11 people killed in a mass shooti pittsburgh synago >> one of the worst i've seen. i've s crashes. >> the suspect, a man with a histor of ntsemitis and hostil towards refugees. >> this evil attack is an assaul on all of us. this just are mailed to trump critics. the president briefly attempts the ro healer. m highest duty as president to keep america safe. >> but minutes later -- >> the crisis on the bordert ri now is the sole result of democr laws and activists. >> are the incidents linked as

part of our angry pitical enviro joinin me this morning, the mayor pits wu andha jon greenb a campaign filled with rhetoric from missouri -- whole cam pan c ta >> to florida. >> i'm not calling this raci i'm simply saying the believ he's a racist. t f aorm. zbll that is not spin. that i not exaggerationst that's gs nine days before the election. houserm campaign ch steve styler and ben ray louhan moing necess for analysis are kristebeinger, ericker ss amy walter, and joshua johnso host of one a on npr. welcom to sunday, it' "meet pr.

good sunday morning. as our colleague journalists wrote on twitter yesterday, the worst anti-semitic in u.s. history took day as largest attempted assass of u.s. leaders in histor it's a deeply unsettling assess that has the advant of being accurate. this after a week of violence and terror. on fri a florida man cezsar sayoc was arrested for sending 14 mail bombs to cri presid trump. and as the mail bombing danger seemed have passed, wees learne yrday of the horror in pittsburgh where 11 people were shot and killed at the tree of life congregation a synago the ceay'sly jewish squirrel hill neighb last night there were vigils around the cityou andry includ this one in pittsburgh in remembrance of the victims. and r hyper partisan

atmosp will inevitably debate was the mail bomber inspir by president trump who cast his political opponents as emie of the people or was he just a loner filled with anger and political resentment? was the synagogue shooter a produc a toxic environment on the treats refuge and others or was this the hate filled mass murder an we've seen too times in this country before? we have both stories covered and we're going to loo at the amped up political rhetoric that serves backdrop to this year's midterm elections. but le begin with my collea williams who has update for us on both stories. >> good morning, chuck. well, bowers is now going to face - robert bowers, the allege shooter in pittsburgh is going counts now. been charged federa government and b the state. >> the feds took this over, correc >> well, they both filed charge so i think it's not clear who -- where he's going to go on trial

l rst. the fedevernment was very eager to step in and say this was a hate crime. as pennsylvans have said. there seems to be very little doubt of that. for three reasons, basically.on his social media postings. months months of vileab semitic comments, fa second the he singled out a synagogue speaks for itself and thirdly, the police in pittsb say as he was being ransp to the hospital, as he was being treated for his wounds he said "all jews must die because they are committing genoci against my people." >> did he -- who do he refer to as his people? in this case? >> who'snows? i thhat he told the police as they were treating him on the way to the hospital.re >> t was other than his wherea over the last year,th e' much known about mr. bowers before that. is the what profile are t draw up so far? >> you right f you contrast

the two her cesar sayoc accuse of the bombings of sendin out the package bombs, he had many run ins with the police over the years. he made a bomb threat over florid power and light at one point. bowers seems to have absolutely no contact with law enforcement. they said he was never oneir radar before. he was a loner. neighb say he never got out much. ee seemed to have -- his life seems to hav been led online. i think one question is had he ever visited that synagogue before did he know the layout of it? becausou know, ultimately it o enthird floo that's the shootout ended? >> did he purchase all his guns legall >> the no indication he bought illegally. one question about the weapons is this. many of the s witnessesid they though there was automatic weapon fire. well, you have to assume that these don't spend a lot of time listening to gunfir thpolice say i sound like automa weapons fire.

