's a mishandling of classified

information case where there is something else. there always has to be something else, i did disclosure of a number of documents, or sharing them with people who should not have them, or obstructing justice, and i think there is clear evidence that he tried to obstruct justice in this case. i think the evidence is pretty conclusive, so i suspect that once the election is over, you may not see an indictment this month but you're going to see a justice department moved to continue to call witnesses before the grand jury and maybe take some more overslept they have not taken to try to move pretty quickly to bring an indictment in this case. if not this month, i think in the very coming months because merrick garland is not unaware of this political calendar that i laid out from the beginning, how that interacts with the legal counter. he cannot be unaware of the need to move quickly in this case. and given the fact that they already gathered, i think they had the ability to move quickly. i think that's what you'll see them do. >> there is a lot coming up this month, a lot of known unknown's. it is going to be a very interesting time to be alive. matt miller, former chief spokesperson for the justice department during the obama administration, thanks as always for making the time and sharing your wisdom with us, matt. >> thank you. >> coming up next, senator

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election day is just four days away, and no state embodies what is at stake quite like the state of wisconsin. for the first time since 1977, one party, the republican party, could end up with a legislative supermajority, that is a two thirds majority in both the state senate and the state assembly.

that would give republicans the power to override a governor's veto, if that governor so happens to be the incumbent democrat tony evers, it would render him personally powerless. the foundation for this take over -- a decade ago, thanks to wisconsin's aggressively partisan political maps, some of the most breathtakingly gerrymandered maps the country 's ever seen. thanks to the foundation that has resulted pundit political power the far exceeds the actual votes, thanks to that, republicans a seer are within striking distance of clinching the supermajority. the new york times reports that need to gain five state assembly scenes and just one state senate seem to achieve near total control of the wisconsin state government. these wisconsin republicans are so confident that they will win, that they have vowed to bring back the 146 bills governor evers vetoed in his first term, and they will not stop there. they've actually set their sights on being arbiters of elections in a state. that super majority would allow republicans to get rid of wisconsin's bipartisan elections commission and take

over voting procedures and the certification of elections. in the end, that power grab maybe a mute point if the trump endorsed republican candidate for governor, tim michaels, if he wins on tuesday. at a campaign event this week, michael said, quote, republicans will never lose another election in wisconsin after i am elected governor. as a reminder, election day is tuesday. joining us now from madison wisconsin, where he is holding a get out the vote rally is vermont senator bernie sanders. senator sanders, thank you for making time to be here tonight. i'll get right to it. do voters that you have been talking to, do they have a sense of urgency of alarmism over the stakes and their state in particular and how it may not really effectively be a functioning representative democracy after november 8th? >> the answer is yes. well i can say is that we

arrived this morning, we did rallies in eau claire, rallies in low cost, we had a nice turn off in madison. i think here in wisconsin, which is a pivotal state, the issues are pretty clear, and that is whether to vote for the incumbent ron johnson, who actually wants to eliminate the minimum wage at a time of massive income and wealth inequality, wants to give giant tax breaks to the rich and cut social security, medicare and medicaid. the choice is clear, and i think mandela barnes has an excellent chance to win. >> i think you alluded to a bit of your closing message. there's been a lot of talk of how democrats should be framing the stakes heading into this election day. the president has been talking about that a democracy. a lot of democrats focused on abortion. what is your closing argument to the voters who spoken to and especially to young voters? >> i think it's no question that we have to vigorously defend a woman's right to control her own body. obviously, we have to be strong

on call a change. we're not going to have much of a planet to leave our kids and grandchildren, but alex, you cannot ignore the economy. 60% of our people living paycheck to paycheck, while the wealthiest people in this country are becoming far of what they're, so we need to fight for an economy and a government that works for all and not just a few. i think those are the issues that the american people here in wisconsin and around the country are responding to. why are we the only country or major country not to have health care? why haven't we raised the minimum wage to a living which? why haven't we been more aggressive in terms of childcare, making public colleges and universities free? this is in fact what working families want. they're sick and tired of the rich getting richer, and are

