constantly talking about undecided voters and who are they or where are they and now we know there is at least one less undecided voter out there, brett stevens. on that note i wish you a very good note and mark your calendars for msnbc live, democracy 2024, the insiders. next week they share their analysis and a behind-the- scenes look at what happens in the home stretch of the campaign. you can get tickets by scanning the qr code on your screen. this is a virtual event so check it out on wednesday, october 30 at 1:00 p.m. eastern. excuse me, i lied. 1:30 p.m. eastern. i am signing off for all of our colleagues across the network on nbc news, thank you for joining me. i will see you late night

tomorrow. i am so happy to have you here. we are two weeks out from election day and it is two weeks from tomorrow with 10 million americans already casting ballots and myself included. it feels great to have voted. i do highly recommend it and there is no feeling quite like it. but now we are getting close to the point where we are out of time for anything but voting. whatever you want to be able to say you did in this year's election, whatever you want to be able to brag about someday in the future, whatever you want to say you are proud you did when your country needed you, what you want your answer to be when somebody someday asks you what you did in 2024 when you were alive and fully aware this was the highest stakes american election since 1940 and 1860. whatever you want to be able to brag about in terms of your

contribution to this moment in american history, your contribution to the selection, the selection in which we are being asked to choose not just between one candidate or the other, but we are asked to choose between one system of government and another. whatever you want your family lore about you to be for future generations of your family, when your family at future holidays and future family reunions and get-togethers and when members of your family of generations are yet to come talk about you and what you did in the election that decided whether or not america would switch to a strongman authoritarian state instead of a system we were born to and grew up in, whatever you are going to do, it is what you are going to do now. and in these next two weeks. history is calling. what are you going to do? whether it is calling voters in

swing states or volunteering to knock on doors and volunteering to drive people to the polls or showing up the local campaign office of your candidate or cause and offering to do whatever needs doing at this late date, just on your own calling or texting everybody in your contact list in your phone or asking everybody you know if they are registered to vote or if they need any help getting to a polling place to cast your ballot and can you please help them. whatever you want your bragging rights to be about doing your part, this is the last two weeks to do any of it. voting is the bare minimum and you don't get to brag about that. what else will you do on top of voting to help bring about the outcome you want in this election? the answer to that question is whatever you sign up to do tonight and tomorrow. because we are otherwise out of time and watching tv doesn't count. worrying about polls doesn't

count and scrolling through your phone and doing nothing other than absorbing information doesn't count. it is time to actually do something and, really, it is now or never. one of the things that strongman leaders do when they get control of the country is they shut down independent media and make it a crime or otherwise impossible for anybody to report or say or broadcast anything that is independent of the strongman or critical of the strongman. that of course isn't how the american system of government works. with our robust first amendment and freedom of the press protections, that isn't at all how we are set up as a government and as a country. again, what is on the table from republicans and the selection is scrapping our system of government and instead doing it the strong man way instead. >> you said cbs should lose its license? >> sure. i have never seen anything like it. >> i think they have said we

would never yank a license because a politician didn't like it. >> wait a minute. now what we are doing is we will subpoena their records for 60 minutes and i think it should be taken off the air, frankly. >> frankly, i think it should be taken off the air and we will subpoena the records of this news organization. and we will take them off the air. this comes in the wake of that same candidate, donald trump, saying that abc news should also have its broadcast license revoked. it comes in the wake of that same candidate same this network msnbc and nbc news should have its broadcast license revoked coming on the heels of him saying the head of facebook should be put in prison. it comes on the heels of him saying just you wait to see

what he is going to do to the new york times. wait until you see what i will do to them. this isn't normal american stuff. this isn't american at all. this is strongman authoritarian form of government stuff which our constitution protects us from explicitly. but he wants to get rid of all that. he says if you vote for him, he will get rid of all that. tonight, i am really honored to say that we will be joined here in the studio by the wife, the widow of alexei navalny after he was locked up and killed by putin's government in russia, his wife has stepped up following her husband's death into her self leading the opposition to that leader and dictator and she said she will defeat vladamir putin and step into her husband's shoes and lead the russian opposition against that dictatorship.

