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Senate races, ted cruzs democratic challenger, still pushing forward in the state of texas. ed lavandera reports. >> reporter: texas democrats call it beto mania and in the last days of this senate race beto orourke rallies are bringing rock star pandemonium. beto orourke says hes confident hes changed the political landscape of texas with a highly organized get out the vote campaign to bring out new voters and orourke throws in some spanish saltiness to motivate the faithful. >> if you really w...

I grew up down here. this is just not how these kinds of races are expected to play out. so ive been trying to figure out sort of what they can do with this. how do they turn this enthusiasm in places like austin, in places like san antonio where i am right now into an actual voting advantage. and really today in austin was the first time that i heard orourke make a very explicit call to action from his supporters. heres what he told the crowd in austin this afternoon. >> over the next 54 hours,...

That enthusiasm for a democrat in texas is just unheard of. i grew up down here. this is just not how these kinds of races are expected to play out. so ive been trying to figure out sort of what they can do with this. how do they turn this enthusiasm in places like austin, in places like san antonio where i am right now into an actual voting advantage. and really today in austin was the first time that i heard orourke make a very explicit call to action from his supporters. heres what he told th...

Out sort of what they can do with this. how do they turn this enthusiasm in places like austin, in places like san antonio where i am right now into an actual voting advantage. and really today in austin was the first time that i heard orourke make a very explicit call to action from his supporters. heres what he told the crowd in austin this afternoon. >> over the next 54 hours, im asking you to give me every waking moment of your life. if you really want to win this, given whats at stake, give...

What you said in your intro. well be in court, the aclu will be in court. we need that public outcry to make the administration realize that we wont stand for it. we need career people to say, this is simply not going to work. >> and that goes to, again, "the washington post" reporting. it has become commonplace to say, does anything matter anymore and does donald trump get away with everything. this story is complicated because on the one hand, from a moral perspective, one child punished by u....

Probity, is not seen as likely to be true as when a pattern has been established. and so congressman, again, i know im throwing you on to the spot, because kasie and heidi przybyla at nbc news are breaking this story literally right now, but your view about how this fits into the analysis and whether this hearing is, in some sense, perhaps, too hasty to be scheduled for tomorrow, given whats coming in in realtime. >> it is too hasty. the best thing would be to put the brakes on it and investigat...

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There are dozens and dozens of us, let me repeat that, quote, dozens and dozens of us. these are people reaching out, and axios is known as often taking leaks of a friendly sort, pro-administration leaks as well, these are people reaching out to anyone who will listen that this is a dumpster fire. >> but i do think that its incumbent on people who see a dumpster fire to come forward and say we have a dumpster fire. not to, you know, pretend its not there, or not to even just make an anonymous ca...

Terms of the significance of these? >> certainly the southern district wasnt going to file charges until the review process was done. that, if nothing else, would look unfair. not everybody got to finish their privilege review and they go ahead and file charges, that wouldnt look right. so its going to remove one impediment to them charging cohen if thats where theyre going and thats likely where theyre going. but, you know, they also just got, you know, over a million documents themselves. so t...

Removed, trump will have crossed the most significant line in his presidency. there will be people in the streets im sure, someone like lindsey graham, who has been very supportive of him, has said that this would destroy his presidency. whether the republicans would have the spine to stand up to him in that event remains to be 16 seen, but certainly, lindsay graham suggests that they would so i think it would be a disastrous thing for him. in an odd way, i worked closely with bob mueller during...