a question is did he modify tha semiau rifle, it's possib it's i do it or was using a bump stock? >> let's move to caesar sayoc. as of nofriday, he was talkin is there any update on whether he is yet to cooperate with offici >> no. and in their ability to question him nowhe is reduced. going to have the first court appearance on monday. they questioned himnder an except to the miranda rule. it normally -- you have to advise rights beforeif can yo the you to use that evi safety ainst them. is a publi except and that's what they used here. basica saying are there any more bombs? well, he refused to say whether he had anything to with the ones that were already out there or whether there were ast others l waiting to be discovered. it's been 36 hours now since this any. was going to say, at point they can't say -- i notice

the postal service won't say defini yet at what point will they feel comfortable assumi it's out of the system. >> another week maybe. you know, they have been finding these closer and closer to the ones werem the last discov the mail system so they're all carefully looking for them. i think you have to assume that there aren't any more. this is the longestt gap tha we've yet had since any were discov >> on the late ones discovered were w t sort of made sense. that migt summin has got to be that. >> right. he last two, sent to senator he last two, sent to senator harris tim st >> pete williams, been a tough and busy week for you. ththk very much. ug the day yesterday and in a members of the communn pittsburgh were shocked and heart >> it is very unthinkable. very, unthinkable. this is oty commuhether you're jewish or not. >> i just could not believe it. in light of the ot

going on across the nation to see this right on my -- really right on my st to write was headin >> i hope this hel stop ignori it. we hav been ignoring the hate and gr numb to it. someth like this, it's so to i. >> joini i me nowthe mayor of pittsburgh. welcom to "meet the press." j thank you, chuck. >> let mest start with what au -- information you share with usut what you learne about the incident and i? >> well, there's press confer that'sscduled this mornin where we will be releas the names of the victim the families were notified yester evening. as can you imagine, there a i lot of sorrow right now within the city. >> many synagogues have protec sadly, constantly becaus threats are constant in theewish community.

someti low level, sometimes very serious. so sadly this isn't -- this isn't a shock and yet it is unexpe can you just share with how the commun sort of reacting, how particularl in the jewish commun there? well, in pittsbur hearts broken. right now we're trying to grapplus with this horren crime, something that is one of the darkest day in our city's histor our city is small. all co are connected togeth understand an attack aga our jewish community i an attack againstur entire city. we're here right now to helphe victim families. that's the foremost part of what we need to do. the second part is to get to the folks who have been injured. our officers and others. and be able to help them and their families as well. >> president trump said he

spoken with you yesterday. ion?was that convers what can you share? >> it was cordial we basically talked about the horr w tragedy i able to share with him the details of just how bad it had been. and he basihlly said any resour that would be necess would be given and right now there are federal offici from the fbi coming all to help pittsburgh. >> that's what he can do with the feral government. is there something - did you ask him, is there anything he personan do? is there something you'd like to see him do personally? >> there is. i belong to an organization a bipart organizatio called mayors against illegal guns. i don' think that the answer so this problem is solved by having our synagogues, mosques and

churchilled with armed guards or our schools filled with armed guards. i think d we'realing with an irrati person who acted irrationally in tr laws around that is not the way that we should govern. we should try totop irrational behavi from happening at the forefr and not t to create laws around irrational behavior to continue. >> before yesterday's incident, if i asked youou if had person seen or felt as if the tone had changed or hateful rhetor been on the rise in pittsburgh and you what would you hav said before yester events? >> no. it was another saturday october mornin like so many others in ster pennsylvania and it has foreeveve changed th city. there wasn't a dum beat of anti-s any type of

behavior that woul warran any reaction by public safety that something like this could have happened. >> the president says he wants to com to pittsburgh. would you like to see him attend vigil event? >> that's really up to the famili themselves. you know, we're going to be workin togethers we have. we've had good cooperation from the state and t governor and, you know, this is a conservativ synago so thel funerals w very quickl as soon as moow. so that's really up to the famili and whether they want the president to be here. >> mayor billpeduto, tough day to be mayor of pittsburgh. tough morning to come on much it's only goi to get tougher as you continue to meet with these families. thanks forricoming on and s with us, sir. >> sure. thank you. >> appreciate it. joined now by jonathan greenb ceo