struggling to put food on the table. we gotta focus on those interests. >> senator, you're raising a lot of concerns that voters have. how aware are they are the things that this administration and democrats have done to help the working class, whether that's student debt cancellation -- >> there are two answers. the american rescue plan, i think, was enormously consequential. i will talk about it tonight. people have forgotten that it was democrats without one republican who put forth 1400 dollar check into the pockets of every man, woman and child in this country in the midst of the work economic downturn since the great depression. it was democrats who gave veteran to dollar tax credit for parents to be able to raise their kids with dignity. we are standing -- hospitals, as you will recall, are on verge of collapse, some hospitals because of the huge influx of covid patients. we put billions into healthy hospitals, billions of -- the keep colleges and universities afloat. i think that something to be very proud of, and i think

we'll remind the american people that we did with zero republican support. >> you mentioned abortion and climate change as issues in some way separate from the economic message, but i wonder if we are missing an opportunity to frame both climate change and abortion as economic issues. certainly having control over the number of children in need to clothes and sent to school and raises an economic choice, and certainly, climate change has a direct impact on the economy. is that happening anywhere, is anyone doing the, how do we need to think about those two things differently? >> well, they are, but the issue is also abortion is an economic issue. of course, climate change, if we do not get a handle on climate change as a planet, as i planted, you will see more drought, more flooding, massive types of economic destruction, more mass migrations of people around the world can't find clean drinking water.

of course, it's an economic issue. not to mention that tens of billions that will have to be spent to rebuild destroyed communities. but right now, i think if you go out and ask people, if they're having a hard time filling up the gas tank, having a hard time putting food on the table, having a hard time paying for childcare, second is the college, those are all social issues we could not forget about. inflation, republicans talk about inflation, well it's a global issue, and most of the inflation in this country are associated with the grotesque level of corporate that we have seen, record breaking profits in the oil companies, the food companies, the pharmaceutical it issues. they are ripping off the american people. they are raising prices, we are the focus on that and hold them accountable and passive windfall profits task, which is the right thing to do. >> president biden was talking about that windfall tax earlier this week. are you getting a sense that

people are connecting the dots finally on inflationary -- and corporate. i think a lot of people, honestly, up until recently, did not fully understand what was happening in the corporate sector as it pertains to the consumer pricing. is that message and reality finally sinking in? >> i hope it is, and it really is, alex, if you step back and say, look, this is such a terrible time. we're dealing with the pandemic, a terrible war in ukraine, dealing with a breakdown of supply chains, and in the midst of all that, the ceos that make millions of dollars a year in competition, they say, what a great time to raise prices -- how disgraceful is that? i hope people are understanding why they pay for, 56 bucks for a gallon of gas, and re-invest a mobile and the other major oil companies. i have to understand that when they go to the grocery store,

prices are becoming unaffordable and that has a lot to do with the degree -- food industry who are making record-breaking profits as well. this is -- all of these issues are related, whether it's climate, women's rights, whether it's corporate, and the struggle right now is not to elect candidates like ron johnson, who literally does not believe in the concept of minimum wage. he would be okay with people working for four or five bucks in our, who wants to give a 1. 7 trillion dollar tax breaks to the top one tenth of the 1% by repealing the state tax and use that money to cut social security, medicare and medicaid. to me, the issues are quite clear. and the choices are quite clear. i hope people come out in large numbers to vote, especially young people, working people, to understand that this is the most consequential midterm election in our lifetimes. >> senator bernie sanders of

