reports," 12 days to go. vice president harris escalating her warnings, calling donald trump dangerous, unfit, and a fascist. >> let me ask you tonight, do you think donald trump is a fascist? >> yes, i do. trump, meanwhile, unleashing

personal attacks at v.p. harris, at former members of his administration and other perceived political enemies. also ahead, a warning to the world's richest man. what the doj told elon musk about his bid to offer cash for votes. plus, vladimir putin is set to speak this morning amid revelations he's welcomed thousands of north korean troops to russia. good morning. it's 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. it's crunch time in the race for the presidency. a contest that's still a tossup right down to the wire. a new "wall street journal" poll out just this morning shows donald trump leading v.p. kamala harris, by three among registered voters. you can see a new cnbc poll has harris down by two, both within the margin of error. this tight race, leading to an increasingly busy travel

schedule for the candidates. trump is stumping out west today. and harris will be at a star-studded rally at georgia with president obama and bruce springsteen, as she unleashes her toughest rhetoric to date against trump. >> i do believe that donald trump is unstable, increasingly unstable, and unfit to serve. >> let's bring in our reporters covering the campaigns. gabe gutierrez from washington. and our garrett haake from arizona. also with us, megan hayes, former special assistant to president biden. and sarah matthews, former trump white house press secretary. the v.p. ramping up her warnings about a trump in a second turn in the final stretch. >> i should point out that some noise behind me on the north lawn. there's demonstrators protesting the gaza war. that's what that noise is.

regards to the town hall, vice president harris was pressed on several issues. and, yes, she is trying to make the case, more so now, that donald trump is an existential threat to democracy. that message resembles what president biden was saying when he was campaigning. she also touched on other issues. she talked about supporting taking a look at the filibuster to codify roe, and also potentially supporting some kind of supreme court reform. it's that message of responding to general kelly's comments that donald trump is a fascist, she used that word herself for the first time. let's take a listen at some of what she had to say last night. >> frankly, i think of it as, he's just putting out a 911 call to the american people. >> let me ask you tonight. do you think donald trump is a fascist? >> yes, i do. yes, i do. when he was president during extreme disasters, when it came time to determine how those

areas, those people who had been traumatized by extreme weather would get relief, he asked the question, did they vote for him? i believe the american people deserve better. >> so, the harris campaign on several fronts now, trying to get out that early vote, with so many states already undergoing early voting right now. later on today, she'll be in georgia campaigning for the first time in person with former president obama. and along the theme of making the case that donald trump is a threat to democracy, we've now learned that on tuesday, she will be delivering a speech, a closing argument of sorts, here in d.c. at the ellipse, the site where former president trump spoke during january 6th. she will be making her last-minute case to voters there at the ellipse, as her campaign will really try to go after. there's a small deliver of persuadable republicans that may not have made up their minds

yet. >> trump, meanwhile, is unleashing a wrath on everyone, as he faces a flurry of questions about his fitness returning to office. >> the trump campaign dismisses the fitness for office and threat to democracy attacks. they see those as a desperate democratic campaign. it doesn't have anything positive to say about themselves. donald trump has one speed. he's attack, attack, attack all the time. focusing on immigrants and what he calls migrant crime or his democratic opponent. we saw him full speed ahead at his events in georgia yesterday. listen to this -- >> hello, duluth. hello, duluth. when you have swastikas on your forehead and on your cheek and all over your face, historically that person isn't going to be a tremendous help to our economy. this crazy kamala thing is just

crazy. first of all, you can't call her harris because nobody knows who the hell you are talking about. under kamala and her economy millions of americans -- she has no idea about an economy. she's not a smart person. she's a low-i.q. individual. >> when i listen to this, i'm reminded by something a senior trump campaign official told me months ago after kamala harris took over for joe biden at the top of the ticket. he said after this race is over, nobody is going to be popular. they're going to take the shine off kamala harris. they think they've been successful in doing so. and it's reflected in the polling where we saw her popularity skyrocket after taking over for joe biden and having come back down to earth now under water, as is trump's in a lot of the recent polling we've seen nationally. >> garrett haake and gabe gutierrez. thank you for bringing us the latest reporting from the campaigns. megan, some of the strongest language we've heard from harris yet, attacking trump. we heard the reporting that she