direct anti-defamation league welcom to "meet the press." sorry thighese circum accord your organizatio this is likely the deadliest attack on th jewish community perhap in the history of the un here's the president yesterday in indianapolis. >> this was an anti-semiti act. you wouldn't think this would be possib this daye. and but we just don't seem to learn from t past. >>at's that sentence i'm curiou for you to react to. he said you wouldn't think this would beossible in thi day andage. is he right? well, unfortunately, he's wrong mean at the adl, we've been tracki anti-semitis for over 100 years. we look at anti-semitiin de n 2017, chuck, we saw a 57% surge of acts of harass vandalism and violen directed at the jewish

commun across the country. was the single largest spike we have ever seen. and literally just last week we releas report because we also monitor nanti-semitis line and we've seen a marked emiti in anti harass of political figures and other individuals simply based on their faith. so we are living in a moment where anti-semitism is almost becomi normalized and that should shock and mov all us to act. >> well, you say it's normal there was a time in thisy countr it was normalized. trust me, my mother reminds me of it bit in the '40s, '50s and '60s. it went away for a while. what is your explanation to the revise rerise this? >> i don't know thater went away. the adl worked to fight it then red today w seeing resurg i think there are a few factors. number one, we are seei an

enviro in which anti-s moved from the margin into the mainst politi candidates. and people in public life now litera repeat the rhetoric of white see pr supremacist and th think it's normal t talk about jewish conspiracies, manipu events or jewish financ controlling activi and that is awful. second not only is the politi environment contri this, social media is amplifying and accele it in shocking ways. eed so silicon valley is part of the problem and to be part of thefwsolutionhlt i he >> you talk about finance years. george soros,s religion is

always descri others' religion i disclo what do you say? the attacks on are appalling. and the continued invocation of classi anti-semiti themes. to see this way the mans mischa online is repuls i don't agree with every donati he makes. but i also don agree with every donation sheldon adelson makes. you se it from the left and someti from the right. and it is allly incred troubl i think whether you are, you know, elected official bringi a holocaust tohe governnt and sa semiconducto smiths about the j religi >> i was going to ask you about louis and the tolera that people still have for hi >> yea ghis is not an issue of left and

right, it's about and wrong. we should be able to speak truth to power whenever public speak out with stereo and scapegoats that we know as you were talking about before have been used for hundre thousands of years. not just to sland theewish people but to wound them and kill them. so like you said at the t of the show, this was the single deadlitack on the american jewish community in our history. and it's incumbent upon us to stand up and to speak out and say we will in the accept this. not another minute. >> all right. what could the president do in a perfec world? >> well, you know, whether you're the president of the united or the prident a university or the president of your pta, i wld expect leader to lead. we would hope and we should all demand that those in elected office won't justlaivetude after the fact but they will help ratchet back the rhetoric right now.

and they will, you know,f the white supremacist are saying and celebrating what you're ou doing, that be a problem for all of us. so i'd like to see him and other electe across the aisle stand up and shut it down now. jonath you. >> how big a role did president trump' rhetoric play in this it's a d atek's the guests next. i heard gun s. i elieve it. it's ♪ ignition sequence starts. 10... 9... guidance is internal.

6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... ♪ comcast business built the nation's largest gig-speed network. then went beyond. beyond chasing down network problems. to knowing when and where there's an issue. beyond network complexity. to a zero-touch, one-box world. optimizing performance and budget. beyond having questions. to getting answers. "activecore, how's my network?" "all sites are green." all of which helps you do more than your customers thought possible. comcast business. beyond fast. ♪ ♪ (buzzing)

gather new insights, leave your data protected on-site, and put it all to work with ai. the ibm cloud. the cloud for smarter business. but before you do that, styou should meet our newe tea. i'm tecky. i can do it all. go ahead, ask it a question. tecky, can you offer low costs and award-winning wealth management with a satisfaction guarantee, like schwab? sorry. tecky can't do that. schwabbb! calling schwab. we don't have a satisfaction guarantee, but we do have tecky! i'm tecky. i ca... are you getting low costs and award-winning wealth management? if not, talk to schwab. 11 people gunned down in a synago pittsburg