and no small feat in a country where every single person known to be in opposition to putin has been killed or imprisoned or exiled and her husband was killed in february. putin has put out a warrant for her arrest as well but she is here with us here tonight and we will speak with her tonight about the challenge of standing in opposition and leading opposition efforts in a country where the independent media has been eliminated. what trump is proposing to do here in america to the media is what putin has done of course in russia. and in russia it is state controlled media only. that is the case everywhere. you have an authoritarian in charge. that is the case everywhere you have a dictatorship and that is the case everywhere in most cases and you have a monarchy and any place you have authoritarian leadership. in saudi arabia, the state controlled media there includes

the television that is state controlled and if you watch any of their clips online. and trump loves saudi arabia and one of the many underreported things in the presidential campaign this year i think was in the middle of our presidential campaign, just this summer trump assigned a deal to build trump tower saudi arabia which is a huge real estate deal and it is the saudi government doling out a huge financial favor to trump while he is in the middle of's presidential campaign and they are expecting presumably that if he does get into the white house again that huge personal financial favor they just did him will be fresh in his mind when it comes to making american policy, american government policy toward saudi arabia. the saudi royal family, you will recall, also stuffed $2 billion, billion with a b into the pockets of trump's son-in-

law jared kushner as soon as he left the white house. the new york times recently reported that they have seen precisely 0 return on that supposedly investment with jared kushner and kept all the money and skimmed out over $100 million in fees for himself while returning nothing to them at least so far. but presumably it isn't because they are not expected to be paid back by him but expected to be paid back by the white house, the american people. the saudi's don't seem to be that eager to get any of that money back from old jared kushner because they know they will get it back another way. from us. from policy at our expense to pay back the people who have paid him. so the trump relationship with saudi arabia is well oiled. if you wanted to create a kindergarten level textbook, one of those books where the

pages are cards or card stock, if you wanted to create that to explain to a kindergartner what corruption is, this is how you may spell it out. imagine your friend is running for president and somebody gives your friend a huge sweet business deal while running for president in that same someone gives your friends family billions of dollars while running for president. and the c is for corruption in your friend is corrupt. and then if it were like a good children's book they would say, don't worry this could never happen in the united states of america. we would have to update that textbook. but anyway, today the saudi state controlled media, al arabiya, posted a new interview with donald trump and this new interview with donald trump, just published today got zero pickup in the united states which is kind of amazing and a presidential candidate interview got zero pickup two weeks before election day.

but i think the reason this interview didn't get any pickup may be because of the headline that the state controlled al arabiya slapped on the video when they posted it. look what they put. trump said middle east peace possible if elected. oh, yes, that is what we all expect. elect donald trump. what will happen? well, for starters, you will get peace in the middle east. it has evaded the geniuses of many generations, but that chess player will be able to sort it out. trump will bring about peace in the middle east if he were elected and you would be surprised to learn that is the newsworthy take away from that interview with the saudi state controlled media but what is the newsworthy take away is in the interview he flat out said

that there aren't hostages being held by hamas and he said they are all dead. imagine if you are the family member of one of these hostages who has been held for a year now by hamas and a presidential candidate in the united states comes out and says they are pretty much all dead and most of them are all dead. and that is what he said today. that is what he said. >> still you have hostages, but many of them have been killed. i am sure many of them are dead. i think early on a lot of those hostages were dead. i think they were dead. >> imagine the cruelty of that. if you are the family of a hostage in gaza. you have been working for a year now desperately to get your loved one out of their and imagine you are the family of an american hostage held in gaza, and you are counting among other things on the american government to do all it can to get your brother or your mother or daughter out

alive as a hostage. here is a man running to be president of the united states saying yes, i am sure they are all dead? i am sure they are all dead. trump also said in his al arabiya state controlled media interview today that he would have done a deal with hamas and if they wanted to do something like october seven, trump would have stepped in and done a deal with them. if you liked it when trump invited the taliban to come to camp david, here he is two weeks to for the presidential election saying if you are president he would make deals with hamas and he would have solved that problem on october seven. >> i would've made a deal with them and they would not have done october seven. >> you know michael dukakis's presidential campaign, he put

on a helmet that made his face looked short and donald trump pretended to work at mcdonald's this weekend while wearing this lovely ensemble. the next day he said all of the hostages are dead and i want to do a deal with hamas. but our election is 50-50. this is our election this year. the democratic candidate vice president kamala harris campaign today in pennsylvania and in michigan and wisconsin with the republican congresswoman liz cheney among the highest profile cross party endorses and supporters of kamala harris. vice president harris was also endorsed by republican susan ford bales and the middle name is important. she is the daughter of the former republican president gerald ford in a lifelong republican. on mainstream economic issues which the pundit world is the bedrock of all politicking and