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the effect of, i am the effing president, take me to the capitol now, to which bobby responded, sir, we have to go back to the west wing, the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm, said sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, we're going back to the west wing. we're not going to the capitol. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards mr. angle, and mr. ornado recounted the story to me, motioning to his clavicle's. we all -- >> we are member that bombshell white house testimony from cassidy hutchinson, recalling what she was told happened

inside the presidents motorcade on january six, after the rally at the ellipse, and the secret service agent who refused to take trump to the capitol to join his angry mob. trump according to account became physical. now nbc news reconfirms new reporting today from cnn that the general six committee is planning on meeting soon, as soon as next week, with a driver of the suv. the suv that according to hutchinson, trump tried to grab ahold of and right to the capital. we are also learning that the committee was expecting to sit down today with the secret service agent who was in the lead car of trump's motorcade that they. that's the car ahead of the suv that carried trump. no word yet on whether that meeting happened. the committee is apparently very interested in hearing from members of the secret service. in fact, cnn is reporting that the committee is planning to interview at least half a dozen more secret service agents in the coming weeks, including current and former officials and agents. which is in addition to the ones that they already spoken to. i wednesday, according to

reports, the committee interviewed a secret service agent who is in charge of one of the team's task with protecting president trump ungenerous. yesterday, cnn reported that the head of vice president pence's security detail that he testified behind closed doors. not that is important for multiple reasons but particularly, because january six committee member, congresswoman zoe lofgren chop this bombshell of her own last night. >> there were people with arms with guns not going to the magnetometer's, and then the president all those people with guns too much to the capitol. it's not at all clear that anyone told the vice president detail about this. >> the committee is not sure that anybody thought to mention the alarming and terrifying intelligence is the vice president security team, that an armed crowd was in an area that the vice president will be spending much of the day, an armed crowd had its sights set on the vice president. you have to wonder why the secret service would have kept at detail under wraps. the more we learn, the more we want to know.

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that is the number of election related tweet sent on election day, 2016. then came 2018, which according to twitter, was the most

tweeted midterm election in history. one of those tweets included this video, of voters waiting in line in snowville, georgia. one hour after polls opened. according to a user, this happened because there weren't enough power chords for the voting machines. after that tweet was posted, nbc bear by the information and discovered the holdup was due to a -- empower courts. the machines were running on battery power, and ran out of charge. a verified twitter -- so she could reported to the naacp and by nightfall, pulling hours were extended. and how did voters waiting in georgia's long lines find this out? they tweeted the breaking news that they had won their case for extended broken hours. breaking, georgia naacp voting times will be -- for many, americans have had to look to twitter to see what's been happening in their, state and across the country.

it is been an essential tool for messaging and organizing. through elections, and pandemics, and social movements. twitter has been the virtual town square. where we exchange information and ideas about some of our biggest challenges. which makes the massive changes that twitter's new overlord, elon musk, has implemented just days before election day, what's makes some so insidious. starting monday, musk or require the 400,000 verified users on the platform to pay $8 a month to keep their blue verified check marks, but he's allowing all users to pay for a check mark to. with no plans to verify that the paying customers are who they say are they are. the point of the check mark system, launched in 2009, was to address misinformation. to prevent fake accounts of him real people in organizations. now, it's increased revenue for elon musk's new company. at least one twitter employee working on the new blue check

mark subscription has been locked out of the meeting. and that's all they realize they were fired. there are more than -- fired in the past 24 hours, as a part of another one of musk's changes to the platforms. mass layoffs affecting half of twitters workforce. here is a look at who must has voted to get rid of. the curation team is now gone. they helped guide users to reliable news sources instead of conspiracy theories. half of the company security team is gone, late raising concerns about users privacy. the humans right? team also got. they were protecting human rights, human rights advocates, journalists, and citizens. in places like ukraine, afghanistan, if the opiate. artificial intelligence team is also gone. they were doing research on algorithmic bias like an intentional political virus on the twitter platform. all of this happening after musk shut employees out of the content moderation systems that are required to limit

misinformation. that's something that he did last week. musk only agreed to renew access this week, after civil rights leaders complained about the possible spike in misinformation and hate speech. this, all of this, is the field of play in the virtual town square. days before one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime. joining us now is bin collinson, senior reporter covering disinformation on the internet. thanks for being with us tonight. so the timing on all of this, now granted, musk just purchased the company right? but he is aware that there is a midterm election happening. and that puts all of this in the crosshairs of so many complicated factors. do you think that it is on purpose? it's in spite of that? how do you read these drastic decisions ahead of us just really froth period in american politics. >> it's hard to know what the ethical thing to do here would be. would it be to wait until

