i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside frances rivera and louis burgdorf.lection day is tomorrow and the final round of national polling shows democrats with a steady lead but one that could mean a smaller wave than they had hoped for. the poll has democrats ahead by seven points on the ballot, 53-47%. the "washington post"/abc news poll shows democrats 52% to 44%. democrats are performing best among african-americans, latinos, young voters and independents. republicans, on the other hand, they do best among white men and white women without college degrees. voters between the ages of 50-64 and men. and there is record level enthusiasm with 85% of likely democratic voters expressing a high level of interest in the midterms and 82% for republicans. according to data, nearly 35 million americans have voted early or through absentee ballots. president trump tried to lower expectations for his party's performance. >> i think we're going to do well with the house. i my primary focus, of course, has been on the senate because there are so many people on the house

i'm alex witt alongside ayman mohyeldin. it is the bottom of the hour.m increasingly divided over whether there should be a vote on the bipartisan bill to protect special counsel robert mueller. republican senator jeff flake is vowing to block judicial nominees from being voted on after senate majority leader mitch mcconnell blocked flake and democratic senator chris coons' mueller bill from being voted on by the senate. now chuck grassley is throwing his support behind flake's push. and one of their judiciary committee colleagues is reiterating his support for a vote. >> i think it's legitimate that the bill be brought up. i don't think it's going to do any good or any harm. if it satisfy -- it would satisfy me if it became law because i voted for it. i'm not going to be in the fore front with flake advocating that the leader do so-and-so, but i wouldn't do anything to stop it. >> as to the legislation, i actually supported it because i wrote it. i think it would be good for the country. we'll leave it up to mitch and the leadership as to how to take th

i'm ayman mohyeldin.e begin in california, where more residents are being allowed back to their neighborhoods this morning to see if their homes were spared by the deadly wildfires raging across the staid. for others, sadly, there is nothing to come home to. the camp fire in northern california is the deadliest wildfire to ever hit that state. it comes after ten more bodies were found in homes and cars in the town of paradise. in southern california, mandatory evacuation orders were lifted overnight for parts of the west hills of los angeles and the west lake area of thousand oaks. that's where crews have been battling the woolsey fire. >> reporter: this is one of the first areas attacked by those flames. you can see the devastation left behind here. while they are making progress fighting these flames, thr soere some worried that perhaps we haven't seen the worst of these wildfires. as the california wildfires continue to burn out of control, fire teams battled the flames around the clock, pushed to thei

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside frances rivera and louis burgdorf. president trump is now publicly discussing a possible pardon for his former campaign chairman. president trump left open the possibility of a pardon, telling the new york post, quote, it was never discussed but i wouldn't take it off the table. why would i take it off the table? in that interview the president criticized robert mueller's probe claiming they were all asked to lie. if you told the truth, you go to jail, trump said. you know, this flipping stuff is terrible. i have three people, manafort, corsi -- i don't know corsi but he refuses to say what they demanded. it's actually very brave. i'm telling you this is mccarthy-ism. >>> mueller claims manafort violated his plea agreement by repeatedly lying to investigators. those lies may include comments about his personal business dealings and contacts with a former associate in ukraine. manafort allegedly made inaccurate statements about his communications with a man who worked for manafort's lobbying firm in ukraine. both he and

i'm ayman mohyeldin. we are now five days from the midterm elections.sident trump is doing everything he can to define the debate. yesterday he tripled the estimated number of u.s. troops that he wants to go to the u.s./mexico border to 15,000, more than the number of troops serving in afghanistan, believe it or not. >> you're talking about 10,000, maybe 15,000 active duty u.s. military to the border. >> yes. >> more than we have fighting the taliban in afghanistan, isis in syria. >> yeah. >> you're really going to do that? >> it's very important. we have to have a wall of people, dedicated patriots. that's what they are. you have caravans coming up that look a lot larger than reported. i'm pretty good at estimating crowd size. they look a lot bigger than people would think. >> the president continues to make claims like this tweet, quote, republicans will protect people with preexisting conditions far better than the dems. in illinois, former vice president joe biden responded to that. >> you have the president of the united states saying we guarantee