the gunman reportedly yelling all jews must die as he opened fire. supporter of president tr arrest for allegedly sending lt president. earlie week a man fatally shot, twofrican-americans at a kentuc supermarket after failin to break into aack church to shoot people up accord one witness when anothe man approached him withh a gun gunman said don't shootme, i won't shoot you. the whes don't shoot whites. paneli here. joshua johnson, amy walter, nbc ews white house correspondent kriste and erick ericss presidenay last night p for you the one sound bite he said about ti-semitism. he said that at the top of the remark and then he went right back int. rally mo amy walter, take a>> listen. how about the democrats ladiesgentlemen, speaker nancy pelosi for the next three

years. you have the haters and the to hate. they a foolish and very stupid people i can't call her pocahantas anymor think will anyway. doou mind? this moment with president trump,p, he seems to be strugglg with it. or maybe n >> this is the mode that he's been in since he was a candid politi never about nuance. it's a zero sum game when you are campaigning. it's u them. but when you become an elected offici and the united states, the campai supposed to stop for a while and you go into the mode of unifying this i president who's never been interested in unifying. he has been interested in keepinngaged and enrage and he's done an amazing. but at any moment he believes that it's still the middle of the the other thing i want to bring up just with all of this is, you know,look, our country has a y long hist division. who is an american?

who's not? it to me the time we're in right now what i feel like is no one is taking any responsibity for an of this. not the gun law -- it's not ourl guns don't kill. people kill. right? it's notwh our fault. oc media. spoes ame someone else. it's not us, political leaders. people are doing these things withou -- they just have histor mental instability. it's no the about what we're saying them. no one at all is raising their hand to say, you no he what? we played role in this and we have to b able to fix it. it's always somebody else's fault. that is the it will never get better. thet this? i say there is only one presid o they accept this? >> theydon't. the response within the white f ci is, look, everyone bears responsibility. and when you put that question squarely,look, he is the president. he has the loudest microphone.

doesn' he bear the large effort respon they say, look, he has chaeded some o h rhetoric. he has struck a unifying note. on friday he was asked if he's going to tone down the rhetoric, hesaid, no. he thinks he can actually tone it up. now that was prior to st tragic shooting. but i think amy really hits the nail on the head which is that white officials say this. yes,e feels likhe needs to have unifying notes at t same w the mid terms and so he knows what he needs to say to fire up his nd a lot of that rhetor is divisive. >> david french said don't call his p crazy, referring to cesar sayoc. he's a angry obsessive and that matter not al listening rs are sober mindin thunder against th tponents with ext and sometimes the extreme action in response. this is david french putting some of the burden on presid >> yeah. i think so. the problem i have with putting

the burden on the president is how mu dyou put on him? i thin a lot of people want to put a lot of the burden on him. ites really belong on the americ people as a whole. the presidente is th american commen section of the white house. and he is the president who does this. we're not going to change this ngesid what c c as a people if we're no going to change the president? amy is right. no one wants tochange. the fact is this is larger than the president. societ is crumbling around us. politi is amplifying it. the president is amplifying it. there is something going on in society as a whole is transl politics. the pr is not the cause, auto he a symptom. >> he's the president. >> true. the president bears part of the respon significant part of the authority f the tone the country. but i will say i do have a fair amount cf hopeing out of this. i know it seems very bleak. i find a lot of hope in the younge people that montage you

played she was an organizer on squirrel hill. she got on facebook and got people together to talk. i got aweet from a guy in wiscon that says i combat the hate of the world by coaching high school debat they learn to see both sides of cur eventsh relate to real life. a poll came out that said the younge you are, thebetter you statem o statem >> the older people. >> exactly. it's t generation that has grown up -- t' >>s the babyboomers. blame >> not t blamingm. i think it's the generations -- and i'm a generation removed -- who upve grow with the advent of social media who haven' been able to navigate it. our kids have watched our exampl now the question is whether we will b bee quegiving them a nat that is connected but i come out of thi worried but also hopeful that there are peop who are taking responsibility for this. look what happened after

