carol baker got 30 years. sentencing, betty winick brought to court the namesake randy baker never got to meet. >> this is randall james. >> betty clings to her new baby, randy, her daughters, and her husband, but it's hard, she said, missing her dad. >> this situation has made me feel like i'm not in control of anything in my life. and the one person who made me feel like i could be in control of it was him, and i can't call him to see if i'm handling the right way or -- >> although, i must tell you, as you're sitting here talking, you've been calling on him again and again. >> i like to think that. >> and in the end, for all her smiles and boundless good manners, randy baker's daughter is just as tough as he was, maybe tougher. maybe she just doesn't know it yet. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm natalie morales. thank you for watching. >>> first up on msnbc, 17 days until election day. both candidates hitting battleground states in the next 48 hours. a new look at what the polls are telling

joining me outside the white house is nbc's carol lee and peter baker for "the new york times" and ansnbc political analyst. brendan buck, a former top adviser to house speaker paul ryan and john boehner and steve kornacki at the big board with more on the massive campaign ad spending divide. let's begin at the white house. carol lee, carol, it does seem as if, you know, there's so many rules of crisis management but a simple one is sometimes, you know, just rip the band-aid off and they've let this story on white supremacists linger a second day. frankly, it's campaign malpractice which tells me this is the president who is being stubborn on this. >> yeah, chuck. it certainly seems that way that he is digging in on this. he doesn't want to come out and say that he misspoke or said something wrong. kayleigh mcenany was asked this by not just john roberts but wouldn't definitively say what i think the questioners were looking for, reporters were asking is just to say, yes, to say, yes, i denounce, and the president denounces white supremacy. part of the reason why this, i think, chuck,

baker. watch live at 7:00 eastern on sunday morning. join with phone calls, text, and tweets. host: joining us now from atlanta is carol anderson. she is the author of one person, no vote. how voter suppression is destroying our democracy. ur dem. good morning, professor anderson. guest: good morning. host: we point out you are also a professor at emory university in african-american studies -- in the african-american studies department. you detailed voter suppression efforts in 2016 and 2018. what did you see then and what are you seeing now in 2020? guest: actually, i am seeing it double down. what i saw then was an effort coming after the shelby county holder's decision in 2013 by the u.s. supreme court. the clearance provision of the voting rights act. and what i saw immediately afterwards, two hours afterwards, texas implement it a law that the court said is racially discriminatory. i saw alabama implement a voting rights law one day after the shelby county decision. in the preclearance state, almost 1200 polling stations have been shut down. places where people go to vote. millions had been purged from the voter rolls. for

baker. watch live at 7:00 eastern on sunday morning. join with phone calls, text, and tweets. host: joining us now from atlanta is carol anderson.s the author of one person, no vote. how voter suppression is destroying our democracy.