o -- chattanooga. the past is enyears chattanooga blossomed as an entrepreneurial startup. what makes a city like chattanooga blossom whereas others do not. >> it's a mix of things. there's a lot to be done. like a tennessee, last year, the whole state, not just chattanooga was less than 1% venture capital, ohio less than 1%, wisconsin less than 1%, pennsylvania less than 1%. we are making some progress in some of these cities but there's a lot of work to do. chattanooga specifically the business community rallied around the startups, the mayor and others put a priority on the startups, the university has done a better job of keeping talent. we've seen enormous brain drain over the last half century, people going to the great universities and our country then left those places to go to the coast, because the money was in the coast, the opportunity was on the coast. how do you slow the brain drain, how do you create a boomerage of talent, people wanting to come back. we start to see that happen in chattanooga and other cities. >> a wonderful phrase you used boomerage generat

places like chickamauga chattanooga. they encouraged northerners and southerners to embrace their former foes in this. -- in the spirit of brotherly love. the american soldier is highlighted. in all of these accounts, the causes of the war, mainly slavery, as well as the consequences of the war, emancipation and reconstruction, were left out. instead, the focus was on the battlefield bravery of soldiers blue and gray, north and south. american soldiers. this culture of reconciliation, whether it is playing out in politics, economics, popular culture, helped convince that the on both sides horrors of war were behind them. that the upheavals of reconstruction were behind them. keep in mind, as we are in the 1880's and 1890's, there is a generational shift going on. high point ofthe veterans of both sides in the united states congress. there is also the notion you spell things throughout -- sell things throughout the country. the united states is trying to gain its place on the world stage that the notion of a united americ

spivak another busy day in chattanooga tennessee he will stop tonight for the candidate after rallying supporters earlier today in georgia for the g.o.p. candidate in georgia checking those last poles the latest real clear ballot shows democrats with a seven-point edge but both sides remain optimistic spivak in the next two days whoever has the most turnout handling the ground game appropriately that is going to be the one that will win spivak i feel that enthusiasm every place i go into we are getting large crowds what we saw two years ago at this point but then something funny happened spivak we have fox team coverage in macon georgia but let's begin in chattanooga tennessee where the president is set to take the stage one hour from now be mac even before president's arrival this crowd is energized in chattanooga most were waiting in line some of them are laid even lined up the night before this is presidents third visit to tennessee for marsha blackburn he wants her in the senate just shows how close of a race that is going up against a popular former governor this race has already

these were places like chickamauga chattanooga. it encouraged northerners and southerners to embrace the former foes in the spirit of brotherly love and american progress, the american soldier, that was increasingly highlighted. in all of these accounts, the causes of the war, mainly slavery, as well as the consequences of the war, often e meditation -- emancipation and reconstruction, they were left out. the focus was on the battlefield bravery of the soldiers blue and gray, north and south. american soldiers. this culture of reconciliation, whether it is playing out in politics, economics, or popular culture, helped convince americans on both sides of the mason-dixon line that the horrors of war was behind him. that the upheavals of reconstruction was behind him. keep in mind that as we was in the 1880s and 1890s, there is a generational shift and these veterans are not only aging, and 1890s is a high point of veterans on both sides in congress, but there is a notion that you want to sell things to out the country. this woman pai

lionel in new york he's a legal analyst and a news decoder at lionel media dot com and chattanooga we cross to brian joyce he's the host of the brian joyce show and in los angeles we have ron clark on he is a comedian a frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on with wrong all right let's start in the me start with you mark here i guess the first thing that comes to my my. it is that there was no blue way. jake tapper at the c.n.n. evidently for the first time maybe in history agrees with you and that was the words out of his bath early this morning late in the evening when this was announced yeah so the results of gone down pretty much as expected and the republicans retain control of the senate the democrats have recovered the house and the governors' races are perhaps a little more split than they were expected to be. so what we saw was pretty much a standard made term election. where we see you know the

and here we'll go back to chattanooga. at the dedication in 1895, the one-armed colonel, now alabama governor, william c. oates, had been sitting in the audience, listening to paul murran, altgeld and others say these things, shouting civil rights for all and he had had enough. he had prepared comments that were supposed to be rec silltory in nature about the american soldier. and he kind of tosses them aside when he gets up on stage. instead, he blamed yankees for starting the war. he said, quote, their aggressive fanaticism caused an ocean of tears to be shed, drench the land in blood, sacrificed the lives of a million men and untold millions of treasure. he goes further than this. he goes on to defend slavery. he said, it had been a lawful state institution, and that responsibility for it lay with the states alone. he therefore challenged the notion that abolition had been one of the grand objects of northern soldiers. and in race-baiting language, he asserted that such was the revisionist interpretation of the radicals