is planning a closing argument speech at the national mall, at the ellipse, the site of trump's january 6th speech. she seemed reluctant to lean into trump is a danger to democracy angle earlier on. that was president biden's strategy. why this shift now? >> i think she's reminding people and trying to build a contrast of what makes her a different leader versus him being a leader. and i think this is an effective way to do it. you have people that have worked for him in the national security apparatus, that have come out strongly and telling people, like hitler, he is a fascist. he will do these things. this is not an act. this is not for effect. while she has a tough task to show people what she wants to do moving into the next four year, she also continues to need to drive home the contrast for people. i think people forget what those four years of donald trump's presidency were like. and this is her opportunity to remind people over and over again what another four years will be like. >> sarah, amid new reporting about his fitness for office, trump is on the attack,

attacking perceived political enemies, calling his former top military officials stupid, suggesting some of america's major news organizations should lose broadcast licenses. how do you see it as someone who worked in his administration and shared warnings yourself? >> yeah. when he feels like his back is against the wall, he lashes out and uses personal insults to go after people and organizations. and i find it really rich, the attack that came out yesterday on john kelly, his hand-picked chief of staff. and he called him a degenerate and a loser. and it begs the question, well, trump hand-picked this man for the role. tom cotton recommended him for the roll. he was trump's longest-serving chief of staff. he's a retired decorated general, a gold star father. i think that most people would believe that donald trump is lying when he attacks him like that because he knows that john kelly is telling the truth. but i think this is trump's closing argument.

it's going to be all insults, all about himself grievances. and it was smart when kamala harris said trump has an enemy list. i have a to-do list. and that's the contrast in this election. she's focused on solving problems for the american people. he is focused on enacting revenge on those he deems as his enemy. >> he's talking about revenge. he's talking about the insults, the attacks that are more personal nature. doesn't seem like he's trying to expand his appeal. what do you make, sarah, of this maybe divide to win versus unite to win approach? >> well, exactly. i think that he is just going after his base and trying to turn out voter turnout for them. whereas kamala harris is building one of the most diverse coalitions we've ever seen. when you have aoc to the cheneys supporting you, it shows that she's going to be a president for all americans. she's willing to find common ground on issues.

whereas donald trump, all he does is seek to divide and use fear to divide us. and so, that's what voters need to ask themselves. do you want another four years of all this hatred and division and this type of rhetoric? or do you want to turn the page on donald trump? i think kamala harris offers our best chance for that. >> on policy, there was another moment that stood out in the vice president's town hall. on the issue of abortion. let's listen. >> when donald trump was president, he hand-selected three members of the united states supreme court, with the intention they would undo the protections of roe v. wade. and they did as he intended. and now, in 20 states, we have trump abortion bans, that include punishing health care providers, doctors, nurses. >> she said she would support taking a look at the filibuster to codify roe. we know v.p. harris is headed to texas tomorrow to speak about abortion access. do you see a through line with abortion and democracy being her

top focuses of her closing argument? or is it just about hitting all of the bases? >> there is a through argument. the supreme court and donald trump, they took away freedoms and fundamental rights for women to make decisions about their health care and their own body. that's a fundamental right that one in three women do not have in this country and are living under laws that they are not allowed to make health care choices. that's 100% the through line with democracy. our country is about freedom and our country is about making choices and living free. when we start messing with people's freedoms and take those away, this is just the beginning. and people aren't listening when donald trump is saying, he wants to get rid of the department of education. he believes in all the banned books. this is not what americans believe in. and this is not what our country stands for. and she is trying to make this argument and it's up to the american people to listen. >> sarah, democrats are happy to shine a spotlight on reproductive rights. while jonathan allen reports, the trump campaign has honed in on immigration, inflation and

