hello, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. democrats, they have the senate. but the house is still up for grabs. with a string of races still uncalled at this hour. and while it could be weeks before we have a solid answer on which party takes control, one thing is for sure, the majority in fact will be narrow. we've got steve kornacki at the big board for the breakdown of the tightest races right now. and the chances democrats could win enough of them to change the game. we're also on the ground in georgia, where the senate battle between herschel walker and raphael warnock has entered round two, and yes, that race still matters a whole lot for both parties even if it is no longer the great decider. and it's not just the house and the senate. election deniers could still secure a win in the state of

arizona. the race for governor there is still too close to call. we'll have the latest in the ballots pouring in from maricopa county and the conspiracy theories officials continue to bat away at in just a minute or sorchl as the crucial votes are counted across the country, what is next, with the president's agenda, after this midterm surprise? house control might be a wildcard at this hour, but biden has a buffer now against republicans with his party in control of the senate. and the agenda, how do these shocking midterm results play into the bigger election in question? and that is 2024. he is riding the wave of democratic defiance this week. joe biden turns 80 on sunday. his age and approval ratings are some of the factors raising questions about his re-election prospects. and then, we have former president donald trump teasing his plans to run for office tomorrow. a laundry list of his midterm

picks losing. and while both of them are instant favorites to win the party nomination, experts say each face serious obstacles in winning a second term in the oval office. we will explain why coming up. we have lots to get to this hour, everybody. but we want to begin with who is leading where as these votes continue to be combed through. joining me is nbc news national correspondent steve kornacki for us at the big board. we're still waiting to decide or see who has control of the house, right? what are the tightest races that you're watching? >> so in fact, just in the last couple of hours, nbc called one of the races and you can see oregon's fifth district goes red, goes for the republican here, interesting back story, the democratic nominee here mcloud-skinner, had ousted an incumbent and ran in the primary against bert schrader and perhaps a bit out of step in the end and the democrats lose to the republicans, the republicans

a net gain, in what is a red seat now. what does that do to the map in terms of overall house control here. right now, republicans will have at least 212 seats, and democrats will have at least 206 seats. remember you need 218 for a majority. on this list now, you can see, there are 17 outstanding democrat versus republican races that nbc news has not called. so of those 17, republicans need six. and they'll have a majority. of those 17, democrats need a dozen. they need 12 to get to a majority. the trouble democrats face right now as you can see with the oregon call here, if republicans need six more to get to 218, you can see at least six where they're leading and where democrats are going to need something kind of surprising to happen here to catch. for instance, new york's 22nd district, still some votes to come. but that's a 4,000 vote lead for the republican there. that could be difficult for democrats to overcome. california's 45th district, michelle steel, leading by more

than 10,000, that ticked down a little bit with each update we've gotten but that is about two-thirds of the vote that is in right now. california's 27th. smith came close to conceding the election on twitter yesterday, she was talking about the distinct possibility of losing this race. so that one could be slipping away from democrats. certainly the 41st district is close, but the republican cal vert gained some votes with what was released recently. here is a problem for democrats in arizona. two districts they've been counting on in arizona, the sixth district, this is down partly in pima county where tucson is. the most recent update, the republican here is believed now back over 2,000 votes. here is one tonight, we could get clarity on, maricopa county based first district, the republican incumbent dave schweikert trailing earlier in the week but the ballots coming in in maricopa county, fairly

republican friendly and he was able to take the lead, and if anything happens again tonight, like that, he will be able to build on the lead. those are six right now. democrats will have to find a way to win at least one of those and there are a bunch of other question marks on the map here too for democrats. and democrats are closer than folks thought and the nbc news estimate has republicans landing at 219 seats, plus or minus 4, that would be very, very narrow majority. but for the democrats to actually get to 218 right now, they pretty much have to pull a rabbit oust hat. >> when are we going to know who has control of the house? >> as we say, we may get clarity in the two arizona races tonight, because we're expecting, especially in the first district, expecting more votes there, and these california districts, it is just wide variants here, again, i'll give you an example, the 22nd district, central valley of california, and we don't even have 40% of the vote counted yet here. a republican incumbent. one of the seats democrats actually have to win, if they're