she joins us now from chattanooga. first i want to point out we did reach out for an interview with your opponent, former governor bredesen but declined the opportunity this weekend and is welcome to come on another time. tonight you've got the president and the vice president come a doubleheader. what is your view on the fact we saw thousands of people lining up now even though the rally is still six hours away? >> i have to tell you there is so much excitement about his beard people are looking forward to welcoming the president and the vice president here in east tennessee in chattanooga. the lines are very long. there's a lot of energy. thousands of people have sought to get reservations to get in that arena tonight. this is going to be a great event and help us with our message that tennesseans want to make certain that we have more constitutional judges. we secure those tax cuts and that we secure our southern border. eric: you talk about this race being so tight. it was neck and neck. you are down to one point.

live in chattanooga tennessee talking to voters after president trump's big rally last night. >> hi,bie, that's his new name. a couple of things if you heard the president talk about the democrats yesterday at rally here in chattanooga, tennessee he said democrats were trying to turn back the clock in a negative way, this place here, the sitting coffee diner location is trying to turn back the clock in positive way, we have been dancing with 50's, 60's, i used crew to film my jersey boys audition. we are talking about midterms, specifically the big senate race between bredsen and marsha blackburn, in addition, cakes. rob: yeah. >> they speak for themselves, i don't really have much more to say. rob: cake for breakfast. thank you so much. >> that's really all i have. rob: enjoy chattanooga, the balance of power at stake in less than 24 hours voters head to polls, warning to voters if democrats come out on top, she will tell us about that coming up. good morning. jillian: good morning. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ you... keep doing you. we'll take care of medicare part d. by helping you save up to five dol

here's another great big festival in chattanooga in 1889. blue and gray were coming together and they happen only infrequently and that is why there is so much press about them. they were so rare in nature. most of the time veterans spent time with their own. even, blue, gray reunions were tough. the same reunion at gettysburg in 1887, almost didn't happen. some virginians openly question the loyalty of their brethren who agreed to go to pennsylvania. they reported that the confederates wanted to place a memorial behind union lines, the so-called high water mark of the confederacy created an immense outpouring of reaction from northerners. the ohio governor threatened to use national guard to prevent such a sacrilege. in the end, this reunion did happened, but it was not as easy as many of the newspaper reports would have you believe. the following year, the 25th anniversary of the battle, and 1888, may union veterans were increasingly angry about all of the focus of gettysburg was of the great charge. gettysburg was the way in which the arm

joined by lionel in new york he's a legal analyst and a news decoder at lionel media dot com and chattanooga we cross to brian joyce he's the host of the brian joyce show and in los angeles we have ron pluck own he is a comedian a frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on with wrong all right let's start in the me start with you mark here i guess the first thing that comes to my mind is that there was no way. jake tapper at the c.n.n. evidently for the first time maybe in history agrees with you and that was the words out of his bath early this morning late in the evening when this was announced yeah so. the results of gone down pretty much as expected and the republicans retain control of the senate the democrats have recovered the house and the governors' races are perhaps a little more split than they were expected to be. so what we saw was pretty much a standard made term election. where we see you know the presidential it's expected that the president's side will do poorly in midterm elections it's pretty much wh

chattanooga, the first part authorized in 1890 and dedicated in 1895, that encouraged northerners and southerners to embrace their former foes in the spirit of brotherly love and american progress. the american soldier. not the union soldier or confederate soldier, but the american soldier is increasingly highlighted. in all of these accounts, the causes of the war, namely slavery, and the consequences of war, often emancipation and reconstruction were left out. instead the focus was on the battlefield of bravery, of soldiers blue and gray, north and south. american soldiers. this culture of reconciliation, whether it is playing out in politics or economics or popular culture helped convince americans on both sides of the mason-dixon line that the horrors of war were behind them. the peoples of reconstruction are behind them. 1890's,e in the 1880's, there is a generational shift going on. veterans are not only aging. the 1890's is the high point of veterans on both sides in the u.s. congress. there is the notion you want to sell things throughout the country. sally pickett is very sav