israel. a shift to the personal narrative could distract from the issues that trump aides believe are giving their candidate a leg up over his democratic rival, vice president kamala harris. we showed the polls at the top of this hour. neck and neck right now. some polls showing momentum for trump. if trump is not foe cushion on focusing on policy, what is helping him? >> i think it is the policy that voters are looking at, where they're, like, i don't know if i really loved what the four years of the biden administration did, for example. where they kind of ignored the issue at the beginning but then started to pay attention towards the end of the administration. and then, something like inflation. we've seen inflation come down, but they are feeling the effects of when it hit its peak during the biden administration. donald trump is not going to be focused on policy in his second

term. when he's asked about his policy -- >> sarah, sorry, we're losing your signal. i think we got the gist on that answer. meghan, i want to see the blanket of surrogates across the swing states. including big hitters like former presidents obama and clinton. someone who hasn't been on the trail is hillary clinton. a person close to the campaign tells nbc news, that at this moment, having clinton on the campaign trail might not be the most helpful move, since it needed to focus on its core messages. what's the risk/reward of having hillary clinton on the trail for harris? >> i think a lot of the democratic base loved secretary clinton. she was a great secretary of state. a great senator. a great first lady. i'm not sure what the calculation is for the campaign. i'm not sure it's a scheduling conflict. all of the democrats support the vice president. all of the major republicans like the cheneys, are supporting

the vice president. it shows how broad her coalition is. it drives more than just at stake than policy and there's a leadership and character argument being made. >> meghan hays and sarah matthews. sorry we lost your signal during the last answer. look forward to the next time we can speak. more from the trail ahead, including more of the "f" word being thrown around, fascism. will warnings from extrump officials cut through the noise? historians break down what we learn from the past. and are elon musk's vote giveaways legal? and michigan's attorney general on how she is looking to keep the vote safe there. later, putin's power play. he is expected to speak this morning amid revelations about north korean troops in his country. we're back in 90 seconds. in jus.

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be worried about. >> those were two former top trump white house officials sounding the alarm about donald trump's string of anti-democratic rhetoric. and last night, in a stunning moment, vice president harris did not equivocate. a sitting vice president calling a former and possibly future president, a fascist. we played that for you earlier. this is how the vice president framed her view a few hours prior. >> he does not want a military that is loyal to the united states constitution. he wants a military that is loyal to him. >> trump's allies wave off the remarks and the rhetoric. the fact remains, fascism is a central issue in the home stretch of the 2024 campaign. let's discuss with a couple of experts on authoritarianism. timothy snyder, the author of a new book on freedom. also the author of "on tyranny."

and ruth ben-ghiat, the author of "strong men." it's great to talk to you. timothy, you've been sounding the alarm on trump and fascism for years now. what's your reaction to this entering the discourse a couple of weeks before the election? and a sitting vice president now calling trump a fascist? >> more important of who said it first or while is the basic reality that it would be very bad if someone who is a fascist were elected president of the united states. it's sobering to think that someone who is against the basic norms of the rule of law, could be ruling this sun. what hits me more than the time ing, which is unfortunate, as way too late. if we go this way, the person back to power, it will be the children and the grandchildren who will be asking why did we do

this thing? that's the timing issue which has got me by the throat. i assume that the democrats have reasons why they're talking about it now. that's not my job. as a historian, what strikes me is we're in the cusp of a decision that's going to matter for decades to come. >> it is the gravity of this issue, why we're having this discussion today. ruth, we're hearing from a handful of trump military insiders, raising the alarm bells. the vice president described it as a 911 call to the country. when the word fascism is evoked, it's alarmist or an exaggeration or what some call trump derangement syndrome. what do you say to that? >> it's important that the leaders and the generals who do not often speak out on political issues. and you could see that general kelly was choosing his words carefully.

we have to listen why they are saying this at this time. they believe there's a grave emergency. there's enough evidence. that's why trump is in my book, "strong men," that there's enough evidence that trump has no interest in democracy. he imitates and praises dictators only. and he would like to, you know, impose an authoritarian governance, that includes having the military be loyal to him and thus lose its professionalism and consider anyone who is not for him, as an enemy of the state. an enemy of the people. what we know from fascism is that they may start by targeting one group. but many other groups are targeted. when the nazis built dachau in 1933 as a camp because they were running out of space in the prisons. they didn't put jews in there first.