going to have any chance at 218. they trail in the tally right now. but you can see the pace they're going at here. so there is a possibility, depending on what kinds of vote updates we get from some of these districts. maybe in the next couple of days some of these california races clarify, and that house control picture comes into focus earlier than we thought. but there is a possibility this could stretch on sometime longer. >> a lot of folks looking at the third district in washington, flipped democrat this time around, anything like that, looking like it is going to happen in any of the districts that are outstanding? >> well, let's see, what happened in the third district of washington, the democrat there, marie perez, was leading the count pretty much the whole day and with each update the lead wasn't vanishing, and we can kind of see in the big picture, that was a shocking upset for the democrats, but you know, it was called and it was pretty clear where the race was going. and the democrats are in a situation, to give you an example, you know, new york's 2nd district, don't know how

many votes are left here to be counted, not that many, very hard to see how they could overcome the deficit like that. you know, the 45th district of california, as i say, jay chen, the democrat has made up some ground as more votes are counted but that is an awful lot of ground to make up here. we're in a situation here where it is not like in some of seats democrats are leading, and you can say can they hang on to the lead, they got to sort of increase their performance with the uncounted ballots. it's got to improve pretty dramatically in some cases, and we can see sometimes wild swings, with these late-counted ballots but it is something of that order that would have to happen. >> and one last thing. because i want to go to arizona on the ground in a second. give us an update on the governor's race there. >> the governor's race in arizona remains uncalled. katie hobbs, leading by just under 25,000 votes statewide. and this is what i was talking about maricopa county and the key house race, maricopa county

crucial to the governor's race, the biggest in the state, the majority of the votes in the state come out of here and due tonight in the 8:00 eastern hour to again come out with a giant batch of votes. and they are into this group of votes there, it is the most republican friendly of those that are counted after election day, kari lake's campaign has been counting for the last week, has been saying these are the votes that are going to lift us over katie hobbs to victory. we've got a couple of nights of releases of these votes. they've been, last night they were republican friendly, two nights ago they were republican friendly, but so far, they haven't been as republican friendly as the late campaign has been counting on, and they haven't been republican friendly enough to pull her into the lead statewide. so i think tonight, you know, it's almost make or break potentially for kari lake. again, a big batch from maricopa county. she needs to not just win them, she needs to win by a big big margin. if she's able to do that, she is very much in the game in the governor's race. if she doesn't, the math gets

daunting for her. >> steve kornacki, thank you. with that, we're talking about arizona and check in with our reporters on the ground. joining me from the maricopa county elections building in arizona is nbc's steve patterson, and in augusta, georgia, is antonia hylton. steve, let me start with this one. we got an update on the votes that are continuing to come in and looking at another release later on this evening. how are things on the ground there? >> yes, i mean well the problem is what steve just said at the big board, republicans votes coming in are republican party which would have been great two or three days ago for kari lake. the problem now is she needs a republican landslide tonight and we're expecting another batch, as steve mentioned, 90, 80,000, maybe close to 100,000 tonight. that will get us closer to who may win this race. we may be in a scenario in which we're able to call it. that is because, you know, there's about a 26,000 difference between hobbs and lake.

hobbs in the lead. this county will determine the race, the lion share of the outstanding votes, and where the vast majority of the votes are going to come from and will determine the race. and the batches we've been seeing, again, favorable for lake but not just enough. the last few days, lake has needed, you know, 53%. 55%, and what's been coming in has been just under that, just enough to keep her out, if it doesn't significantly im proval tonight so we may learn a whole lot more tonight. you know, with all of this going on, of course, she has cast some discouraging doubt on the voting process and specifically election officials here in maricopa, talking about the possibility that they're slow rolling the vote. we checked in with the election officials about the process and why it is taking so long and here is what they told us. >> this is facility for maricopa county. it usually takes us anywhere between 10 and 12 days to complete the count and we think we're going to be done by the end of this week. we followed the laws as they're written. we have a lot of amazing laws