parklape look what is hng now after squirr hill. there is a generation ready to lead but theha question is will they be leading with? >> i'll tell you somebody that is not hopeful, charlie sykes. he wrote this, the result is famili and across the board refusa to engage i any meanin self examination or fusa 5:00 noacknow failur hatred violence and bottomless hatred so will this will get wofrse. the president is the arsonist i. this w get worse. do you buy it, amy? >> i would hope -- i want to stick to joshua- i want to be on joshua. >> i do, too. >> but unfortunate wh get asked that question all the time. what is going to break this fever? where do we go from here? histor breaks it i someth really devastating. we brought together by events that are so overwhelmin and tragic whether it's a war, depres something like. i don't e

case. for a unifying event that is s terrib but right now i don't see that one person is going to be ablei to up, heal all of the divisi and get us all on the same place. >> erick, you had to deal with conspieo tes on your site. someti people get mad at you thinki you help traffic these conspi theories. there are others that are -- but whose job is it to get rid of this stuff? whose is it to educate americ to facts? >> i think we all have an obliga here. let me address conservativism a last week you had people pushin, erick. >> we know the facts. yet there are still people pushinthis. i have to tell you, from my perspe when we know all of facts the guy last week and still pushing the theory you're at war with the truth and if you'r

conserh,tive at wa trou're not really being conser >>st rush limbaugh was q the st van. >> acr the board we saw a bunch of conservatives doing. n. the question is do they contin the problem is in this situation we have f lot people who no longer trust the media. they don't trust institutions they don't trust theirneighbor. we have gone inward. unfort i think it'stooing e an external threat that brings us together. there nothing left in this countr that unifies us as a whole. we allen have our diff media outlet media outlet they'r not our next door neighbanymore. >> the 11 people dying notthe tippin point. that is sadly what you're saying >> a mass assassination attempt last year on republicans >> in terms of reaction to the pipebo you saw the president got ve frustrated, put the term bomb in quotes. sort of expressing frustration that h could thist turnout? and going to at which tim eastern sayi

going twitter and saying republ out. ias surprised at how much finger pointing there is on both sides. the president saying, lookhis dem doing this. democr this is all the presidfault. your point, there o constr discussion in the wake othat. will t be after this traged >> deflection instead of reflec when come back,ine days until the mid terms. we we knew where things were h about ut h but will this week's events affect kevin, meet your fr. kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin trusted advice for life. kevin, how's your mom? life well planned. see what a raymond james financial advisor can do for you.

♪ the kenya tea development agencr is anization that is owned by tea farmers. every week we sell this tea, we get paid in multiple accounts. we were looking for a bank to provide a safe and efficient technology platform to pay our farmers. e citi was the only that was able to ensure ssat this was done seam.

and today, at the touch of a button, all the farmers are able to get their money, pay school fees and improve their standard of living. with citi, we see a bright future for our farmers and their families. ♪

republ at if they had a solid hold on at least contro the senate. democr remainedar partic optimi taking back the house. but now it's possible the landsc may be shifting beneat our feet. and joining me now are the two men charged withem gettingrs of their own party elected, the chairs of the gnuse camp commit republican stivers of ohio and ben ray-louhan of new mexico. they both agreed t togeth appreciate that. gentle back to "meet the pr >> great to be on.

>> good morning. good with you. >> i w you both to react to a woman in pittsburgh reacting to yester tragic even take a >> we have to stop it. outoleaders have stop it. it takes leadership to stop this. and our leaders are not stopping it. it's too much. we'reivilized society. we have to stay civilized. >> congressman, this is a woman the violence and the anger over the last few dys in the one onat would you say to her about how would you re to her saying we need leadership here. we need to tone this down. how would youh respond to woman? >> i agree with her. i think we l need to keep our dialog civil. and frankly, i've not been shy about showing world leadership. we are the only ma party commit cut off the candid for their behavior, a

candid in new jersey seth grosaid bigoted things we cut him off. we're the only maj to that leadership. the democrat congressional campai committee continues to suppor leslie ccoburn andt wallac who said anti-semitic things and i think we ne to -- all bear some responsibility. and we need to try to clean up our act and try to more civili to our congress and frankl to our dialogue. >> before i let congressman to those charges th out there, let me ask you about the president. what role should he beg playin here? has he proper role yet? >> you ow, i sometimes disagr with the way the presid peple. i thought after the pipebomb he initia set the right tone of unity and comingtogether. and i hope that he will contin >> you said initially. that sounds like y think continued. >> i said i hope he'll coinue