they put the political opposition, liberal, leftists, and lgbtq people and after that, jews. it's important that every american should not think that they won't be touched by this. they will be touched by this. >> i want to highlight some of the disturbing things that trump has said. much of it in just the last few weeks. he said january 6th was a day of love. he called democrats the enemy within. he said, political opponents could be handled by the military. he threatened to strip cbs and abc of broadcast licenses. he suggested that one violent day would end petty theft. and speaking of undocumented immigrants, he said, quote, getting them out would be a bloody story. that's just some of what we've heard. timothy, what's the goal of this rhetoric? is it meant to instill fear? loyalty? have a chilling effect? >> it's a suggestion of a

different kind of system, as ruth is saying. it's not that truth is a fail to democrat or he has personality weaknesses. he's describing a different kind of political order, to which we could be exposed and under we could live. fascism, i tried to define fash itch of might over right, pain over law, blood over love, doom over hope. what trump is proposing is a politics of us against them, where the government doesn't do anything except instill in us the idea that we have enemies inside our own people. and in which we learn to substitute, expecting good things from government. we get rid of that and instead, we replace it with being provoked, denouncing other people in our country. the disturbing thing for me in all of the quotations, all of things he said, is the hitler's general. he understands things about

fascism, whether we use the word or not. when hitler was able to take an oath of personal loyalty from his generals and officers, that changed the system. it meant the people with the guns were no longer under the rule of law. nobody but under the rule of law. and at that moment, when the generals swore oath directly to hitler, rather than to the constitution, that hitler became this person above law, above government, who could do whatever he wants. when trump says he wans hitlers generals, it's trump making comparison between himself and hitler. hitler being positive and trump describing a different order, an order in which there wouldn't be law for anyone. and which crimes would not be punishable, so long as they were the result of an order by the president. in this rhetoric, trump is not trying to scare us. he's not -- the fundamental thing he is doing is he is describing the way politics can look. we have to give the man credit. he understands how fascism works

and he's describing it for us and giving us a choice. that's why this moment, as ruth says, is a serious one. >> ruth, npr pored through trump's remarks. he made 100 threats to punish or prosecute his opponents. you hear from his supporters and allies. they argue, he doesn't mean it. you can't take him literally. he won't actually do these things. that's what we hear from supporters. your response? >> in doing a book that goes over 100 years, you see certain patterns. one pattern is sadly that every time a nation is confronted with this kind of threat, they have, it can't happen here thing. if you take germany in materially '30s, it was one of the most advanced countries in the world, for science, engineering, graphic design. and hitler seemed like a lunatic. and where there's a coup, like in chile, another case study i

have, and the change is instant and bloody, there were people like the conservative elites, christian democrats, who thought that pinochet would establish record and return government to the civilians. we've always had this idea and it's marked in america, which is a place so many millions have fled dictatorships to come to america as a place of freedom, as a place of democracy where they could find a home and make the best of themselves. we're particularly vulnerable to this. that's why tim and i and others are trying to sound the alarm that it can happen anywhere it always is a little different. but as tim says, what is unfolded by trump himself, is an authoritarian playbook that would draw on the tragedies and the repression of the past.

>> on the comments that trump keeps repeating about the enemy within, he's been asked about it time and again, the last week, week and a half or so. he is doubling, tripling, quadrupling down, on it, not trying to clarify. he means what he says. nbc spoke to some of his supporters in arizona this past week. and they took that line and they ran with it. watch. >> recently trump has been saying some of his rallies, calling democrats the enemy from within. do you agree that? >> i do. i do. >> why? >> i think they are bound and determined to destroy our country and make us like venezuela. >> i think it's the communists started it. yes. it's slowly tearing everything down. there's no morals. no values anymore. >> they are now the party of suppressing people's rights, under the guise of misinformation. so, yes. donald trump is correct.