here that allow voters different kinds of access and to vote in the ways that work best for them. so we're going to continue to do the work here, we're going to continue to count the ballots, and we're going to continue to provide the results to the public. >> one other scenario that will be a bombshell is the possibility of an automatic recount, if she gets it within half a percentage point. that would trigger that automatic recount. and in which case we won't know who wins this race until about mid december. >> now, we want to go to georgia, and we spoke yesterday, raphael warnock was at morehouse college, three weeks to go before the runoff in early december. talk about the messaging from both campaigns over the next three weeks and how they plan to keep voters involved. interesting. >> reporter: well, a lot of the message right now is simply focused on voter education. they're trying to make sure they can make all of these voter contacts all across the state again, and just make sure that

people know that a runoff is actually happening on december 6th. and that early voting is going to start shortly after thanksgiving. that's on both sides. both candidates have to do this with a very small amount of time. and then, you know, there's this question of the enthusiasm gap potentially, because, you know, now, balance of power in the senate has been decided by nevada. so there are questions frankly on both sides on what this might do to voter behavior. i can tell you as i talk and spend time with people on the ground here, those concerns are mostly coming from the republican side. the fear that now that control is off the table, that some of these more middle of the road republicans in georgia who in some cases haven't been very enthusiastic about herschel walker and his association with former president trump, they were much more comfortable casting a ballot at the top of the ticket for governor kemp, for example, that those folks may shy away from him, and lose their enthusiasm at this point in the process. i just spent time at a herschel walker rally here in augusta. take a listen to some of the

conversations i had. >> do you want to see governor kemp appear with herschel walker? do you think that will help? >> of course. one of the concerns i have is they're announcing the senate issues and i'm afraid that the republicans are not going to turn out, because it won't bring a majority. but they still got to turn out, because there's going to be another election in a few years. >> you got to keep it, and i think on this last race, i think the worst thing we ever did was kept repeating the red wave, we're going to be the red wave, because that was like a red flag, in front of the democrats, like a bull, putting a red flag in front of the bull and saying, you know, and that just made the democrats get out there and say we're not going to let them do the red wave. >> reporter: the woman you just met there said that she would like to see governor kemp out on the road, with herschel walker, and she would like to see governor desantis make his way

from florida over here. and she had told me that she was a supporter of former president trump and so i asked her, you know, should he come to the state of georgia, and she kind of balked a little bit and said while she still likes him, she thinks that for some folks, he's become too divisive and he causes drama when he comes into places and communities in georgia, and so she wasn't so sure what kind of help he would be able to provide for herschel walker which i found to be interesting as we're now looking toward him likely announcing he is running for president on tuesday, what effect will that have on the race? clearly. so republicans are worried about that. >> we will talk about that in a larger perspective as well coming up. steve patterson and antonia hylton, thank you. with that, i do want to bring in "washington post" international political correspondent, msnbc political analyst as well, ashley clark. if you will kind of pick up where antonio yae left off, looking ahead to the former president trump running for president again come 2024. you can't help but wonder especially when you hear folks

on the ground saying what they said, as antonia kind of played for us there, that they are scrambling, as to what they're going to do. >> that's right. that is a real situation, and a few moments since trump came on the political scene that it felt like tipping points away from him and this feels like one of them, where republicans, and not necessarily the base, but the donor class, the operative class, a number of trump fellow republicans, are deeply frustrated with the way tuesday's midterms went. they had expected huge gains in the house, to possibly win the senate and now we know the house is likely to be a very slim majority one way or the other as democrats control the senate. there is an effort among those groups i mentioned to move past former president trump, and usher in a new generation of leaders. but i have to caution you, and the viewers, there's a number of reasons why this is a very uphill challenge. including the fact that in previous moments, starting in 2015, during his campaign, when trump said, you know, he didn't

think john mccain was a real war hero, to the hollywood tape in the final days of the 2016 campaign, and to his election loss, and refusing to accept the results, in the january 6th deadly insurrection, when republicans had been tempted to try to move past him, and have not quite been able to do so. >> so it seems like there is a fear, because he has rebounded before, they're wondering if he will rebound once again. i want to read for you from some of your piece for folks to hear about kind of this change in disposition of voters. their willingness now, it seems to move beyond trump. you write this. sara longwell, an anti-trump gop strategist, who has been conducting regular focus groups with republican voters, said the challenge desantis and others face is dispatching a former president who is still popular with huge swaths of the party. when she conducted focus groups of republicans earlier this year, the house hearings of the january 6th attack dominated the news, she said most would be