on that path. >> fair enough. heard you congre stivers there. he s people says have trafficked in hate speak. what say you? >> chu that's simply not true. but with the conce woman had in pittsburgh, look, another sensel act of hate stricken anothe community and a ace of worshi in the united states of americ the congress has a reon to act, to keep people its no zpoeto expect leader unite our country, to find a way to reach out to us to our greater good and make sure we rise above all of the accusa the hate and finger pointing. i'm certainly hopeful that we'll see that out of the leader of the world and that we'll see that out of each and every well individuall as our colleagues. >> and i would like to say i'm proud of the way ben responded when steve was shot.

we didn't blame bernie sanders. we all came together. i think we can all come together now. it may take us about nine days for that to thhappen. k we can all come together now. > i want to read to you someth >> it should start today though, steve. it should. i hope that the finge pointing will stop and we can come togeth i believe we need to come togeth ben. >> i have to tell you, i think b dan balls is the perfect person. he writes the following, this ie apocal all nothing view of the differ between winning and losing an election a holding power or not holding it. politi that it is time for th country to come togeth as you two just did, but on who's terms? i thin that is the issue. congre lujan, what does coming to democr congre lujan? >> it's making sure we're able to reach across the aisle and work on a bipartisan basis.

crass ha democ beee clear if wertunate t win back the house that we work immediately on lowering prescriptio drug prices f the american people. that we work on a bipartisan infras package to make invest ais kro tcr country and clean up washington, d.c. and improve and increase r transp and disclosure. those are areas we can w ak toge reach across the aisle and find commonground. c mean t you? >> i think we need to come togeth not on any e's terms but on america's terms. we're americans first. i agree with ben that infras is something we all need and need to come togeth on.sc loweri pptio drug costs. i'm not sure why he didn't talk about lowering health c costs. need to come together on loweri health care costs. i think question do that. we need to listen to each other no matter who takes the majoritk

and i th we're going to hold the majority. but no matter who takes the majori it will be a razor thin majority and hopefully tha togeth republicans and mocr get things done. but i do worry about, you know, ng sure that we do it in a way that we're focused on gettin thin done, not on just abolis ice or doing the thgs that are on the extreme. >> congressman stivers, i want runnin last week, one of the people targed by theipebomb assa assail anlt was george soros. here is an ad you're running agains a candidate there. take a liste >> billionaire george soros bank rolls thest rece and he is employed by a libeoutfit in d.c. his campaign propped up out of state super pacs. look who finances his employer. rad come george soros, the

bies banks a crooked lobbyist tied to fpelosi. thd his campaign. >> why do you target george soros? >> you know, our independent expend arm is independent. but that ad is factual. and it al has nothing to do with calling for violence. that ad is a factual ad. >> ngressman lujan, do you believ that attacking folks of big money, you do i guess with the coke things like that. are we inat verdict edve people in the cros of politi that don't need to be? >> i think we need to re-eva how people are being target kevin mccarthy pulled out a tweet is targeting george soros as well across the

countr i think both committees should how they ook at operat into t future and what's going on ev rest o election cycle. we wor on a strategy talking men and women that serve the united states in the military ciafficers, fbi agents people that committed theirs keeping our countr saf we're going to continue to run ads that are telling their positi stories and the candidates are con the am your ads in colorado an washin are called sleazy and person attacks. it happenss.n both si we both need to figure out how to things up. built it's that's a fact. >> ste we'reunning -- hold on, on that. ahead. >> steve, you've been running i racist anew york, in cincin ohio, and out in califo u ca do something to pull

those down. i think on all sides, people should monitor the more finger . make sure lo within oursel find the great ger there, chuck.it >> i agreeyo let's both look within oursel >> all right. steve stivers and ben ray lujan, i fear you're right. it may be nine days before everyb is willing o to sort calm things down. let's hope there is a little he next e am before nine days. >> we can start today. >> i hope so. >> you should, ben all right. i'll l go. >> we both should, steve. >> we bo should. >> i hope everybody is safe on the campaign trail. thank for coming on. when we come back, a lot more are voting early thisyear. doesat tell us about where the vote on election da where the vote on election da may be♪ ♪ where the vote on election da may be♪ not long ago, ronda started here. and then, more jobs began to appear. these techs in a lab. this builder in a hardhat... ...the welders and electricians who do all of that. the diner staffed up 'cause they all needed lunch.

