i want to bring in josh stein, north carolina's attorney general. attorney general stein, good to see you. thank you for being with us today. the last numbers i have, according to nbc, is that 2.92 million early votes have been cast in north carolina. 26% of them about a quarter, that is double what would have been the same case in 2016. and my panel, which i'm going to introduce to my viewers in a few minutes, my panel, republicans and democrats across all said the one thing that works in north carolina is voting. >> absolutely. in fact, the numbers are now 3.1 million, ali. the turnout here in north carolina is unprecedented. and people are excited. and they're having their voice heard. we've had a huge turnout of mail-in votes, about 700,000, but north carolina has traditionally been an early vote state. that's where people like to vote. we have 17 days of it. and the state board of elections this year insisted that every county have early voting on both weekends and have more locations and more hours. the whole thought was, let's have more time