midterms right? and that is not what he did. four days before midterms, basically half of the company before midterms. -- anybody who would be able to suss out lies from facts. and the platform that is about to be inundated with people person eating other people. those people are gone. >> at a time when we have real world elections, deniers, running for office. trying to effectively affect the vote. polling, and policing polling stations. the opportunities for misinformation to spread are so abundant, it's hard to even enumerate all of them. what practically happens? the curation team is gone. so how do we. how are we going to start to see the effects of that as twitter users. as the audience. >> i think there is a different user experience for elon musk, the richest man in the world. then somebody waiting in line

that is an opponent. elon musk doesn't have to wait in line for anything, but in this case people waiting in lives at these polling both were it, go to an election officials website. maybe a county commissioners website, or twitter, with that would tell you to go and what to do. elon says that he is going to take down public officials. sorry, public figures that have been celebrities and things like that. but how do you know that, if i say i'm ben collins and i run the pennsylvania state board of commissioners or something, on tuesday. what team is responsible for taking down that account? with a brand new verified badge that puts you in the same spot as journalists? here elon musk uses 21st status. and to hype up his own status, things like that. and he views the website as a status machine. anything she views other people in the same way. most people do not use the

website that way. most people use it in the utilitarian way. to find out if there is an earthquake, or find out there something happening. >> if the polling place hours has been extended. >> exactly, if there's a loud bang. if you hear a loud bang in your neighborhood. that's not how he uses this. he uses it as a political vehicle to get what he wants. that is putting our voting rights in danger by tuesday in a very dramatic way. it could be really bad and i'm trying to not sound the alarm and stir up here but if everybody has a verification badge on tuesday nobody has enough verification bags on tuesday. >> it renders it all meaningless. >> and we're all gonna follow this out the highway. it's something that we learned over time. hopefully not dramatically on tuesday. >> civil rights leaders have been approaching mask, they clearly have some amount of influence here. do you sense there is more of

that pushback to come? do you think it's an effective way of pressuring musk to keep in place some of the safeguards? there are the physical bodies in the office to execute some of this security and anti-misinformation monitoring so what is the best-case scenario for what can happen here in terms of public pressure on musk and the -- that he has left in the office. >> well so far, there is a conspiracy theorizing that there is a political or liberal elite to make it so that twitter does not have advertisers any more because they're unhappy with the changes that are made and he's double down on all of that tonight. i think he will continue to do that. look, at the end of the day. this guy made a mistake. he bought a website he could not afford. and he's leveraging it at several banks. and he tried to back out of it, for months and months and months. and he couldn't do it. and now there are witness

websites, and the main use of it is political revenge. >> wow, it certainly looks like it's shaping up to be. it certainly giving a platform for people who have been marginalized who are spreading misinformation and hate. and we are seeing that full flowering of that dark side of american society on social media. let us all buckle up before november 8th. ben, always good to see you. thank you for your 40 on all of this. cnn news reporter ben collins. could friday be. we have one more story ahead of tonight. and i could say, it's a positive one. just four days out from the election. stay tuned! we will be right back! ht back!

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before official election day, but americans have already been voting in massive numbers. right now, 36 million americans have cast their ballots in these midterm races. which is on track to be a record breaking number. and they have been passing those ballots through early voting, or returning to drop boxes, or through the mail. as where it is people are about the future of this country, people are out there doing the right thing. which is voting. that is great for democracy. undeniably. it is the only way that this process works, and stays working. so keep doing it! if you haven't already, go cast that ballot! i'll see you on the other side. now it's time for the kornacki county with steve kornacki. steve kornacki>> three days, 199 minutes 55 seconds and counting until the