tennessee, the headquarters for fedex and chattanooga, the headquarters of a company we invested in, a lot of the shipping's and logistics companies are in southeastern tennessee. the great shipping logistics are doves are going to come from those places or even, if you are not coming from those places, you will have to operate in those places. >> we do have a bias end we have great respect for silicon valley. we know we are here and we know we celebrated, but we also believe in what i call the third wave of the internet where it is disrupting these real-world sectors like health and agriculture and so forth. is going totise become an important end is going to become important. paypal is a great example. oneal is the successful because they do not know anything about the credit card industry and that led them to have new insights. that is true. but if you are trying to really revolutionized health care, you do need to know about how doctors work now nurses work and how hospitals operate and how the payment systems work and even some of the regulatory systems. we also believe in this

chattanooga, a company is focused on a bloomberg data industry for the trucking industry.any trucking companies are based there. this is true in these different notes we visit but this is an anti-silicon valley thing.we are proud of silicon valley and we will continue to be the pride of america and the envy of the world. how many people in this audience , put up your hands if you were born in the san francisco area. relatively few. you came here because you believe the best opportunity was here and you could not stay where you grew up. you want to be part of the innovation economy and you had to leave. there was not enough happening in those places, not enough capital in those places. you set i want to be part of which ever revolution you wanted to be part of an silicon valley was the obvious place to be. we just want to change that dynamic and if you want to be here, you should be here but if ohio or to go back to raise your family someplace else, we want to major there is opportunities to be part of this start startup economy, this innovation economy everywhere. we want

a company we backed a couple months ago in chattanooga, a company kind of like a bloomberg data systemor the trucking industry, they won a competition rise -- sone on to this is true in all these different cities that we visit, but this is not an anti-silicon valley and it will continue to be the pride of america and the envy of the world. we just want to make sure -- how may people in this audience, put up your hand if you were born in the san francisco area. relatively few, less than 5%. you came here because you believed that the best opportunity was here. you could not stay where you grew up because particularly, you wanted to be a part of the innovation economy, you had to leave. there was not enough happening in those places. you said, i want to be a part of whichever revolution you wanted to be a part of, and silicon valley, the broader region, was the obvious place to be. we just want to change the dynamic. if you want to be here, you should. if you want to go back, for jd it is ohio, you want to raise your family someplace else, we want to make sure there are opportunities to

chattanooga and antietam and shiloh and elsewhere. a union veteran's regimental history. they worked tirelessly in other words to ensure that their memory of the war, the union memory of the war, would neither be forgotten nor eclipsed by that. of confederate vitt rance. too many lives had been lost for them to do otherwise. former confederates, though, were no less determined to preserve their memory of the war. they needed to explain what they had fought for as well as why they had lost to their children and grandchildren. the lost cause was made up of at least four tenets and i should point out the lost cause is a term coined by them, not by academics. the tenets go something like this. confederate soldiers had fought honorably and bravely. they had not been defeated but overwhelmed by insurmountable odds, by superior northern materiel and manpower. most confederates as the century went on increasingly denied that slavery had been a cause of the war. but most asserted catalyst or not, it had been sanctioned by the contusion and providence. and above all, they insisted

let's move on to chattanooga at this point, hamilton county. i'm just trying to show you what is happening. we're very busy here with taking a look what is happening. there you go. i got that to come up. for the presidential vote in 2016 in tennessee, again, trump country versus clinton. overwhelmingly the favorite there. looks like he's riding on that popularity to help the gop. >> neil: you did a great job. hopefully everything will be working election night. when you have fancy equipment, anything can go wrong. but it didn't here. it could have. we have more coming up including whether they had any of this technology around the time that abraham lincoln or franklin roosevelt or even lbj. we have more on how that would have made a difference. certainly what is at stake after this. one third of our classic crust is made with cauliflower but that's not stopping anyone o, that's good! but some give their clients cookie cutter portfolios. fisher investments tailors portfolios to your goals and needs. some only call when they have something to sel