teachers... doctors... jobs grew a bunch. what started with one job spread all around. because each job in energy creates many more in this town. energy lives here. who transition out of the u.s. formilitary every year...ers ...one of the toughest parts is the search for a job that takes advantage of the skills you've gained while serving. you can now search with the phrase 'jobs for veterans' dictly on google... ...and then enter your military occupational specialty code. go le brings together job openings from across the web that match the skills you gained in your military role. go le brings together job openinjust click to applyweb and use your experience to guide your future. and the car has become anis now accessory to the smartphone. ride hailing, car sharing, carpooling... ...mobility services are proliferating. and there's a new generation who don't seem to want to own cars in the first place.

it all means massive disruption to the car industry, cities, businesses and investors. ♪ ♪ essential for the cactus, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. because there are options. like an "unjection™". xeljanz xr. a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough. xeljanz xr can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma and other cancers have happened. don't start xeljanz xr if you have an infection. tears in the stomach or intestines, low blood cell counts and higher liver tests and cholesterol levels have happened. your doctor should perform blood tests before you start and while taking xeljanz xr, and monitor certain liver tests. tell you doctor if you were in a region where fungal infections are common and if you have had tb,

hepatitis b or c, or are prone to infections. needles. fine for some things. but for you, one pill a day may provide symptom relief. ask your doctor about xeljanz xr. an "unjection™". our latest nbc news "wall stree journa showed % of

respon telling us that they hig heecti it's the h number in our poll s 2006 for a electi cycle. we hav more than polling to help us understand how engaged this electorate is.e we h actual voters. accord data from target smart, as of two weeks out from electi day, over 8.1 million americ have already voted early. believnot,hat outpaces 2016, a presidentia election year at2 7,900, weeks out. but how does this stack up to the last midterm e 2014? it blo in battle states.rl nevada, votin 134,00 votes compared to this point in 2014. in arizona, it's up 308,000 votes. texas, up nearly a mill tennes georgia, florida also up significantly. ha cou truet more people participate in early voting every election cycle out of convenience. but the rate at which some of the battlegroun states are outpac 2014 is notable. and while it's too early to know

which party definitely benefits from this surge that we've seen so far, but what it's worth in are better for the party out of power. at a minimum, th is what engage electorate looks like. no more apathy talk. en we come back, end game and what voters told me these last two weeks as we electi ♪ traders -- they're always looking for advantages. the smart ones look to fidelity to find them. we give you research and data-visualization tools to help identify potential opportunities. so, you can do it this way... or get everything you need to help capture investment ideas and make smarter trading decisions with fidelity for just $4.95 per online u.s. equity trade. fidelity. open an account today. ♪

open an account today. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ comfort. what we deliver by delivering.

ignition sequence starts. 10... 9... guidance is internal. 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... ♪

back now with "end game." i spen traveling across the country ace battle we traveled to phoenix where arizon getting used to their new reality as a swing state. they don't like it right now. then to las vegas where you s the culinary union is hoping latino can help flip ana u.s. seat there. tampa, environment cross the politica vide andla to dwhere republicans may be the swing vote. here's just some of what i heard from v four states >> i know that the supreme court nomina process was something that impacted my decision