last week they talk about the economist magazine going large this week with a special report in the riproaring economy that the biden/harris administration is leaving in its wake and the economists calling it the envy of the world. the u.s. economy after four years of biden and harris outpacing every other major industrialized economy in the world blowing all a no expectations out of the water with growth, the job market, wages, manufacturing jobs, household wealth for average american households. on top of that entities like the last -- wall street journal from trump's policies and economists telling the journal in overwhelming numbers that trump's policies will be terrible for inflation, terrible for the deficit, terrible for interest rates and today you get at social security to that list with a new report from the nonpartisan

fiscal watchdog group setting off the alarm that what trump is proposing economically will destroy social security within six years. it will end social security within six years. by the end of the decade. so the harris-walz campaign is doing normal things with a little more pizzazz than i would say as usual but normal campaigning and touring swing states with republicans who are telling moderates and independents and even republicans that they should cross over and vote not for the republican but for the democratic candidate this year. they have been doing campaign events with a-list celebrities like usher, lizzo, and stevie wonder. they are doing interviews with every media outlet you have ever heard of in your life. tim walz sat down with the ladies of the view today and he is doing the daily show on comedy central tonight. but what is trump doing? he is telling rally audiences

about the size of a famous golfer , announcing how he will shut down american news organizations. he is canceling almost all of his interviews with american news organizations. instead, he is talking to saudi arabia and state controlled state media to whom he just announced he wants to do a deal with hamas while also telling american families waiting for the return of their loved ones being held hostages that, yes, as far as he is concerned, all the hostages are probably dead. don't bother. this isn't a normal election between two normal candidates. if you want to know how this one is going to end, this is the time for you to make a difference as to how it is going to end. this is it. now or never. we will be right back. im.

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i'm kamala harris and i approve this message. donald trump makes a lot of promises, but we can be sure of one thing: if he wins, he'll ignore all checks that rein in a president's power. it's all in trump's project 2025 agenda. what does that mean for you? higher costs on groceries, cuts to social security and medicare, more tax breaks for billionaires, and a national abortion ban, putting women's health at risk. a second trump term—

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to bring the changes we need for the city we love. san francisco's leadership is failing us. that's why mark farrell is endorsing prop d. because we need to tackle our drug and homelessness crisis just like mark did as our interim mayor. mark farrell endorsing prop d, to bring the changes we need for the city we love. in 2013, 11 years ago, donald trump posted on twitter

about hosting the miss universe pageant in moscow. he said online, "do you think putin will go to the pageant? if so, will he become my new best friend" what was that about? what grown man talk that way about anyone let alone the president of russia but that was 2013. two years later he entered the republican primary contests for president on the night of the third presidential primary debate. we later learned that that same night he secretly signed a letter of intent to build trump tower moscow, which would've been the biggest real estate project of his entire life. he lied about that and kept it secret throughout the campaign. we didn't learn about it until after he was elected president. while he was president, he insisted on meeting one-on-one with vladimir putin without any american staff present. he did so on at least five

different occasions. in one of those instances at a 2017 meeting in germany, trump personally confiscated the notes that had been taken at the meeting by his own interpreter. since leaving the presidency, bob woodward reports that trump continues to have secret one-on- one communications with vladimir putin, not only refusing to report those to the us government, which is arguably illegal. anyway, but he has also not been allowing even his own staff to be nearby when he speaks with putin. what about his communications with putin needs to be so secret? putin's government interfered in 2016 to help trump get elected and in the 2020 election they ran a robust foreign influence operation to prevent joe biden from becoming trump's democratic opponent and now in 2024 russia is flat out paying pro trump conservative

commentators in united states as part of another large russian state-sponsored effort to try to help the campaign. we have a hard time in the united states calling whatever is going on with donald trump in the republican party, we have a hard time calling it authoritarianism and we get nervous about the word or the idea of authoritarianism. we get nervous about what that means in a domestic context. but we can all at least agree that trump does have some kind of weird freaking relationship, a servile almost worshipful relationship with somebody who everybody in america can agree is an authoritarian if not a fascist dictator, vladimir putin. and that admiration, that trump has for putin is as inexplicable as ever and

undimmed by the passing of years. more explicitly now than ever before extending not just to trump personally wanting putin to like him personally seemingly wanting him to be like putin but now explicitly it seems to extend to trump wanting our country, the united states, to be more like russia is under putin's control. in this campaign for president, but we hear from trump is that news organizations shouldn't be allowed to air criticism of him or air interviews with his opponents. he will shut those no organizations -- news organizations down while he is in power and they shouldn't be allowed to run against him and all criminals and we hear from him that portions of the united states constitution should be terminated and we hear from him that businesses who don't do what he wants will be crushed