>> obviously memphis is the headquarters for fedex and chattanooga is the headquarters of freight way, with the company we invested a few months ago. a lot of the big shipping and logistic companies are in southeastern tennessee. not surprisingly, i think the great shipping logistic startups will come from those places, and even if you are not coming from those places, you have to operate there. >> we do have a bias and with great respect for silicon valley and we know we are here and we celebrated. but we also believe in what we call the third wave of the internet where it is disrupting some of these real world sectors like health and agriculture and so forth. domain expertise is going to become important and partnerships will become important. there is a truism here at silicon valley that part of the reason that paypal was successful is that they didn't know anything about the credit card industry and that led them to new insights. that is true. but we also believe it is true if you are trying to revitalize healthcare, you need to know something about how doctors and nurses work and

so we will likely hear lines about the caravan here in chattanooga tonight. she's trying to paint her opponent, former governor, as someone close to democrats like barack obama and hillary clinton. in fact, she mentioned hillary clinton more than two dozen times during a recent debate. meantime, he's trying to paint himself as a moderate. he openly said he would work with president trump on a number of issues. in one ad he's shooting a firearm in support of the second amendment. he voiced support for brett kavanaugh during the process, many speculate it may have cost him support in the polls. these two are locked in a dead heat with marsha ahead. so the president won by 26 points in 2016. >> very lively crowd. thank you for that, boris sanchez. i want to go to chicago where the former president barack obama is speaking. let's listen in. >> we said, yes, we can. [ cheers and applause ] and that night, we said yes, we did. >> yes, we can. yes, we can. yes, we can. yes, we can. >> look, we didn't know exactly what challenges would come when we began that journey

city of lafayette, chattanooga, and rickets all found that. mount lemmon fire district is most earthly an organized -- -- is an organized group of persons. >> what is different between those cases and this one is that the regional statute makes clear that that definition was not going to include states or federal government. given the sort of private nature of most of the listing and the fact that the statute on its face says that no matter what you do, it is not states or government, i would read it in its natural form and i would not included unless i'm told to otherwise. >> either to differ without the statute is structured. we start with the definition of person in subsection a. that is broad and expansive. subsection b subtracts. it says it is not the federal government. by the way, it is not states. let me back up, employer then says it is any person and 20 or more people, 20 or more employees -- and then it goes on and subtracts the federal government, states, and local governments. it makes no sense to subtract them unless they were in

bret: steve live in chattanooga.tha: president am heading to the states including missouri doubling down on his campaign efforts added tuesday try to help republican the attorney general in upstate flip the seat and beat incumbent democratic senator claire mccaskill. christian fish are following it all for us from st. louis. good evening, kristin. reporter: this race is so critical because control of the senate could come down right here to missouri. to give you an idea of how boring this race is to president trump's come to the stateri six times this election cycle and coming a seventh time tonight for his final rally before election day. for the incumbent democrat senator claire mccaskill said the frequency of his trip here are both good and bad for her keeping. >> i do think it is important to realize that he is coming a lot and there are two reasons. one, good news, they are very worried. right? [cheering and applause] and two, bad news, they really, really really, want to get rid of me. reporter: her opponent is

. >> chattanooga tennessee go-ahead republican line. >>caller: thank you for the opportunity. you are privileged and the extremist that i don't think of any part of party that goldwater once said i don't want people to tell me how to live my life. that you have some very extreme views from the people that i know so all of my life and to have that liberal circus and with lamar alexander and so your pitch about the party is wrong and with those evangelicals. >> i will take a step back i had the privilege to be the mayor of my hometown. but we have the opportunity to walk the streets and talk withh folks with the part of their life but i also have been blessed as the us ambassador to the united nations in charge and then to interact with representatives of 193 other nations. i have always been clear i don't think its is extreme bringing it down to a current challenge their borders to find them all of those 100 nations work to control those borders. i don't thinkal it's radical for the president of united states want to protect our borders. and that undermines the notion there is

city of lafayette, chattanooga foundry and rickets all found that but now the mount lemmon fire district is an organized group of persons -- land owners who get together to have a common cause and collect taxes. >> counselor, even if it is true in those cases what is different in this case is that the original statute made clear that that definition was not going to include states the federal government. given the private nature of most of this and the fact that the statute on its face says that no matter what you do is not state or government, i would read it in its natural form and i would not included unless i am told to included otherwise. >> your honor, i beg to differ. we start with the definition of person -- broad and expansive. >> subsection b says it's not the federal government -- and by the way, it's not state. let me back up -- employer, then, says it is a person. 20 or more people. 20 or more employees. then it goes on and subtracts the federal government and states and local governments. it makes no sense to subtract them unless they were included. >> it makes no sense to

at this hour, the president is set to speak in chattanooga, tennessee, and we reached that moment where we never knew more about our politics, and in some ways, never knew less about what's about to happen. people everywhere will try too see within the outcome how tribal politics are and wonder if the campaign is hanging over them. it comes with a controversial president, popularity rose after confirming the second supreme court justice, a booming economy, but with massive growing debt and storm clouds on the horizon, the rare sight of a former president blasting the sitting president on the campaign trail. already 30 million people have voted at a pace nearly even with the 2016 presidential election. in some places like georgia and north dakota, there's shadows of doubt surrounding the most american of activities, voting. we also have a brand new polling from nbc news and "the wall street journal," 40% say their vote is intended to show opposition. yet, in the wake of the 2016 elections, no one can be sure just who is going to cast a ballot and who will stay home. if you need further p