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside frances rivera. polling places across nine states open in one hour.he stakes, control of state houses, congress. and here are the numbers. in the senate, democrats need a gain of two seats to win control. in that claimer they received some very good news in a quinnipiac poll of new jersey where bob menendez gained momentum to open up a 15-point lead against the republican. democrats need to gain 23 seats to take control. the cook report says 75 kp15 se held by republican are toss-ups. >>> republican governors in ear iowa democratic candidate fred hubble is at 46% two points ahead of republican governor kim reynolds at 44%. over to oklahoma sooners poll which has the republican just three points ahead of democrat drew edmundson. >> we could know by it went if all the talk of a democratic wave is real or as the "new york times" points out, the other option, a district by district battle for control of the house that could go into the early morning hours or even take weeks to be resolved. meanwhile, president trump hit three states in his final days of c

i'm ayman mohyeldin. >> we're following this dramatic news from southern california. there have been a mass shooting at a very popular college town bar. >> so about 11:20 this evening our department received a call of shots fired at the borderline bar and grill. first deputies on scene entered to confront the suspect after they heard shots. i can tell you right now that we know of at least 11 victims. there are multiple fatalities. one of the victims is one of our sheriff deputies. >> pretty chilling there. we have just gotten word that the sheriff deputy is right now in surgery. several hundred people inside at the time, according to the ventura county sheriff's department. they will be taking the lead in this investigation. shots were still being fired when deputies arrived on scene. police say they believe the shooter is down inside that building. but again we're not getting word on the condition of the shooter, whether or not he's alive. he has been neutralized, is what they're saying. authorities are saying to try to avoid the area for sure. >> joining us now on

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside frances rivera.ction updates are still coming in as a democratic candidate makes history and vice president mike pence joins the president in denying defeat. four-term congressman jeff denim conceded to democrat josh harter. and tom mcarthur, one of the architects of the 2017 republican health care bill conceded his race against democrat andy kim. a former aide to president obama, kim will be the first korean-american to serve in congress in 20 years and the first ever to represent his state. the updated count in california's 39th district shows the lead of young kim has shrunk to just 122 votes over the democrat. and democrat katie porter is now 4,000 votes ahead of republican incumbe incumbent mimi walters. mike pence said he thought the democrats failed to make sizable gains. >> we made history by expanding our majority in the senate. we won some great elections in governo governors' offices around the country. i think it's because the american people see the results. >> but the results actually t

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i'm ayman mohyeldin. >> we're following this dramatic news from southern california.here have been a mass shooting at a very popular college town bar. >> so about 11:20 this evening our department received a call of shots fired at the borderline bar and grill. first deputies on scene entered to confront the suspect after they heard shots. i can tell you right now that we know of at least 11 victims. there are multiple fatalities. one of the victims is one of our sheriff deputies. >> pretty chilling there. we have just gotten word that the sheriff deputy is right now in surgery. several hundred people inside at the time, according to the ventura county sheriff's department. they will be taking the lead in this investigation.

news statement we are receiving from the treasury department with a hat tip to my friend ayman mohyeld mohyelding through this right now. saying he doesn't do anything without the approval of the crown prince directly. this means he is very much in the inner circle. it is interesting to see that the u.s. is willing to draw a firewall between he and mbs. saying so far they don't believe there say connection to mohammed bin salman. and the deputy head of intelligence is not among the 17 names of those sanctioned, even though the saudis, in their statement earlier, said that he was operational, he was an operational mastermind of this killing here. and then the third one that's important, it's clear that the saudis and americans are now sort of working in conjunction -- they're effectively coordinating in terms of charges, punishments, sanctions, to show that they are trying to bring justice in this case. the takeaway, the most important headline right now is that the trump administration has now announced sanctions against 17 saudis in connection with the killing of jamal khashoggi. hallie? >> pet