when he is back in power. he says let's withdraw from nato and let russia do "whatever it wants to our allies and let's use the military against american civilians who dare to protest against them. and vladimir putin has been in power in russia for 25 years. russia is the largest country in the world and has almost infinite economic potential particularly during this last 25 years in a country of fantastic natural resources and almost an unparalleled legacy of scientific and cultural achievement and a country whose enemies, quite frankly, mostly dissolved with the dissolution of the soviet union. the possibilities were limitless. but under of latin america -- vladimir putin and russia a country that covers 1/10 of the world land mass, russia has an economy smaller than the lease and the per capita gdp is lower than bulgaria, mexico and guiana. why is that. well russia languishes as a

country they buy up luxury real estate and yachts and private jets and vineyards and resorts, private islands all over the world including here. and putin himself long rumored to be the world's richest man builds himself palaces like this one on the black sea. and authoritarianism isn't just a textbook term in political science. it isn't just dystopian and cruel and repressive but also always corrupt. and also therefore pitiful. and everybody in the world deserves better. in a better world, it wouldn't be vladimir putin right now. it would be this man who would be the president of russia. the head of the anticorruption foundation a nonprofit organization in russia, a man who made that video that i just

showed you showing the secret palace on the black sea along with so many other incredibly newsworthy and incredibly well researched investigative reports on the secret wealth of putman -- putin and his henchmen who robbed the country blind in his name is alexei navalny. he is the most effective and inspiring opposition figure of modern russia and his leadership has been characterized by a refusal to be afraid, a relentless sense of humor, and an even more relentless commitment to the certainty that putin's regime will end and there will be a russia without putin and it is inevitable that the lives will collapse in on themselves and the parties of crooks and thieves, putin's party will be thrown out and the inevitable certainty that democracy is

coming. and they started arresting alexei navalny in 2011 and they never really stopped. they tried to blind him in chemical attacks twice. they banned him from running for office. they banned this organization and ultimately give it the same classification as isis and al qaeda. they arrested and imprisoned his younger brother. they arrested his colleagues and even his lawyers. this year, this february, they killed him in prison. his wife survives him and they have put out an arrest warrant for her as well. she lives in exile because she has to. alexei navalny was the man who should be the president of a free democratic russia right now in 2024 . after his death now, instead, it should be his

wife. in some ways it is his wife, yulia navalnaya, continuing investigations into the corruption of the authoritarian regime that rules are country leading not yet a government but for now the people of that country who are not just yearning to be free from that stupid dictatorship but leading the people actively working to get free and to prepare to live in a democracy instead because the certainty remains it is coming. for us, for people all around the world including here in the united states who are not trying to overthrow a dictatorship but instead are trying to stop the authoritarian takeover of our existing democratic system, this woman, this yulia navalnaya, seems like one of the most important people in the world who we could meet at the crossroads. yulia navalnaya is the wife and now widow of alexei navalny and his memoir is somehow miraculously being published

this week called patriot, a memoir and i read every word of the book and i couldn't put it down. it is a real honor to have you here. thank you. >> hello and it is a great honor and thank you for your kind words. it means a lot. >> we are in the middle of a very heated election system this season as you know in this country. my confession to you is in -- is i didn't intend to read all of the book and i thought i wouldn't have time and i will read the beginning and end and have other people read it and tell me what it is about but i read every word of it and i found it incredibly moving. can you tell me a little bit about what it took to get the book into print? i do imagine you had to have a hand in editing the manuscript. i imagine there may have been some hard decisions for you in terms of things that felt personal that you nevertheless put in the book and what was

like to bring into fruition? >> it was very important for you. it was a memoir of my husband, his legacy. that is why it was difficult in some ways to put some parts together. but i would also say too that we did not cut a lot. nor do i think that everybody or everything that was in this book i wanted to keep this to sound open and his voice to bring the truth. >> one of the things he writes about that is very moving is how much your support meant to him and how much it meant to him to be more capable as a leader and activists -- activists to know that you are