voters didn't plan to abandon trump but has v-a new found willingness to consider other candidates. how notable really is this kind of newfound willingness? >> that newfound willingness is the sliver ray of hope for those who want to in the party, to move past him and that's what they point to and it is what you're saying right now, how they rye to message a post-trump world. they now understand that the sort of never-trump, trashing him, just doesn't work it, because he has 30 or 40% of the base who is never going to abandon him. the sort of always trumpers. and then the other group who, you know, most of them voted for him twice, and most of them liked a lot of his policies but he it was a pretty good president and what they don't like is the chaos, the scandal, the controversy, that always seems to surround him and so they are open to the idea of another republican. that said, if trump is the

nominee again, they all say they would vote for him again in a heartbeat over president biden. this is the real group where if there is anyone who wants to move off of trump to someone who has similar policy, each a similar realistic style which they really like and someone who will fight for them and their values but with a little less of the chaos, that's the real very thin lane for another republican to try to walk through. >> again, we will be watching what takes place over the next 24 hours, with the impending announcement from the former president. and who really comes out either for or against him or not come out at all. thank you. still ahead, everybody, some notorious election deniers lost their races for senate at the governor's mansion. but what about the ones that ran to be their state's chief election official? how many secretaries of state elect will believe the 2020 results are legit? president biden called it a candid meeting two. super powers under heightened

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the university of virginia police department said the suspected gunman and an on campus shooting is now in custody. they identified him as christopher darnell jones jr., a student at uva. three students were killed, all were members of the school's football team. devin chanz ber, lavel davis jr. and d 'sean perry. two students are hospitalized and have not been named. one is in good condition and one remains in critical condition. joining me now is ma rissa parra in charlottesville, virginia. take us through this. what do we know about the suspected gunman here and his

motives? >> reporter: we want to talk about what happened moments ago, the bus that we had seen behind us, it was towed away, and that's a key part of this investigation, because police say that it was on that bus at 10:30 last night that christopher darnell jones jr. opened fire on five people, killing three, as you mentioned, injuring two others. you can see video, from what we could see in the last 12 hours or so, and on that bus, one thing that we did notice, our crews said that they spotted at least two bullet holes in the back rear side of it. so we want to get to some key moments that we learned about jones' background. there is an incident that was made aware to the threat assessment team on uva campus about a comment jones had made to someone unaffiliated with uva about owning a gun and there were no threats made with it but it is something that the threat assessment team was made aware of. and then there was an incident last february of 2021, involving a concealed weapon. and lastly, there was an investigation made, a reference made this morning, about an

investigation into a hazing incident. of course, those are all things we will be looking into. but jones is in custody. we were told that police have spotted the vehicle that was being looked for by police earlier this morning. but while the suspect may be in custody, the healing process is just beginning here. we spoke to students and you'll hear from one in just a moment here, who described the thought process while they were locked down. >> such a strange thing, you know, you go to bed, you're all thinking about what is coming up, and we're locked down. it was pretty tough to wake up and process. >> reporter: now, on the other side of the camera, what you cannot see, is there is a charlottesville strong banner, there are several banners around here, in honor of the three football players, fellow students who lost their lives

last night. even for students who didn't know them personally, this obviously has the whole community, a very tight-knit one, shaken as this investigation continues. back to you. >> shaken and frightened, certainly. thank you very much, appreciate it. let's head overseas, everybody. the china and president xi, the chinese president xi, and president biden met for nearly three hours in a tense moment between the two nation, a wide range of issues, climate and trade between u.s. and china and taiwan and broader economic challenges. biden spoke to reporters after the meeting. >> we're going to compete vigorously, but i'm not looking for conflict, i'm looking to manage the competition responsibly. and i want to make sure, make sure that every country abides by the international rules of the road. >> joining now from bali is nbc news senior white house

correspondent kelly o'donnell. what more were the two leaders able to accomplish during this meeting? >> reporter: it's hard to account for how important personal diplomacy is in a session like this. president biden has been on video calls, on telephone calls, with xi jingping, during the time he's been in office, but to be in the same room, able to look eye to eye, to get a sense with body language, and to have their teams together, critically important, especially when you consider that there have been rising tensions between the u.s. and china, in recent months, over a number of issues, not just economic competition that has long been a sore point, and an ongoing vigorous tension point between the u.s. and china, but also some military tension, when you consider china's influence over north korea and also the issue of taiwan. the self-governing island that china would like to see back fully in its own fold, and the u.s. has very clearly and president biden has stated that he would defend taiwan if china showed aggression.