. >> i'm from chattanooga but i grew up on the east coast we moved to new jersey when i was young so thanksgiving is coming up. a lot of it has to do with who is left out of the historical w narrative and who tells the narrative so we learn thanksgiving was from a joyful holiday the encounter we don't know the real history of colonialism or how religion has been used to justify racism since the inception of the country. i did not a learned a lot of systemic racism or where it comes from or that it exist in the first place. unconsciously the idea whites were superior in many ways this is the american religion the superiority of whites but also white men that is a huge part of the repertoire that by virtue of growing up here you are exposed to these ideas and i write about that in the book how i first learned to realize what was happening then challenge it and explore the issues and research. >> host: on the flipside what advantage do you see me having? . >> not you personally but one llthing that i explain in the book in addition to talk about systemic racism it's about broadening the

. >> reporter: from here in chattanooga, tennessee one more day and three more rallies to make his pitchhe's been more focussed on senate races and republica have predicted to do pretty well there all along. so the presidentay be positioning himself to take credit if they do well there and avoid blame if republicans cannot hold on to control of of the house. marl. >> thank you. >>> another curve ball in one of closely watched races in the country. georgia secretary of state accused democrats off trying to hack voter registration. that's headed by brian kemp. he's locked in a tight race with with stacey abrams. they call the claim an abuse of power. >> reporter: voting asemerged as the central issue in race. now that democrat and republican are locked in a statistical dead heat. the latest polling showing them effectively tied. kemp is alsoia geo secretary of state and pushed voting restrictions which many say are aimed a limiting turnout of african american voters. chem's office announced an investigation ofrahe demc party of an alleged hack of the voter system. democrats call it a polit

that treated him the same way in california as in chattanooga but just more polite. my decide went to an unemployment0. service wonderings, in the lady said it have nothing, he said what time do you close. >> sat in chair for a day and a half. lady says, have something. you probably don't wait. my dad said what it she said it's job with nabisco bran bread cleaning toilet. at the took the job for ten years, too a second job with another bread company, cooked for his family on the weekends and went to fa night school to get his ged. the man never slept. that's why he was so cranky. you come home to a house fulfill of three boys with no sleep, see you now feel? this conversation took eight hours. and as we're talking my dad got bigger and bigger and bigger and i got smaller and smaller and smaller. and finally i'm crying. and i said, dad, i am so sorry. and he said, larry, don't be. you didn't know. but follow the advice i have given you and your brothers, hard work wins. you get out of life what you put into it. you cannot control the outcome but you are 100% in contro

after wrapping up the weekend in chattanooga, tennessee. former president obama was in gary, indiana campaigning for vulnerable senate democrat joe donnelly. and vice president mike pence will stump for republicans in montana today. andy field has the latest on the key races. >> reporter: the president continuing his 44-city campaign blitz stumping sunday night in tennessee. >> this is one of the most important elections of our time. >> reporter: hoping to encourage a red wave as voters head to the polls. earlier the day, he was in georgia, a state with a contentious governors race. >> you want more caravans and you want more crime, vote democrat. it's very simple. >> reporter: georgia's secretary of state, republican brian kemp, running against democrat stacey abrams. kemp's office requesting an fbi investigation accusing democrats are trying to hack georgia's voter registration system. abrams spoke with the atlanta affiliate wsb. >> he is trying to rile up his base by misleading voters yet again. >> reporter: kemp himself fighting claims