with them and already agreed with him before he ever had a chance to talk to you about it and he talks about it very movingly when he was poisoned with a nerve agent and nearly 3 weeks in a coma in germany and very nearly killed him and he writes about how your presence was a neurobiological miracle and the only thing that brought him back. i thought about that preparing to talk to you today and in many ways you stepped into his shoes and you are the leader of the russian opposition because he can't be anymore. but who can be that person for you or who can be there to support you the way you supported him? >> thank you. everything that you say is a compliment and it is nice to hear it. i think i would call myself a young politician in some ways but i know about politics a lot

because i had been with the real leader of the opposition for many years. but i promise i will do my best. it is very important to me for many reasons for my country and my family and my children and for his memory and those who support me. i think the maine problem because of courses we supported each other. it was very easy for him and very easy for me in some very difficult moments because after all of these things we can go to lie down on the bed touching her hands and it was very helpful. i do miss that a lot. i am doing all of these interviews and meetings and

everything. what i wish a lot is to come back home and discuss everything with him or even when he was in prison to write him a letter telling him what is going on my life. but still, i think love for him and love for country. all of the supporters who supported him and support me now, they give me power. i appreciate all of these kind words, a lot of letters from support -- of support for many many people. >> he writes in the book that when the regime started

arresting him and imprisoning him, he said they had two amos, the first to hurt his ability to work and he said when you are in prison it is hard to get your work done and even under house arrest it is hard to get your work done and he was obviously a committed candidate and i found it moving that he wrote about not wanting to be a protest or symbolic candidate but one who wanted to win and he believed in democracy and wanted to make people's votes really count for something. so the other reason for arresting him and charging him with the things they did was to undercut his message and obviously in anticorruption crusader so they would charge him with things that made him seem like he is the corrupt one. it seems the other reason they were in the third aim in arresting him and imprisoning him which is to break down other people's will and make an example of him so what happened to him would scare the people. especially after what has happened to him and what has happened to the media and the opposition and what has happened with russia during the

ukraine war which has made everything worse, do you still believe the collapse of the regime is inevitable and that russia will be democratic one day? >> of course. he gave his life for this. i feel like i must continue his work. i do feel like i must continue what he did for many many years and it is very important for me. i believe that all of these changes, the often happen in one day and that means we need to sit down and share them one day to the next day and we need to do something but it doesn't mean we expect people do every day huge things but just everyday something small to encourage people to show them

that we are all together in this regime against war and putin especially and we are together in this same. >> i apologize for asking you an american centered question, but we have this big very high- stakes election right now. >> i am aware of it. >> i think that the relationship or the sort of admiration that the republican candidate donald trump has for putin is inexplicable and undimmed and has not changed at all and i do think he is proposing the united states should drop our form of government and adopt something more like putin has done with russia. and if we choose another president, that means that america has freely and of our own free will electively chosen that kind of a change for us

the country and we might do it and i don't know what will happen in the selection. from your vantage point, how does that strike you? what you think about the fact that america may choose that is its future? >> i hope america will do the right choice. i do believe in democratic institutions. i still think -- i know there are a lot of conversations but compared to russia i can thank you have things like independent court and independent media and you can criticize candidates on tv and i am sure that america will make the right choice and you will be fine.

>> you had some interaction i know in particular with vice president kamala harris when you are named one of the world's most influential people by time magazine and she wrote the write up about you. what have your interactions with her been like? do you feel like she understands the stakes of what you are fighting for? i spoke with her in august by phone and she called me about a prisoner swap which happened between america and germany and russia. i really appreciated it. it was very warm, very private and a personal talk. she had told me that she remembered what my husband and my family did and are doing to make russia a democratic country. and they very much appreciated that she called me and it meant a lot. >> the last question i have is i think it means a lot to the world that patriot, the memoir

and his prison diaries and also his memoir are out now and it is a remarkable book. as i said, i didn't intend to read all of it and i didn't have time and it really messed me up. but it did take a lot to get this out into the world with a lot of risk and effort. it is a remarkable document. what do you want people to take away from this? what you think is the most important thing for people to know about this book? >> there are two parts. i want people to be encouraged by this book and not give up or not to stop fighting and there are more and more other authoritarian regimes and this is a good example of people never giving up especially in prison or even in tortured conditions, they continue their

fight and he was a fighting even from prison. but also, of course, people will know my husband and that he was a great man. that he was very kind, very funny and very beloved person. >> his sense of humor and his creativity, even under duress to me is inspiring. i don't know other resistance leaders of my generation or my time that bring that to it in a way that really made me think in a completely different way about what it means to stand up for freedom or stand up for freedom of choice. yulia navalnaya, it is a real honor to have you here and i wish all the best for you and i hope doors open for you everywhere and i wish all the best for you. thank you so much. >> we will be right back. stay with us.

