the tweets today about macron, dan balz, were really quite something. he talks about the army, which we read through in the opening. he's criticizing a man suffering from very low approval rating in france with high unemployment. by the way, is he there's no more country more nationalist than france, very proud people, rightly so. he writes make france great again. and in the weekend he skips the cemetery that macron organized to honor american veterans. there are questions whether the president was emotionally reacting to his own frustrations and decided he didn't want to go out in the rain. you know, the way we read this a lot of times day to day, dan, it can be sometimes hard to keep track of the magnitude of these events. but what happened in europe seemed pretty remarkable to me and it's kind of pushback against so many years of history with our allies. >> yeah, when you think about presidents who have gone to europe to commemorate moments, and i think the most famous is reagan's d-day commemoration when he talked about the boys at point dehawk in

dan balz is cheech correspondent at the "washington post."rachael bade covers capitol hill and cnn political analyst. mark landler is a white house correspondent for "new york times" and ed o'keefe is political correspondent here at cbs news. start off with you, we have these mid term elections tuesd tuesday, do we have final results from some of these other races that are out standing? >> first of all, welcome backs, glad to have you back. >> congrats, you're a new dad. >> yes. but the answer to your question is, no, there is no result. we should start with the big one in florida, of course, senate race where rick scott rain taken a lead. you can see just about as many people show up at a traffic jam in miami separate these two from first and second place. florida governor's race, arizona senate race what is notable democrat has pulled into the lead. talked to republicans in arizona they quietly conceit that sinema will hold on and lead. georgia governor's race, to see if ryan kelp gets below 50% in the congoing recounts he hasn't done that.

support my agenda so all of these issues swirling around make this a very unpredictable election dan balz a longtime political reporter for the washington post he's been doing this for over forty years says this is the most unpredictable midterm election he's seen in a generation well china's alleged abuse against its we muslim minority has been under the spotlight in geneva the un human rights council is conducting its periodic review of the chinese government's human rights record beijing has been accused of mass the tension and discrimination of weaker muslims in the region but the chinese representative in geneva defended his government's records. cheney the chinese government protect its citizens freedom of religious belief of ministers religious affairs in accordance with the law in fosters an active and healthy religious relation the particular rights of ethnic minorities in accordance with the law all fifty five ethnic minority groups are represented at the national people's congress and the chinese people's political consultative conference turkey's foreign minister says authorit

support my agenda so all of these issues swirling around make this a very unpredictable election dan balz a longtime political reporter for the washington post he's been doing this for over forty years says this is the most unpredictable midterm election he's seen in a generation thank you for that gabler elizondo in new york one of our many correspondents covering these u.s. midterm elections we'll have live reports throughout the day here on al-jazeera thank you very much. and other world news china's alleged abuse against is we go a muslim minority is under the spotlight in geneva the un human rights council is conducting its periodic review of the chinese government's human rights records beijing has been accused of mass attention and discrimination of wiggle muslims in the region adrian brown has been allowed rare access to a room in change change province and has this report. there are a few more difficult places for foreign journalists to report from in china did she jump especially in. the provinces vos secure. and surveillance network is in overdrive as international criticism mo

and it is very much the case in many elections including two years ago but this one is very unique dan balz who's a long time political reporter in washington over forty years he says this is a midterm election that we haven't seen for a generation and the reason he says that is because so much really is at stake the key issues are really number one the economy the economy in the u.s. is doing very well so a lot of voters trust donald trump in the republican party with the economy not all but a lot because economy is so doing so well right now but there's also immigration which has been a key dividing issue between so many americans lot of people siding with donald trump's hard line policy on immigration a lot of other people simply not to siding with that at all and saying he's using it as a wedge issue and clearly the third one you think donald trump has been saying is impeachment a lot of people saying that. impeachment could be at stake here with this midterm election because whatever happens with the robert mueller investigation that will be coming down in the next few weeks or so so t

one that caught our attention comes from the veteran journalist dan balz at the "washington post."writes, "it's about something more elemental. what kind of country americans see today and want to see in the future. this debate about america's divisions has been under way for some time, but trump has raised the emotional level to something not seen before." still with us here tonight is steve schmidt. and steve, when they write the book on this period, let's say just these last two years, is it going to be written that trump is fortunate to have had a period where the leadership and the republican senate and republican house has been so unencumbered by principles or idealogy or a sense of stewardship over the country that they have allowed trump to just completely take control of that party? >> well, brian, we tend to look in campaigns and say the outcome is determined by the last event that occurs that has meaning. so tonight we saw the president with rush limbaugh, as if that will influence the outcome, as opposed to focusing on the first thing that happened. the first thing that