player ray cruz and florida woman marissa alexander crew was sentenced to twenty years in prison for successfully conspiring to murder his pregnant girlfriend and attempt to murder his infant son meanwhile morris alexander was sentenced to twenty years for firing a warning shot. into a ceiling and in attempt to protect herself and her infant child from an abusive husband author a speaker do you walk down the two cases highlighting the ugly and equality is found in domestic violence in a recent salon article and he joins us now to discuss welcome. this is these are two it's a fascinating article and fascinating two cases that you kind of lay out here i mean what is it about these two very different but very similar cases of domestic violence or you know domestic violence around them that makes them so you know indictive of our current criminal justice systems treatment of diversity so we know the courts have their own different state laws and you know we know we can't really compare what happened in those two different courtrooms but at the same time this is two states apart in one in

texas senate race gained national attention with republican ted cruz facing democratic challenge o'rourke. now we learn that o'rourke has rais -- wait for it -- more than $38 million in one quartera alone,ering the previous record.th for more o massive haul, and was 25 days to go until the midterm elections, i spoke a brief time ago with josh kraushaar of "national journal." it has been q'e a week. les start with the $38 million. can beto o'rourke convert dollars into votes? josh: ultimately message matters more than money. while is very impressive -- that amount of money is more hethan barack obama raisedhe was running for president in a quarter in 2008. ultimately there is only so much advantage you get by the $30 million-plus territory. the problem beto o'rourke has is that there are only so many democratic liberal voters in texas, and you have a conservative majority there. you look at the polling and thec repuan base is starting to come out for senator ted cruz, he is at 45% -- can he get to 50%? it will be awfully difficult. rajini: how does someone raise that much money? josh: there is a big liberal donor base across

more than triple what cruz raised and more than benefit jush rais bush raised in an entire state. >>be an expensive l. >> you think he's going to lose no matter what? >> no. i think there has been hope at various parts of the cycle, due in part to the fact people are enthusiastic about him. it remains texas, and i do think polling has shown in various red states that the kavanaugh fight galvanized people on the other side, as well. and because democrats were already extremely enthusiastic, coming closer to parity did matter. >> the latest cue poll has him up over 9 points. >> precavanaugh, it was a very uphill climb for betto, and i think he's fantastic, and i think he's a fantastic candidate. but his problem is he has a very enthusiastic support among white liberals. and when you -- when he gets out more with noncollege educated white people, doesn't do as well. and not doing well with the hispanic community. that's probably his biggest problem. >> i talked to a democratic pollster this morning. you know, it's not going to be the presidential turnout. can beto o'rourke generator a p

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