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amy: rashad robinson, president of color of change.avidez, thank you for being with us. >> hello and welcome to nhk newsline . voters in the united states are getting ready for what many calling the most important election of their lives. they will be casting ballots tuesday in a midterm vote that will determine if democrats or republicans win control of congress. such elections occur in the middle of a four year presidential term

rashad robinson, president of color of change. rashad, good to see you again.mething that you all approached him to do, or you were invited to be a part of? >> well, our organization, the organization on the call, many of them have been engaged in these issues, have been engaged with twitter for years, but also a number of us led the $7 billion boycott, the stop hate for profit coalition. when they reached out to a number of members of the coalition just to be in conversation, there call sort of developed. it developed very quickly. elon through a friend of his reached out. so it really did come from the twitter side. and it moved very quickly within 24 hours. we were all on a zoom conversation. we ended up sort of engaging in a conversation. many of our groups, mine included, had already began conversations with advertisers or been engaging and pushing advertisers to both hold twitter to a set of principles that they were going to continue to advertise, and to continue to maybe build energy around a potential boycott if some of the changes that we've been hear

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about really wanting to create a robust public square, which is something we can appreciate, but rashad robinsone we were bought and sold at an earlier point in our country's history and we know that the public square is where black people in particular, jews was also lynched in this country in the past. that being said, i think elon needs to appreciate, as i talked with you, with great power comes great responsibility and tweeting out random things can have a cost when you are literally controlling one of the big piece of that public square. so, you know, i think it's fair to say, andrew, again, we will see how he delivers, but my hope would be that he will appreciate the power that he hasand modulate the way that he shows up >> right thanks for the -- i know you weren't scheduled today to come on, but very newsy, and you know, you heard it right from the person's mouth, elon himself. i don't like saying horse. i want to be nice to everyone. good to have you on, jonathan. thank you. >> always good to see you. >> good to see you wow. we got five seconds to go here >> straight from the horse's mo

in the next hour, we're going to talk to a political analyst, color of rashad robinson, creator of thenbc's continuing coverage of the 2022 midterm elections. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. you've either been with us all night or just waking up with us. either way, grab a cup of coffee, gather in, control of congress believe it or not still hangs in the balance. nbc news decision desk projects republicans will have a two-seat majority with 220 seats in the house of representatives next year. that projection does, however, because it's a projection, include a margin of error of plus or minus 10 seat. 218 seats are needed to take the house. it's a jump ball right now. out west in nevada republican senate hopeful adam laxalt now narrowly leads the democratic incumbent catherine cortez masto with 80% of the vote in. that is still too early for us to call. in the senate, democrats made a key gain with the victory of john fetterman over tv doctor mehmet oz. fetterman had this to say this his supporters. >> i'm proud on what we ran on. protecting a woman's right to choose. raising our minimum w