the president certainly made clear that the policy, he was very delicate about this, about a one china policy, which means there can't be a unilateral change. china can't decide on its own. taiwan can't decide on its own. the change in status. it is the same. when you're in these settings, all the words are measured in much bigger ways than they sound in a conversational sense. so part of what is happening here is the president and the counterparts on the chinese side will continue these conversation, antony blinken, the secretary of state will go to china and carry on. what stands out today, is the president is saying that he believes that communication is fully open, and that even though these are difficult issues, and things aren't resolved in a day, that he believes that the competition can be vigorous, but it should not have to be a situation where things escalate and become more difficult. and when you consider the partnership that china has with russia, he wants to keep that in check, and when you think about the war in ukraine, as well as

the ongoing provocations with north korea. >> kelly o'donnell for us, as always, kelly, thank you. joining me now is former supreme allied commander, nato and msnbc chief international analyst, admiral, thanks for joining us, appreciate it. at first, i want to kind of talk about president biden's strength following the midterm election results, going into this. we know that president xi certainly looks at u.s. domestic politics very closely. how do you think this has empowered the president during this meeting? >> let's start by observing that last week was a big week for xi jingping. he ran the table at the 20th party congress and consolidated control over china, in a manner unlike anything we've seen since now and then. so he was coming in, in this meeting, a man in full. fortunately, from the president's perspective, he had a very good week as well. continuing to control the

senate, house still too close to call, and real strength in the wings of democracy, i would say. so very, very important atmospherecally for the president. could not have landed at a better team. and so they really were meeting as equals of the two largest economies and the two most important countries in the world. >> so kelly brought up the fact that they talked about taiwan specifically, and biden's support for a one china policy, but i actually was reading the ministry of foreign affairs statement about the meeting afterwards. and which essentially they said, listen, we can both grow, this is paraphrasing here, we can both pursue the things that we want. however, we do not involve ourselves in u.s. domestic politics. and we certainly do not expect the united states to involve themselves in china's domestic politics. how do you interpret that? >> i think it is very clear that president xi is communicating,

and he actually used the phrase red line, meaning that any step toward independence on the part of taiwan, should the taiwanese declare themselves independent, for example, that would be a red line, that would lead to china taking military action. he was being very clear with our president. and i think our president was equally clear, that we would not look upon that favorably, and let's face it, the two nations are going to have to agree to disagree, and try to avoid getting into a shooting war here. i thought president biden put it very well, which is we're not looking for conflict. we're looking for a managed pair competition. i think we can do that. i came away cautiously optimistic to be honest with you, yasmin, about the tone and tenor of the meetings. certainly not an enormous break through of any kind. but it creates some expectations, sets some expectations that i think will help us manage this relationship sensibly. >> i think cautiously optimistic

is a good note to end on when it comes to president biden and china's president xi jingping. thank you very much. president zelenskyy made an unannounced visit to the liberated city of kherson. why he is calling russia's retreat there the beginning of the end of the ukraine war. but first, the election deniers who were defeated at the ballot box, what went wrong with the plan by trump allies to take control of election offices in key battleground states? we'll be right back. right back. ? will you make something better? create something new? our dell technologies advisors can provide you with the tools and expertise you need to bring out the innovator in you. (vo) with verizon, you can now get a private 5g network. so you can do more than connect your business, to bring out the innovator you can make it even smarter. now ports can know where every piece of cargo is. and where it's going. (dock worker) right on time. (vo) robots can predict breakdowns and order their own replacement parts.