and over in chattanooga there's a thing called missionary ridge. it overlooks the city. and the confederates on they held missionary ridge and so general grant comes in with a union army and you got this complex thing and you know sherman was going to attack and it's not going well. and all of a sudden he looks up and these soldiers are going up the ridge in the middle and he looks and says who ordered those soldiers? he said, nobody, general, they went. and that's what i'm telling these democrats now. don't take orders from headquarters. you'll get all these people out there running, it's just going in on their own and i think that if my hopes are fulfilled, we're going to see a lot of women candidates, see a lot of veterans, cia agents, it's going to be a whole new tenor to washington and these are all the people that just grabbed their rifle and went up the ridge. >> and they're all running on the centrist, it's these ones winning in these swing suburban formerly republican districts, they're not running on we need to punch more people in the fa

in chattanooga, that woman you see there had to jump out of the way to avoid shoppers snatching for clothingeals. she's screaming. an estimated 116 million people swarmed stores all over the country. >> y'all need to come get your auntie. that was crazy. today the bulk of the holiday shopping weekend kickoff shifts from the malls to the internet. >> millions of americans are expected to point and click their way to what retailers predict will be the biggest cyber monday ever. here is abc's eva pilgrim. >> reporter: cyber monday is on track to be the biggest online shopping day in u.s. history. an estimated 75 million americans are expected to shell out $7.7 billion. >> the best deals for shoppers on monday will be toys and apparel. you're going to see discounts of up to 60% to 70%. >> reporter: starting at midnight, walmart will deliver discounted tech products from apple to game consoles with even bigger surprise deals on the way. target is putting the entire site on sale with 15% off everything. for those in the shopping spirit right now, we spotted this gel memory foam mattress on wayfair

a couple hours west of chattanooga. a state trooper saw the crash happened and rushed toward the scene. he fou a man pinned inside. he was able to remove him from that vehicle before it into flames. we understand that driver is expected to be okay.de no ss were on that bus. >>> a new study is shini on how well your car's headlights work. >> while some are improving, many headlights still leave drivers in the dark. consumer reporterusan hogan i working for you with the important information to keep you safe on the roads. >> well, the good news ists headlire improving, but this latest round of testing reveals that some still are inadequate. the insurance institute for highway safety started testing vehicle headlights two years ago, and just recently tested 2018 model year vehicles. 67% of the headlights tested still earned only a marginal or poor rating, mostly because of inadequate visibility, exc fsive glar oncoming drivers, or even both. some headlights that recved good ratings are optional or bundled with features tha

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shoppers fighting over garments in chattanooga, tennessee. bargain hunters at this georgia walmart wrestling over pots and pans. the commotion veering out of control at an alabama mall. shoppers scrambling for safety as gunfire rings out. abc's gio benitez starting as you have. >> reporter: tonight, those doorbuster deals, at times, creating chaos. >> hey. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: look at this crush of shoppers in a victoria's secret pink store. people seen shoving each other. one sales rep climbing on a table to escape the crowd. >> in a georgia walmart, two women fighting over pots and pans. one refusing to let go. but the euphoria over black friday shopping turning deadly in alabama after a fight turned into a shooting at this mall. >> we've got officers on the scene. there have been shots fired. >> reporter: the shooter killed. amr-d girl. but the tragedy in alabama aside, for the rest of the country, shopping today was mostly peaceful. long lines of customers at stores from maryland to florida to texas. en estimated 116 million spend

. >> reporter: after his rally here in chattanooga, tennessee tonight, there will be one more day and three more rallies for president trump. now he has said that he's been most focused on senate races, and frankly republicans have been predicted to do well there all along so he may be positioning himself to take credit there and avoid blame if republicans do not keep control of the house. kate? >> kelly o'donnell, thank you. let's dig in deeper to some of the races starting with texas and a hotly contested smart seat. we go live to san antonio with the latest. >> reporter: early voting in texas has broken every record. more people voted early in 2016 than voted in the entirety of the 2014 election, and the beto o'rourke campaign hopes that's because of the enthusiasm that you can hear behind me from some of these large rallies he's been doing, particularly in the big diverse cities of austin and san antonio where he needs big numbers to make this race truly competitive. the republican ted cruz has led though recent polls shows the race is tightening. right now there's little that thi

robert is in chattanooga, tennessee. republican. caller: thank you for the opportunity. esther blackwell, i think you are very much an extremist. i don't think the african-americans or republican party think as you do. i will reflect on something that somebody said. i never want people to tell me how to live my life. ronald reagan oncerobert is in , tennessee. said, we want democrats in the party to vote for us, but we don't want to elect democrats. viewsve some very extreme from the people that i know. aam a black man and republican. i've been in this party all my life and i'm 70 years old. i do have ground to stand on. i come from a state where we have always had liberal senators , howard baker, lamar alexander. bob corker didn't know what he was doing. obviously, your pitch about the party i think is wrong. i think you need to go back and stay away from those evangelicals. they are the most dangerous part of our party. host: mr. blackwell. guest: look, let me take a step back. i have had the privilege of ,eing the mayor of my hometown so i have had the opportunity to