>> what is your reaction to hearing that now from these voters? >> well again, this is -- to say jason stanley's book, this is how fascism works. if you replace a political language, which is about citizens and their interests and the things we have in common, and compromise and peace with a language of enemies and us and them, then you are changing the political system. trump, with his rhetoric, and the way his rhetoric works and thanks to his charisma, is able to change the way people are oriented. no longer are we together trying to make a better government, but instead, we're turned against one another. and this is the fundamental shift. and trump is good at it and vance is good at it. distracting us from what government is supposed to do, which is represent us. and transforming government instead into a source of messages about who the enemy is. we know from history, this can work. as ruth says, we're more vulnerable to this kind of thing

when we think we're exceptional. when we think we're invulnerable. this election could go many ways. we could end up in a much, much better place. we have to be sober and realistic of what happens if it goes the wrong way, if trump and vance wins. they are telling us what they are going to do. we are holding ourselves back from listening. i'm struck the last few days and weeks how well trump and vance understand the 1920s and the 1930s, fascism, strongmen politics, authoritarianism. they know what they are doing. it's up to us to note it and make sure we can stop it. >> you think they know what they're doing. funny. i heard john kelly in his comments with "the new york times," suggest that trump doesn't know the history so he doesn't really know the seriousness of admiring hitler, for example. this is a conversation, obviously, we could continue on and on.

i find it fascinated. it's important fortous be educated on that history. thank you so much for joining us. disturbing new revelations this morning about a man arrested in a string of shootings at democratic campaign offices in arizona. police say the suspect, jeffrey michael kelly had 120 guns and over 250,000 rounds of ammunition in his home. and was preparing for a mass casualty act, according to prosecutors. he was arrested and accused of shooting at a democratic party campaign office in tempe on three separate occasions over the last couple of months. police say he was also hanging suspicious bags of white powder from political science, in a nearby village. still ahead, musk's million-dollar mess. could his voter giveaways be illegal? what the doj is saying.

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at a trump event last weekend, that every day, until election day, he would give $1 million to one registered voter in a swing state. now, the doj says that contest might break the law that says you can't pay people to vote. nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jaret has the details. >> reporter: hey, there. it started with a modest offer of $47 to voters in pennsylvania. then, elon musk sweetened the deal, with a lottery for cash that's grown in size in a big way, with terms that have caught the attention of the u.s. justice department. >> every day from now until the election, we're giving out a $1 million prize. >> reporter: elon musk's million-gaveaways is raising questions for the tech giant. nbc news confirming the justice department sent a letter to his pro-trump super pac, warning it may be violating federal law. >> i have a surprise for you. which is that, we're going to be

awarding a million dollars, to -- randomly to people who have signed the petition. >> reporter: the super pac promising that prize money to people who pledge their support to first and second amendment rights. to get the money, you to be registered to vote in seven swing states, prompting scrutiny by democrats. >> there's questions how he is spending money in this race. i think it's something that law enforcement can take a look at. >> reporter: the justice department has declined to comment. but federal law prohibits paying people to vote. the question, whether that law appies here, unclear as experts say. >> it's not he was paying people to register to vote. it was more subtle than that. this is a shot across the bow. >> reporter: still, the super pac running an ambitious get out the vote effort for the former president in the final stretch of the race. with musk pouring $75 million

into the pac for trump, that has been posting videos of people who have won the sweepstakes. it's unclear if the doj brings a criminal case against musk for all this. voter registration ending on monday. we reached out to elon musk and his super pac for comment on all this but have not heard back. >> laura jarett, thank you. battleground states are ramping up security for election day. take michigan, where the secretary of state says her office is providing extra funding for security preparations at local jurisdictions. and working to fight misinformation about the voting process. as donald trump and his supporters push claims they suspect cheating before voting has really started. joining us now, michigan's attorney general. thank you for joining us. in the lead-up to the 2020 election, there was a plot that materialized to kidnap michigan's governor, gretchen

whitmer. with that in mind, what can you tell us about the situation there right now in michigan? and how concerned are you about keeping everyone safe ahead of election day? >> we're taking every precaution possible. and we're running tabletop scenarios through agencies, law enforcement, clerks throughout the state. we've been doing this for months and month,s, in preparation for the election. additionally, my department issued a lengthy memo, that was dispersed to all law enforcement agencies in the state, reviewing the state laws, particular instances of bad conduct that we anticipated it's possible they may see. and what we propose are ways to address the issues, should they occur. in an addition, we'll have a 24-hour hotline set up in my department. there will be agents dispersed