making >> education is important thing for noto focus on. >> you have fake news. becaus there is a lot of people that -- they don't cover the things have to be covered. >> wages don't increase along with the cost of living. >> i would say clean up the enviro take care of this red tide. fisher andit'sestroying my hobby and life long pursuit. >> you beente on the war -- >> my whole life. >> you've never seen a red tide like this? >> not like this. >> you've always been politi active? or this so more than others? >> this is more tha others. wh? >> two years ago i beca a u.s. citize >> congratulations. >> tha >> i think it's time for me to know w candidates and where their are. >> you don't win inexas unless you're talking to brown and black you're them at the door ste do>> and churches. i support president tru

messag agenda and that's i cam with your vote, what is that messag things need to change. >> cut all the bs out of everyt >> drain that swamp. >> get it together. >> we are one that says it's time to put ourti po aside, step up to the plate, pull up your pants and get to work and get this solved. >> well, there you go. heree go. the voters -- i will tell you this. look, i don't know, amy, what the 72 hours are going to impac the voters i talked to, they r optimi they w to vote. i think this is going to have an pact >> it's voting out of anger, not out of e.ho which traditional in mid terms. they'r frustrated with the party that's in power. what i find fascinating about this year was, you know, when wr talking about this many months ago what battle for the house is g ting look like, we

said the real challenge for democr they have the struct problem. that b jergerrym and partis seats, there is not much room for them. youngevo voters,rs of color are not going to show up. now we are nine days from electi and republicans have a stru problem. it is suburban voters that were presid trump p is toxic with them. and now the real question is are those dropoff voters, especially latino voters and younger voters ugoing to show that c turn a good night for democr a blowout for democr >> i'm curious whyou think of the amped up rhetoric is popping up in debates. i want to play an exchange o an ou senate and then exchan between the two candid running for governor in florida.ke look at the heat from both. take a listen. >> when you hear leers of the democr party like hillary clinto saying that you can't bei with people that you

disagr with, when you have eric holder and otr democrats saying that the new democratic party kicks people who they disagr z embrac this. ronald reagan, i m disagr with him on a few wothings but heed hard to unite country. you never would have heard him using some of the rhetoric that our president uses now. how am every single statement somebody makes? >> i'm c notling him a racist. i'm saying the racists believe he's a racist. well there you go. i find interesting therehe is differ tones. so you have claire mccaskill invoki reagan but gillam feelin much more comfortablen a purple state going hard repub. >> and addressing the issue of race head on. >>ou never would have heard barack go back that way. >> no. it's very interesting and differ tactic. i think it's reflective of this

moment righti'now. been on the campaign trail thisweek, chuck. i can tell you that people are fired up. and the president isac going to what he sees as the basics. hat he talking about to fire up voters? he's talking about the caravan. he's stoking fears over immigr again. we expect him give a speak someti this week in which he's going to announce a crackdown on those migrants who are heading toward the u.s. heees that as a way to get out the base. anger, fear. erick, is closing immigr way s the presuld close? >> i think for a large segmen t the republicans, yes. a large problem is the suburbs. people getet up when i tell them the house is going for the gop. the problem for the gop is the or them.re not voting all of the battleground -- you >> think so.

republ women are moving away from t they m vote democrat but they won't necessarily show up. the sefo safe the gop. but the districts are republ are voting republ not>> now. he way, barack obama, somebo a fuse under him this weekend. letme playan excerpt of that from michigan. >> what we have notre seen be in our public life and in my -- is politicians just blatantly, repeat baldly, shamelessly of g. joshua, what do you make the -- last week i said i was like where is the leader of the democr party? they don't -- obviously not in power. the de president is presid obama. presid obama. he was has ta campai >> there re dr. barack obam up

how to treat one anothe h inte this election has become more about civility. even the clips you played are about the tone of this 'scountr. force. >> they're having a civil debate over civility. >> they were talki civili funny how thatworks. i think there is a real longing among some democrats for the days of barack obam politi a little more civil. he is the strongest campaigner they have. i'm still skeptical though if that is enough to drive people to the polls. onvinced there are people that just want the tone of both reagan and obama back. i'll leave it there. that's all for today. thanks for much whatting. we'll ekxt because if it' "meet the press. ♪

the nation's fourth largest marathon. the people's marathon. the marine corp. marathon. join navy feral credit union in supporting a capital tradition. countdown to race day with co