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i can't believe you found me. i've been waiting for this for 25 years. we have decades of accusations of assault. wienstein's on his way here. let him in... this is all gonna come out. welcome back, everybody. a majority of the candidates who cast doubt on president biden's 2020 victory won their midterm elections. but when it came to the candidates running for the position of top election official in key swing states, voters rejected those election deniers across the board. every single election denier who ran am critical battleground states lost their bid for secretary of state. every one. and those losses are going to have an impact on the next presidential election. joining me now is a "new york times" domestic correspondent covering national politics. nick, thanks for joining us on this.

we appreciate it. so you write, this essentially was a coordinated effort, a plan put in place by allies of the former president, with wanted to take over the election process in key especially battleground states. take us through it. >> yes, so we saw this move to nominate an election denier, election deniers and pretty far right wing candidates for secretary of state in the spring of 2021. you know, with january 6th, and everything that happened in the 2020 election, still kind of fresh in voters mind, all of a sudden we started seeing candidates who had taken a pretty aggressive role in trying to overturn the 2020 election, announce for secretaries of state. we saw mark finchem, the conservative state representative in arizona announce his candidacy. in nevada, we saw jim marchant, who was, he lost his race for congress there, never conceded, was raising challenges in nevada, and he was running for secretary of state. and when we interviewed mr. marchant in 2021, he told us

that people within trump's orbit had told him to run for secretary of state and encouraged him to kind of reach out to others and form this alliance. so he started what was known as the america first slate of secretaries of state. and that included a few candidates for governor who would name the top election official, like say dog mastriano in pennsylvania. and they, you know, they were supposedly coordinating some fundraising. we haven't seen any reports but a lot of money went through there, and they certainly did a lot of events together, they traveled around the country and they were presenting this almost continuation of 2020 election falsehoods and denials about the results and tried to spin that forward into taking over the election apparatus in key battleground states in 2022. >> why do you think voters rejected these candidates? >> you know, we saw a lot of voters reject election denialism kind of en masse when it was at the forefront of the campaign.

and it was kind of interesting, when you looked at what polling told us, ahead of the election, it was that the economy and inflation, those were the top issues, and issues about democracy, while widely regarded, at times 71% of people recognized that there were threats to democracy, only 4% right at the top, but what we think happened is when you lead with these backwards-looking policies, and statements, saying the 2020 election was rigged, spouting more kind of far right falsehoods about the election process, that's not answering what will happen us get out of the economic climate that we're in, and what will help inflation. and for a secretary of state candidate especially, they were really running on that aggressively. the center piece of their campaign. because most of their job, the top part of it is running elections. some controlled small business licenses, and other aspects of being a secretary of state. for the most part, it's voting. and so you know, in michigan,

for example, with christina caramel, the republican nominee there, launched a late lawsuit to try to invalidate a bunch of ballots out of detroit. i was at an event for governor whitmer and voters brought that up to me off the top of their head without any prompting and that kind of bothered me and this backwards election denialism isn't right and not what we need to hear and i think that focus, and putting it at the top, it really hurt these candidates. >> i wonder, quickly, nick, if we can talk, i read this in your piece, from a couple of weeks ago, how, you know, years ago, secretaries of state kind of operated relative anonymity, right? they were bureaucrats. not necessarily seen as politicians. 2020 completely changed that. do you think that is going to continue going forward? >> it sure seems like it. as far as, you know, there's a continued interest from donors, and especially i think some on these right wing groups, that

are trying to make voting, you know, political, and trying to challenge aspects of our electoral process, and/or take it over. i mean so many secretaries of state became household names in 2020, as they were trying to uphold, and hold up an election, during the pandemic, you know, katie hobbs, jocelyn benson, everyone knew them, after the 020 election, we all got to know brad kafz because -- brad raffensperger because he was on the receiving end of the call from president trump to try to find more votes and am 2022, there was so much money that came into the secretary of state races. the democratic secretary of state prior to 2022, never had a full time employee. never a tul time person in the chair. and now in colorado, there were a half dozen employees,nd they spent $25 million. so i think, as voting remains politicized, certainly if former president trump you know, throws his hat back in the ring, i think these races will stay at the top of voters' minds. >> really good stuff.

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