throughout the entire state, as well as attorneys. and we're going to do everything we possibly can to ensure that people are safe. and so is, poll workers, election workers, and voters throughout the course of this election. >> i want to play part of what your secretary of state said about bad actors threatening michigan's election system. let's listen. >> we know because our systems are secure, there are foreign bad actors and adversaries to democracy on the global scale that will potentially not hack our systems but hack voters minds to spread misinformation, not just to sew seeds of distrust, but to diminish citizens confidence in the process and their own voices. >> she is concerned about foreign adversaries sewing distrust. we're seeing that distrust domestically. one poll showed half of trump voters say they want to challenge the election results

if harris wins. many believe there will be widespread fraud. what does that tell you about what you could be up against? >> yeah. it's so unfortunate. our system of elections, especially here in michigan, are so safe, so secure, and so accurate. i can give you so many different instances of that. of course, we use paper ballots. we allow for recounts. in the 2020 election, it wasn't just that the republican state senate, did an analysis of the election and found that the election was accurate. even in the county where there were all kinds of lies that were spread from the trump campaign and from some of his supporters, they did a hand recount. they confirmed its accuracy. again, it's so unfortunate, that we have the likes of elon musk, whoever three seconds, i see a

tweet from him. where he is working to disseminate misinformation and disinformation. we know at this point, that was the reason he purchased twitter to begin with, right? it all works to sew the seeds of doubt in our election processes. that's so concerning and disappointing. that's why i think that, you know, voices have to be very loud out there to make sure people understand that our system is safe and secure and accurate and can be trusted, irrespective of who wins the election in our state or in various other states. >> we remember how tight michigan's results were in 2020. biden won by three points. 154,000 votes. but there was a red mirage, that made it look like trump was up on election day because of the obscenity and the early votes weren't processed. michigan changed the vote-counting rules to count

absentee ballots earlier. how soon can we anticipate results this time around? >> i would push back on the notion that a 154,000-vote difference is a close election. how do you make up in a recount situation with 154,000 votes? it's never been done. that's why the trump campaign did not request a recount, right? what we have done since that time, is we are allowing for early processing of the ballots. that means that it's not that the votes will be counted. the ballots will be processed. several days early, before the election, which should allow for election results to come back sooner. it's important to note that not all communities have decided to preprocess. the city of warren, the third-largest city in the state of michigan, has elected not to

preprocess. results are not going to come in immediately after the election but they should come in quicker than before. we've had 1.3 million absentee ballots that have been received by their clerks. i do see the results coming in faster than they have in the past as a result. it's not going to be immediate. and we can see this trend, that democrats tend to vote earlier. either during the early voting process or by absentee. republicans are more likely to vote on election day. none of that makes the results inaccurate. >> that's why we're discussing the process here to make expectations accordingly. thank you so much. michigan attorney general dana nessel for joining us this morning. good luck as you move towards election day in 12 days now. we have big news for the harris

campaign and the beahive. beyonce will appear with vice president harris tomorrow in texas. we're learning that aaron gilchrist is covering the harris campaign, in georgia, where she is set to appear with bruce springsteen. the boss today. queen bea tomorrow. >> reporter: this is news that people are waiting to hear. whether or how beyonce magt show her support for vice president harris. beyonce will appear with vice president harris tomorrow in houston, texas. and a source says beyonce will perform during that appearance in texas. obviously, where she's from. this is something that -- this is something that a lot of people have been talking about for months now, since vice president harris became the person at the top of the ticket, whether or how beyonce might endorse her. that hasn't happened to this point directly.

we know the vice president has been using beyonce's song "freedom" at each of her appearances and on many of her campaign videos since the beginning of this campaign process for her. that song released in 2016. a song with political overtones but one that the vice president has used as her anthem, if you will. she appears around the country with it. now, to learn that beyonce will be on stage with vice president harris is something that could be a huge deal. the reality is, beyonce has a massive following that cuts across age, gender, race. so, to have her appearing with her, ostensibly offering an endorsement, could resonate with a lot of people all over this country. ana. >> all right. there were rumors ahead of the dnc she would show up there. looks like it's finally happens. thank you, aaron gilchrist. up next, putin's looming shadow, flanked by the leaders of china and india. he is touting a new world order,