created a new ofass of victims, like corey mock, who was expelled from the university of tennessee- chattanooga after the school thund himself responsible for sexual misconduct. mark's father, conrad, said his son was wrongly accused. >> this never leaves you. it follows you forever. >> reporter: mock fought back and won when a judge ruled there was not enough evidence the sex was nonconsensual. >> we won our case, and my son still has issues with people, you know, who to this day know about it. this will follow him for the rest of his life. so, you know, it's a horrible thing. >> reporter: the new rules restore some rights for the accused, allowing cross- atioination of witnesses, and no longer requiring a lower standard of proof for sexual assault cases. opponents say they will make students less safe. fatima goss graves of the entsonal women's law center says one-in-five students say they have experienced sexual misconduct while in college. >> i am deeply worried that our students will not continue to come forward, that they will not continue to share with their schools the violence that the

chattanooga has public internet service and its cheaper, its faster than anything else in the country. there may be a few others that are comparable to it, but -- as a consequence of this, chattanooga uses the fact that its got very fast, very efficient, very cheap internet service as a strategy of economic development to attract industries that need fast, efficient and cheap and reliable internet service. there's no reason whatever for that not to be a public utility. and the same, by the way, with finance. if you look at what banks actually do, the era after roosevelt finally regulated them, banks in effect were one step away from public utilities. they were -- they might as well have been public utilities and savings & loans as well. they were regulated in terms of conflict of interests and interests they could charge and interests they could pay, and there were no bank failures in that era. so i think, yes, on the one hand we need to think very hard about making markets as honorable, open and efficient as they could possibly be but we need to think hard about shrinking the market

. >> reporter: from here in chattanooga, tennessee,his pitc.e has been saying he's been more focused on senate races. and republicans have, quite frankly, been predicted to do pretty well there all along. so, the president may be positioning himself to take credit if they do well there and avoid blame if republicans cannot hang onto control of the house. marlie? >> kelly, thank you. and when it comes to those senate battles, everything's bigger in texas. democratic rising star beto o'rourke is giving senator ted cruz a run for his money. and the hotly contested race has both sides fired up. early voting numbers have already surpassed the state's total turnout in 2014. the latest emerson college poll shows beto nipping at cruz's heels, trailing by just three points. nbc's garrett haake has the latest from texas. >> reporter: marlie, good morning. on this last full day of campaigning in the ste beto o'r ted cruz will be in houston, texas. harris county is the biggest county in the state. it's the big prize for both of these campaigns. it's been h

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chattanooga tennessee and brian joyce host of the brian joyce show on talk radio w g o w s have joel what do you make of the threat to shut down the government does the president get his wall. i say go for it i think it's something he should have done a long time ago now the political consequences are much lower there's no midterm election looming it's not going to cost the republicans seats and he's got to deliver on a campaign promise that he made to his core supporters so i say go for it brian border security a wall along the border these are not bad ideas but i'll tell you what larry if we have to shut down the government to make this happen i don't want to hear anybody blaming democrats for this ok because donald trump his party has controlled all three branches of government for two years now he's had the house he's had the senate if he wanted to get more border security he could get more border security if he wanted to get a wall if that's something that was actually going to happen he could have made that happen his party could have gotten that done you know the thing i'm sur

. >> and tara joins us live from chattanooga, tennessee. the site of president trump's latest rally. and, tara, we are seeing the excitement from trump supporters similar to what we saw before the 2016 election. >> reporter: that's right, tom. it feels like the presidential campaign all over again. in this packed stadium there are more than 10,000 people. tomorrow the president heads back out on the road for his final stop on the campaign trail in indiana, missouri and ohio. tom. >> tara palmeri for us tonight, tara, thank you. >>> next we travel with the candidates in races across the country. texas democrat beta o'rourke zeroing in on his final message. against incumbent senator ted cruz. more texans casting early votes in the state's largest counties than they did in the entire 2014 election. and the new allegations flying in the heated georgia governor's race. a key contest that will likely chart the country's future course. abc's paula faris on the state of the race tonight. >> reporter: tonight the balance of power in the house and se