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tim miller used to be a really big deal in american politics and was the spokesman for the rnc and he is an nbc analyst hosting a podcast. tim miller recently unearthed this tape and this is a republican donor and rich guy named david sachs and to other silicon valley billionaires talking on the podcast two days after january six, the trump mob attack on congress on

january six. >> i don't hear anybody defending the storming of the capitol and is trump responsible, yes, clearly. >> 100%. >> i think he loaded the gun and pointed it in a certain direction. >> is that the end of his political career? >> i think he has disqualified himself for being a candidate at a national level. >> i would rather take every single person arrested and give them zero days in jail and added up and give it to trump. it was perverted by this scumbag and he is a complete piece of [ inaudible ]. he is garbage. >> that is satisfying. >> two days after january six, trump has disqualified himself from being a candidate says david sachs and he should get all the present time that anybody would get for that riot and he is a complete piece of

swearword swearwords and he is garbage. that was two days after january six and 2021, not that long ago. now, this year two of those same guys hosted a lavish fundraiser for trump in san francisco and have since become two of trump's biggest boosters in the election from the business and tech world and leaders of a group of super wealthy eccentric right wing silicon valley guys who have just poured money into getting trump back into the white house. so it is a real turn in a short amount of time from trump is disqualified to he should be jailed indefinitely as a scumbag and garbage to multimillion dollar fundraisers at my house. and constant praise and all in to get trump back into the white house.

the tech billionaire class is distinguishing itself in terms of its principles at this time in american history. but none more so than this one. tonight, the washington post reporting that many republican officials have written to the u.s. justice department asking for help with this guy saying the former republican lawmakers, advisors and justice department officials have called on merrick garland to investigate the tech billionaire elon musk for awarding cash prizes to voters in swing states, part of his support for trump's candidacy. and an immigrant from south africa and the defense contractor in the world's richest man elon musk is so committed to get trump reelected that he is basically funding and running trump's get out the vote operation in swing states to mixed reviews and now there are questions as to whether elon musk and his eagerness may have crossed the line into lawbreaking and he is offering a daily prize of $1 million that he says is available only to registered voters in battleground states. if you register to vote in a

swing state and sign a meaningless nonbinding elon musk petition, it makes you eligible for him to give you $1 million, which he said he will do to someone every day until the election as part of supporting trump's campaign. the problem is, very explicit and very simple federal law prohibits paying or offering to pay anyone to vote or paying or offering to pay somebody to register to vote. a lot of election law experts are saying what he is doing here is pretty blatantly illegal and breaking this particular law will get you five years in prison and thus far the justice department is declining to say whether it is investigating or not, but he is doing this every day now. tick-tock and watch this space. e

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imagine being a u.s. senate or and having all of your state's biggest newspapers come out against you, basically all

at once while you are running for reelection. that is the dream that senator ted cruz has been living over the past few days. as of this weekend, all five of the biggest newspapers in texas have endorsed his democratic opponent, colin allred. we could call that the biggest embarrassment suffered in some time but there is stiff competition right now. last week in missouri for example to republican senator josh hawley not only saw the st. louis post dispatch endorse his challenger but also senator holly flunked that endorsement with the distinction in the post dispatch wrote for reasons above and beyond any current partisan consideration josh hawley is quite possibly the worst sitting senator in america right now. that is the biggest paper in his home state.

this is supposed to be a year when republicans are favored to take over the senate but this is also your republicans are running a string of beleaguered scandal ridden and unpopular candidates in states they need to win while democrats are showing they have a chance in unlikely places. one of the best hopes for a democratic upset is in texas with colin allred fresh off that string a block western endorsements from all the biggest papers in texas and he will be on the last word with lawrence o'donnell right after the show. watch this space. this space

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much more of my interview then we were able to show you tonight. we will put the whole thing on youtube including her very pointed message to the u.s. about what we are doing wrong when it comes to vladimir putin. the whole thing posted uncut on youtube. also tomorrow night, alex wagner is doing a special from philly, she has been following senator john fetterman as he campaigned for harris in pennsylvania. going to be really good, tomorrow night at 9 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening rachel. i have to ask you about that interview. so moving and so powerful. and what it was like for you to just be in the presence of that kind of courage. >> i have the tell you, lawrence. what i said was true. i don't have