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vladimir putin is set to speak in russia this morning as he wraps up his largest geopolitical summit since the war in ukraine began. that's fresh off the news that north korea has sent troops into russia. the south korean president calling this move a provocation. chief international correspondent keir simmons has more. >> reporter: good day to you. all day, we've been watching president putin clasp hands with world leaders on these screens and smile. but his foreign ministry has been forced to brand allegations that north korean troops are now here in russia, as fake and hype. these are satellite images of north korean troops at a base in russia's far east. south korea's national intelligence service says. evidence that kim jong-un has

sent thousands of soldiers to support putin. >> we assess that early to mid act, north korea moved at least 3,000 soldiers into eastern russia. >> reporter: a potentially dangerous international escalation in the ukraine war. here in russia, putin defying western attempts to isolate him, at a summit shoulder-to-shoulder with president xi of china and alongside u.s. security partners like egypt, the uae and turkey. an stage, too, the president of iran. the u.s. accuses russia and iran of election interference. this week, intelligence officials said america's adversaies may try to illicit violence. 318-year-old russians use google translate who they favor in the u.s. election. >> donald trump. donald trump. >> reporter: they admit they don't know who he is running against.

they say they have a friend who fought in ukraine. polling suggests most russians want peace, though not at any price. >> we love everyone. >> reporter: you love everybody? >> yes. >> we're russian. >> reporter: but posters here urge them to join the russian army and the war. a message this morning that kim jong-un appears to support. president put listen be hoping these images put him back on the world stage. there's still many countries he cannot travel to. ukraine and the west continue to call him a war criminal. >> keir simmons, thanks so much. up senate races, and it's in one of our tiniest states. in one of our tiniest states could one of maryland's seats turn red? we're there where early in-person voting just kicked off. e where early in-person voting just kicked off.

well, today in maryland, the polls are open with voters set to choose the state's next senator. democrat angela alsobrooks is

hoping to succeed ben cardin, and she's facing off against larry hogan, who consistently scored high mark as a republican governor in a blue state and is promising bipartisanship in washington. this race has turned into one of the most expensive in the country with more than $60 million in ads flooding local media. nbc's gary grumbach is joining us from maryland. what do voters see as the stakes of this race? >> reporter: this is democracy in action here. i want to show you what this process looks like inside an early voting site here. you got folks checking in at the tables here. then, they're given a choice in maryland of two ways to vote. you can either do it by paper, by filling in the ballot with a pen yourself, or you can get an electronic ballot marking. that's way over here on this side. either way you do it, they come out over here with a completed ballot, put it in the machines right here, and they're counted and kept safe until election day. so, we'll take you outside. let's talk about who the candidates are.

you mentioned this is one of the most expensive senate races in the country. we're talking more than $60 million of money going towards ads. if you're a local news, watching local news in baltimore or d.c., you have no doubt seen the ads, whether it's pro or anti-hogan or alsobrooks. you're also seeing this line here. we've got dozens and dozens of folks here. we caught up with former governor larry hogan in baltimore county earlier this morning, and he said he wants lightning to strike three times. he got re-elected to governor, and now he wants to be the next u.s. senator from maryland. ana? >> okay, gary grumbach, thank you. gosh, what a line there for early voting in maryland. appreciate it, gary. that's going to do it for us today. thank you for being here. i'll see you back here tomorrow, same time, same place. i'm ana cabrera, reporting from new york. jose st comfortable up here, with the folks that made me who i am.

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good morning, 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i'm jose diaz-balart. we are just 12 days away from election day. as of this morning, more than 28 million people have already cast their ballots. a new "wall street journal" poll shows just how tight this race is. trump pulling ahead of the vice president by just two points, well within the margin of error. a slight bump for trump since august. both campaigns are sprinting across key battleground states today to make their closing